You are right that "anadrome" hasn't been used it enough to make it into the dictionaries yet with this meaning but the way English works is that dictionaries look at usage and add words when they become established.
I've been trying to establish this word with this meaning for some time with slow success as your post demonstrates.
The word is completely sound in terms of its derivation (from the ancient Greek "ana" meaning "back" and "dromos" meaning "running") and was used by Douglas St. Paul Barnard in his 1963 book "Anatomy of the Crossword".
Anadromic fish swim the wrong way up rivers - a different sense of the word but exactly the same etymology.
My favourite anadromes are "Naomi" -> "I moan" and "Evian" -> "Naive". The latter is particularly apt considering the people out there who are willing to pay so much for small bottles of water.
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anadrome
Date: 2005-10-02 09:00 pm (UTC)I've been trying to establish this word with this meaning for some time with slow success as your post demonstrates.
The word is completely sound in terms of its derivation (from the ancient Greek "ana" meaning "back" and "dromos" meaning "running") and was used by Douglas St. Paul Barnard in his 1963 book "Anatomy of the Crossword".
Anadromic fish swim the wrong way up rivers - a different sense of the word but exactly the same etymology.
My favourite anadromes are "Naomi" -> "I moan" and "Evian" -> "Naive". The latter is particularly apt considering the people out there who are willing to pay so much for small bottles of water.