Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary - enigma
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n. 1 a puzzling thing or person. 2 a riddle or paradox. Derivatives enigmatic adj. enigmatical adj. enigmatically adv. enigmatize v.tr. (also -ise). Etymology: L aenigma f. Gk ainigma -matos f. ainissomai speak allusively f. ainos fable ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
2.
1. загадка answer to an enigma —- отгадка, разгадка 2. загадочное, непостижимое явление; загадочный человек it is an enigma to foreigners —- для иностранцев это загадка ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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4.
(enigmas) If you describe something or someone as an enigma, you mean they are mysterious or difficult to understand. Iran remains an enigma for the outside world. = mystery N-COUNT: usu sing ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
5.
~ n someone or something that is strange or mysterious and difficult to understand or explain (The neighbours had come to regard him as something of an enigma.) ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
6.
- 1449, from L. жnigma "riddle," from Gk. ainigma, from ainissesthai "speak obscurely, speak in riddles," from ainos "fable, riddle." ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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