- noun
- A device able to freeze a person in a cylinder of liquid nitrogen to preserve the body in case of catastrophe.
- Origin
- Formed from vitri (glass) and ‘fax’ – fac simile (“make like”).
- Source
- Fiasco
- noun
- An airborne swarm of self-organising inanimate matter.
- Origin
- Nekrós (the dead).
- Source
- The Invincible
- noun
- A carnivore.
- Source
- The Star Diaries: The Eighth Voyage
- verb
- The dissolution, dissociation, and total dissipation of a monarch.
- Origin
- Formed from ‘monarch’ and lúsis (loosening).
- Source
- The Cyberiad
- noun
- A sentient oceanic life form covering the surface of the planet Solaris.
- Origin
- Polús (many), possibly in combination with thera (“of her”).
- Source
- Solaris