Word of the Day

ETYMOLOGY
from Latin aromata or French aromat, as if adapted from Latin aromatosus or French aromateux

EXAMPLE
“…And thenne it hath vertue tascende by the lightnes of the fume and to comforte by his qualite and to conioyne by the gumme and to conferme by that it is aromatous or wel smellyng. And all in lyke wyse i the orison or prayer whiche ascendeth to the mynde of god. It conforteth the soule as to the synne passed in axyng medecyne…”

From: Legenda Aurea/The Golden Legend
By Jacobus de Voragine
Translated by William Caxton, 1483

ETYMOLOGY
from medieval Latin accidiosus (listless, slothful),
from accidia (slothfulness, apathy, lethargy) + Latin -osus (-ous)

PRONUNCIATION
uhk-SID-ee-uhss

EXAMPLE
“…Þe accidious man haþ ydilnesse, sleuþe, & sleep for his god…”

From: The Pore Caitif, edited from MS. Harley, a1400
(a late fourteenth-century Middle English manual of religious instruction intended for the use of the laity)

ETYMOLOGY
from Latin auxiliat- ppl. stem of auxiliari (to help, to assist)

EXAMPLE
“…of which are some Plants, or parts thereof, and some Minerals, which being absolutely described, put the Apothecary upon doubts, who is ignorant of the genuine dilucidation: whose tenuity, that we may auxiliate, we will give him the names of the five opening roots; and they are the roots of Smallage, Sperage, Parsley, Fennel, and Butchers-broom. Besides which, other five are much celebrated, to wit, the roots of Grass, the greater Madder, Oenone, Ca∣pers, and Eryngium…”

From: A Medical Dispensatory
Containing the Whole Body of Physick
Composed by the Illustrious Renodaeus,
Englished and Revised by Richard Tomlinson, 1657
The Fourth Book Of Roots