Category: Word of the Day – I

ETYMOLOGY
from Latin irreposcibilis (that cannot be demanded back), 
from ir- + reposcere (to demand back)

ETYMOLOGY
from im- + Latin potare (to drink)

EXAMPLE
“…I never drunk or saw any usquebah since I came into Ireland, though I have bin at many tables and civilly used in a sober way without impoting: if any thing material doth happen in my concerns, I will send you word…”

From: Life and Letters of George Berkeley
From ye Court of Ireland, October 6, [1721]
– Alexander Campbell Fraser

ETYMOLOGY
from idea + pot

EXAMPLE
“…Going t’other day to the bookseller’s with my idea-pot brim-full, and ready to run over, I stole up, as usual, into the Author’s Coenaculum. – This, by the bye, is an apartment at the top of BARRETT’s house in he High-Street…”

From: The Student
Or, The Oxford and Cambridge Monthly Miscellany, Volume 2
The Adventures of a Goose-Quill, Oxford, March 2, 1751

ETYMOLOGY
from idio- (own, personal, private, peculiar, separate, distinct) + glottic (pertaining to language)

EXAMPLE
“…This impression he uttered with the word “pupu,” meaning a very big papa. The boy soon gave up his idioglottic endeavors, learning German before his next-born sister had reached the age of beginning speech. So that language could have no further grammatical development…”

From: Proceedings of the Royal Canadian Institute
Being a Continuation of the “Canadian Journal” of Science, Literature, and History
October, 1888, Vol. XXIV
The Development of Language, by Horatio Hale

ETYMOLOGY
– from ppl. stem of late Latin inquilīnāre (to be a sojourner)

EXAMPLE
In the summer, they inquilinate in camps on the shore and islands, and live upon the fish from the lake.