51吃瓜 of the Day
More about sabulous
The English adjective sabulous is a clear-cut borrowing from Latin 蝉补产耻濒艒蝉耻蝉 鈥漡ravelly, sandy,鈥� a derivative of sabulum 鈥渃oarse sand, gravel.鈥� Sabulum comes from an assumed Italic psaflom. (Italic is the branch of the Indo-European language family that includes Latin, Oscan, Umbrian, and the modern Romance languages.) Psaflom comes from the same Proto-Indo-European root bhes- 鈥渢o rub鈥� as Greek 辫蝉锚辫丑辞蝉 鈥減ebble鈥� and Germanic sandam (Old English and English sand, German Sand). Sabulous entered English in the 17h century.
how is sabulous used?
But clearly the beach is also a stage, a studio, indeed an arena, sabulous or otherwise, at the heart of the culture.
The plants rose from the stones like a conjurer’s trick, working roots down into hidden pockets of sabulous soil …
cinquefoil
noun
any of several plants belonging to the genus Potentilla, of the rose family, having yellow, red, or white five-petaled flowers, as P. reptans (creeping cinquefoil) of the Old World, or P. argentea (silvery cinquefoil) of North America.
More about cinquefoil
The English noun cinquefoil comes from Middle French cincfoille 鈥渇ive leaves.鈥� Cincfoille corresponds to Latin qu墨nque folia, a translation of Greek 辫别苍迟谩辫丑测濒濒辞苍, literally 鈥渇ive leaves,鈥� and the name of the creeping cinquefoil (Potentilla reptans) or the silvery cinquefoil (P. argentea). Cinquefoil entered English in the 15th century.
how is cinquefoil used?
Cinquefoil, with small yellow blossom, and ranunculus, with glossy yellow cup, edged the sunny roads …
This was my curious labor all summer,–to make this portion of the earth’s surface, which had yielded only cinquefoil, blackberries, johnswort, and the like, before, sweet wild fruits and pleasant flowers, produce instead this pulse.
More about sith
In English sith is an archaic or dialect word whose functions as an adverb, preposition, and conjunction have been taken over by since. The Old English siththa is a variant of siththan (originally 蝉墨迟丑 迟丑腻尘 鈥渁fter that, subsequent to鈥�), an adverbial and prepositional phrase formed from the comparative adverb 蝉墨迟丑 鈥渟ubsequently, later鈥� (akin to German seit 鈥渟ince鈥�) and 迟丑腻尘, the dative of the demonstrative pronoun, the phrase meaning 鈥渟ubsequent to that, after that.鈥�
how is sith used?
… for ever sith the lord Clisson turned French, he never loved him.
“Of course you see now, Sir Thomas, how ill a match Master John Feversham should have been for Blanche.” “Wherefore?” was the short answer. “Sith he is no longer the heir.”