51吃瓜 of the Day
domicile
noun
a place of residence; abode; house or home.
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Domicile is a very legal-sounding word. Its general meaning is 鈥減lace of residence, abode, house or home鈥�; its legal meaning is 鈥減ermanent legal residence, as for tax obligations or voting rights.鈥� (Thus one may be domiciled in New York, paying state income taxes there and voting there, but also have a weekend residence in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania.) Domicile comes from Middle French, from Latin domicilium, formed from the noun domus 鈥渉ouse, home鈥� and the suffix –cilium, of uncertain etymology, but probably derived from colere 鈥渢o live in, inhabit, dwell鈥� (the source of English colony). Latin domicilium has no legal meaning. Domicile entered English in the 15th century.
how is domicile used?
We drove into an older section of the downtown, down a street of brick row houses, and ended up in front of the family’s old domicile …
Choosing the latter alternative, I began by making up my mind to leave the hotel, and take up my quarters in some less pretentious and less expensive domicile.听
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sedentary
adjective
accustomed to sit or rest a great deal or to take little exercise.
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There is unfortunately no more apt a word right now than sedentary, 鈥渁ccustomed to sit or rest a great deal or to take little exercise.鈥� Sedentary comes via Middle French 蝉茅诲别苍迟补颈谤别 from Latin 蝉别诲别苍迟腻谤颈耻蝉 鈥渟itting, sedentary.鈥� 厂别诲别苍迟腻谤颈耻蝉 is a derivative of 蝉别诲脓苍蝉 (stem sedent-), the present participle of 蝉别诲脓谤别 鈥渢o sit,鈥� and the very common adjective and noun suffix –腻谤颈耻蝉, which becomes -aire in French and French borrowings into English (as in doctrinaire, millionaire) and –ary in English (as in complimentary, visionary). Sedentary entered English in the 16th century.
how is sedentary used?
Picture yourself, Jack, a confirmed home-body, a sedentary fellow who finds himself walking in a deep wood.
His love of books, his sedentary habits, and quick wit on matters of learning, led those interested in his fate to consider him fitted for the church, and therefore, he took priest鈥檚 orders.听
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inflorescence
noun
a flowering or blossoming.
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Inflorescence, 鈥渢he arrangement of flowers on the axis, a flower cluster; a flowering or blossoming,鈥� is a term used mostly in botany. Inflorescence comes straight from New Latin 颈苍蹿濒艒谤脓蝉肠别苍迟颈补, a noun coined by the great Swedish botanist and zoologist Carolus Linnaeus (Carl von Linn茅), who formalized the system of binomial nomenclature used in the biological sciences. 滨苍蹿濒艒谤脓蝉肠别苍迟颈补 is a derivative of the Late Latin verb 颈苍蹿濒艒谤脓蝉肠别谤别 鈥渢o put forth flowers, bloom.鈥� 滨苍蹿濒艒谤脓蝉肠别谤别 is a compound verb formed with the preposition and prefix in, in– 鈥渋n, into,鈥� but also, as here, used as in intensive prefix, and the verb 蹿濒艒谤脓蝉肠别谤别 鈥渢o begin flowering, increase in vigor.鈥� 贵濒艒谤脓蝉肠别谤别 in turn is a compound of 蹿濒艒谤脓谤别 鈥渢o be in bloom, be covered with flowers,鈥� a derivative of the noun 蹿濒艒蝉 (inflectional stem 蹿濒艒谤-) 鈥渇lower, blossom,鈥� and the verb suffix –escere, which in Latin often has an inchoative sense, that is, it indicates the beginning of an action, as in rubescere 鈥渢o become or turn red.鈥� Inflorescence entered English in the 18th century.
how is inflorescence used?
To the amateur this opens a field of very interesting amusement: … watching every moment of the plant till it develops its beauties of inflorescence, which, if it prove of new character, is an ample compensation for the time spent upon the process.
During fall and winter starch-grains … form the basis for that lavish expenditure of plant-force by which our orchards and woods are made glorious in the sudden inflorescence of spring.
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