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equanimity
noun
mental or emotional stability or composure, especially under tension or strain; calmness.
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Equanimity, 鈥渕ental or emotional stability or composure,鈥� ultimately comes from Latin 补别辩耻补苍颈尘颈迟腻蝉 (inflectional stem 补别辩耻补苍颈尘颈迟腻迟-), originally 鈥済oodwill, favor,鈥� and later 鈥渃almness of mind, tranquillity.鈥� 础别辩耻补苍颈尘颈迟腻蝉 is a derivative of the rare adjective aequanimis, also aequanimus 鈥渃alm, composed.鈥� The adjectives are compounds of aequus 鈥渆ven, plain, equal鈥� and the noun animus 鈥渕ind, spirit, feelings.鈥� The last element of equanimity, –ity, comes via the Old French suffix –ite from the Latin abstract noun suffix –颈迟腻蝉, which expresses a state, condition, or quality. Equanimity entered English in the early 17th century.
how is equanimity used?
A truly brave man is ever serene; he is never taken by surprise; nothing ruffles the equanimity of his spirit.
After all, there are听middle schoolers鈥攋ust as there are some adults and other children鈥攚ho have weathered the past year with relative equanimity.
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apothegm
noun
a short, pithy, instructive saying; a terse remark or aphorism.
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Apothegm, 鈥渁 short, instructive saying; a terse remark,鈥� is hard enough to pronounce even in its simplified spelling, which is based on the pronunciation of the word. The original spelling, still used, is apophthegm. Apothegm was the usual spelling until Dr. Johnson settled on apophthegm in his dictionary (1755). Apophthegm ultimately comes from the Greek noun 补辫贸辫丑迟丑别驳尘补, a derivative of the verb 补辫辞辫丑迟丑茅苍驳别蝉迟丑补颈 鈥渢o speak out, speak one鈥檚 opinion plainly,鈥� a compound of the prefix apo- 鈥渇orth鈥� and the simple verb 辫丑迟丑茅苍驳别蝉迟丑补颈 鈥渢o speak, raise one鈥檚 voice.鈥� Apothegm and apophthegm entered English within two years of each other, in the second half of the 16th century.
how is apothegm used?
鈥淭o live outside the law, you must be honest.鈥� Thompson, like a lot of people in the sixties and seventies, interpreted Dylan鈥檚 famous apothegm to mean that in order to be honest you must live outside the law.
It calls to mind the hoary apothegm that academic rivalries are so vicious because the stakes are so small. Ditto for the lit’ry folk, who can work themselves into lathers over matters that the big dogs who bark in the real world would decline even to sniff at, much less raise a leg over.
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polliniferous
adjective
producing or bearing pollen.
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Those who suffer from rose fever in the spring or hay fever in the fall may be familiar with polliniferous 鈥減roducing or bearing pollen,鈥� the cause of their discomfort. Polliniferous, also spelled polleniferous, comes from Latin pollen (inflectional stem pollin-) 鈥渇ine flour, mill dust, dust鈥� and the combining form –ferous 鈥渂earing, producing.鈥� The pol- in Latin pollen is a derivative of the Proto-Indo-European root pel-, pol– 鈥渄ust, ground grain, meal鈥�; Latin pol(l)enta 鈥渂arley meal, groats鈥� becomes Italian polenta, originally 鈥済rain made of barley or chestnuts,鈥� but now 鈥渃ornmeal, corn flour, cornmeal porridge,鈥� which English adopted in the 18th century. The combining form –ferous is a derivative of the Latin verb ferre 鈥渢o bear, carry,鈥� from the widespread Proto-Indo-European root bher-, bhor-, 产丑峁�-, appearing in Sanskrit 产丑谩谤补迟颈 鈥渉e carries,鈥� in Greek as 辫丑茅谤别颈苍 鈥渢o carry,鈥� in Proto-Germanic as beran (Old English beran, Modern English 鈥渢o bear鈥�), Old Irish biru 鈥淚 carry,鈥� Armenian eber 鈥渉e carried,鈥� and Old Church Slavonic 产别谤谦 鈥淚 carry.鈥� Polliniferous entered English in the beginning of the 19th century.
how is polliniferous used?
Every observing person who has given attention to the matter has noticed that bees visit berries, it is necessary to intermix polliniferous plants quite liberally if we wish good crops.
When trees, weeds or grasses release pollen, it floats through the air and eventually settles on the mast cells. The second grains of pollen deliver the finishing blow: they follow their polliniferous cousins and release a protein which causes inflammation of the blood vessels.
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