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gingerly
adverb
with great care or caution; warily.
More about gingerly
Despite the similar spelling and pronunciation, gingerly 鈥渨ith great care or caution鈥� has nothing to do with the spicy root ginger. Gingerly is of uncertain origin but may come from Middle French gensor 鈥渄elicate, pretty鈥� (from gent 鈥済entle鈥�) combined with English -ly, an adjective- and adverb-forming suffix. The ultimate source of gensor is either the Latin verb gignere (stem genit-) 鈥渢o beget鈥� or the Latin noun 驳脓苍蝉 (stem gent-) 鈥渞ace, people.鈥� In contrast, ginger comes via Latin from Ancient Greek 锄颈苍驳铆产别谤颈蝉, perhaps by way of Sanskrit 艣峁涐箙驳补惫别谤补尘 or Pali 蝉颈峁僩颈惫别谤补尘 from a Dravidian language; compare Malayalam and Tamil 颈帽肠颈 鈥済颈苍驳别谤.鈥� Gingerly was first recorded in English in the 1510s.
how is gingerly used?
I felt the arm gingerly through his shirt鈥攏o compound fractures. I rolled it up carefully for a better look …. I bit my lip, feeling gingerly down the swell of his biceps. He had one of the worst bruises I had ever seen.
phoenix
noun
a person or thing that has become renewed or restored after suffering calamity.
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Phoenix, 鈥渁 person who has become restored after suffering calamity,鈥� comes from Ancient Greek 辫丑辞卯苍颈虫, which refers to the mythical bird, and this is where matters become murky. One popular proposal in the linguistic community is that 辫丑辞卯苍颈虫 comes from Ancient Egyptian bnw, the name of a heron represented as the god Benu. An alternative theory鈥攁 less broadly accepted one鈥攊s based on the fact that Ancient Greek had four 辫丑辞卯苍颈虫 words, meaning 鈥減hoenix,鈥� 鈥淧hoenician,鈥� 鈥渄ark red,鈥� and 鈥渄ate palm,鈥� respectively. According to this theory, all four words are one and the same, though whether these 辫丑辞卯苍颈虫 words are of Indo-European, Semitic, or lost ancient Mediterranean origin is anyone鈥檚 guess. Phoenix was first recorded in English before 900.
how is phoenix used?
The shell of St Michael鈥檚 survives today, the intact steeple presiding over a Gothic amphitheatre, a still-consecrated place linked to its successor, Sir Basil Spence鈥檚 concrete-framed cathedral completed in 1962. This is a phoenix from the ashes, full of powerful modern stained glass.
Jiwoo is a tough girl whose world is turned upside down …. Her bereavement and anguish are a result of the emotional turmoil she experiences before and after her father鈥檚 death. But she is a fighter. Although humiliated and mistreated, she rises from the ashes like a phoenix.
More about gamboge
Gamboge, 鈥測ellow-orange,鈥� comes from New Latin gambogium, a gum resin from trees of the genus Garcinia that is made into a yellow pigment or dye, also called gamboge. Gambogium is a variant of Cambogia 鈥淐ambodia,鈥� which comes from the Khmer name 碍芒尘辫怒肠丑茅补. The name 碍芒尘辫怒肠丑茅补 allegedly derives from Kambu, the name of the legendary founder of Kamboja, which is a kingdom that flourished in what is now India about 2500 years ago. Gamboge was first recorded in English circa 1630.
how is gamboge used?
I鈥檓 thinking gamboge: ‘My husband is very confident about my color sense. It is powerful, if I say so myself’ …. [Theresa] Rebeck was in charge of what went into the spaces and what went on the walls.
“That’s a lovely shade of nail varnish 鈥�. What color would you say it is?鈥� 鈥�. “Tropical topaz? 鈥�. I wouldn’t have thought topaz so much as amber” 鈥� “I’d say more gamboge than amber.”