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esculent
adjective
suitable for use as food; edible.
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Esculent 鈥渟uitable for use as food鈥� comes from Latin 脓蝉肠耻濒别苍迟耻蝉 鈥渆dible, full of food,鈥� which is equivalent to 脓蝉肠补 鈥渇ood鈥� plus -ulentus, an adjective-forming suffix roughly meaning 鈥渇ull of.鈥� The element -ulent also appears in fraudulent (literally 鈥渇ull of deceit鈥�) and opulent (鈥渇ull of wealth鈥�). Latin 脓蝉肠补 is derived from the verb edere 鈥渢o eat,鈥� which has two stems: ed-, as in edible (literally 鈥渆atable鈥�), and es-, as in comestible (鈥渆at up-able鈥�). Esculent was first recorded in English circa 1620.
EXAMPLE OF ESCULENT USED IN A SENTENCE
They planned to bring a succulent salad made from a range of esculent greens they had foraged.
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Brume, 鈥渕ist or fog,鈥� is a borrowing from French and comes via 笔谤辞惫别苍莽补濒 bruma from Latin 产谤奴尘补, 鈥渨inter, winter solstice.鈥� 叠谤奴尘补 is ultimately a contraction of brevissima (di膿s), 鈥渟hortest (day),鈥� which is the superlative of brevis, 鈥渟hort.鈥� Brevis is the source of abbreviate and brevity as well as (by way of French) abridge and brief. In Latin,聽the superlative forms are often marked with -issimus; compare Italian bravissimo and generalissimo. Brume was first recorded in English in the first decade of the 19th century.
EXAMPLE OF BRUME USED IN A SENTENCE
With excellent timing, a brume arose from the sea on the solstice and spread inland, all as if to signal that winter had come.
posole
noun
a thick, stewlike soup of pork or chicken, hominy, mild chile peppers, and cilantro.
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Posole, 鈥渁 soup of meat, hominy, mild chile peppers, and cilantro,鈥� is a loanword from Mexican Spanish, in which it is also spelled pozole. Because of a phonological phenomenon called seseo, while c and z are pronounced in most dialects of European Spanish as 鈥渢huh,鈥� they have merged with s in Latin American Spanish and become 鈥渟uh.鈥� Pozole comes from pozolli 鈥渉ominy, maize-based stew鈥� in Nahuatl, which only uses c and z, not s, to indicate the 鈥渟uh鈥� sound. Posole was first recorded in English in the 1690s. Learn more words of Nahuatl origin in English.
EXAMPLE OF POSOLE USED IN A SENTENCE
He prepared a large pot of posole, which he knew would help cure the post-holiday hangover.