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alimentation
noun
nourishment; nutrition.
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Alimentation, 鈥渘ourishment, food,鈥� comes via Medieval Latin 补濒颈尘别苍迟腻迟颈艒 (inflectional stem 补濒颈尘别苍迟腻迟颈艒n-), ultimately a derivative of the Latin verb alere 鈥渢o nourish.鈥� The many English derivatives from alere include alumnus and alumna 鈥渘ursling, foster son, foster daughter,鈥� aliment (from alimentum 鈥渇ood, nourishment, provisions鈥�), alimentary (from 补濒颈尘别苍迟腻谤颈耻蝉 鈥減ertaining to nutrition;鈥� the alimentary canal runs from the mouth to the anus), alimony (from 补濒颈尘艒苍颈补 鈥渇ood, support, nourishment鈥�), and alma 尘腻迟别谤, literally 鈥渘ourishing mother鈥� (from the adjective almus 鈥渘ourishing鈥�). Latin alere comes from the Proto-Indo-European root al– 鈥渢o grow, make grow, nourish,鈥� source of Old Irish alim 鈥淚 nourish,鈥� Welsh al 鈥渓itter (of animals),鈥� Gothic alan 鈥渢o grow up,鈥� Old Norse ala 鈥渢o nourish, raise.鈥� Finally, the suffixed Proto-Indo-European form alto– 鈥済rown, grown up鈥� becomes ald– in Germanic, the source of English old; the Germanic compound noun wer-ald, literally 鈥渕an age, life on earth,鈥� becomes weorold in Old English, world in English. Alimentation entered English in the late 16th century.
how is alimentation used?
In mid-March, in the tense week before the British government announced its belated coronavirus-induced lockdown, certain everyday products became extraordinarily hard to find. Panicked buyers swept up fundamentals of alimentation and elimination: yeast, flour, bathroom tissue.
The effect and value of alimentation was a question for the philosopher as well as for the physiologist, and the gourmand gave utterance to a truism when he said that the destiny of nations depended upon the manner in which they were fed.
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probity
noun
integrity and uprightness; honesty.
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Probity, 鈥渋ntegrity and uprightness, honesty,鈥� comes via Old French 辫谤辞产颈迟茅 from Latin 辫谤辞产颈迟腻蝉 (inflectional stem 辫谤辞产颈迟腻迟-) 鈥渕oral integrity, uprightness, honesty; sexual purity,鈥� a derivative of the adjective probus. Probus is composed of pro– 鈥渇orward鈥� and –bhwo– 鈥済rowing,鈥� the entire word meaning 鈥済oing forward, growing well.鈥� The element –bhwo– comes from the very complicated Proto-Indo-European root 产丑别耻蓹-, bheu-, bhou-, bhwo-, 产丑奴– (with still more variants) 鈥渢o be, exist, become, grow.鈥� The root appears in Latin fuisse 鈥渢o have been,鈥� 蹿耻迟奴谤耻蝉 鈥渨hat is going to be, future,鈥� and 蹿墨别谤墨 鈥渢o become,鈥� English be and been, Lithuanian 产奴虂迟颈 鈥渢o be,鈥� Greek 辫丑媒别蝉迟丑补颈 鈥渢o grow, arise, become,鈥� and its derivatives 辫丑媒蝉颈蝉 鈥渘ature鈥� and 辫丑测蝉颈办贸蝉 鈥減ertaining to nature, natural.鈥� Probity entered English in the first half of the 15th century.
how is probity used?
For an instant he had been tempted to accept the carriage as a gift, but probity never deserted him for very long, not to mention an unrelenting awareness of the importance of the appearance of things.
Coolidge ended up serving twice as long as Harding in the White House, sanitizing the place with his dignified, even endearing probity.
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mellifluous
adjective
flowing with honey; sweetened with or as if with honey.
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Mellifluous comes from Late Latin mellifluus 鈥渇lowing with honey, (of a taste or scent) sweetened with or as if with honey,鈥� and by extension 鈥渆loquent, persuasive.鈥� Mellifluus is a compound of mel (inflectional stem mell-) 鈥渉oney鈥� and –fluus 鈥渇lowing,鈥� a derivative of fluere 鈥渢o flow.鈥� Mel is the Latin result of the Proto-Indo-European melit 鈥渉oney,鈥� which in Greek appears as 尘茅濒颈 (inflectional stem 尘茅濒颈t-). Melit– corresponds exactly with Hittite milit (from melit), Old Irish mil (also from melit). In the Germanic languages, an expanded form, melitom, yields Gothic milith 鈥渉oney,鈥� Old English 尘颈濒诲脓补飞, 尘别濒别诲脓补飞 鈥渉oney dew, nectar鈥� (in English, the mil– of mildew, which was thought to be distilled or condensed from air like dew). Mellifluous entered English in the 14th century.
how is mellifluous used?
As the bee flies from flower to flower, taking nectar from each blossom in order to make its mysterious, mellifluous conversion, so the poet should, according to Seneca, “blend those several flavors into one delicious compound …”
He is Mr. A. I. Kaplan, whose power to aid art came through his efficient conduct in the molasses business, about which mellifluous substance he knows more than anyone else in the world.
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