51吃瓜 of the Day
cacimbo
noun
a heavy mist or drizzle that occurs in the Congo Basin, located in Central Africa, often accompanied by onshore winds.
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Cacimbo 鈥渁 heavy mist that occurs in the Congo Basin鈥� is a borrowing from Portuguese, which in turn likely adapted the term from the word for 鈥渨ell (for water)鈥� in Kimbundu, a Bantu language of northern Angola. Because the former Portuguese Empire maintained a presence in several parts of western and southern Africa, numerous terms originating in African languages (particularly the Niger-Congo family) passed into Portuguese, which is still an official language in six African countries. With Portuguese as an intermediary, English has inherited batuque, samba, and the recent 51吃瓜 of the Day capoeira, all probably from West African languages. Cacimbo was first recorded in English in the early 1860s.
how is cacimbo used?
The wind can really get strong here, very powerful, you know. It鈥檚 so sweet in the cacimbo, when you鈥檙e inside with something warm to drink and you can hear it rushing through the trees outside. It鈥檚 beautiful, really beautiful鈥�
For a long time there was no rain. Ludo watered the flowerbeds with the water that had accumulated in the swimming pool. Finally there was a rip in the cold curtain of low-hanging clouds, which in Luanda they call cacimbo, and the rain came down again.
segue
verb (used without object)
to make a transition from one thing to another smoothly and without interruption.
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Segue 鈥渢o transition without interruption鈥� is a loanword from Italian, in which it is the third-person singular form of seguire 鈥渢o follow鈥� in the present tense. In this way, 鈥淚 follow鈥� is seguo, 鈥測ou follow鈥� is segui, and 鈥渉e follows鈥� or 鈥渟he follows鈥� is segue. The infinitive seguire comes from Latin 蝉别辩耻墨 鈥渢o follow.鈥� What eventually happened in Vulgar Latin is that 蝉别辩耻墨 became regularized as something like sequere before becoming French suivre, Italian seguire, and Spanish seguir. Note that Segway, the name of the personal vehicle, is based on a common misspelling of segue. Segue was first recorded in English in the early 1850s.
how is segue used?
Unlike many operas, this is one in which the libretto came first, and Sankaram tailors the music to fit the text, one mood segueing smoothly into another.
Insomniacs, fishers and other pre-dawn perambulators may want to turn their eyes skyward as Veterans Day proper segues into the holiday Monday, checking for fireballs from the Taurid meteor shower.
ratoon
noun
a sprout or shoot from the root of a plant, especially a sugarcane, after it has been cropped.
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Ratoon 鈥渁 sprout from the root of a plant鈥� is likely anglicized from Spanish 谤别迟辞帽辞 鈥渟prout,鈥� which is based on the verb 谤别迟辞帽补谤 鈥渢o sprout again in the fall,鈥� from re- 鈥渁gain鈥� and 辞迟辞帽辞 鈥渇all, autumn.鈥� Spanish 辞迟辞帽辞 and English autumn together come from Latin autumnus, which is of uncertain origin, even stumping expert linguists! Among the few proposals are connections to the Etruscan language, to Latin 补耻驳脓谤别 (stem auct-) 鈥渢o increase,鈥� or distantly to English sere 鈥渄ry, withered鈥� (compare archaic English sere month 鈥淎ugust鈥�). Old English 鈥嬧赌媓忙谤蹿别蝉迟 鈥渁utumn鈥� is the source of modern English harvest. Ratoon was first recorded in English circa 1630.
how is ratoon used?
Sugarcane is one of the few crops that has seen an increase in planting area. But across Maharashtra, large fields of sugarcane ratoons鈥攖he new cane that grows from the stubble left behind from the previous year鈥攁re drying up instead of being nurtured to maturity.
Giant banana leaves, ratoons of sugar cane and bright orange guavas鈥攕et amid a jumble of sheds, trellises, fences and retaining walls鈥攇ive the hill the look of a rural village carved from jungle.