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olericulture
noun
the cultivation of vegetables for the home or market.
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Starting from the end, the –iculture of olericulture 鈥渃ultivation of vegetables for the home or market鈥� is familiar to us from compounds like agriculture 鈥渢he cultivation of land for crops,鈥� and the relatively recent apiculture 鈥渂eekeeping, especially commercial beekeeping.鈥� The first part of olericulture comes from oleri-, the inflectional stem of the Latin noun olus (also holus) 鈥渁 vegetable, vegetables, kitchen herb,鈥� which is related to the adjective helvus 鈥測ellowish, dun (of cattle).鈥� Helvus is the Latin result of the Proto-Indo-European adjective ghelwos 鈥渂right, yellow,鈥� a derivative of the Proto-Indo-European root ghel– 鈥渢o shine,鈥� a root that is particularly associated with colors. Latin has another adjective gilvus 鈥測ellowish鈥� (used of domestic animals), a borrowing from a Celtic language. Much, much closer to home, ghelwos becomes gelwa– in the Germanic languages, the source of English yellow. Olericulture entered English in the second half of the 19th century.
how is olericulture used?
… he offered his 7-year-old grandson a daily tutorial in olericulture in his backyard field of bounty.
As either a lecture or a recitation course alone olericulture is not likely to prove a shining success. It should be accompanied by a definite laboratory course, in which the actual materials of the garden may be studied first hand.
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verisimilitude
noun
the appearance or semblance of truth; likelihood; probability: The play lacked verisimilitude.
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Verisimilitude, 鈥渢he appearance or semblance of truth; probability,鈥� comes via French similitude from Latin 惫脓谤墨蝉颈尘颈濒颈迟奴诲艒 (also written as an open compound 惫脓谤墨 蝉颈尘颈濒颈迟奴诲艒), an uncommon noun meaning 鈥減robability, plausibility,鈥� literally 鈥渞esemblance to the truth.鈥� 厂颈尘颈濒颈迟奴诲艒 is a derivative of the adjective similis 鈥渓ike, resembling, similar,鈥� which governs the genitive case. 痴脓谤墨 is the genitive singular of 惫脓谤耻尘, a noun use of the neuter gender of the adjective 惫脓谤耻蝉 鈥渢rue, real.鈥� Vera, the female personal name, is the feminine singular of 惫脓谤耻蝉 and is related to the Slavic (Russian) female name Vera, which is also used as a common noun (vera) meaning 鈥渇aith, good faith, trust.鈥� The Latin and Slavic forms come from a Proto-Indo-European root wer-, 飞别谤菨-, 飞脓谤– 鈥渢rue, trustworthy.鈥� In Germanic 飞脓谤膩 became 痴腻谤 in Old Norse, the goddess of faithful oaths. Verisimilitude entered English in the early 17th century.
how is verisimilitude used?
Every beast you see here, from elephant to elephant shrew, and every square inch of habitat, from desert sand to belching mud, is computer-created, and one can but marvel at the verisimilitude.
According to O鈥橞rien, artificial intelligence will soon push the verisimilitude of computer-generated fake images and videos beyond what even skilled human editors can produce.
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legerity
noun
physical or mental quickness; nimbleness; agility.
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Legerity, 鈥渕ental or physical agility,鈥� comes from Middle French 濒别驳别谤别迟茅 鈥渓ightness, thoughtlessness,鈥� a derivative of leger, liger 鈥渓ight (in weight).鈥� Leger is a regular French phonological development of Vulgar Latin 濒别惫颈腻谤颈耻蝉 鈥渓ight (in weight),鈥� equivalent to Latin levis. The original and now obsolete English meaning of legerity was 鈥渓ack of seriousness, frivolity鈥� (its French sense). The current sense 鈥渘imbleness, quickness鈥� dates from the end of the 16th century.
how is legerity used?
Alighting with the legerity of a cat, he swerved leftward in the recoil, and was off, like a streak of mulberry-coloured lightning, down the High.
With such legerity of mind, how could I not study physics?
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