noun
an answer or solution for all problems or difficulties: His economic philosophy is a good one, but he tries to use it as a panacea.
Panacea comes from Latin 梯硃紳硃釵襲硃, which had the same meanings of the Greek original, 梯硃紳獺域梗勳硃 universal remedy; the name of a healing plant and its juice. 捩硃紳獺域梗勳硃 is a compound of the Greek combining form pan– all, completely naturalized in English, and the adjective suffix –硃域廎s healing, a derivative 獺域棗莽 cure, remedy. The Greeks had a genius for personification, making, for instance, the common noun 梯梗勳喧堯廜 persuasion into the goddess 捩梗勳喧堯廜. So, too, with 堯聆眶穩梗勳硃 healthy state, good health becoming the goddess 晨聆眶穩梗勳硃, and 梯硃紳獺域梗勳硃, the goddess 捩硃紳獺域梗勳硃. In fact the first sentence of the Hippocratic Oath (originally dating between the 5th and 3rd centuries b.c.) begins, I swear by Apollo the physician and Asclepius and Hygeia and Panacea and all the gods and goddesses. Panacea entered English in the mid-16th century.
That could help provide a financial lifeline for the difficult weeks ahead but it isnt a panacea ….
The panacea of a world state, on the contrary, is doomed to bitter disappointment. A political unification of the nations of the world is impossible while political questions divide mankind.
noun
a classification into ordered categories: a proposed taxonomy of educational objectives.
The English noun taxonomy, classification into ordered categories, comes from French taxonomie, an irregular formation from the Greek noun 喧獺單勳莽 military formation by rank and file, and the Greek combining form –紳棗鳥穩硃, a derivative of 紳籀鳥棗莽 law. A note on the spelling: the original Greek noun 喧獺單勳莽 is an i-stem,” and its connecting vowel is –i-; the etymologically correct form is taxinomy. The noun 喧獺單棗莽, yew, yew tree, has the connecting vowel –o-; taxonomy properly means classification of yew trees. Taxonomy entered English in the first half of the 19th century.
Warhol was the little match girl peering in at high society, wondering what a rich collector or a countess was like and creating a taxonomy of it.
How long has our current taxonomy of Red State vs. Blue State been part of our political vernacular?
adjective
appropriate; fit; suitable; apt.
The adjective idoneous, suitable, fit, is now rare and archaic. It comes straight from Latin 勳餃紳梗棗喝莽 suitable, appropriate, qualified, able; it has no reliable Latin etymology. Idoneous has an even rarer derivative noun, idoneousness fitness, suitability.泭 Idoneous entered English in the first half of the 17th century; idoneousness is first recorded in English in the first half of the 18th century and was last recorded just over a century later, in the mid-19th.
As far as benefices are concerned no one could be more idoneous, fitting or suitable than Martin, since he is an Anglican clergyman.
What is idoneous cannot be always or necessarily known in advance.泭