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posole
noun
a thick, stewlike soup of pork or chicken, hominy, mild chile peppers, and cilantro.
More about posole
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.
niveous
adjective
resembling snow; snowy.
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More about niveous
Niveous comes from the Latin stem niv-, 鈥渟now,鈥� which combines with the suffix -eous to form an adjective. Today, niv- survives as French neige, Italian and Portuguese neve, Romanian nea, and Spanish nieve, all meaning 鈥渟now.鈥� Niv- is a distant relative of English snow, which has the s- that Latin lost thousands of years ago. Other examples include the English/Latin pairs slack and laxus (鈥渓oose鈥�) as well as steer and taurus (鈥渂耻濒濒鈥�). Niveous was first recorded in English around 1620.
EXAMPLE OF NIVEOUS USED IN A SENTENCE
With the previous day鈥檚 blizzard finally past, the children headed outside for an afternoon of frivolous play in their now niveous neighborhood.
产辞产猫肠丑别
noun
a slightly cupped ring placed over the socket of a candleholder to catch the drippings of a candle.
More about 产辞产猫肠丑别
叠辞产猫肠丑别, 鈥渁 cupped ring that catches a candle鈥檚 drippings,鈥� comes from French but is of uncertain origin. With that said, linguists have one prevailing hypothesis. The bob- part may be the same as the first element in Middle French bobine, 鈥�skein of thread,鈥� which is the source of English bobbin. The -猫肠丑别 element could be based on an analogy with 蹿濒补尘尘猫肠丑别, 鈥渟park,鈥� which comes from Old High German falawiska, 鈥渉ot ashes.鈥� 叠辞产猫肠丑别 was first recorded in English in the late 1890s.
EXAMPLE OF BOB脠CHE USED IN A SENTENCE
Without a 产辞产猫肠丑别 available, they carried the lit candles very carefully, dodging scalding drips of hot wax.