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More about sanguine

Sanguine comes from the Middle English adjective and noun sanguyn(e), sanguyn(e) 鈥渂lood red, blood-red cloth, rosy hue, ruddy (of complexion), dominated by the humor blood, the humor blood.鈥� The Middle English forms come from the Old French adjective sanguin(e), from the Latin adjective sanguineus 鈥渃rimson, bloody, bloodstained. polluted with blood,鈥� a derivative adjective of sanguis (stem sanguin-) 鈥渂lood.鈥� Neither sanguis nor sanguineus has any sense of the humor blood, which in medieval physiology is one of the four elemental fluids of the body (blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile) regarded as determining, by their relative proportions, a person’s physical and mental constitution (their complexion). The medieval physiological theory actually dates back at least as far as Hippocrates, the 鈥淔ather of Medicine,鈥� (c460鈥�375 b.c.); it was adopted by Galen (c129鈥�216 a.d.), the Greek physician and medical writer and afterward by Muslim and medieval scholars. Sanguine entered English in the 14th century.

More about peacherino

Slang terms are notoriously difficult to etymologize, and peacherino is a slang term. Peacherino, with the variant spellings or words peachamaroot, peacherine, peachermaroot, is American in origin, formed from peach in the sense 鈥渟omeone or something especially attractive, liked, or enjoyed,鈥� and the suffix –erino, of uncertain origin, but possibly from the suffix –eroo (of uncertain origin itself) augmented by the Spanish or Italian diminutive suffix –ino. The suffix –erino has its own variants, such as –arina, –arino, –erama, –ereeno, –erine. Peacherino entered English in the late 19th century.

More about electorate

Electorate is composed of two elements derived from Latin. The first is elector 鈥渧oter,鈥� from Late Latin 脓濒脓肠迟辞谤 鈥渃hooser,鈥� formed from 脓濒颈驳别谤别 鈥渢o pluck out, pick out, choose鈥� and –tor, a suffix forming agent nouns. The second is –ate, a suffix denoting 鈥渙ffice (or person performing it), function, institution, collective body, etc.,鈥� as in professorate (the office of professor, group of professors); –ate is ultimately from Latin –腻迟耻蝉, as seen in augur腻迟耻蝉 鈥渢he office of augur鈥� or sen腻迟耻蝉 鈥渟enate (of Rome).鈥� Electorate is first attested in English the late 17th century.

At that time, the elector in electorate referred to a very different voter than the word evokes today: an Elector (German 碍耻谤蹿眉谤蝉迟) was a German prince of the Holy Roman Empire who could cast a vote in the election of the German king (Emperor). Elector was a powerful office until the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire in 1806; the territory the electors oversaw was their electorate, e.g., Elector of Cologne. It wasn鈥檛 the late 19th century that electorate was recorded as 鈥渂ody of persons entitled to vote in an election鈥濃�攁 group that was dramatically, and finally, expanded to include women in the U.S. with the certification on August 26, 1920, of the Nineteenth Amendment, which enshrined women鈥檚 suffrage in the Constitution.