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prettygoodwordfestucine (FES-tuh-seen, FES-tuh-sain) - n., straw-colored, pale yellow.
It's been a while since the last 17th century Latinism, hasn't it -- this one was imported around 1645, coined from Latin festuca, straw/stalk plus the pertaining-to adjectival suffix -ine (which is ultimately from Latin, but via French). No relationship to fettuccine, which has a root meaning ribbon/slice, even though fettuccine is festucine.
---L.
It's been a while since the last 17th century Latinism, hasn't it -- this one was imported around 1645, coined from Latin festuca, straw/stalk plus the pertaining-to adjectival suffix -ine (which is ultimately from Latin, but via French). No relationship to fettuccine, which has a root meaning ribbon/slice, even though fettuccine is festucine.
---L.
