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carminative
Jul. 29th, 2011 07:34 amOkay, now that both a) I'm back from my appendectomy and b) LJ seems to have gotten over its indigestion, a resumption of words:
carminative (kahr-MIN-uh-tiv, KAHR-muh-ney-tiv) - adj., relieving flatulence, either by inducing the expulsion of gas from the stomach or intestines or by preventing it from forming. n., a carminative drug.
In honor of the gas left over from laparoscopic surgery, though of course a carminative wouldn't have helped as that gas was outside all organs. But still, the gurgling was odd. Borrowed around 1650 from French carminatif, from Late Latin carminātus, past participle of carmināre, to purify, from Latin carmināre, to card wool, which is either a verbal derivative of carmen, the card used for wool, or earlier cārere, to card. Interesting metaphoric extension in there.
---L.
carminative (kahr-MIN-uh-tiv, KAHR-muh-ney-tiv) - adj., relieving flatulence, either by inducing the expulsion of gas from the stomach or intestines or by preventing it from forming. n., a carminative drug.
In honor of the gas left over from laparoscopic surgery, though of course a carminative wouldn't have helped as that gas was outside all organs. But still, the gurgling was odd. Borrowed around 1650 from French carminatif, from Late Latin carminātus, past participle of carmināre, to purify, from Latin carmināre, to card wool, which is either a verbal derivative of carmen, the card used for wool, or earlier cārere, to card. Interesting metaphoric extension in there.
---L.
