latibulize
Nov. 18th, 2009 07:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
prettygoodwordlatibulize - "To retire into a den; [from] Latin latibulum, a hiding place. —Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language, 1828"
Or so per the Forgotten English calendar -- per an online archive of Webster's 1828, the entry went "v.i. [L. latibulum, a hiding place.] To retire into a den, burrow or cavity, and lie dormant in winter; to retreat and lie hid. The tortoise latibulizes in October." From the current edition of Webster's, we get the additional tidbit that latibulum comes from latere, to lie hid. And now I will latibulize in my cubical until lunch.
---L.
Or so per the Forgotten English calendar -- per an online archive of Webster's 1828, the entry went "v.i. [L. latibulum, a hiding place.] To retire into a den, burrow or cavity, and lie dormant in winter; to retreat and lie hid. The tortoise latibulizes in October." From the current edition of Webster's, we get the additional tidbit that latibulum comes from latere, to lie hid. And now I will latibulize in my cubical until lunch.
---L.
