irriguous

Jun. 1st, 2012 07:12 am
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irriguous (ih-RIG-yoo-uhs) - adj., (arch., poet.) well-watered.


The standard noun modified by this seems to have been "land." As a poeticism, it's in the highfalutin' register, and as archaic, it's halfway to the stuffy register as well. A cognate of irrigated, borrowed in the 16th century from Latin irriguus, supplied with water, from riguus, watered.

---L.

Date: 2012-06-01 05:06 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] movingfinger.livejournal.com
Excellent word. It passes the English Puritan name test with flying colors!

That would be Irriguous Landomere, with younger brother Agrestial and baby sister Arable.

Date: 2012-06-01 07:48 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] prettygoodword.livejournal.com
Damn you, I'm sitting in a cubicle and cannot laugh out loud enough for this. *shakes fist at the ether*

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