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prettygoodword ([personal profile] prettygoodword) wrote2012-06-01 07:12 am

irriguous

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.

[identity profile] movingfinger.livejournal.com 2012-06-01 05:06 pm (UTC)(link)
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.

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