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prettygoodword) wrote2013-04-03 07:23 am
prettygoodword) wrote2013-04-03 07:23 am
matutolypea
matutolypea (mah-TOO-tuh-loh-PEE-uh) - n., the state of having gotten up on the wrong side of the bed.
That is, being ill-humored and out of sorts esp. in the morning -- though for many, in my experience, the condition lasts through the day. This is not, as one might think, a 17th-century Latinate borrowing decayed into a $20 word, but rather a recent coinage -- as in apparently within the last 20 years, which might explain why it's actually a mixture of languages: Latin matuta from Mater Matuta, a Roman goddess of the dawn (as well as childbirth, ripening grain, and mariners) + Greek lype, grief/sorrow.
---L.
That is, being ill-humored and out of sorts esp. in the morning -- though for many, in my experience, the condition lasts through the day. This is not, as one might think, a 17th-century Latinate borrowing decayed into a $20 word, but rather a recent coinage -- as in apparently within the last 20 years, which might explain why it's actually a mixture of languages: Latin matuta from Mater Matuta, a Roman goddess of the dawn (as well as childbirth, ripening grain, and mariners) + Greek lype, grief/sorrow.
---L.
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and what a pity that i will never ever be able to memorize it :P
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---L.