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prettygoodword) wrote2014-01-23 07:10 am
prettygoodword) wrote2014-01-23 07:10 am
anadem
anadem (AN-uh-dem) - n., (poet.) a wreath for the head, garland.
Poetic in the sense that it's obsolete except for occasionally encountering it in poetry after it had died out of prosaic use. That said, it's rare even in Victorian poems. Adopted in 1598 from Latin anadema, from Greek anadēma, from anadein, to wreathe, from ana-, in the sense of against/up + dein, to bind.
---L.
Poetic in the sense that it's obsolete except for occasionally encountering it in poetry after it had died out of prosaic use. That said, it's rare even in Victorian poems. Adopted in 1598 from Latin anadema, from Greek anadēma, from anadein, to wreathe, from ana-, in the sense of against/up + dein, to bind.
---L.