anacampserote
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prettygoodwordanacampserote (an-uh-KAMP-suh-roht) - n., (hist., rare) a plant believed to have the power to restore lost love.
Or as an Elizabethan translation of Pliny put it, "A famous Grammarian of late days made mention of another hearb, Anacampseros, of this virtue: That if a man touched a woman therewith, were she departed from him in all the hatred that might be, she would come again and love him entirely." Which is, yanno, kinda ick. From Hellenistic Greek, spelling influenced by Latin and Middle French, from roots meaning "to bend back love."
And that's a week of A words in my queue.
---L.
Or as an Elizabethan translation of Pliny put it, "A famous Grammarian of late days made mention of another hearb, Anacampseros, of this virtue: That if a man touched a woman therewith, were she departed from him in all the hatred that might be, she would come again and love him entirely." Which is, yanno, kinda ick. From Hellenistic Greek, spelling influenced by Latin and Middle French, from roots meaning "to bend back love."
And that's a week of A words in my queue.
---L.
