Saints alive, I haven't heard that one in a long time - HAGIOGRAPHY
And here's a fit word for a bright and cheerful Monday morning:
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March 14, 2005, 05:16
haberdasher
a digression, for any Latin-enabled Wordcrafters:
IRASCIBLE, meaning irritable or easily provoked, comes from Latin ira, as in Dies irae, "Day of Anger." How did the "-sc-" come into the picture? Second conjugation twice removed, or something like that?
March 14, 2005, 07:51
jheem
I think I've mentioned it before. (Maybe not, I couldn't find a thread.) There's a verbal suffix, -sc-, for creating inchoative verbs in Latin. Rubesco 'to redden', irasco(r) 'to be angry, be in a rage'.