This week’s theme
There’s a word for it

This week’s words
misericord
contrafactum
akrasia
aquabib
eidolon

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(AK-wuh-bib)

MEANING:

noun:
1. A water-drinker.
2. A teetotaler.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin aqua (water) + bibere (to drink). Ultimately from the Indo-European root poi- (to drink), which also gave us potion, poison, potable, beverage, bibulous, bibacious, and Sanskrit paatram (pot). Earliest documented use: 1731.

USAGE:

“He came across a hulking pewter herbivore failing to slake his thirst despite becoming increasingly watery. ‘Stop drinking,’ Billy ordered the sippopotamus, for the aquabib truly had had enough.”
Morgan Benson; The Mating Rituals of the Burning Giraffe; Xlibris; 2010.

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