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Dec 14, 2022
This week’s themeWords related to books This week’s words bibliophagist prosateur bibliopole peritext bibliophobe 
Rare Book Room, Powell’s Books
Portland, Oregon Photo: Jennifer Yang
A.Word.A.Day
with Anu Gargbibliopole
PRONUNCIATION:
(BIB-lee-uh-pohl)
MEANING:
noun: A bookseller, especially of rare works.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin bibliopola (bookseller), from Greek bibliopoles, biblio-
(book) + polein (to sell). Earliest documented use: 1775.
USAGE:
“An old London bibliopole ... Heywood Hill has been selling books in
Mayfair since 1936, when its catalogue included the first British
edition of James Joyce’s Ulysses.” For the Person Who Has Everything... Bespoke Libraries; The Economist (London, UK); Dec 20, 2014. See more usage examples of bibliopole in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
In its original literal sense, "moral relativism" is simply moral
complexity. That is, anyone who agrees that stealing a loaf of bread to
feed one's children is not the moral equivalent of, say, shoplifting a
dress for the fun of it, is a relativist of sorts. But in recent years,
conservatives bent on reinstating an essentially religious vocabulary of
absolute good and evil as the only legitimate framework for discussing
social values have redefined "relative" as "arbitrary". -Ellen Jane Willis,
writer (14 Dec 1941-2006)
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