This week’s theme
Eponyms

This week’s words
Orphean
Proteus
eolian
panderer
chimeric

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(PRO-tee-uhs, -tyoos)

MEANING:

noun: One who can easily change appearance, form, character, principles, etc.

ETYMOLOGY:

After Proteus, a sea god in Greek mythology, who could assume different forms. He got his name from Greek protos (first) as he was one of the earliest sea gods. Earliest documented use: 1528. The adjectival form is protean.

USAGE:

“Peter with many sides. He changes colours like a chameleon, and his coat like a snake. He is a Proteus of a Peter. He was at first sublime, pathetic, impressive, profound; then dull.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley; Peter Bell the Third; 1839.

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