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

This week’s words
typomania
epistemology
yestereve
marcescence
aggiornamento

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(YES-tuh-reev)

MEANING:

noun: Yesterday evening.
adverb: During yesterday evening.

ETYMOLOGY:

From yester- (a time one period before the present one), from Old English giestran (previous day) + eve/even (evening). Earliest documented use: 1565. Another form of this word is yestreen.

USAGE:

“Listen, Gin, I’m sorry about yestereve. We had no right to stay as long as we did.”
Michelle M. Pillow; Emerald Knight; Createspace; 2005.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: