Friday, September 09, 2005

Words of the Day: 9.9.05

I know, I know, it's been forever since I did Words of the Day, but I'll be putting them in again, this time instead of numbering them 1, 2, etc., I'll be numbering them by date so it's easier for me to find and categorize them.

Here is goes:

Today's Words of the Day:

hirsute from the Latin hirsutus, "covered with hair, rough, shaggy, prickly."
adjective: (1) Covered with hair or bristles; shaggy; hairy.
- from Dictionary.com

odious from the Latin odious, odium, "hatred." *
adjective: (1) arousing or deserving hatred or repugnance: hateful.
- from Merriam Webster's Word of the Day

* Let me give you the paragraph they gave me:
Did you know?
"Odious" has been with us since the days of Middle English. We borrowed it from Anglo-French, which in turn has taken it from Latin "odiosus." The Latin adjective came from the noun "odium," meaning "hatred." "Odium" is also an ancestor of the English verb "annoy" (another word that came to Middle English via Anglo-French). And, at the beginning of the 17th century, "odium" entered English in its unaltered form, giving us a noun meaning "hatred" or "disgrace" (as in "ideas that have incurred much odium")

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