Wednesday word: consanguineous

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consanguineous: [kon-sang-gwin-ee-uh s]

adjective: Of the same blood or origin;  descended from the same ancestor. 

Origin: Latin, 1595-1605

Such an extravagant word for such a simple meaning, but I love how it rolls off the tongue! 

Thursday word: paronym

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paronym (PAR-uh-nim) - n., a word derived from the same root or stem as another word.


Or as most dictionaries tautologically define it, a paronymous word -- which they do because the adjective arrived in English two centuries before the noun (1650-ish versus 1846), even though in Greek the equivalent adjective is derived from the noun. This is not quite the same as a cognate, which is specifically paronyms in two different languages. Oh, as for that Greek root, parōnymon, from para-, derivative of + ónyma, name -- "from the same name".

Wise and wisdom are paronyms.

---L.