Saturday & Sunday Word: Jeremiad & Eponym
Feb. 8th, 2015 06:17 pm![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
theidolhands.livejournal.com posting in ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
1word1dayjer·e·mi·ad [ˌjer-ə-ˈmī-əd]:
origin: [biblical] Hebrew; ירמיה= "Jeremiah"
e•po•nym [ˈe-pə-ˌnim]:
origin: [1770-80] Greek; epōnymos,= epi-= "upon" + onyma= "name"
nouns
A jeremiad is a prolonged, seriously-worded, angry, and impassioned list (or account) of woes; a cautionary verse or prophecy of doom; the sort of thing that can get you labeled as a "Debbie Downer" in the modern world, unless put into a catchy rap or country music hit.
The origin of the word references biblical prose from The Book of Jeremiah, making this word an eponym (adjective form) -- a word whose origins can be traced to a proper noun that is real or fictional -- such as teddy bear (Theodore Roosevelt), Dickensian (Charles Dickens), or pavlovian (Ivan Pavlov). However, I encountered the word jeremiad through an author attempting to describe the bodies of male nudists who are famous for joggling about San Francisco!
[Poll #1998455]
origin: [biblical] Hebrew; ירמיה= "Jeremiah"
e•po•nym [ˈe-pə-ˌnim]:
origin: [1770-80] Greek; epōnymos,= epi-= "upon" + onyma= "name"
nouns
A jeremiad is a prolonged, seriously-worded, angry, and impassioned list (or account) of woes; a cautionary verse or prophecy of doom; the sort of thing that can get you labeled as a "Debbie Downer" in the modern world, unless put into a catchy rap or country music hit.
The origin of the word references biblical prose from The Book of Jeremiah, making this word an eponym (adjective form) -- a word whose origins can be traced to a proper noun that is real or fictional -- such as teddy bear (Theodore Roosevelt), Dickensian (Charles Dickens), or pavlovian (Ivan Pavlov). However, I encountered the word jeremiad through an author attempting to describe the bodies of male nudists who are famous for joggling about San Francisco!
[Poll #1998455]
