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Tuesday, March 1
Word of the Day
For those of you who haven't met me, I'm definitely somewhere along the dork-geek-nerd spectrum so it shouldn't suprise you to hear that I subscribe to the "A Word A Day" email service. All this week they are featuring words related to food or drink, and here is today's:
"sitophobia (sy-tuh-FO-bee-uh) noun
Morbid aversion to food.
[From Greek sito- (food) + -phobia (fear, aversion).]
The word is also spelled as sitiophobia. Two related words are sitomania
(abnormal craving for food), and sitology (the study of nutrition)."
What's interesting to me is that I've never heard the base "sito" used before, and many latin and greek work bases are at least somewhat familiar looking to my eyes. It puts an interesting phonetic spin on the use of CYTO as a prefix for supplements and nutritional aids, for example Cytomax and the like.
Having caffeine an hour earlier than usual can't be all bad, can it? *grin*
Time posted: 07:29 [permalink]
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