Word of the day

[Richard Ruck]

Sorry, missed a couple of days again.

Here's today's :

feudatory

• adjective - owing feudal allegiance to another: a feudatory state.
• noun (pl. feudatories) - a person who holds land under the conditions of the feudal system.

— origin late 16th cent.: from medieval Latin feudatorius, from feudare ‘enfeoff’, from feudum.

[Katharine]

Sorry, missed a couple of days again.

Here's today's :

feudatory

• adjective - owing feudal allegiance to another: a feudatory state.
• noun (pl. feudatories) - a person who holds land under the conditions of the feudal system.

— origin late 16th cent.: from medieval Latin feudatorius, from feudare ‘enfeoff’, from feudum.

Nothing to do with fighting feuds then - I assumed it would be when I saw the word, I really shouldn't jump to conclusions!

[Richard Ruck]

Fallen behind again - sorry!

spanakopita

• noun (in Greek cooking) - a filo pastry stuffed with spinach and feta cheese.

— origin modern Greek, literally ‘spinach pie’.

[Richard Ruck]

And another.......

satisfice

• verb [no obj.] formal - decide on and pursue a course of action that will satisfy the minimum requirements necessary to achieve a particular goal.

— origin mid 16th cent. (in the sense ‘satisfy’): alteration of satisfy, influenced by Latin satisfacere. The formal use dates from the 1950s.

[Rory]

that's pretty much what I do...

[Richard Ruck]

And it's more or less how I used to approach my academic work.....

[J.R.]

Nothing to do with trying to say 'satisfied', when totally p1ssed, then ??

[Richard Ruck]

Nothing to do with trying to say 'satisfied', when totally p1ssed, then ??

Is that not 'shatishfied'? Or does Sean Connery say that?

[Richard Ruck]

Back to architecture for today's word:

peripteral

• adjective Architecture (of a building) - having a single row of pillars on all sides in the style of the temples of ancient Greece.

— origin early 19th cent.: from Greek peripteron (from peri- ‘around’ + pteron ‘wing’).

[Richard Ruck]

Still in use?

jankers

• noun [mass noun] - Brit. military slang punishment for those who have committed a military offence: the sergeant put me on jankers.

— origin early 20th cent.: of unknown origin.

[Richard Ruck]

Yesterday's word:

stratopause

• noun the interface between the stratosphere and the ionosphere.
— origin 1950s: from stratosphere, suggested by tropopause.

So now you know!

[Rory]

so it's not the bit in between the guitar solo then??

[Richard Ruck]

so it's not the bit in between the guitar solo then??

Please tell me you haven't found an old 'Yes' album?

1 solo = 1 weekend.

[Rory]

Yes???
No!!!
That wasn't me - that was my eldest brother.....
I have never owned one - and never want to.

[Richard Ruck]

Phew!!