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Today's Word "fetid"
"When Savigny returned to his fetid sty of a hutch, he found a veritable pandemonium, a huddle of men stringing their hammocks against every available hook on the beams." -- Arabella Edge, 'The God of Spring'
Fetid derives from Latin fetidus, from fetere, "to stink."
This news arrived on: 10/20/2009
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10-21-2009 12:14
Alan Butcher wrote:
Fetid
You say that this word for a bad smell has derived from the Latin 'fetere'. Do the French and English words 'péter' and 'fart' (both resulting in a fetid smell) derive from the same base?
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