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Referring to late summer or events occurring in late summer. For example, some flowers have serotinal blooming patterns, meaning they flourish late in the summer season. 26. Psithurism The soothing sound of rustling leaves in the wind. A walk in a forest on a windy day would give you a...
Beauty is a makeover of French beauté "beauty", from earlier beltet, a reduction of Vulgar Latin bellitatem (Nominative bellitas) "beautiful", based on Classical Latin bellus "handsome, attractive". Bellus seems to have come from PIE deu-/dou- "to worship; mighty" which, with metathesis...
Walking up to a stranger in a French-speaking country and telling the person that she's beautiful is more than a little direct. A safer approach is to say that it's nice to meet her. In French, you can express this sentiment with one simple word: "enchante." Pronounce this word simil...
beauty(n.) early 14c.,bealte, "physical attractiveness," also "goodness, courtesy," from Anglo-Frenchbeute, Old Frenchbiauté"beauty, seductiveness, beautiful person" (12c., Modern Frenchbeauté), earlierbeltet, from Vulgar Latin *bellitatem(nominativebellitas) "state of being pleasing to the...
It comes from the French word beaute, so that is why it has a very different spelling from normal English words. A sunset can be beautiful, as well as a person like a model, for example. The correct word is beautiful, there is no such thing as beautifull, it is a common error. ...
Example: To find the trailhead, head mauka til you reach da dead end. In Hawaiian, puka means hole. What a blessing. Being Pono is a cultural value that we should all strive for. Hawaiian is a penultimate language meaning that the second to the last syllable is a natural stress on a ...
Pyrrhic Successful with heavy losses. Quintessential Most essential. Ratatouille A spicy French stew. Ravel To knit or unknit. Redolent Fragrant. Riparian By the bank of a stream. Ripple A very small wave. Scintilla A spark or very small thing. Sempiternal Eternal. Seraglio Rich, luxurious orient...
12. Flâner (French) Perhaps one of the most Parisian of all French words, the verbflânerwas defined in the 19th century. It refers to strolling the streets of Paris in a leisurely way. It implies no goal or destination, but purely the simple pleasure of soaking up the city's beauty...
Some might stay away from baby names with bad meanings, but you shouldn't let the meaning alone stop you from choosing a baby name you love!