The Most Interesting Word I’ve Encountered Today
Published by Blandus March 1st, 2006 in Uncategorizedeleemosynary: of, for, or relating to charity (latin). You are most likely to encounter this word in law codes or Catholic theology.
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Jake is such an eleemosynable person.
Why thank you!
I think I saw that word recently in some email spam for a new mortgage. Is there anything you’d like to confess, Blandus?
Madness!
Interesting–that word is ripped whole from the Greek, “eleemosune,” for mercy or pity. Eleos is simply mercy, and the sune ending usually denotes an action, so “eleemosune” is an act of mercy. Interesting how they tagged the “-ary” suffix on.
Here’s the Perseus entry for the word:
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/morphindex?lookup=e%29lehmosu%2Fnh&.submit=Analyze+Form&searchText=&submit=Analyze+Form&lang=greek&sourceid=Mozilla-search&formentry=1