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Hey check out the origins of this word and the note on anthology. ......jim
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The Word of the Day for June 3 is:
florilegium \flore-uh-LEEJ-um\ (noun)
: a volume of writings : anthology
Example sentence:
One prominent critic hailed Jake's third poetry collection as
"an elegant florilegium of old favorites and sophisticated
new works."
Did you know?
Editors who compile florilegia can be thought of as gathering
a bouquet of sweet literary blossoms -- literally. We're not
just getting sappy. It's just that English speakers picked up
"florilegium" from a New Latin word that derives from the
Latin "florilegus," which can be translated as "culling
flowers." In fact initially, "florilegium" was applied to a
collection of flowers, and later to books about flowers, but
it wasn't long before it began to be used for (as the _Oxford
English Dictionary_ puts it) "a collection of the flowers of
literature." But "florilegium" isn't the only English
collecting term with a floral heritage; its synonym
"anthology" comes from the Greek word for "flower gathering."
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