Friday, March 04, 2005

Word of the Day #4

postprandial (post-PRAN-dee-uhl) adjective

After a meal, especially dinner.

Example: "I really enjoy my postprandial bliss" -- Duke Leto


Comments:
I got it from the A Word A Day mailing list. Here's more from it:postprandial (post-PRAN-dee-uhl) adjective

After a meal, especially dinner.

[From Latin post- (after) + prandium (meal). Ultimately from
Indo-European root ed- (to eat or to bite) that has given other
words such as edible, comestible, obese, etch, and fret.]

Two siblings of this word are preprandial (before a meal)
and prandial (relating to a meal).

Pronunciation:
http://wordsmith.org/words/postprandial.wav
http://wordsmith.org/words/postprandial.ram

Permalink: http://wordsmith.org/words/postprandial.html

I loved the word as it described a state that I find truly blissful :)

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