Word of the Day: Cenatory

Tuesday, January 21, 2025

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adjective

1. Of or relating to dinner (the evening meal) or supper.

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"I try to do some cenatory preparations before I leave for work, such as thawing chicken or chopping vegetables."

"Jackson has what he calls his 'cenatory suit,' a dinner jacket he wears only to formal events."

"My brother always seemed to disappear at the cenatory hour, hiding from my mother's calls to come inside."

Latin, mid-17th century

It might not make sense to you at face value why "cenatory" is an adjective that describes something related to supper, or the evening meal, but it comes from the Latin verb "cenare," meaning "to dine." "Cenatory" entered English as an invention of Sir Thomas Browne (1606-1682), who also coined the words "medical," "electricity," "carnivorous," "prairie," "ferocious," and nearly 800 others. ...