SUPREME WORD OF THE DAY: POLYPHILOPROGENITIVE

SUPREME WORD OF THE DAY

POLYPHILOPROGENITIVE

PRONUNCIATION:

(pol-ee-fi-luh-pro-JEN-uh-tiv) 

MEANING:

adjective: Extremely prolific.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin poly- (many) + philo- (loving) + progenitive (producing offspring), from pro- (toward) + past participle of gignere (to beget). Earliest documented use: 1919, in a poem by T.S. Eliot.

USAGE:

"Polyphiloprogenitive Joe Fallon, the needy, breedy father of seventeen, or was it nineteen? I was never sure, any more than Joe himself."
Aidan Higgins; Dog Days; Secker & Warburg; 1998. wordsmith.org

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