mcgillianaire (
mcgillianaire
) wrote
2015
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06
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13
02:25 pm
Crossposts:
http://mcgillianaire.livejournal.com/1033365.html
Entry tags:
etymology
,
food
,
history
,
language
,
trivia
Precocious
Mid 17th-C
: from Latin
praecox
,
praecoc
- (from
praecoquere
‘ripen fully’, from
prae
‘before’ +
coquere
‘to cook’) +
-ious
.
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