Wednesday, December 08, 2021

Word of the Day -- Cinnabar

Doesn't this word remind you of a certain sticky bun food chain?

Cinnabar -- artificial red mercuric sulfide used especially as a pigment; a deep vivid red.

Middle English cynabare, from Anglo-French & Latin; Anglo-French sinopre, from Latin cinnabaris, from Greek kinnabari, of non-Indo-European origin; akin to Arabic zinjafr cinnabar 

Short and sweet today, I'm supposed to be paying attention to the meeting I'm currently in. :-)


 

1 comment:

Davis said...

isn't that just red by a different name

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