Infinite Footnotes
Saturday, February 27, 2016
Bathykolpian
Etymology
Derived from
Ancient Greek
words
βαθύς
(
bathús
,
“
deep
”
) and
κόλπος
(
kólpos
,
“
bosom
”
).
Pronunciation
enPR
:
băth-i-kol-pē-en
Adjective
bathykolpian
(
comparative
more
bathykolpian
,
superlative
most
bathykolpian
)
deep
-
bosomed
.
big
-
breasted
.
"The bathykolpian Heré ... sent down Iris" - Oliver Wendell Holmes, "Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table" (1858)
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