jentacular
/d͡ʒɛnˈtækjəlɚ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of or pertaining to breakfast; specifically, one taken early in the morning or immediately upon getting up.
Archaic; Formal
Example Sentences
- "I took a post-jentacular walk to settle my stomach."
- "[T]he conſumption of Tea and Coffee; a faſhionable vice, vvhich tends only to ſquandring avvay money, and miſpending the morning; ſince (as you once ingeniouſly expreſs'd it) nothing more can be expected from thoſe Jentacular Confabulations."
- "To valetudinarians and others the following method of making coffee for breakfast is earnestly recommended, as a most wholesome and pleasant jentacular beverage, first ordered by an able physician."
- "Do you ever by chance do such a saluberrimous thing[…], as to walk into town before breakfast? If you ever do, I should be most glad to see you either here or at Nº 6 Lower Belgrave St South, Eaton Square, at your choice. Here there be jentacular comforts in great abundance— […]"
- "On Ickerson's part, with the help of "a few post-jentacular inhalations," as he in his colossal manner was pleased to phrase it, "from that fragrant weed which so propitiates clearness of thought, and tends to promote equanimity in action.""
- "Nature is nature; ignore her if you will; so Grey, like a sensible man, went to work, con amore, at his jentacular meal."
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin iēntāculum (“breakfast (particularly taken right after getting up)”) + English -ar (suffix meaning ‘of, near, or pertaining to’ forming adjectives). Iēntāculum is derived from ientō (a variant of ieientō (“to have breakfast”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁yaǵ- (“to sacrifice; to worship”)) + -culum (diminutive suffix).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *h₁yaǵ-
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /d͡ʒɛnˈtækjəlɚ/
- British English: /d͡ʒɛnˈtækjʊlə/
Usage
Derived Forms
antejentacular
postjentacular