honorarium
(noun) a fee paid for a nominally free service
Source: WordNet® 3.1
honorarium (plural honorariums or honoraria)
Compensation for services that do not have a predetermined value.
Source: Wiktionary
Hon`o*ra"ri*um, Hon"or*a*ry, n. Etym: [L. honorarium (sc. donum), fr. honorarius. See Honorary, a.]
1. A fee offered to professional men for their services; as, an honorarium of one thousand dollars. S. Longfellow.
2. (Law)
Definition: An honorary payment, usually in recognition of services for which it is not usual or not lawful to assign a fixed business price. Heumann.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
10 March 2025
(adjective) celebrated in fable or legend; “the fabled Paul Bunyan and his blue ox”; “legendary exploits of Jesse James”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
