Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
LEPTOSPIROSIS
Etymology
Noun
leptospirosis (countable and uncountable, plural leptospiroses)
An acute, infectious, febrile disease of both humans and animals, caused by spirochetes of the genus Leptospira.
Synonyms
• (disease): Weil’s disease, canicola fever, canefield fever, nanukayami fever, 7-day fever, rat catcher's yellows, Fort Bragg fever, black jaundice, pretibial fever
Source: Wiktionary
Recent Word Finds
Word of the Day
28 November 2024
SYNCRETISM
(noun) the fusion of originally different inflected forms (resulting in a reduction in the use of inflections)
Coffee Trivia
