The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.
LIBIDO
libido
(noun) (psychoanalysis) a Freudian term for sexual urge or desire
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
libido (countable and uncountable, plural libidos)
(common usage) Sexual urges or drives.
Synonym: horniness (vulgar)
Antonym: boredom
(psychology) Drives or mental energies related to or based on sexual instincts but not necessarily sexual in and of themselves.
Antonyms: destrudo, mortido
Hypernym: drive
(astronomy, archaic or misused, an occasional carry-over from astrology to astronomy) synonym of albedo in terms of a planet's, such as that of Mars, average surface spectral reflectivity.
Source: Wiktionary
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ANALYSIS
(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., ‘the father of the bride’ instead of ‘the bride’s father’
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