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.
REPTILIANLY
Etymology
Adverb
reptilianly (comparative more reptilianly, superlative most reptilianly)
In a reptilian manner.
Source: Wiktionary
REPTILIAN
Rep*til"i*an (-an), a.
Definition: Belonging to the reptiles. Reptilian age (Geol.), that part of geological time comprising the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous periods, and distinguished as that era in which the class of reptiles attained its highest expansion; -- called also the Secondary or Mezozoic age.
Rep*til"i*an, n. (Zoöl.)
Definition: One of the Reptilia; a reptile.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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ENDLESSLY
(adverb) (spatial sense) seeming to have no bounds; “the Nubian desert stretched out before them endlessly”
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