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.
RIGIDIFY
rigidify, ossify, petrify
(verb) make rigid and set into a conventional pattern; “rigidify the training schedule”; “ossified teaching methods”; “slogans petrify our thinking”
rigidify
(verb) become rigid; “The body rigidified”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
rigidify (third-person singular simple present rigidifies, present participle rigidifying, simple past and past participle rigidified)
To make rigid, to cause to be or become rigid.
Source: Wiktionary
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