An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
ROMAIC
romaic
(adjective) relating to modern Greece or its inhabitants or its language
Romaic, Demotic
(noun) the modern Greek vernacular
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Ro*ma"ic, a. Etym: [NGr. romaïque. See Roman.]
Definition: Of or relating to modern Greece, and especially to its language.
– n.
Definition: The modern Greek language, now usually called by the Greeks Hellenic or Neo-Hellenic.
Note: The Greeks at the time of the capture of Constantinople were proud of being "Romai^oi, or Romans . . . Hence the term Romaic was the name given to the popular language. . . . The Greek language is now spoken of as the Hellenic language. Encyc. Brit.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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