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.
SAN
Noun
SAN
(chemistry) Acronym of styrene-acrylonitrile resin.
(computing) Acronym of Storage Area Network.
(computing) Acronym of System Area Network.
(organic compound) Acronym of styrene-acrylonitrile or sytrene acrylonitrile copolymer.
(biology) Acronym of sinoatrial node.
Anagrams
• ANS, NAS, NAs, NSA, SNA, ans, ans.
Etymology 1
Noun
San pl (plural only)
Any of the foraging non-Bantu ethnic groups of southwestern Africa.
Synonyms
• Bushmen
Usage notes
• San is the plural form, used for the group collectively. Individuals are referred to as "a San man", "a San woman" etc, although when referring to individuals, reference to their specific nation is preferable (as in, "a ǃKung man" etc.).
• San became popular in 1970s western anthropology as a politically correct replacement for "Bushmen", which was perceived as outdated. However, it turned out that San was a derogatory term for "foragers" used by the pastoralist Khoikhoi, while "Bushman" carried no derogatory connotations, so that experts who had been in actual contact with the group recommended the continued use of "Bushmen" (Henry Harpending). By the 2000s, it was reported that San had mostly lost its derogatory connotations in South Africa and was partly embraced as self-designation, while it continued to be perceived as an insult in parts of the central Kalahari in Namibia.
Etymology 2
Proper noun
San
A river in southeastern Poland and western Ukraine.
Anagrams
• ANS, NAS, NAs, NSA, SNA, ans, ans.
Etymology 1
Noun
san (plural sans)
A letter of the Archaic Greek alphabet (uppercase Ϻ, lowercase ϻ) that came after pi and before qoppa.
Etymology 2
Noun
san (plural sans)
(dated, informal) A sanatorium.
Anagrams
• ANS, NAS, NAs, NSA, SNA, ans, ans.
Noun
SAn (plural SAns)
Abbreviation of South African.
Anagrams
• ANS, NAS, NAs, NSA, SNA, ans, ans.
Source: Wiktionary
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