Word of the Week

edacious

PRONUNCIATION:

(i-DAY-shuhs)


MEANING:

adjective: Devouring; voracious.


ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin edere (to eat). Ultimately from the Indo-European root ed- (to eat, to bite) that has given other words such as edible, comestible, obese, etch, fret, and postprandial.


USAGE:

"For too many years my edacious reading habits had been leading me into one unappealing corner after another, dank cul-de-sacs littered with tear-stained diaries, empty pill bottles, bulging briefcases, broken vows, humdrum phrases, sociological swab samples, and the (lovely?) bones of dismembered children.
Tom Robbins; In Defiance of Gravity; Harper's (New York); Sep 2004.