{"id":23538,"date":"2024-07-03T16:41:24","date_gmt":"2024-07-03T16:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=23538"},"modified":"2024-07-03T16:44:13","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T16:44:13","slug":"jentacularity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=23538","title":{"rendered":"Jentacularity"},"content":{"rendered":"

In this post, we’re discussing things jentacular<\/strong> and prandial<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\"Jentacular<\/p>\n

You may have heard of the words preprandial<\/strong> (occurring before a meal, especially dinner) and\/or postprandial<\/strong> (after a meal, especially after dinner), how about prandial<\/strong> or jentacular<\/strong>?<\/p>\n

Prandial<\/strong> means “Of or pertaining to a meal, especially dinner.” It comes from Late Latin prandialis<\/em>, or from Latin prandium<\/em> (late breakfast; lunch, any meal, fodder), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *pr\u0325h\u2082m\u00f3s<\/em> (first) and *h\u2081ed-<\/em> (to eat) [source<\/a>].<\/p>\n

Words from the same roots include pranzo<\/strong> (lunch or dinner) in Italian, pranzu<\/strong> (dinner, lunch) in Maltese, and pr\u00e2nz<\/strong> (lunch, noon, midday) in Romanian [source<\/a>].<\/p>\n

Jentacular<\/strong> is an archaic word that means “Of or pertaining to breakfast; specifically, one taken early in the morning or immediately upon getting up.” It comes from Latin i\u0113nt\u0101culum<\/em> (breakfast), from ient\u014d<\/em> (I breakfast), a form of ieient\u014d<\/em> (to eat breakfast), from Proto-Italic *jagjent\u014d<\/em>, from PIE *h\u2081ya\u01f5-<\/em> (to sacrifice, worship) [source<\/a>].<\/p>\n

Words from the same roots include diner<\/strong>, dinner<\/strong> and jejune<\/strong> (lacking matter, naive, simplistic) in English, jantar<\/strong> (dinner, to dine) in Portuguese, xantar<\/strong> (dinner, lunch) in Galician, d\u00e9jeuner<\/strong> (to [eat\/have] lunch, to have breakfast) in French [source<\/a>].<\/p>\n

Apparently in ancient Rome, the first meal of the day, which was eaten at about sunrise, was called i\u0113nt\u0101culum<\/em>. It usually consisted of bread, fruit or leftovers from the night before. At around noon, people would have a light meal called prandium<\/em>, and at about sunset they had their main meal or c\u0113na<\/em> (dinner, supper). They may have had another light meal later in the evening as well. Originally, the main meal was eaten at midday, but later moved to later in the day [source<\/a>].<\/p>\n

Are there interesting meal-related words in other languages?<\/p>\n

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In this post, we’re discussing things jentacular and prandial. You may have heard of the words preprandial (occurring before a meal, especially dinner) and\/or postprandial (after a meal, especially after dinner), how about prandial or jentacular? Prandial means “Of or pertaining to a meal, especially dinner.” It comes from Late Latin prandialis, or from Latin […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,107,111,113,10,15,272,41,45,46,51,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-etymology","category-french","category-galician","category-language","category-latin","category-maltese-malti","category-portuguese","category-proto-indo-european","category-proto-italic","category-romanian","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23538"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23544,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23538\/revisions\/23544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}