Word of the Day
for Wednesday,
July 31, 2013
Residuum \ri-ZIJ-oo-uhm\, noun:
1. the residue, remainder, or rest of something.
2. Also, residue. Chemistry. a quantity or body of matter remaining after evaporation, combustion, distillation, etc.
3. any residual product.
4. Law. the residue of an estate.
2. Also, residue. Chemistry. a quantity or body of matter remaining after evaporation, combustion, distillation, etc.
3. any residual product.
4. Law. the residue of an estate.
Perhaps not: the residuum
is, you see, Byres, what is left.
-- Frederick Marryat, The Poacher, 1841
-- Frederick Marryat, The Poacher, 1841
Our friend's corporeal
envelope had been so well lined with this residuum, as well as
various earlier memories of his parents, that their own special Swann had
become to my family a complete and living creature...
-- Marcel Proust, translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin, Remembrance of Things Past, 1922–1931
-- Marcel Proust, translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin, Remembrance of Things Past, 1922–1931
Residuum shares a root with the word residue.
It comes directly from the Latin residuum
meaning "a remainder."
Thanks to: www.dictionary.com
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