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jentacular

Syllables: jen·ta·cul·ar/d͡ʒɛnˈtækjʊlə/US/d͡ʒɛnˈtækjəlɚ/

jentacular adjective: of or pertaining to breakfast; specifically, one taken early in the morning or immediately upon getting up.

Adjective

jentacular

  1. (archaic, formal) Of or pertaining to breakfast; specifically, one taken early in the morning or immediately upon getting up.
    • I took a post-jentacular walk to settle my stomach.
    • [T]he conſumption of Tea and Coffee; a faſhionable vice, vvhich tends only to ſquandring avvay money, and miſpending the morning; ſince (as you once ingeniouſly expreſs'd it) nothing more can be expected from thoſe Jentacular Confabulations.1726, [Nicholas Amhurst], “Appendix. A Letter to the Reverend Dr. [Richard] Newton, Principal of Hart-Hall; Occasion’d by His Book Entitled, University Education, &c.”, in Terræ-filius: Or, The...

Examples of jentacular in a sentence

  • To valetudinarians and others the following method of making coffee for breakfast is earnestly recommended, as a most wholesome and pleasant jentacular beverage, first ordered by an able physician.1810, “For Improving Coffee”, in The New Family Receipt-Book, Containing Seven Hundred Truly Valuable Receipts in Various Branches of...
  • Here there be jentacular comforts in great abundance— […]late 1840s, Donald J. Lange, quoting George Darley, “The Life of George Darley: The Eighteen Forties”, in The Life and Poetry of George...
  • Nature is nature; ignore her if you will; so Grey, like a sensible man, went to work, con amore, at his jentacular meal.1861 October, “From Oxford to St. George’s”, in Baily’s Monthly Magazine of Sports and Pastimes, volume II, number 8, London: Baily...
  • Express the meaning simply and directly. […] The advent of the butler with a brace of footmen announced the arrival of the urn and the various jentacular appurtenances.1912, William Murison, “Perspicuity”, in English Composition: Part I: Uses of Words, Figures of Speech, Sentence and Paragraph...

Origin of jentacular

Learned borrowing from Latin iēntāculum (“breakfast (particularly taken right after getting up)”) + English -ar (suffix meaning ‘of, near, or pertaining to’ forming adjectives). Iēntāculum is derived from ientō (a variant of ieientō (“to have breakfast”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁yaǵ- (“to sacrifice; to worship”)) + -culum (diminutive suffix).

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Questions about jentacular

What does jentacular mean?
Jentacular means of or pertaining to breakfast; specifically, one taken early in the morning or immediately upon getting up.
How do you use jentacular in a sentence?
To valetudinarians and others the following method of making coffee for breakfast is earnestly recommended, as a most wholesome and pleasant jentacular beverage, first ordered by an able physician.
What part of speech is jentacular?
Jentacular is an adjective.
How do you pronounce jentacular?
Jentacular is pronounced /d͡ʒɛnˈtækjʊlə/ (UK).

Words near jentacular in the dictionary

  1. Jensenism
  2. jensenite
  3. Jenson
  4. Jenssen
  5. Jent
  6. jentacular
  7. jentling
  8. jentlings
  9. Jents
  10. jentschite
  11. Jenu Kurumba

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