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Podcast: Word of the Day
Episode: Florilegium
Description: Florilegium is a noun that refers to a volume of writing.
The Latin prefix F-L-O-R has given birth to many words likes ‘flower’ and ‘florist.’ Its path to becoming the origin of a word for a collection of books began with the word legere (lay JARE ay) with means ‘gather.’ A florilegium once referred to a collection of books about flowers and later meant a collection of any books.
Here’s an example of our word of the day in use: For my research, I found a few books on the necessary topic, but I actually neede...