7 May 2015

rancid

[ran-sid]

adjective

1. having a rank, unpleasant, stale smell or taste, as through decomposition, especially of fats or oils:
rancid butter.
2. (of an odor or taste) rank, unpleasant, and stale:
a rancid smell.
3. offensive or nasty; disagreeable.

Origin of rancid
Latin
1640-1650; < Latin rancidus rank, stinking, equivalent to ranc (ēre) to be rotten + -idus -id4

Related forms
rancidly, adverb
rancidness, rancidity, noun
unrancid, adjective

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On this day

7 May 351 – Jews in Palestine revolt against the rule of Constantius Gallus, Caesar of the East and brother-in-law of Emperor Constantius II, after he arrived in Antioch to take up his post.

7 May 1429 – Joan of Arc leads the victorious final charge in the Siege of Orleans, marking a turning point in the One Hundred Years war.

7 May 1718 – the city of New Orleans is founded on the banks of the Mississippi River in the American state of Louisiana, by Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville.

7 May 1919 – birthday of Eva Perón, first lady of Argentina and second wife of Argentine President, Juan Perón. Her life was immortalised in the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, Evita, which included the hit song, ‘Don’t cry for me Argentina’.

7 May 1952 – the concept of the integrated circuit, the basis for all modern computers, is published by Geoffrey W.A. Drummer.