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Re: Pilovese in the Romance Language Family

From:caeruleancentaur <caeruleancentaur@...>
Date:Thursday, April 3, 2008, 15:21
>Michael Poxon <mike@...> wrote:
>I think you'll find that 'paraffin' is a coined word made up >from 'PARva AFFINitas' (I think) relating to the particular carbon >ring structure having only a small affinity with other molecules, >parva being itself one of the latin words for 'small'.
American Heritage Dictionary: "German 'Paraffin': Latin 'parum,' too little (see pou in Appendix*) + 'affinis,' neighboring (see affinity); from its lack of affinity to other materials." I'm guessing that, if 'parvum' were the source, we'd have parvaffin. 8-) Charlie

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