CERVANTIC

PRONUNCIATION: (suhr-VAN-tik)

MEANING: adjective: Of or relating to Miguel de Cervantes, especially his satirizing of the chivalric romances.

ETYMOLOGY: After the Spanish novelist Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616), best known for Don Quixote. Earliest documented use: 1760. Many of Cervantes’s characters have also become eponyms.
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SERVANTIC - below-stairs shenannigans

CURVANTIC - what a good pitcher can make a baseball do

FERVANTIC - Portmanteau word, combining fervent and frantic