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May 24, 2018 This week’s theme Eponyms coined after authors This week’s words hobbesian marivaudage marinism cervantic lovecraftian Miguel de Cervantes Art supposedly by Juan de Jáuregui Enter the Contest Last day to enter is tomorrow A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg 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. USAGE: “The novel’s strong vein of comic dissent is summed up in the figure of Yorick, Shakespearean joker and memento mori, whose Cervantic tilting at windmills has a serious edge.” Carol Watts; Rereadings; The Guardian (London, UK); Aug 23, 2003. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: It is the people who scream the loudest about America and Freedom who seem to be the most intolerant for a differing point of view. -Rosanne Cash, singer-songwriter and author (b. 24 May 1955)

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