Anonymous ID: ae411e Oct. 3, 2018, 7:21 p.m. No.3322001   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2050

>>3321787

It's fucking crepescular, not corpuscular. Guess you never studied Latin.

 

crepuscular (krĭ-pŭsˈkyə-lər)►

 

adj.

Of or like twilight; dim: "the period's crepuscular charm and a waning of the intense francophilia that used to shape the art market” ( Wall Street Journal).

adj.

Zoology Becoming active at twilight or before sunrise, as do bats and certain insects and birds.

 

crepuscular (adj.)

 

figurative use, "dim, indistinct," is attested from 1660s; literal use, "pertaining to or resembling twilight," from 1755, from Latin crepusculum "twilight, dusk," related to creper "obscure, uncertain," from Proto-Italic krepos "twilight," which is of uncertain origin. It is not certain whether "twilight" or "obscure" was the original sense; de Vaan writes, "there is no known root of the form krep- from which the extant meanings can be derived."

 

Especially of evening twilight, but 17c.-18c. also "like morning twilight" as symbolic of imperfect enlightenment. In zoology, "flying or appearing at sunset," from 1826. An older (and lovelier-sounding) adjective form was crepusculine (1540s).

 

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