I keep changing the name of the blog, my previous choice was Gambolde from Medieval French gambade, "a leaping or skipping,"
I get my ideas from
Dictionary.com Word of the Day
Now I want to change it to
afflatus \uh-FLAY-tuhs\, noun:
A divine imparting of knowledge; inspiration.
I like the humor in most people are familiar with the last word in the list of words with the same root meaning as this word.
Afflatus is from Latin afflatus, past participle of afflare,
"to blow at or breathe on," from ad-, "at" + flare, "to puff,
to blow." Other words with the same root include deflate (de-,
"out of" + flare); inflate (in-, "into" + flare); soufflé, the
"puffed up" dish (from French souffler, "to puff," from Latin
sufflare, "to blow from below," hence "to blow up, to puff
up," from sub-, "below" + flare); and flatulent.
