[bookshare-discuss] Re: OT: Barathrum
- From: Grandma Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 11:57:16 -0700 (PDT)
I love research questions like this. Bring them
on--grin
Unfortunately the Oxford English Dictionary online is
bysubscription only, and my Skeats etymological
dictionary doesn't have the word, BUT!!
google is wonderful. Googling found these two
definitions:
From the 2004 Scripps National Spelling Bee
Consolidated Word List:
barathrumâ??nounâ??From Greek to Latinâ??a bottomless
pit or abyss: a place or state of misery or torment.
"The motivational speaker said that her early life was
a barathrum which she was fortunate to have survived.
From about.com:
obscure words: barathrum
[L., from Gk., a pit, gulf] a) a deep pit at Athens,
into which condemned criminals were thrown
b) the abyss, hell c) an insatiable extortioner or
glutton
HTH
Cindy
--- Amy Goldring Tajalli
<agoldringtajalli@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Assistance needed:
>
> Barathrum is a word used by Hugo in Les Miserables
> in reference to the bottom of one of or the worst
> sewer. in Paris. I cannot find it in any of my
> available dictionaries but only as the name of a
> Finish Heavy Metal Rock band and it is possible, but
> I was not sure, carrying the Finish meaning of "dark
> metal". Since it is only one word out of 1280 pages
> I should not let it bother me but it does.
>
> Any more information of a more probable definition
> in a book written by a Frenchman in 1875 in the
> Channel Isles would be appreciated.
>
> Amy
> omsm in Miami
>
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