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Aug. 24th, 2004 01:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tephraDictionary.com Word of the Day for Tuesday August 24, 2004
fungible \FUHN-juh-buhl\, adjective:
1. (Law) Freely exchangeable for or replaceable by another of like nature or kind in the satisfaction of an obligation.
2. Interchangeable.
Okay.... So how does a word that shares an obvious root with "fungus" get this meaning?
Fungible comes from Medieval Latin fungibilis, from Latin fungi (vice), "to perform (in place of)."
Wait a minute here, "fungus" meant vice? Hmm,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ursulav would probably come up with something about mushrooms on a vice sting, I however can only think that my taste for mushrooms now has an explanation.
(And if I remember my noun declensions correctly, "fungi" is actually the genitive form of the noun. Assuming it's part of the secoond declension anyway and not a masculine or nueter fourth declesion noun. Damn I miss my high school Latin class, wish I had a copy of the text.)
fungible \FUHN-juh-buhl\, adjective:
1. (Law) Freely exchangeable for or replaceable by another of like nature or kind in the satisfaction of an obligation.
2. Interchangeable.
Okay.... So how does a word that shares an obvious root with "fungus" get this meaning?
Fungible comes from Medieval Latin fungibilis, from Latin fungi (vice), "to perform (in place of)."
Wait a minute here, "fungus" meant vice? Hmm,
ursulav would probably come up with something about mushrooms on a vice sting, I however can only think that my taste for mushrooms now has an explanation. (And if I remember my noun declensions correctly, "fungi" is actually the genitive form of the noun. Assuming it's part of the secoond declension anyway and not a masculine or nueter fourth declesion noun. Damn I miss my high school Latin class, wish I had a copy of the text.)