{"id":41815,"date":"2025-01-24T12:14:27","date_gmt":"2025-01-24T18:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=41815"},"modified":"2025-01-24T12:14:27","modified_gmt":"2025-01-24T18:14:27","slug":"word-of-the-day-1019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2025\/01\/24\/word-of-the-day-1019\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Simoleon<\/em>:<\/p>\n<section class=\"word__defination--2q7ZH\">\n<blockquote><p>slang for &#8220;dollar,&#8221; 1895, American English, of unknown origin. Related\u00a0<span class=\"foreign notranslate\">sambolio<\/span>\u00a0is attested from 1886; perhaps [OED] this was based on a deformation of\u00a0<span class=\"foreign notranslate\"><a class=\"crossreference notranslate\" title=\"Etymology, meaning and definition of Napoleon \" href=\"https:\/\/www.etymonline.com\/word\/Napoleon\">Napoleon<\/a><\/span>\u00a0as the name of a late 19c. French gold coin. But also compare the Latin coin-names\u00a0<span class=\"foreign notranslate\">semodius<\/span>\u00a0&#8220;half a modius,&#8221;\u00a0<span class=\"foreign notranslate\">simbella<\/span>\u00a0&#8220;coin worth half a libella,&#8221; in which the first element is\u00a0<span class=\"foreign notranslate\">semi-<\/span>\u00a0(see\u00a0<a class=\"crossreference notranslate\" title=\"Etymology, meaning and definition of semi- \" href=\"https:\/\/www.etymonline.com\/word\/semi-\">semi-<\/a>).<em> [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.etymonline.com\/word\/simoleon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Online Etymology Dictionary<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Noted in the <strong>Simpson&#8217;s<\/strong> episode<em><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/simpsons.fandom.com\/wiki\/Cremains_of_the_Day\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cremains of the Day<\/a><\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simoleon: slang for &#8220;dollar,&#8221; 1895, American English, of unknown origin. Related\u00a0sambolio\u00a0is attested from 1886; perhaps [OED] this was based on a deformation of\u00a0Napoleon\u00a0as the name of a late 19c. French gold coin. But also compare the Latin coin-names\u00a0semodius\u00a0&#8220;half a modius,&#8221;\u00a0simbella\u00a0&#8220;coin worth half a libella,&#8221; in which the first element is\u00a0semi-\u00a0(see\u00a0semi-). \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2025\/01\/24\/word-of-the-day-1019\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41815"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41816,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41815\/revisions\/41816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}