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It comes from
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desiccate
basically means to remove the water from something -- in general, for preserving foods, metaphorically.It comes from
de-
("from", "of") plus siccare
, which means "to dry", from siccus
, "dry". More about the background of siccus
can be found at Online Etymology.Originally posted on Dreamwidth. Number of comments so far:
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Date: 2010-09-19 11:49 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-09-20 12:15 am (UTC)