esculent: edible, fit to be eaten<\/p>\n
According to dictionary,com, it originates in the 1620s, from L. esculentus, from esca “food,” from PIE *ed- “to eat” (see eat). (Link and usage examples here<\/a>)<\/p>\n I saw it a while back and hadn\u2019t gotten around to following up on the idea that it would make a great first post from me on Words & Stuff. In ironic timing, I\u2019ve just encountered a box of non-free airline food (helpful tip: don\u2019t buy the tapas box on United flights, it\u2019s not worth it) that I considered only barely \u201cesculent\u201d by dint of my impending hangryness. (For which see next item!<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" esculent: edible, fit to be eaten According to dictionary,com, it originates in the 1620s, from L. esculentus, from esca “food,” from PIE *ed- “to eat” (see eat). (Link and usage examples here) I saw it a while back and hadn\u2019t gotten around to following up on the idea that it would make a great first […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-etymology","category-new-to-me-words"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17327"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17334,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17327\/revisions\/17334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}