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What is a deipnosophist a master of?

Question #151056. Asked by psnz.
Last updated May 05 2024.
Originally posted May 05 2024 8:14 PM.

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A deipnosophist is an expert at dinner table conversation. I wish I was a deipnosophist!
Word origin 1650–60; after a literary work by Athenaeus, Deipnosophistes, an expert in affairs of the kitchen, equiv. to Gk deîpno(n) meal + sophistes sophist
This word is first recorded in the period 1650–60.

link https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/deipnosophist
Response last updated by BigTriviaDawg on May 05 2024.
May 05 2024, 8:17 PM
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