Antejentacular derives from Latin words that mean before breakfast. One might take, for example, an antejentacular walk before sitting down for the morning’s meal. Antejentacular comes from the Latin jejunus meaning fasting or barren. It’s related to the word jejune meaning empty or insipid, and jejunum, the part of the small intestine that anatomists discovered is usually empty at death. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Antejentacular”
Here’s a handy word you don’t see too often: antigentacular. Antigentacular, that’s a-n-t-e, j-e-n-t-a-c-u-l-a-r. Antigentacular.
So opposed to…
No, it’s a-n-t-e.
Oh, before…
So something you wear in front of your genitals.
I don’t know.
Your spectacular genitals.
No, that’s an antipudic.
Oh, okay.
Antigentacular means before breakfast.
Oh, I’d heard that.
Why didn’t I call that up?
I know you know the word gentacular.
Yeah, yeah.
We’ve talked about that one.
But it comes from the Latin word for hungry, jejunus.
And get this, the word jejun in English means dull or unsatisfying or insipid or something like that.
And it’s related to that.
It’s empty.
Oh, I see.
Yeah.
So if you’re empty, it’s at breakfast, which means hollow.
When you’re breaking your fast, right?
So antigentacular, I took an antigentacular run with the dog this morning.
Perfect.
Something like that.
Yes, exactly.
And one more little tributary from that.
Jejunum is the second part of your small intestine, which usually turns up empty in dissection.
Okay.
That’s why it’s called jejunum.
That’s why it’s called jejunum.
Gotcha.
Yep.
