Ambrosia

/æmˈbroʊʒə/ noun

Definition

The food of the Greek gods, conferring immortality on whoever consumed it — and anything supremely delicious.

Etymology

From Greek ambrosia (immortality), from ambrotos (immortal), from a- (not) + mbrotos (mortal). Related to the word mortal. The food of the gods was literally named "not-death." To eat ambrosia was to eat the opposite of dying.

Kelly Says

Ambrosia means "not-death." The Greeks named the food of the gods after what it prevented. Mortal and ambrosia are cousins — one means "subject to death," the other means "free from it." The line between human and divine was drawn at the dinner table.

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