It is always a delight to stand in a tunnel or a cave and shout and hear your voice reverberating and echoing around. An adjective that pulls together the sensation of echoing, reverberating, and resounding but which has sadly fallen into obscurity is reboant. The prefix re- in Latin means again or repeatedly and the verb boare, which itself has a Greek root, meant to bellow.
Is the internet sufficiently reboant for the word’s charms to be appreciated once more?
Published on August 20, 2023 02:00