nectareous

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin nectareus (“of nectar; sweet”), from Ancient Greek νεκτάρεος (nektáreos, “sweet as nectar, fragrant”), from νέκταρ (néktar, “nectar”).

Adjective

nectareous (comparative more nectareous, superlative most nectareous)

1. Pertaining to nectar; nectarous. [from 17th c.]
   • 1725, Homer, “Book XIV”, in [Alexander Pope], transl., The Odyssey of Homer. […], volume III, London: […] Bernard Lintot, →OCLC, page 238, lines 91–94:

     [O]n the board diſplay'd / The ready meal before Ulyſſes lay'd. / (VVith flour imbrovvn'd) next mingled vvine yet nevv, / And luſcious as the Bee's nectareous devv: […]

Anagrams

• countersea, raconteuse