This Week’s Fun & Fancy Word: Syzygy!
This Week’s Fun & Fancy Word Is:
This word looks like what happens when you type with your fingers on the wrong keys of the keyboard. But it’s an actual word. And it describes the phenomenon that occurs when three celestial bodies are aligned in an almost perfectly straight line. A solar eclipse, for example. So be sure to wear those special sunglasses on days when a syzygy takes place.
Etymology:
Origin Of The Word Syzygy
Syzygy comes via late Latin from the Greek word syzugia, derived from suzugos, meaning “yoking together.” And it first appeared in English during the seventeenth century. It was not until a century later that syzygy’s meaning was expanded for use in astronomy, to describe the “yoking” of celestial bodies. Such as the alignment of the Sun, Moon, and Earth that occurs in an eclipse.[1]
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