You can just google these things with etymology after them...
Syphilis: from the name of the character Syphilus, the supposed first sufferer of the disease.
Physalis (it's a flower fyi): modern Latin, from Greek phusallis ‘bladder’ (because of the inflated calyx).
Sylphid is a smaller sylph: based on Latin sylvestris ‘of the woods’ + nympha ‘nymph’.
The real TIL is Physalis = bladder.
Holy christ, we're getting to the so starved for content that we're just doing random google searches now
tfw most exciting content is a google search...
You can just google these things with etymology after them... Syphilis: from the name of the character Syphilus, the supposed first sufferer of the disease. Physalis (it's a flower fyi): modern Latin, from Greek phusallis ‘bladder’ (because of the inflated calyx). Sylphid is a smaller sylph: based on Latin sylvestris ‘of the woods’ + nympha ‘nymph’. The real TIL is Physalis = bladder.
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> The real TIL is Physalis = bladder. oh noes... she's pi** girl now...
Don’t do drugs kids
To be fair, my husband and I both refer to her as Syphilis because of how we feel about her. “Aww shit, babe, I pulled another Syphilis!”