I just hope that I'm sufficiently eloquent. I've never been in an environment in which verbophilia is exercised in a professional capacity.

He actually loved it once I told him the meaning. After all, its etymology is "beautiful," and "shapely," not "large." I'd go into specifics, but let's just say that it was in romance, not necessarily intimacy.

I find it interesting that the English terms "Senate" and "Senile" both come from the same Latin root: Senex.

According to "Grimoire for the Green Witch" by Anne Moura [Llewelyn Press], the etymological origins of the terms "Witch," "Wicca," and "Wicked" come from the old celtic root "Wycche" meaning "Wise," as the Wicca in the British Isles B.C.E....

I love the manner in which this word rolls off the tongue, as well as its somewhat lubricious tendencies.

I use it often as a term of endearment. "Thou art callipygian, my fair, delightful love!" It adds a somewhat Jacobean elegance to what would normally be a banal topic.