zymurgy

英 ['zaɪmɜːdʒɪ] 美
  • n. 酿造学
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zymurgy 酿造学

来自希腊语zymo-,发酵,词源同juice,yeast,-urg,做功,工作,词源同work,synergy。引申词义酿酒,酿造。

zymurgy (n.)
branch of chemistry which deals with wine-making and brewing, 1868, from Greek zymo-, comb. form of zyme "a leaven" (from PIE root *yeue-; see juice) + -ourgia "a working," from ergon "work" (see organ).

The last word in many standard English dictionaries (and this one); but Century Dictionary ends with Zyxomma ("A genus of Indian dragon-flies") and in the OED [2nd ed.] the last word is zyxt, an obsolete Kentish form of the second person singular of see (v.).
At the dictionary's letter A
Mr. Brandt is young and gay
But when at last he reaches zed
He's in his wheelchair, nearly dead

[Einar Haugen]