Words I love

aura (noun)
[ME fr. L. breeze, air]

1. a distinctive and often subtle sensory stimulus, distinctive appearance or impression: aspect.
2. a luminous radiation; enveloping glow.

amethyst (noun)

[ME amatist, ametist,fr OF & L; OF amatiste, ametiste fr. L amethystus, fr Gk amethystos not drunk, not intoxicating, (so considered), fr. a- + methystos drunk, fr. methy wine]

1. a clear purple or bluish violet variety of crystallized quartz, used as a jeweller’s stone.

I like the sound of this word, and the color of amethyst. When I looked up the derivation of amethyst, I was surprised to find the source of the word.

boreal adj.
[ME boriall, fr LL borealis, fr L boreas north wind, Boreas, Greek god of the north wind + -alis -al]

1. Of, relating to, or located in northern regions.

cerulean (adj.)
[L. caeruleus, dark blue, (prob. fr. caelum, sky)]
1. somewhat resembling the blue of the sky
2. of the color sky blue

(noun)
1. a shade of difference, minute variation, delicate gradation
2. a subtle or implicit quality, aspect or device
3. sensibility to, or awareness of, or ability to express delicate shadings (as of meaning, feeling or value): extreme finesse.

[F, fr MF, shade of color, fr nuer, to make shades of color, fr nue, cloud]