nonagenarian: Dictionary.com Word of the Day /-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-\\ Earn your degree FAST.  Earn your degree in as little as 8 months while taking online  classes at your convenience. AIU Online offers a variety of  Business Administration and Information Technology programs. Point  your career upward with AIU Online.  http://quinst.com/clk/dantottsutoureinomeda   AOL users  click here \\-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-/    Word of the Day for Friday March 29, 2002:    nonagenarian \\non-uh-juh-NAIR-ee-uhn; no-nuh-\\, noun:    A  ninety  year  old  person;  someone  whose  age  is  in the    nineties.      There  seemed  to  be  relatively  few [1]octogenarians and      nonagenarians  alive in the early 1930s. Contrast that with      my  current  practice,  in  which  I  see a great number of      patients in their eighties and nineties.      --Stephen  L. Richmond, "Tales from the Death Certificate,"      Physician Assistant, January 1999      Good  health  is  essential, of course--a gift that none of      these  nonagenarians,  having  outlived  friends  and loved      ones, takes for granted.      --Roy  Huffman, "Working Past 90," [2]Fortune, November 13,      2000      _________________________________________________________    Nonagenarian  derives  from Latin nonagenarius, "containing or    consisting   of   ninety,"   from  nonageni-,  "ninety  each",    ultimately  from novem, "nine," as in November, originally the    ninth month of the old Roman calendar. References    1. http://www.dictionary.com/search?q=octogenarian    2. http://www.fortune.com/ _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ You are currently subscribed to Dictionary.com Word of the Day as:  matt.motley@enron.com To subscribe to the list by email, send a blank message to: join-WordoftheDay@lists.lexico.com To unsubscribe via email, send a blank message to: leave-wordoftheday-357530C@lists.lexico.com Subscriptions can be turned on and off from the Web at http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/list/ Dictionary.com Word of the Day http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/ (C) 2002 by Lexico Publishing Group, LLC.