apricate

A cat in Italy apricating

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  • From Latin apricus ("sunny, having lots of sunshine; warmed by the sun") -ate. Apricus is derived from aperiō (from Proto-Indo-European *h₂epo ("off, from") + *h₂wer-) + -cus.

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