Centesimus Tertius: August 31, 2008: Quisquiliae
Theme for this week: Words learned through the etymology of A.Word.A.Day
quisquiliae, quisquiliarum f.
Definition: refuse, rubbish; sweepings
Sententia: Despecta, et vide mendicos ad pedes Despecta, et miserere si potes Despecta, et vide quisquilias viae Despecta, despecta in populare!
Look down and see the beggars at your feet Look down and show some mercy if you can Look down, and see The sweepings of the street Look down, look down Upon your fellow man!
Can you guess which musical this stanza is from? =D
The English word which derives from this word is quisquilian, found online at http://wordsmith.org/words/quisquilian.html. According to Perseus (which admittedly doesn't have a complete database), it occurs a grand total of 3 times in Latin literature. I just picked it because it sounds and looks cool. However, I would recommend that you go to the link for the English word, which is the third word this week which means "trifling." Admittedly, the other two were LATIN words, but it's still a rather cool (and unplanned!) pattern.
NB: Bold and underline == macron