nectar

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The sweet liquid that flowers produce to attract bees, birds, and other animals.

   Bees collect nectar from flowers to make honey.

2. 2
   noun

   A delicious sweet drink, especially a thick fruit juice.

   We drank cold peach nectar in the heat.

Simplified etymology

Nectar was the drink of the gods in Greek and Roman mythology. English adopted the word in the mid-16th century for a delicious or divine drink, and it acquired its botanical sense, the sugary fluid produced by flowers, in the early 17th century.

From Latin nectar, from Ancient Greek νέκταρ (néktar, “nourishment of the gods”), from Proto-Indo-European *neḱ- (“perish, disappear”) + *-tr̥h₂ (“overcoming”), from *terh₂- (“to overcome, pass through, cross over”).

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