These words are now fully integrated into the language.
Often discreet, they blend into our daily lives so well that we come to forget their origin.
Who could suspect, today, that words such as "genius" or "beneficial" are in fact at the origin of the Rabelaisian hapax?
Rabelais was convinced, as a good humanist, that knowledge is intimately linked to laughter and entertainment.
In his five “gigantic” novels, he therefore had fun playing with Greek and Latin etymologies to deliver new words to his reader that are both entertaining and instructive.
But these words have lost their incredible flavor for us moderns.
So we come across
neologisms
in
Gargantua
or
Pantagruel
that are no longer for us.
Will you be able to recognize these words with the forgotten Rabelaisian origin?
