stamina

stamina
\ \ [17] Etymologically, stamina is the plural of stamenmale reproductive part of a flower’ [17]. The ultimate source of both is Latin stāmenthread of woven cloth’, which went back to Indo-European *stāmen-, a derivative of the base *stā- ‘stand’ (source also of English stand). The application to the plant-part appears to go back to the Roman naturalist Pliny, who used stāmen for the stamens of a sort of lily, which resembled threads of cloth. The Latin plural stāmina was borrowed into English in the metaphorical sense ‘threads of human life, vital capacities’, and by the 18th century it had broadened out to ‘vigour’.
\ \ Cf.STAMEN, STAND

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  • stamina — ► NOUN ▪ the ability to sustain prolonged physical or mental effort. ORIGIN originally in the sense «rudiments»: from Latin, plural of STAMEN(Cf. ↑stamen) in the sense threads spun by the Fates …   English terms dictionary

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