It might not make sense to you at face value why “cenatory” is an adjective that describes something related to supper, or the evening meal, but it comes from the Latin verb “cenare,” meaning “to dine.” “Cenatory” entered English as an invention of Sir Thomas Browne (1606-1682), who also coined the words “medical,” “electricity,” “carnivorous,” “prairie,” “ferocious,” and nearly 800 others. Browne was a respected author, philosopher, and scientist who helped develop modern approaches to science as part of the 17th-century scientific revolution, and he took pleasure in creating new English words out of Latin roots.