Apricate

[Slava]

To expose to sunlight.

"You shouldn't apricate yourself so much. Your skin will turn to leather."

Any relation to apricot?

Slava

[Perry]

You would think so, but according to Wikpedia:

The name derives from "apricock" and "abrecox", through the French abricot, from the Spanish albaricoque, which was an adaptation of the Arabic al-burquk, itself a rendering of the late Greek πρεκοκκια or πραικοκιον, adapted from the Latin praecox or praecoquus, early, possibly referring to the fruit maturing much earlier in the summer than plums. However, in Argentina and Chile the word for "apricot" is "damasco" which probably indicates that to the Spanish settlers of Argentina the fruit was associated with Damascus in Syria.

[Jeff hook]

Answers.com quotes Webster's 1913 dictionary at:

http://www.answers.com/topic/apricate#copyright

Ap- ri - cate
v. t. & i.
[L. apricatus, p. p. of apricare, fr. apricus exposed to the sun, fr. aperire to uncover, open.]
To bask in the sun. Boyle.

I assumed "aperire" was also the root of "aperture." The AHD 4th Edition says, at:

http://www.bartleby.com/61/19/A0361900.html

...ETYMOLOGY: Middle English, from Latin apertura, from apertus, past participle of aperire, to open. See wer-4 in Appendix I...

The reference to their PIE appendix states:

http://www.bartleby.com/61/roots/IE573.html

...2. Compound form *ap-wer-yo- (*ap-, off, away; see apo-). aperient, apéritif, aperture; overt, overture, pert, from Latin aperire, to open, uncover...

Jeff Hook
NJ, USA

[sluggo]

I got quite the suntan/burn at a daytime baseball game last week.
I had to assume it was Fan Aprication Day...

[gailr]

Next time, don't take 'firing up' so literally in the heat of the moment...