jentacular

From Latin ientaculum (“a breakfast taken immediately on getting up”) and English -ar.

• IPA^(key): /dʒɛnˈtæk.jə.ləɹ/

jentacular (comparative more jentacular, superlative most jentacular)

1. Of or pertaining to a breakfast taken early in the morning, or immediately upon getting up.

   I took a post-jentacular walk to settle my stomach.

   • 1810, The New Family Receipt-Book. Containing Seven Hundred Truly Valuable. Receipts in various branches of Domestic Economy, page 85:

     To valetudinarians and others the following method of making coffee for breakfast is earnestly recommended, as a most wholesome and pleasant jentacular beverage, first ordered by an able physician.

   • 1860 May-October, George Cupples, “Loch-Na_Diomhair — The Lake of the Secret”, in Macmillan's Magazine, volume 2, page 22:

     On Ickerson's part, with the help of " a few post-jentacular inhalations," as he in his colossal manner was pleased to phrase it, "from that fragrant weed which so propitiates clearness of thought, and tends to promote equanimity in action."

   • 1861 October, “From Oxford to St. George's”, in Baily's magazine of sports and pastimes, volume 2, page 20:

     Nature is nature ; ignore her if you will ; so Grey, like a sensible man, went to work, con amore, at his jentacular meal.

• antejentacular

• prandial
• breakfast

• “jentacular” in James Stormonth, Etymological and Pronouncing Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition, William Blackwood and Sons (1879), page 755: “jentacular, a. jĕn-tăk-ūl-ėr (L. jentaculum, a breakfast taken immediately on getting up), applied to a breakfast taken early in the morning, or immediately on getting up: pre-jentacular, applied to what is done early in the morning, as taking a breakfast before getting up.”