Vitamin D: The Sunshine Vitamin. Vitamin D, or the sunshine vitamin, is actually a hormone produced by the skin. It plays a part in bone health and can be a determinant factor in developing many diseases because of its role in inflammation.
Word Origin & History. empty O.E. Ã¦mettig at leisure, not occupied, unmarried, from Ã¦metta leisure, from Ã¦ not + -metta, from motan to have (see might). The -p- is a euphonic insertion. Sense evolution from at leisure to empty is paralleled in several languages, cf. The adj. adeios must have been applied first to persons who enjoyed freedom from duties, leisure, and so were unoccupied, whence it was extended to objects that were unoccupied [Buck].
Word Root of deplete. The Latin word plÄre, meaning âto fill,â gives us the root ple. Words from the Latin plÄre have something to do with filling or being full. Anything replete with something is full of that particular thing or quality. Something complete is totally full and finished. To deplete is to lessen the amount of something that was once full.