The story
- Latin · derived fromper-“throughout”
- English todaypercumbent
A humorous neologism and nonce word coined by Canadian sketch comedy troupe The Kids in the Hall for a 1991 episode of their eponymous Canadian sketch comedy. In principle, Latin per- (“throughout”) + *cumbō (“to lie down”).
Words from the same roots
Latinper- all →
pargetperfervidperfoliate
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.