I learned what recrudescence means from Ian in the Coronavirus thread. Great word!
I learned of its biological sense relatively recently, I had previously used it to refer to those colleagues who leave the mothership to much cheer in ian's heart and then, several months later, reappear in a different role yet with precisely the same set of incompetencies.
Funny: I always thought that
crude and its relatives derived from a Latin word for growth, but they just come from
crudus, meaning raw. Hence those miserable plates of dead veg you often see on French menus as an
assiette de crudités. Or as an old chum used to put it,
assiette de cruauté - and
cruauté - cruelty - has the same roots, as does your shatter-bottled
grand cru.
Wake up at the back.