Brimborium

The term fuss is now widely used for extensions circumstances, superfluous, unnecessary expense, fuss. Fuss comes from " Brimborion " from the French word ( trifle ), which in turn goes back to the middle French word " breborion " " briborion " ( magic formula, magic prayer, little thing of no value ). The origin of this word is suspected in ecclesiastical Latin Vocabulary: Breviarium (short directory, extract ), the collection of Catholic prayers hours.

Origin and history of use

As a fuss one called in the 16th century, a prayer that was characterized by marbles and fast, slurred speech. It was often a long prayer in Latin. In later use has any murmur of sentences that you recited to the accompaniment of ritual, called paraphernalia, including incantations and the incomprehensible digressing from the subject of a speech, a lecture. Known to the general public, it was Goethe's Faust.

While fuss rather colloquial language is assigned today, it was in the 18th and 19th centuries as part of the quite elevated language. Middle of the 20th century also existed brimborisieren, but not sat the derivation. The term is often considered a negative connotation, as a pejorative, in general, one is asked to " make no fuss (too) ."