- ambrosia
- 1550s, "favored food or drink of the gods," from L. ambrosia, from Gk. fem. of ambrosios, lit. "of the immortals," from a- "not" + mbrotos, related to mortos "mortal." Applied to certain herbs by Pliny and Dioscorides; used of various foods for mortals since 1685 (originally of fruit drinks).