1360: Swine and Pig Sep 1, 2018

There are lots of fairly obscure words used to describe animals, including scientific names, terms of venery, or even meat-names sometimes. ‘Swine’ is different though, because while it is generally more general than ‘pig’ it is not the scientific name (genus of ‘sus’) or the name for meat, ‘pork’, or even the adjective ‘porcine’. ‘Pig’ though is also general, not referring to only one species, so ‘swine’ is a rare example of a synonym for an animal that doesn’t differ by its language of origins either.