Well, he mainly tells (in the video linked through 'the main word' below) WHY Listerine's marketing department had to dig through their Latin-dictionaries to name 'the bad-breath-condition.' Here, I list a few 'root-words' that tie that word into our lexicon....
The word “Halitosis” is built on ancient words that mean Breath, |Exhalation, Steam, Vapor + the suffix -|osis.
Hmm ... Adam says (reporting from one of his team's sources) that Listerine was originally a floor-cleaning liquid---Listerine's own site (which admits that they coined the term 'halitosis') calls it "pulverized antiseptic."
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