Produced by or relating to fermentation; caused by fermentation.
From Latin fermentum (leaven) plus the suffix -itious (characterized by), an archaic or rare formation that appears occasionally in older scientific literature.
This is a wonderfully obscure word that appears in 18th and 19th-century scientific texts when chemists were trying to describe the mysterious process of fermentation before they understood microbiology.
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