ambrosia · nectar
food and drink of the gods
Today this word meansSomething impossibly delicious. In botany, nectar is the sweet liquid of flowers.
Ambrosia is a- (not) + brotos (mortal) — "that which keeps you from dying." It was the food of the gods.
Nectar is widely read as nek- (death) + tar- (overcoming): likewise, the drink that carries you past death.
Calling the sweet liquid of flowers nectar dates only from the 1600s.