Despite their enlightened attempt to become one with the universe by devouring everything it contains, gluttons are often depicted as greasy, grunting grub-grabbers, gratifying their gross appetites with whatever falls within their greedy grasp. Their name, however, has a more temperate and less alliterative origin: it derives simply from the French gluton, which in turn developed from the Latin glutire, meaning to swallow. Glutton did not appear in English until the early thirteenth century, surprisingly late considering the French had already been ruling England for a century and a half. The Latin glutire is also the source of the word glut—which originally denoted the condition of being too full to swallow another mouthful—and of gullet, another name for the throat. The medical term deglutition, denoting the action of swallowing, also derives from the same Latin source as glutton.