pantheon

Pronounced: PAN-thee-ahn, noun

Notes: I sort of knew this word, but not the complete set

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Yesterday’s word

The word unco, as an adjective, means “unusual; remarkable; strange”. As an adverb, it means “remarkably; extremely”. As a noun, it can mean “stranger” or “news”.

First usage

Our word, surprisingly to me, came into English in the early 1400s

Background / Comments

I thought our word was a modern word, as there is a tendency to shorten words, but it is a very old word. I also thought it might be short for “uncommon”, but this is not right either. Our word actually is a shortening (a variant) of “uncouth”, which is made up of un- (not) and cuth (known), which comes from cunnan (to know).