rhadamanthine

Pronounced: rah-duh-MAN-thuhn (alt: rah-duh-MANT-thuhn), adj

Notes: This long word is often capitalized

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Yesterday’s word

The word camelious means “relating to the camel or its hump”

First usage

Our word came into English in the first decade of the 1900s

Background / Comments

I think I was thinking of chamomile or chameleon and missed the more obvious ‘camel’ in our word. Our word is, in fact, derived from camel, which comes from the Latin word camelus (camel), which comes from the Greek word kamelos (camel). The Hebrew word for camel is gamal; the Arabic word jamal. Incidentally, this is another word with all the standard vowels in order.