Pronounced: PRO-bih-tee, noun
Notes: I wasn’t sure about this using this word, but I decided to do so
Yesterday’s word
The word multifarious means “having or occurring in great variety; diverse”
First usage
Our word came into English in the late 1500s
Background / Comments
Our word is not related at all to “nefarious”, as I thought. Our word came from the Latin word multifariam (in many places; on many sides). Interestingly, in the century before our word came into being, a similar word was in use: “multifary” (in many ways). That word did not last long; it was gone long before our word appeared.
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