Pronounced: weft, noun
Notes: Some people may know this word
Yesterday’s word
The word apposite means “highly pertinent or appropriate; apt”
First usage
Our word came into English in the early 1600s
Background / Comments
Our word sounds just like “opposite”, and they do share a common Latin root: the word ponere (to put or place). With the prefix ad-, the word becomes apponere (to place near; to apply to), and that came to be our word. We got opposite by adding the prefix ob- to give opponere (to place against or opposite). There is also the prefix com-, giving componere (to put together), which came into English as “compound” and “composite”.
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