Pronounced: DOR-uh-for, noun
Notes: I don’t recall seeing this word before this
Yesterday’s word
The word euphony means “a harmonious succession of words or sounds”
First usage
Our word came into English in the early 1600s
Background / Comments
In college, I briefly studied Greek, so I recognized the two parts of our word: eu- (good; well) and phōnē (sound; voice), so I assumed that our word went our word meant “good sounds”, which isn’t quite right. Our word came into English from the French word euphonie, which came from the Late Latin word euphonia, which came from the Greek word euphōnos, which is composed of the aforementioned parts. In the field of linguistics, our word can mean “a preference for words that are easy to pronounce”.
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