Pronounced: pyou-suh-LAH-nuh-muss, adj
Notes: I thought this word had to do with boxing, but I was wrong
Yesterday’s word
The word plutonian means
- relating to the dwarf planet Pluto
- relating to Pluto, the god of the underworld in Greek mythology
- relating to the underworld
First usage
Our word came into English in the early 1600s
Background / Comments
All of the definitions make sense, but I couldn’t list all of them. Our word came from Latin, which came from the Greek word Plouton (Pluto, the god of the underworld).
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