Pronounced: puh-TAR(d), noun
Notes: I don’t think this word is well known; I happen to know it
Yesterday’s word
The word accidence means
- the fundamentals of any subject
- the branch of grammar dealing with inflections of words
- a book of fundamentals of a subject
First usage
Our word came into English in the mid-1400s
Background / Comments
I thought that our word was related to an accident. Our word came from the Latin word accidentia, which came from accidere (to happen), which is composed of ad- (toward) and cadere (to fall).
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