Pronounced: MAN-tih-core, noun
Notes: I knew our word, but didn’t know the proper definition
Yesterday’s word
The word quiescent means “still; inactive; not showing symptoms”
First usage
Our word came into English in the early 1600s
Background / Comments
I was aware of the ‘still’ and ‘inactive’ definitions of our word; it makes me think of “quiet” (note that that’s what you if you remove the letters ‘scen’). Anyway our word came from the Latin word quiescere (to rest), which came from quies (quiet).
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