Pronounced: vah-luh-too-duh-NER-ee-uhn, noun
Notes: I’ve read this word, but was a bit off in my guess at at the meaning
Yesterday’s word
The word aerious means “of or like air; airy”
First usage
Our word came into English in the late 1500s
Background / Comments
I should have known the proper definition; I think the similarity to ‘serious’ kept throwing me off. Our word came from the Latin word aereus (aerius), which is the adjectival form of aer (air).
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