Pronounced: SKAB-russ, adj
Notes: This word didn’t quite mean what I thought
Yesterday’s word
The word pelagic means “of, relating to, or living or occurring in the open sea; oceanic”
First usage
Our word came into English in the mid-1600s
Background / Comments
Oddly enough, the meaning of our word hasn’t changed since it first showed up; perhaps because “oceanic” is more commonly used these days. When I saw our word, I thought of the word “pedagogical”; I may have thought it was “pedalogical”, which is someone closer. Whatever the reason, I thought it was related to teaching. Our word came from the Latin word pelagicus, which came from the Greek word pelagikos, which is made up of pegalos (sea) with the ending -ikos ending to make it an adjective.
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