Pronounced: A-tawl
Notes: I had a general idea of the meaning, but I didn’t know the specific meaning
Yesterday’s word
The word recrudescence is “a renewed activity after a period of dormancy”
First usage
Our word came into English in the mid-1600s
Background / Comments
The background of our word is interesting: it came from the Latin word recrudescere (to become raw again), which is made up of re- (again) and crudescere (to get worse), which is based upon crudus (raw). I find this last bit interesting because it is clearly the source of “crude” as in “crude oil”. I keep wanting to put the emphasis on the second syllable and pronounce the first syllable with a short “e” sound.
Richard's Vocabulary Word-of-the-Day 