Pronounced: muh-SHUH-guh-ner, noun
Notes: I have not run across this word before
Yesterday’s word
The word litterateur is “an author of literary or critical works”
First usage
Our word came into English in the early 1800s
Background / Comments
The meaning could have been guessed. Our word came from the French word littérateur, which came from the Latin word litterator (teacher of letters; grammarian; critic), which came from litterae (letters; literature), the plural of littera (letter).
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