Pronounced: or-guh-no-LEP-tick, adj
Notes: Well, my guess was quite incorrect (it has nothing to do with playing organs)
Yesterday’s word
The word Malthusian means “relating to the view that population increases faster than its means of subsistence resulting in disaster, unless population is checked by natural calamities or by people deciding to have fewer children”
First usage
Our word came into English in the early 1800s
Background / Comments
I saw “mal” at the beginning of the word and thought that might be a prefix meaning “bad”, but that is not the case: our word came from the name of the economist and clergyman who was a proponent of this idea – Thomas Robert Malthus.
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