Pronounced: WAHN-tid
Notes: Not a misspelling of “wanted”
Yesterday’s word
The word interdigitate means “to become interlocked like the fingers of folded hands”
First usage
Our word came into English in the mid-1800s
Background / Comments
I thought our word meant to lace the fingers; it means other things that are look like it (as muscle fibers, or the teeth of old-fashioned bear traps). Our word came from a combination of the prefix inter- (between) and the Latin word digitus (finger).
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