Pronounced: sih-NEK-duh-kee, noun
Notes: This word seemed familiar to me – see tomorrow’s comments
Yesterday’s word
The word banausic means “relating to or concerned with earning a living (used pejoratively); utilitarian; practical”
First usage
Our word came into English in the mid-1800s
Background / Comments
Our word goes back to Greek society – the considered that the ideal life was a life of contemplation. Those who had to work for a living were looked down upon (because they could not spend their time in intellectual pursuits), and that the the send of our word. It came from the Greek (duh!) word banausikos (of an artisan), which was derived from baunos (furnace; forge).
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