Pronounced: si-KREE-tuh-ree, adj
Notes: Looks like “secretary” misspelled, but that’s not it at all
Yesterday’s word
The word oleaginous means
- resembling or having the properties of oil; or containing or producing oil
- marked by an offensively ingratiating manner or quality
First usage
Our word came into English in the mid-1400s
Background / Comments
Our word came from Middle French, which came from the Latin word oleagineus (of an olive tree) – the Latin word olea (olive tree) and came from the Greek word elaia (olive). The first definition was the original definition; it was in the 1800s that the second definition came about.
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