Pronounced: BAN-duh-snatch, noun
Notes: The word was familiar to me (and may be to you), but not the definition
Yesterday’s word
The word magnifico is “a person of high rank or position”
First usage
Our word appeared in English in the mid-1500s
Background / Comments
As I noted, our word looks related to “magnificent”… and there’s a reason for that: Our word came from the Italian word magnifico (magnificent) which came from the Latin word magnus (great). Our word was originally an honorary title applied to Venetian nobleman. The word looked familiar to me because it is the name of a character in the Isaac Asimov novel Foundation and Empire (the second book in the “Foundation” series).
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