Pronounced: dis-POZ-ih-tihv, adj
Notes: This word didn’t mean what I thought it meant
Yesterday’s word
The word prepend means (also see the Comments below)
- to reflect on carefully; ponder
- to be attentive
First usage
Our word came into English in the early 1500s
Background / Comments
There is a word spelled the same way, but meaning “a brick or stone reaching through a wall”, and it has a different origin. Our word came from the Latin word perpendere (to weigh carefully; ponder), which came from pendere (to weigh). I think the word looked familiar to me because of words like “append”, “suspend”, and “perplex”.
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