Pronounced: ha-PLAH-luh-jee, noun
Notes: I didn’t know this word, but many of us have run across haplologies
Yesterday’s word
The word fulminate, as a noun, is “an explosive salt of fulminic acid”. As a verb, it means
- to explode or to case to explode
- to issue denunciations
First usage
Our word came into English around 1500
Background / Comments
As I noted yesterday, I recognized one of the definition: the second verb definition is one I think I read somewhere. I was unaware of the other definitions. Our word came from the Latin word fulminare (to strike with lightning), which came from fulmen (lightning), which came from fulgere (to shine).
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