traject

Pronounced: truh-JEKT, verb/noun

Notes: I know “trajectory”, but not this word


Yesterday’s word

The word colloquy means

  • conversation; dialogue
  • a high-level serious discussion; conference
First usage

Our word came into English in the mid-1500s

Background / Comments

If you thought of “colloquial”, you did well: “colloquial” came a couple of hundred years after colloquy. Our word came from the Latin word loqui (so speak) combined with col- (with).

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