Pronounced: laze-MA-juh-stee, noun
Notes: I think I’ve run across this word in reading, but I don’t know the meaning
Yesterday’s word
The word Rubicon is “a point of no return, one where an action taken commits a person irrevocably”
First usage
Our word came into English in the early 1600s
Background / Comments
As I noted yesterday, if you are good at Roman history, you may know about the connection between Julius Caesar and the Rubicon river: it was this river he crossed in 49 BC, exclaiming “lacta alea est” (the die is cast). His action was effectively a declaration of war with Rome. I am familiar with the phrase “crossing the Rubicon”, but I did not know that Rubicon was a word in its own right.
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