Pronounced: GREEN-male, noun
Notes: Not a word I knew (again)
Yesterday’s word
The word disquisition is “a formal discussion on a subject; discourse; dissertation”
First usage
Our word came into English in the early 1600s
Background / Comments
Our word looked a bit to me like “inquisition”, but it came from the Latin word disquiere (to investigate), which is made of up dis- (an intensifier prefix) and quaerere (to see or ask).
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