Pronounced: (as it looks), noun/verb
Notes: I know the adjectival form of the word; I didn’t know that this was a word
Yesterday’s word
The word indurate means “physically or morally hardened”
First usage
Our word came into English in the late 1300s
Background / Comments
Interesting… the original reference only gave one pronunciation, but when I did more research, I found six pronunciations, and none of those match the one I listed yesterday. Alternate (or possibly correct) pronunciations are: IN-do-rate, IN-dyou-rate, IN-do-rit, IN-dyoo-rit, in-DOOR-it, and in-DYOUR-it. Our word came from Middle English indurat, which came from the Latin word induratus, a past participle of indurare (to harden). We get “durable” from the same source.
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