consanguineous

Pronounced: kon-sang-GWIN-ee-uhs, adj

Notes: You may be able to figure out the meaning of this word


Yesterday’s word

The word fulminate means “to complain loudly or angrily; to send forth censures or invectives”

First usage

Our word came into English around 1400 (either in the late 1300s or the early 1400s)

Background / Comments

I think I confused our word with “fulsome”. Our word came from the late Middle English word fulminaten, which came from the Latin word fulminatus, which is the past participle of fulminare (to hurl thunderbolts; thunder), which comes from fulmen (thunderbolt; lightning).

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