Pronounced: un-SURE-tid, adj
Notes: This word is not the same as “shirtless”
Yesterday’s word
The word indite means
- to make up; compose
- to give literary or formal expression to
- to put down in writing
First usage
Our word came into English in the mid-1300s
Background / Comments
As I noted yesterday, our word is a homophone of “indict” (to charge with a crime). Our word is the older, and, in fact, “indict” was an alteration from our word, and came about 200 years later. Our word came from the Latin word indicere (to make known formally; to proclaim), which is made up of in- and dicere (to talk; speak; say).
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