Pronounced: mih-ZER-ih-kord (alt: muh-ZER-ih-kord), noun
Notes: I saw “miser” and thought our word was related to a miser (boy, was I wrong!)
Yesterday’s word
The word anchorite means “a person who lives in seclusion usually for religious reasons”
First usage
Our word came into English in the early 1400s
Background / Comments
Our word came from the late Middle English words anchorite, anachorite, and ancorite, which is a conflation of the Middle English word ancre and the Old French word anacorite. It also may be related to the Late Latin anachorita, which came from the late Greek anachoretes.
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