Category Archives: word

Pronounced: OW-troh, noun Notes: I’ve never run across this word Yesterday’s word The word vespertine means of, relating to, or occurring in the evening active, flowering, or flourishing in the evening First usage Our word came into English in the very late 1400s or very early 1500s Background / Comments After reading the definition (especiallyContinue reading “outro”

Pronounced: VESS-per-tine, adj Notes: I should have known this word, but I just saw in it a relative of “serpentine” Yesterday’s word The word quodlibetal means “relating to a question or topic for debate or discussion” First usage Our word came into English in the late 1500s Background / Comments As I noted yesterday, IContinue reading “vespertine”

Pronounced: kwod-LIB-uh-tuhl, adj Notes: My guess of the meaning was off, because I have run across another form of this word Yesterday’s word The word propitious means favorably disposed; benevolent being of good omen; auspicious tending to favor; advantageous First usage Our word came into English in the early to middle 1400s Background / CommentsContinue reading “quodlibetal”

Pronounced: pruh-PIH-shuhs, adj Notes: I am familiar with one of the definitions Yesterday’s word The word adventious means coming from outside: not inherent or native happening by chance appearing in an unusual or abnormal place First usage Our word came into English in the mid-1600s Background / Comments As you can see, nothing to doContinue reading “propitious”

Pronounced: ad-VEN-shuhs, adj Notes: I (incorrectly) see “adventure” when I look at this word Yesterday’s word The word caesura is “a pause or break in a melody or line of verse” First usage Our word came into English in the mid-1500s Background / Comments Our word claims to be a break in a melody, butContinue reading “adventious”

Pronounced: si-ZYOOR-uh, noun Notes: I haven’t run across this word, and I’m a bit surprised Yesterday’s word The word intrapreneur means “an employee who works as an entrepreneur within an established company, having the freedom to take risks and act independently” First usage Our word came into English in the 1970s Background / Comments OurContinue reading “caesura”

Pronounced: in-truh-pruh-NUHR (alt-1: in-truh-pruh-NOOR; alt-2: in-truh-pruh-NYOOR), noun Notes: I know “entrepreneur”, but not this word Yesterday’s word The word rhadamanthine means “rigorously strict or just” First usage Our word came into English in the mid-1600s Background / Comments Our word comes from Greek mythology: in the underworld (Hades), there were three judges: Minos, Aeacus, andContinue reading “intraprenuer”

Pronounced: rah-duh-MAN-thuhn (alt: rah-duh-MANT-thuhn), adj Notes: This long word is often capitalized Yesterday’s word The word camelious means “relating to the camel or its hump” First usage Our word came into English in the first decade of the 1900s Background / Comments I think I was thinking of chamomile or chameleon and missed the moreContinue reading “rhadamanthine”

Pronounced: kuh-MEE-lee-uhs, adj Notes: My thoughts flew (incorrectly) to a flower Yesterday’s word The word solstitial means of, relating to, or characteristic of a solstice happening or appearing at or associated with a solstice First usage The reference material I consulted do not agree; one says that the word arrived in English in the 1300s;Continue reading “camelious”

Pronounced: sahl-STIH-shuhl, adj Notes: I didn’t know the meaning when looking at the word; after seeing the definition, it seems obvious – do you know it? Yesterday’s word The word solipsism means the view or theory that the self is all that exists or can be known to exist self-absorption or self-centeredness First usage OurContinue reading “solstitial”