commemorabilia
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
6
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Items that are created especially to honour or memorialize something, particularly an event, person, or institution.
Example Sentences
- "By the time the wedding date rolled around on July 29, 1981, her face and his were on most of the 971 "items of commemorabilia" that somebody counted for sale across the country."
Etymology
Morphologically, borrowed from Latin commemorābilia, the nominative neuter plural of Latin commemorābilis; semantically, a blend of commemorate + memorabilia.
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: commemorābilis