geomori
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
noun
class of oligarchic landowners descending from the first Corinthian settlers who in 733 BC, according to the chronology of Thucydides, had founded Syracuse
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek γεωμόροι (geōmóroi), ultimately from γεω- (geō-, “earth”) + μέρος (méros, “part, share, portion”), whence the latter comes from Proto-Indo-European *(s)mer- (“to assign, allot”). Doublet of gamoroi.