Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

lapidable

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
lap-id-able
IPA
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Nubile, mature for sexual intercourse (of a woman).

Obsolete

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Etymology

From Latin lapis (“stone”). The sense "nubile" was an intellectual pun on the use of English stone to mean "testicle", potentially also influenced by lap (“female pudenda”).

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Questions

What does lapidable mean?
Nubile, mature for sexual intercourse (of a woman).
Where does lapidable come from?
It is traced to Latin.

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