preterrestrial
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The System of the World of Laplace is the history of a preterrestrial era, the history of the world before the formation of the planet Earth, or if one prefers, of the Earth in its unity with the Sun."
- "A plagioclase glass in some chondrites and irons formed by preterrestrial impact between meteorites in space."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per- Proto-Indo-European *preh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-i Proto-Indo-European *préh₂i? Proto-Italic *prai Proto-Italic *prai- Latin prae-lbor. Middle English pre- English pre- English terrestrial English preterrestrial From pre- + terrestrial.
Derived Forms
preterrestrially
Frequently Paired Words
postterrestrial