reptitious
/ɹɛpˈtɪʃəs/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Reptitious, ſtealing or creeping on by degrees."
- "Reptile or Reptitious, that creeps; or, by privy means, gets to high estate."
- "Some Serpents are reptitious, creep on the Belly, and some have Feet."
- "Whether [dysentery] proceeds from... some Occult cause, no venomous Creature living [in Ireland] to suck that which may be thought... well distributed amongst reptitious Animals, I shall not determine."
Etymology
From Late Latin reptitius (“creeping”), corruption of Latin reperticius, from reptus (“crept, crawled”) + -īcius (“-itious”), from rēpere (“to creep, to crawl”), modified by English -ious, q.v. Cognate with repent, reptant, reptile, reptilious, surreptitious.
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: reptitius, reperticius
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ɹɛpˈtɪʃəs/
- British English: /ɹəpˈtɪʃəs/
Usage
Inflected Forms
more reptitious (comparative)
most reptitious (superlative)