spirituous
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.34 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of, pertaining to, containing, or made using alcohol.
adj
Example Sentences
- "Though Cripps's description of these proceedings was mere disjointed passion, Limpet gathered that the meeting required the Reverend Bowles to explain severally his peculiar appearance, his spiritual convictions, his recent behaviour, and the strong smell of spirituous liquors that had attended his arrival at Murumberee."
- "while the per capita consumption of spirituous liquors remained constant, that of malt liquors rose"
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)peys-der.? Latin spīrō Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Italic *-tus Latin -tus Latin spīritus Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *h₃édosder.? Proto-Italic *-ŏ̄dsos? Old Latin -ōssus Latin -ōsus Medieval Latin spīrituōsusder. English spirituous Derived from Medieval Latin spīrituōsus.
Inflected Forms
more spirituous (comparative)
most spirituous (superlative)