Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

behemothian

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: be-he-moth-i-an
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

5

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Huge; very large.

adj

adj

Greatly important.

Etymology

Etymology tree English behemoth Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Proto-Italic *-ānos Latin -ānus Latin -iānusbor. English -ian English behemothian From behemoth + -ian.

Questions

What does behemothian mean?: Huge; very large.
Where does behemothian come from?: Etymology tree English behemoth Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Proto-Italic *-ānos Latin -ānus Latin -iānusbor. English -ian English behemothian From behemoth + -ian.

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