carnifex
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.72 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "“[T]he carnifex, or executioner there, is brandishing his gulley ower near the King's face, seeing he is within reach of his weapon.”"
- "‘Lesser places have no more than a carnifex, who takes life and performs such excruciations as the judicators there decree.’"
- "Vorónezh: Ovid thrusts abruptly wide / the ice-locked shutters, discommodes his lyre / to Caesar's harbingers. Interrogation, / whatever is most feared. Truth's fatal vogue, / sad carnifex, self-styled of blood and wax."
Etymology
From Latin carnifex (“butcher”).
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: carnifex