Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

cataphracted

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: cat-aphract-ed
IPA

22

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Covered with, or wearing, a cataphract.

Example Sentences

"The path climbed along a wall of purple sandstone above an embayment and in the sunlit shadows below him he could see the long cataphracted forms of gars lying in a kind of electric repose among the reeds."

Etymology

From cataphract + -ed.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: cataphract

Questions

What does cataphracted mean?: Covered with, or wearing, a cataphract.
Where does cataphracted come from?: From cataphract + -ed.

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