compartmentalise
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.31 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
4
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
Non-Oxford British standard spelling of compartmentalize.
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin com- Proto-Indo-European *perh₃- Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *pérh₃tis? Proto-Italic *partis Latin pars Proto-Indo-European *-yétider. Latin -iō Latin partiō Latin partior Latin compartīrībor. Italian compartire Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom Proto-Italic *-mentom Latin -mentum Italian -mento Italian compartimentobor. Middle French compartimentder. English compartment English -al English compartmental English -ise English compartmentalise From compartmental + -ise.