Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

consarcination

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: con-sar-ci-na-tion
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

5

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A patching together; patchwork.

Countable; Obsolete; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"It is one thing to take the text of these documents, and to trace out its consarcinations, interpolations, retrenchments; to ascertain, if it may be, what it was in its earliest form, what the age and history of its several parts […]"
"Although great proficients in the arts and sciences, the Egyptians were more distinguished for a certain squeamishness of taste, than as gastronomes who could revel in a multiplicity of heterogeneous consarcinations […]"
"I don't know if there was any great depravity or moral turpitude in the action, supposing it to be true, for argument sake, if the consarcination of their conjugality is taken into account."

Etymology

From Latin consarcinare, consarcinatum (“to patch together”).

Origin

Source language: Latin

Word Breakdown

Root: consarcinare

Usage

Inflected Forms

consarcinations (plural)

Questions

What does consarcination mean?: A patching together; patchwork.
Where does consarcination come from?: It is traced to Latin.

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