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cothurnate

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
cothur-nate
IPA
15
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Wearing a cothurn, or (by extension) tragic, solemn.

Obsolete

Etymology

From cothurn + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).

Usage

Inflected Forms

more cothurnate (comparative) most cothurnate (superlative)

Questions

What does cothurnate mean?
Wearing a cothurn, or (by extension) tragic, solemn.
Where does cothurnate come from?
From cothurn + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).

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