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fatiferous

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
fat-if-er-ous
IPA
16
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Fate-bringing; deadly; destructive.

Formal; Obsolete

Etymology

From Latin fatifer, from fatum (“fate”) + ferre (“to bear, bring”).

Usage

Inflected Forms

more fatiferous (comparative) most fatiferous (superlative)

Rhymes With

carboniferous fossiliferous cruciferous seminiferous odoriferous splendiferous luminiferous metalliferous floriferous auriferous stoloniferous calciferous

Questions

What does fatiferous mean?
Fate-bringing; deadly; destructive.
Where does fatiferous come from?
From Latin fatifer, from fatum (“fate”) + ferre (“to bear, bring”).

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