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fortitudinous

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
for-ti-tudi-nous
IPA
17
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Having fortitude; courageous.

Example Sentences

Etymology

From Latin fortitūdin- + -ous, from oblique stem of Latin fortitūdō, from fortis + -tūdō. By surface analysis, fortitude + -ous.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

more fortitudinous (comparative) most fortitudinous (superlative)

Questions

What does fortitudinous mean?
Having fortitude; courageous.
Where does fortitudinous come from?
It is traced to Latin.

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