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hemerodrome

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
hemero-drome
IPA
19
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A courier in Ancient Greece who would run for a day

Etymology

Meaning a "day courier". Slightly more common form is "hemerodromos". From Ancient Greek ἡμέρᾱ (hēmérā, “day; date”) (a variant of ἦμαρ (êmar, “day”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eh₃- (“be hot, burn”)) + δρόμος (drómos, “race, running; race course, track”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *drem- (“to run”).

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: ἡμέρᾱ, *h₂eh₃-, *drem-

Inflected Forms

hemerodromes (plural)

Questions

What does hemerodrome mean?
A courier in Ancient Greece who would run for a day
Where does hemerodrome come from?
It is traced to Ancient Greek.

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