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janiculum

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.17 in modern English

Syllables
jan-icu-lum
IPA
20
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A hill in western Rome, Italy.

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Iāniculum, from the name of the Roman deity Iānus (“Janus”), from iānus (“arcade, covered passageway”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ey- (“to go”).

Origin

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

the Janiculum (canonical)

Synonyms

Janiculan Hill

Questions

What does janiculum mean?
A hill in western Rome, Italy.
Where does janiculum come from?
It is traced to Proto-Indo-European.

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