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lentitudinous

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
lenti-tudi-nous
IPA
14
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

slow; sluggish

Etymology

From Latin lentitūdin- + -al, from oblique stem of Latin lentitūdō, from lentus + -tūdō. By surface analysis, lentitude + -al.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

more lentitudinous (comparative) most lentitudinous (superlative)

Questions

What does lentitudinous mean?
slow; sluggish
Where does lentitudinous come from?
It is traced to Latin.

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