lethiferous

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Scrabble Score

Letters

Syllables

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Obsolete

"1658, John Robinson, Eudoxa, p. 151 - Those that are really lethiferous are but excrescencies of sin"

Borrowed from Latin lethifer, letifer, from lethum, letum (“death”) + ferre (“to bear, to bring”). Compare French léthifère.

more lethiferous (comparative) most lethiferous (superlative)

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

Questions

What does lethiferous mean?

Deadly, lethal.

Where does lethiferous come from?

Borrowed from Latin lethifer, letifer, from lethum, letum (“death”) + ferre (“to bear, to bring”). Compare French léthifère.

How to pronounce lethiferous

Open the pronunciation page — Open the Speakur entry for “lethiferous”.

Read the phonetic spelling — Read the IPA spelling () so you know which sounds to aim for.

Play the audio — Click Play to hear reference audio for “lethiferous”.

Repeat and practice — Say “lethiferous” aloud, matching stress and vowels until it feels natural.