lign-aloes
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
agarwood, trees of the genus Aquilaria, especially the species Aquilaria malaccensis
Example Sentences
- "c. 1380 "Geoffrey Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde." In the digital collection Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse, University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Book IV, line 1135ff. The woful teeris that they leten falle As bittre weren out of teris kynde, ffor peyne, as is ligne aloes or galle:"
- "As the valleys are they spread forth, as gardens by the river's side, as the trees of Lign-Aloes which the LORD hath planted, and as Cedar trees beside the waters."
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English, from Middle French lignalöé, from Latin lignum + aloes. Compare lign-. The -s originates in the Latin genitive case, but it seems to have been reinterpreted as an English plural form.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: -
Inflected Forms
lignaloe (alternative)
lign aloe (alternative)
ligne aloes (alternative)
linaloa (alternative)
linaloe (alternative)