matitudinal
/ˌmætəˈt(j)udənl̩/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
5
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "It so happened, that one morning, while Lord C—— was preparing to enjoy his matitudinal treat, two girls who lived in the second flat above, were amusing themselves with a kitten, […]"
- "With these slight assistants to support nature, and a Dolland's achromatic in his hands—by the way, a camp-stool or air-cushion is indispensable—there will he patiently keep watch for "The antler'd monarch of the waste," from the matitudinal meal even unto the dinner hour."
- "On one part of the beach bathing was going on energetically, and there was also a fair show of pedestrians, many of them evidently English, taking their matitudinal exercise and inhaling the sea-breezes."
- "We—(that is the humble namesakes of the classic trio, Catallus, Tibullus, and Propertius)—never made the Continental tour—never ascended Mont Blanc and tumbled into a crevasse, or boiled our matitudinal eggs in the crater of Mount Vesuvius."
- "How smugly would I marvel that she was mine, mine, mine, and revise the recent matitudinal swoon to the moan of the mourning doves, […]"
- "Thus in no other area does the English student of French feel more envious of the opportunities available to the French student of English than when she or he compares the wealth and variety of programmes put out on BBC Radio 4 – to say nothing of those offered to the matitudinal insomniac by the BBC World Service – with what is available on France-Inter."
Etymology
A variant of matutinal (possibly influenced by French matin (“morning”)), which is borrowed from Middle French matutinal (modern French matutinal), and from its etymon Late Latin mātūtīnālis (“(adjective) belonging to the morning; of or pertaining to matins; (noun) morning hymn or psalm; book of lauds”), from Latin mātūtīnus (“of, occurring in, or pertaining to the early morning, matutine”) (from Mātūta (“Roman goddess of the dawn or morning”) (from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂- (“to mature, ripen; opportune, timely; good, great”)) + -īnus (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’) + -ālis (suffix forming adjectives of relationship).
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˌmætəˈt(j)udənl̩/
- British English: /ˌmætɪˈt(j)uːdɪnl̩/