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ormulum

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
or-mu-lum
IPA
11
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
5
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A twelfth-century work of biblical exegesis, whose author is a monk named Orm.

Etymology

From the author’s name, Orm, modeled after Latin speculum (“mirror”), so popular in the title of medieval Latin non-fiction works that the term speculum literature is used for the genre.

Inflected Forms

the Ormulum (canonical)

Questions

What does ormulum mean?
A twelfth-century work of biblical exegesis, whose author is a monk named Orm.
Where does ormulum come from?
From the author’s name, Orm, modeled after Latin speculum (“mirror”), so popular in the title of medieval Latin non-fiction works that the term speculum literature is used for the genre.

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