pertransient
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Example Sentences
- "I will not stick summarily to deliuer somewhat more concerning lines Armoriall: which, first, are either Entire, and Pertransient, or Entire and Pertingent, or parts of them."
- "Interſecants, in Heraldry, are pertranſient Lines which croſs one another."
- "Thus is man fated to learn effectually from experience; the voice of the sage is, like all sublunary things, pertransient."
- "And to move is active as to feel is passive, wherefore by greater heat; whether the faculty [of sensation combines] with the essence, viz., of the pertransient spirit [translating spiritus pertranseuntis], [according to] Galen when [he says the faculty is in the brain] without the essence."
Etymology
From Latin pertransiens, present participle of pertransire.
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: pertransiens