phaleristics
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "For a longer and less well-focused systematising definition of the themes of phaleristics, see Attila Pandula, 'Orden und Auszeichnungen — Besondere Spiegelbilder der Geschichte', in Das Erste und Zweite Gunzenhäuser Phaleristik-Symposium (Offenach am Main, 1997), 16-21)."
- "The study of orders has evolved into a discipline of its own, called phaleristics (coined after the Roman order, phalera)."
Etymology
From German Phaleristik, from Latin phalera, from Ancient Greek Φάληρος (Phálēros, “Phalerus, a mythological hero”).