Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

piarist

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: pi-arist
IPA

9

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A member of the Order of Poor Clerics Regular of the Mother of God of the Pious Schools, a Catholic educational order founded in the sixteenth century.

Etymology

From Latin pius (“pious”), + -ist.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: ist

Inflected Forms

Piarists (plural)

Questions

What does piarist mean?: A member of the Order of Poor Clerics Regular of the Mother of God of the Pious Schools, a Catholic educational order founded in the sixteenth century.
Where does piarist come from?: From Latin pius (“pious”), + -ist.

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