reliquary
/ˈɹɛlɪ(ˌ)kwɛɹi/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.30 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "“… There is an ivory virgin of the fourteenth century. I once found a buyer for that piece, but the old boy would not sell it.[…]The other piece—the one that concerns us—is known as the Borgia reliquary.”"
- "And whether you think of those little cans as intellectual puzzles or reliquaries or scams, there are surprises inside."
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French reliquaire (modern French reliquaire), from Late Latin reliquiarium, from rēliquia (“a relic”) (English relic), noun use of reliquus (“abandoned, left behind, relict”), from relinquō (“to relinquish”), from re- (“again”) and linquō (“to leave”), from Proto-Indo-European *leykʷ-.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: reliquaire, reliquiarium, *leykʷ-