scarabaeus

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.12 in modern English

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noun

Obsolete

"What did she mean about the scarabæus too? It was Leo's scarabæus, and had come out of the old coffer that Vincey had left in my rooms nearly one-and-twenty years before."

From Latin scarabaeus. Doublet of scarab.

scarabaei (plural) scarabaeuses (plural) scarabeus (alternative) scarabæus (alternative)

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