Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

scaturiginous

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: sca-tu-rig-i-nous
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

5

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Having a copious supply of springs or sources of water; vernal.

Example Sentences

"For their own protection, the tribes on the Susquehannah formed a league, which was strengthened by daily accessions of straggling families, scattered, as chance or fancy dictated, along the brook-sides or under the edge of some forest glade of the umbrose, scaturginious land."
"It would be an inconceivably macilent language which contained only words from one source, and which did not draw supplies from any scaturiginous country through which it passed."
"Such areas not being scaturiginous, and arable, will ever be sparcely populated."

Etymology

From Latin scaturigīnus, from scaturīgo (scatūr(iō) + -igō) + -īnus.

Origin

Source language: Latin

Word Breakdown

Root: scaturigīnus

Inflected Forms

more scaturiginous (comparative) most scaturiginous (superlative)

Frequently Paired Words

scaturient

Questions

What does scaturiginous mean?: Having a copious supply of springs or sources of water; vernal.
Where does scaturiginous come from?: It is traced to Latin.

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