Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

scortatory

/skɔːˈteɪtəɹi/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: scor-ta-to-ry
IPA: /skɔːˈteɪtəɹi/

15

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

4

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Pertaining to scortation; fornicatory, lewd.

Example Sentences

"Twenty years he dallied there between conjugal love and its chaste delights and scortatory love and its foul pleasures."

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin scortātōrius, from scortātor.

Origin

Source language: Latin

Word Breakdown

Root: scortātōrius

Questions

How do you pronounce scortatory?: The recorded pronunciation is /skɔːˈteɪtəɹi/.
What does scortatory mean?: Pertaining to scortation; fornicatory, lewd.
Where does scortatory come from?: It is traced to Latin.

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