sederunt
/sɪˈdɪəɹənt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.59 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A formal meeting, especially of a judicial or ecclesiastical body.
noun
Those people present at such a meeting.
Example Sentences
- "They held a sederunt, and were filled with tremulous joy, for, in spite of their familiarity with all the other worlds and cycles, they had a very human awe of things sent from Ghostland."
- "'Tis pity we have not Burn's own account of that long sederunt."
Etymology
From Latin sederunt (“there were sitting”).
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /sɪˈdɪəɹənt/