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solicitudinous

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
so-lic-i-tudi-nous
IPA
17
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
5
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Expressing solicitude.

Etymology

From Latin sol(l)icitūdin- + -ous, from oblique stem of Latin sollicitūdō, from sollicitus + -tūdō. By surface analysis, solicitude + -ous.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

more solicitudinous (comparative) most solicitudinous (superlative)

Questions

What does solicitudinous mean?
Expressing solicitude.
Where does solicitudinous come from?
It is traced to Latin.

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