Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

stercoraceous

/ˌstɝ.kəˈɹeɪ.ʃəs/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: ster-co-ra-ceous
IPA: /ˌstɝ.kəˈɹeɪ.ʃəs/

17

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

4

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Consisting of, resembling or pertaining to feces.

Example Sentences

"He had reason to believe the stercoraceous flavour, condemned by prejudice as a stink, was, in fact, most agreeable to the organs of smelling."
"I made £150 by Alton Locke, and never lost a farthing; and I got, not in spite of, but by the rows, a name and a standing with many a one who would never have heard of me otherwise, and I should have been a stercoraceous mendicant if I had hollowed when I got a facer, while I was winning by the cross, though I didn't mean to fight one."
"[W]e find it hard today to see the entertaining aspects of, for instance, stercoraceous jokes."

Etymology

From Latin stercorāceus, from stercus (“dung”).

Origin

Source language: Latin

Word Breakdown

Root: stercorāceus

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /ˌstɝ.kəˈɹeɪ.ʃəs/
British English: /ˌstɜː.kəˈɹeɪ.ʃəs/

Inflected Forms

more stercoraceous (comparative) most stercoraceous (superlative)

Synonyms

fecal stercorous

Rhymes With

gracious spacious cretaceous tenacious audacious gaseous herbaceous voracious flirtatious vivacious ostentatious fallacious

Questions

How do you pronounce stercoraceous?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˌstɝ.kəˈɹeɪ.ʃəs/.
What does stercoraceous mean?: Consisting of, resembling or pertaining to feces.
Where does stercoraceous come from?: It is traced to Latin.

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