stercoranism
/ˈstɝkəɹəˌnɪz(ə)m/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
5
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Great conteſts have ariſen in the church of Rome, vvhether the ſacramental bread and vvine vvere ſo far digeſted, as that ſome part of them, like other food, vvas turned into excrements: thoſe vvho held the affirmative, vvent by the name of Stercorarians or Stercoraniſtæ. Cardinal Humbert, in his anſvver to Nicetas Pectoratus, treats him as a Stercoraniſt, merely for holding that the euchariſt breaks the faſt; vvhich opinion he imagined led directly into Stercoraniſm."
Etymology
From Medieval Latin stercoranista + -ism (“forming the names of schools of thought”), from stercor- (“dung, excrement”) + -anista, from root of stercus (“dung, excrement”) + suffixal construction from -ānus (“of, pertaining to”) + -ista (“one who practices or believe”).
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈstɝkəɹəˌnɪz(ə)m/
- British English: /ˈstɜːkəɹənɪzm̩/