telesm
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "“In all these cases they had held that environment could be modified at will by telesmata or sympathetic figures.”"
Etymology
From New Latin telesma, and its source, Byzantine Greek τέλεσμα (télesma), from Ancient Greek τελεῖν (teleîn, “to perform (rites), to initiate (in the mysteries”). Doublet of talisman.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: telesma, τέλεσμα, τελεῖν, *kʷel-