Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

tergeminous

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: tergemi-nous
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

2

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Example Sentences

"My servant-maid has discovered tergeminous proof of the perpetrator."
"I've often viewed in early life's bright dream, Thy arch tergeminous which spanned the stream; Upon the rocks greywacke oft I've stood, And upward scanned thy classic pulchritude."
"The reader will also observe that in the example just cited 'justice' is rendered by 'equality and justice;' on the same page he will find carelessness and inadvertency' where the original has only neglect; and so he will find throughout the book such geminous and even tergeminous renderings to the number of at least two hundred."
"Chappies like Junius Henri, whose sidewheel whiskers and tergeminous titles are giving them spinal curvature, may fancy hysterical maids; but a sure-enough American, competent to raise a crop of world-compellers all bearing his trade-mark, prefers a Grace Darling or a Molly Pitcher."

Etymology

From Latin tergeminus, from ter (“thrice”) + geminus (“doubled at birth, twin-born”). Compare trigeminous.

Origin

Source language: Latin

Word Breakdown

Root: tergeminus

Rhymes With

trigeminus quadrigeminous geminous trigeminous

Questions

What does tergeminous mean?: Threefold.
Where does tergeminous come from?: It is traced to Latin.

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