Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

vestiture

/ˈvɛstɪstjʊə/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: vesti-ture
IPA: /ˈvɛstɪstjʊə/

12

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The hairs of plants, invertebrates and other non-mammalian organisms, taken as a whole.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

Investiture (of a person with a specific role, powers etc.).

Countable; Uncountable

noun

Clothes, clothing.

Archaic; Countable; Literary; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Phycosecids are small, ovate, convex beetles with a prognathous head, partly covered by a semicircular projection of the pronotum and a dorsal vestiture of whitish scales or scalelike setae."
"Toward the end of the second album the photography burst into color to celebrate the vivid vestiture of her adolescent molts."

Etymology

From Medieval Latin vestitura, from Latin vestire.

Origin

Source language: Latin

Word Breakdown

Root: vestitura, vestire

Regional Pronunciation

British English: /ˈvɛstɪstjʊə/

Usage

Inflected Forms

vestitures (plural)

Questions

How do you pronounce vestiture?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈvɛstɪstjʊə/.
What does vestiture mean?: The hairs of plants, invertebrates and other non-mammalian organisms, taken as a whole.
Where does vestiture come from?: It is traced to Latin.

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