[pahy-ruh-mey-nee-uh] Submitted by my homegrl Marley xx Follow for more rare and uncommon words
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[dey-noo-mahn] You can find an audio pronunciation here if you’re still having trouble It’s French (if you couldn’t tell) but here’s some more about the etymology…  French:  literally, an untying, equivalent to dénouer to untie From Latin nodus ”a knot,” Borrowed from my English teacher’s extensive vocabulary Follow for more rare and uncommon words
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[uhl-truh-krep-i-dair-ee-uhn] I suggest you read the etymology because it’s really cool. “The Latin writer Pliny recorded that Apelles, the famous Greek painter who was a contemporary of Alexander the Great, would put his pictures where the public could see them and then stand out of sight so he could listen to their comments. A shoemaker once faulted the painter for a sandal with one loop too few, which Apelles corrected. The shoemaker, emboldened by this acceptance of his views, then criticised the subject’s leg. To this Apelles is reported as replying (no doubt with expletives deleted) that the shoemaker should not judge beyond his sandals, in other words that critics should only comment on matters they know something about. In modern English, we might say “the cobbler should stick to his last”, a proverb that comes from the same incident. (A last is a shoemaker’s pattern, ultimately from a Germanic root meaning to follow a track, hence footstep.) What Pliny actually wrote was ne supra crepidam judicaret, where crepidam is a sandal or the sole of a shoe, but the idea has been expressed in several ways in Latin tags, such as Ne sutor ultra crepidam (sutor means “cobbler”, a word still known in Scotland in the spelling souter). The best-known version is the abbreviated tag ultra crepidam, “beyond the sole”, from which Hazlitt formed ultracrepidarian. Crepidam derives from Greek krepis, a shoe; it has no link with words like decrepit orcrepitation (which are from Latin crepare, to creak, rattle, or make a noise) orcrepuscular (from the Latin word for twilight), though crepidarian is a very rare adjective meaning “pertaining to a shoemaker”. ” - worldwidewords.org Source submitted by fireeyed-girl Follow for more rare and uncommon words
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This word is derived from the Greek word “leptos” meaning thin [lep-tuh-sohm] Audio pronunciation Source submitted by fireeyed-girl Follow for more rare and uncommon words
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Follow for more rare and uncommon words Credit to my Latin teacher because he rides his bike to school
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This is my absolute favorite word Follow for more rare and uncommon words Credit to my Latin teacher because he’s making us learn these words
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Taken from “Submarine” by Joe Dunthorne follow for more rare and uncommon words
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I think someone also submitted this on anonymous with a different definition but yeah follow for more rare and uncommon words source
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Haha I’ve been getting a lot of submissions having to do with sleep lately submitted by kathykallday follow for more rare and uncommon words
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