This week’s theme
Random words

This week’s words
retral
lateritious
coadjutant
empyrean
niveous

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(lat-uh-RISH-uhs)

MEANING:

adjective: Resembling, made of, or the color of, bricks.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin later (brick). Earliest documented use: 1656.

USAGE:

“All that I know is that I always feel otherness burning in my driftings. I call them storms which the sighted world would describe as rufescent¹, would term them lake-coloured, rubiginous², carnelian³ lateritious. True, there exists in me anger, there exists in me bits of poison.”
Will Alexander; Diary as Sin; Skylight Press; 2011.
¹from Latin rufus (red)
²from Latin ruber (red)
³from Latin cornum (cherry) or caro (flesh)

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