This week’s theme
Yours to discover

This week’s words
quoz
vidimus
pinchbeck
jayhawker
expergefacient

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(VAI-di-muhs)

MEANING:

noun: 1. An attested copy of a document. 2. An official inspection.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin vidimus (we have seen), from videre (to see). Ultimately from the Indo-European root weid- (to see), which also gave us guide, wise, vision, advice, idea, story, history, vizard, videlicet, prudential, previse, and invidious. Earliest documented use: 1436.

USAGE:

“The final letter was a vidimus bearing the great seal of Philip the Fair, purportedly confirming the marriage contract between Philip of Artois and Blanche of Brittany.”
Margaret Reeves, et al.; Shell Games; CRRS Publications; 2004.

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