This week’s theme
There’s a word for it

This week’s words
cynophobia
phillumenist
virilocal
pathophobia
paragnosis

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(vir-i-LOK-uhl)

MEANING:

adjective: Relating to the custom of living with the family of the husband.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin vir (man) + local. Ultimately from the Indo-European root wi-ro- (man), which also gave us virile, virtue, virtuoso, werewolf, world, virago, virtu, German Weltanschauung (worldview), and Sanskrit veerya (brave). Earliest documented use: 1948.

USAGE:

“She was also told that a new house was denied to her because she, being married to a man belonging to another parish, failed to move into the virilocal residence as per the custom.”
Soosaiya Anthreas; The Dance of the Sea; Gatekeeper Press; 2015.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: