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Ponderous: c.1400, thick; early 15c., heavy, weighty, clumsy, from
Ponderous: c.1400, thick; early 15c., heavy, weighty, clumsy, from Latin ponderosus of great weight; full of meaning, from pondus (genitive ponderis) ...
Ponderous: c.1400, thick; early 15c., heavy, weighty, clumsy, from Latin ponderosus of great weight; full of meaning, from pondus (genitive ponderis) ...
Etymology of the day: Defenestration
1620, the action of
Etymology of the day: Defenestration 1620, the action of throwing out of a window, from Latin fenestra window. A word invented for one incident: the ...
Etymology of the day: Defenestration 1620, the action of throwing out of a window, from Latin fenestra window. A word invented for one incident: the ...
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