linguista88 has adopted no words, looked up 0 words, created 1 list, listed 184 words, written 9 comments, added 0 tags, and loved 174 words.

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  • Thanks for the positive comment on my list! Love vermillion, same hue as cinnabar. And just as fun to say.

    September 20, 2007

  • Isn't the literal translation of this word 'murderer' ?

    September 20, 2007

  • Apocarteresis(n.) commission of suicide by starvation.

    September 18, 2007

  • Aurulent,(Latin aurum/auri, gold), adj: golden in color.

    September 18, 2007

  • I call my mom Momus.. she thinks its Latin for mother. In this case its close enough..

    September 18, 2007

  • My english prof used this word a lot to describe the tone of vocabulary in our essays.

    September 18, 2007

  • It does make sense that it follows the pattern of sit and sat. My question is why doesn't 'fit' follow the same pattern? I can definitely see the relationship between 'fit' and 'fat'.

    September 18, 2007

  • Haha.. My professor taught us this word in Latin class :)

    September 18, 2007

  • Dismal is used a lot by Lewis Carroll in Hunting of the Snark and Alice Through the looking glass. I recognized it right away. Just though it was something worth mentioning.

    September 18, 2007

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