{UAH} WORD OF THE DAY March 6, 2019-abecedarian

WORD OF THE DAY March 6, 2019

abecedarian    adjective | ay-bee-see-DAIR-ee-un     Definition   1 a : of or relating to the alphabet   b : alphabetically arranged   2 : rudimentary   Scroll down for more about abecedarian      TRENDING NOW: self-made churlish perdition trenchant SEE ALL      PEOPLE ARE READING   9 Words to Make You a Boss at Hangman       'Leviathan' — Video Word of the Day 3/5/2019     On 'Prodigy' and 'Progeny'       Poring Over Stories of the 'Growler'         WORD GAMES AND QUIZZES: WEEKLY CHALLENGE   Return of Name that Color!   Additional colors! More obscure than before!     PLAY NOW     Nailed this quiz? We have plenty more to try!  TAKE ME THERE         Did You Know?   The history of abecedarian is as simple as ABC—literally. The term's Late Latin ancestor, abecedārius (which meant "alphabetical"), was created as a combination of the letters A, B, C, and D, plus the adjective suffix -arius; you can hear the echo of that origin in the pronunciation of the English term (think "ABC-darian"). In its oldest documented English uses in the early 1600s, abecedarian was a noun meaning "one learning the rudiments of something"; it specifically referred to someone who was learning the alphabet. The adjective began appearing in English texts a few decades after the noun.     Examples of ABECEDARIAN   The children recited an abecedarian chant, beginning with "A is for apple" and ending with "Z is for zebra."   "Aficionados of Sue Grafton's popular detective novels starring Kinsey Millhone will not be disappointed by S is for Silence, Grafton's 19th book in her abecedarian series launched in 1982 with A is for Alibi." — Jan Collins, The State (Columbia, South Carolina), 11 Dec. 2005   Test Your Vocabulary   Fill in the blanks to complete the name for an alphabetical list of all of the words in a book or in a set of works written by an author: c _ _ c _ r _ _ n _ e.   VIEW THE ANSWER           WORD OF THE YEAR 2018     Justice + 10 more   Read why justice is our Word of the Year, plus lodestar, epiphany, pansexual, and 7 more top words!   SEE THE FULL LIST            MORE WORD FUN:     WORD GAMES          TRENDING NOW          WORDS AT PLAY      FOLLOW US:

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