Feb. 1st, 2011

caliginous

Feb. 1st, 2011 07:26 am
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caliginous (kuh-LIJ-uhn-us) - adj., misty, dark, murky, obscure.


No, nothing to do with what's in your joints. Borrowed in the 1540s from Latin cālīginōsus, either directly or via Middle French caligineux, from cālīgō, darkness, gloom, mist.

---L.

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