deponticate
Nov. 13th, 2009 07:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
prettygoodworddeponticate - v., to throw of a bridge.
Coined by analogy to defenestrate, substituting Latin pont, bridge for Latin fenestra, window. Not to be confused with depontiffication, the act of removing a high church official. Probably pronounced dee-PON-ti-cayt. Use it wisely.
---L.
Coined by analogy to defenestrate, substituting Latin pont, bridge for Latin fenestra, window. Not to be confused with depontiffication, the act of removing a high church official. Probably pronounced dee-PON-ti-cayt. Use it wisely.
---L.
