a 1 n 1 a 1 l 1 e 1 c 3 t 1 s 1
8 letters · 10 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun a collection of excerpts from a literary work
originFrom James Legge's 1861 translation of the work's Mandarin Chinese title 論語 (Lúnyǔ). "Analects" itself is a 1658 Ancient Greek loanword from ἀνάλεκτα (análekta, “things chosen”), from ἀνα- (ana-, “up”) + λέγειν (légein, “to gather”). Compare lecture.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
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