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c 3 a 1 l 1 i 1 g 2 i 1 n 1 o 1 u 1 s 1

10 letters · 13 points in Scrabble

Meaning

adjective dark and misty and gloomy

originBorrowed from Middle French caligineux (“misty; obscure”), or directly from its Latin etymon cālīginōsus (“misty; dark, obscure”). Cālīginōsus is derived from cālīgō, cālīginis (“fog, mist, vapour; darkness, gloom”)) + -ōsus (suffix meaning ‘full of, prone to’ forming adjectives from nouns).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0

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