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9 letters · 15 points in Scrabble
Meaning
verb appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use
originFirst attested in the 1530s, in the sense “to lop off”; borrowed from Medieval Latin dēfalcātus, perfect passive participle of dēfalcō (“to cut or lop off”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from Latin dē (“off”) + falx (“sickle, scythe, pruning hook”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Words from these letters
- falcated 14
- clefted 13
- deflect 13
- faceted 13
- falcate 12
- deface 12
- defect 12
- facade 12
- deflate 11
- facete 11
- faecal 11
- decaf 11