f 4 o 1 r 1 n 1 i 1 c 3 a 1 t 1 e 1
9 letters · 14 points in Scrabble
Meaning
verb have sex without being married
originFirst attested in 1552; borrowed from Latin fornicātus, perfect active participle of fornicor (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from fornix (“arch, vault; brothel”). It was customary for courtesans of the era to wait for their customers out of the rain in arched passageways.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
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