p 3 a 1 r 1 a 1 p 3 h 4 e 1 r 1 n 1 a 1 l 1 i 1 a 1
13 letters · 20 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun equipment consisting of miscellaneous articles needed for a particular operation or sport etc.
originBorrowed from Medieval Latin paraphernālia (“goods which a wife brings over and above her dowry”), use as noun (short for paraphernālia bona (“paraphernal goods”)) of neuter plural of paraphernālis, from Late Latin parapherna + Latin -ālis (suffix forming adjectives), from Ancient Greek παράφερνα (parápherna), a compound of παρά (pará, “beside”) + φερνή (phernḗ, “dowry”). In the propertied…
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