dishevelled
Meaningwith hair undone
Common meaning: untidy, with hair loose
- disapart, away; not
- hevelhair of the headLewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), p. 283 · scan
- ledverb and past ending
‘apart, away’ + ‘hair of the head’ → dishevelled
Sources & notes
Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.
Pronunciation
- UK IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
- US IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
Origin: Built on Latin capillus ‘hair of the head’.
Roots
- capillus, -ī Latin “hair of the head”
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