mundane
/mənˈdeɪn/muhn-DAYN
/mənˈdeɪn/muhn-DAYN
Meaningworldly
Common meaning: ordinary, everyday
- mundthe worldLewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), p. 1175 · scan
- aneadjective ending (variant of -an)
Journey through time
- Aryan root · reconstructed√MAND‘adorn’No written record; from Skeat’s list of Aryan roots, no. 262, p. 739 · scan
- Latinmundus, -ī‘the world’
- Englishmundane‘ordinary, everyday’ · today
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
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- US IPA: CMUdict (BSD-2), converted to IPA by rule. Respelling: generated.
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Origin: Built on Latin mundus ‘the world’.
Roots
- mundus, -ī Latin “the world”
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