exorbitant
/ɪɡˈzɔːbɪtənt/ig-ZAWR-bih-tuhnt
/ɪɡˈzɔɹbɪtənt/ig-ZAWR-bih-tuhnt
Meaninggoing out of the track
Common meaning: far too high in price
- exout
- orbita circle, ringLewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), p. 1275 · scan
- antadjective ending: being
‘out’ + ‘a circle, ring’ → exorbitant
Journey through time
- Latinexorbitare‘to go out of the track’source
- Englishexorbitant‘far too high in price’ · 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
- UK IPA: converted from the US form by rule (unchecked). Respelling: generated.
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- US IPA: CMUdict (BSD-2), converted to IPA by rule. Respelling: generated.
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Origin: Built on Latin orbis ‘a circle, ring’.
Roots
- orbis, -is Latin “a circle, ring”
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