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celerity

[suh-ler-i-tee] Origin

ce·ler·i·ty

[suh-ler-i-tee]
noun
swiftness; speed.

Origin:
1480–90; earlier celerite < Middle French < Latin celeritās, equivalent to celer swift + -itās -ity


alacrity, dispatch, briskness. See speed.

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Celerity is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a fool or simpleton; ninny.
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celerity (sɪˈlɛrɪtɪ)
 
n
rapidity; swiftness; speed
 
[C15: from Old French celerite, from Latin celeritās, from celer swift]

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celerity
late 15c., from M.Fr. célérité, from L. celeritatem (nom. celeritas), from celer "swift," from PIE base *kel- "to drive, set in swift motion" (cf. Skt. carati "goes," Gk. keles "fast horse or ship," keleuthos "journey, road," Lith. sulys "a gallop," O.H.G. scelo "stallion").
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