ʃəl adjective
concerned with declarations of war and treaties of peace: fetial law.
Origin:
1525–35; < Latin fētiālis pertaining to a fētiālis, a member of the Roman college of priests who acted as representatives in disputes with foreign nations
1525–35; < Latin fētiālis pertaining to a fētiālis, a member of the Roman college of priests who acted as representatives in disputes with foreign nations
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| —n , pl fetiales | |
| 1. | (in ancient Rome) any of the 20 priestly heralds involved in declarations of war and in peace negotiations |
| —adj | |
| 2. | of or relating to the fetiales |
| 3. | a less common word for heraldic |
| [C16: from Latin fētiālis, probably from Old Latin fētis treaty] | |
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Fetial
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| the offspring of a zebra and a donkey. |
| 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. |
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