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Sancta
is always a great word to know.
So is ort. Does it mean:
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
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Word Origin & History
sanctum
1577, from L. sanctum "a holy place," as in L.L. sanctum sanctorum "holy of holies" (from Gk. to hagion ton hagion, from Heb. qodesh haqqodashim), from neut. of sanctus "holy" (see saint). In Eng., sanctum sanctorum attested from c.1400; sense of "a person's private retreat" is from 1706.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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