vicissitude
Pronunciation: /vɪˈsɪs.ɪˌt(j)uːd/
The English word “vicissitude” has 2 meanings listed here.
noun
- Regular change or succession from one thing to another, or one part of a cycle to the next; alternation; mutual succession; interchange; variability.
- A change, especially in one's life or fortunes.
Etymology
From Middle French vicissitude, from Latin vicissitūdō (“change”), from vicissim (“on the other hand, in turn”), from vicis (“change, vicissitude”), whence Portuguese vez and French fois (“time (as in "next time"), occurrence”).
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More English words
- vicious intromission
- viciously
- viciousness
- vicissitous
- vicissitudinal
- vicissitudinary
- vicissitudinous
- vicissitudinously
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