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CIPOLIN
Definition of CIPOLIN
noun
A white-green wavy-banded form of marble, used in buildings in Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome. It consists of coloured veins of epidote and chlorite.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Italian cipollino (“a little onion”), from cipolla (“onion”) (compare English cibol). So called because its veins consist, like onions, of different strata, one lying upon another.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Italian
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
10th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
2%
of traced words share this origin (576)
branch · 15.4% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, CIPOLIN · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
CIPOLIN in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 3 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 118, 15 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 32 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 87, 15 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CIPOLIN starts with C and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read CIILNOP - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Could you have found CIPOLIN?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 72 - and most players walked straight past it.
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