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FETIAL
Definition of FETIAL
noun
A member of the Roman college of priests who acted as representatives in disputes with foreign nations.
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Where it comes from
From Latin fētiālis (“priest who sanctioned treaties and demanded satisfaction from enemies before formal declarations of war”). The root of the Latin word is thought to be Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to do, place, put”), also the source of the verb Latin faciō (“to do; to build, construct; to appoint”). The nominalized form of this verb, Proto-Indo-European *dʰéh₁tis (“act of putting, placement”), would have developed into an Italic noun *fētis (unattested, but conjectured to mean something like "statute, treaty" or "prescription, law", developing to mean "body of priests"), which was combined with the adjective-forming suffix -ālis to yield Latin fētiālis. The unadapted Latin forms fetialis (singular) and fetiales (plural) are also used in English, sometimes with italicization, sometimes without.
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
FETIAL in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 4 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 37, 26 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 104, 1 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 7 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 37, 26 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
FETIAL starts with F and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read AEFILT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start FETIAL
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 37
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