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GARUM
Definition of GARUM
noun
A fermented fish sauce popular as a condiment in Ancient Rome.
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Other senses
GARUM carries 3 further meanings.
noun
A fish-sauce much prized by the ancients, made of small fish preserved in a certain kind of pickle; also, a pickle prepared from the gills or the blood of the tunny.
noun
A sauce made of small fish. It was prized by the ancients.
noun
A fish sauce popular in Ancient Rome.
Where it comes from
From Latin garum, from Ancient Greek γάρον (gáron, “the fish whose intestines were originally used in the condiment's production”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Ancient Greek
- Latin
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
2nd
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
12.6%
of traced words share this origin (3,695)
branch · 12.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, GARUM · 1 relative in the game
GARUM in a sentence
“Nowadays everyone eats it, every day, on everything -- or at least they eat something they call garum, whether it's worthy of the name or not.”
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
GARUM in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 52 boards so far. 129 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 30, 19 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 147, 14 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 30, 19 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
GARUM starts with G and ends with M. Sorted, its letters read AGMRU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Could you have found GARUM?
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 30 - and most players walked straight past it.
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