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LAPIDARY
Definition of LAPIDARY
noun
A person who cuts and polishes, engraves, or deals in gems and precious stones.
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Where it comes from
The noun is derived from Middle English lapidari, lapidarie (“person who cuts, polishes, or engraves precious stones; expert in precious stones; treatise on precious stones”) [and other forms], from Old French lapidaire (“gemsmith, lapidary”) (modern French lapidaire), or from its etymon Latin lapidārius (“(adjective) of stones, stony; (noun) stonecutter”), from lapidis (the genitive singular of lapis (“stone; (poetic) jewel, precious stone”), possibly from Pre-Greek or Proto-Indo-European *lep- (“to peel”)) + -ārius (suffix forming adjectives). Noun senses 3.2 (“jewellery”) and 3.3 (“treatise on precious stones”) are derived from Latin lapidāria or lapidārium, a noun use of the neuter plural or genitive plural respectively of lapidāris (“of stone”, adjective), from lapidis (the genitive singular of lapis; see above) + -āris (suffix forming adjectives). The stone-referent adjective is either: Adjective sense 6 (“succint”) is by metaphor: the speaker or writer has cut and polished their locution, as it were.
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Word DNA
Line of descent
5 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
40th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
0.1%
of traced words share this origin (43)
branch · 0.7% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, LAPIDARY · 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.
LAPIDARY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 51 boards so far. 217 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 26, 15 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 144, 11 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First found by a player on Day 26, 15 June 2026.
Built from these letters
LAPIDARY starts with L and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read AADILPRY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Words that start LAPIDA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 26
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