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Yes. The word lituus is a Scrabble US word. The word lituus is worth 6 points in Scrabble:

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Yes. The word lituus is a Scrabble UK word and has 6 points:

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6-letter words (1 found)

LITUUS,

5-letter words (2 found)

SLUIT,TULSI,

4-letter words (15 found)

LIST,LITS,LITU,LUIT,LUST,SILT,SLIT,SLUT,SUIT,SULU,TILS,TUIS,ULUS,UTIS,UTUS,

3-letter words (11 found)

ITS,LIS,LIT,SIT,SUI,TIL,TIS,TUI,ULU,UTS,UTU,

2-letter words (8 found)

IS,IT,LI,SI,ST,TI,US,UT,

You can make 37 words from lituus according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of lituus

lituus

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Latin lituus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈlɪtju.əs/

Noun

lituus (plural litui)

  1. A military trumpet.
    • 1786: Fig. 3. A Roman Lituus, or military trumpet, such as is mentioned by Horace in his first ode. — Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page vi.
  2. An augur's staff with a recurved top.
  3. (geometry) A curve with polar equation r 2 θ = a 2 {\displaystyle r^{2}\theta =a^{2}} , where a is a constant.

Related terms

  • lituate
  • lituiform

Further reading

  • Mathworld article on the geometrical lituus

Latin

Etymology

From Etruscan or from Proto-Indo-European *(e)lAi- (“to bend”). Compare English lith and German Glied (“limb”).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈli.tu.us/, [ˈlʲɪt̪uʊs̠]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈli.tu.us/, [ˈliːt̪uːs]

Noun

lituus m (genitive lituī); second declension

  1. a military trumpet
  2. a curved staff

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Derived terms

  • liticen

References

  • “lituus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “lituus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • lituus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “lituus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “lituus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Latin lituus.

Noun

lituus n (plural lituusuri)

  1. lituus

Declension

References

  • lituus in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

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