词组 | vagary |
释义 | vagary Vagary is rather an odd word, in that the ending -ary, which certainly looks like a suffix, does not go back to Latin -arius (-arium, -aria), as in apothecary, seminary, and hundreds of other words. Rather the word appears to have been born as an unusual use of the Latin infinitive vagari "to wander." The second a is long in the Latin sourceword, and the traditional pronunciation \\\\vǝ-'ger-ē\\\\ accords with this fact. But the usual pronunciation now in America, and the one currently recommended in England, is \\\\vā-gǝ-rē\\\\ |
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