Contextualizebeta

suppletory

noun

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin suppletorius.

  1. borrowed from suppletorius

Definitions

  1. A source of supply.

    • Invent suppletories to excuse an evil man.

  2. A supplement.

  3. Making up for deficiencies

    Making up for deficiencies; supplementary.

    • a suppletory oath

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for suppletory. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA