banausic
pronunciation
How to pronounce banausic in British English:
UK [bə'nɔ:zɪk]
How to pronounce banausic in American English:
US [bə'nɔzɪk]
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- Adjective:
- (formal) ordinary and not refined
Word Origin
- banausic (adj.)
- "merely mechanical," coined 1845 from Greek banausikos "pertaining to mechanics," from banausos "artisan, mere mechanical," hence (to the Greeks) "base, ignoble;" perhaps literally "working by fire," from baunos "furnace, forge" (but Klein dismisses this as folk etymology and calls it "of uncertain origin").