dromus
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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.
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Definition of dromus
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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(alt-of, alternative, especially)Alternative form of dromos.
“...the standard volume of the apet was secured in the dromus of Anubis at Memphis...”
“As a point of departure I shall take Strabo's description of the Egyptian temple. The particular example which he takes is the long since destroyed temple of Re-Harmachis at Heliopolis; but it is evident that the account is intended to serve as a general description... "...This is called the dromus, or avenue, and the word is so used by Callimachus when he says, 'This is the holy avenue of Anubis.'"”
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Etymology
From Latin dromus, from Ancient Greek δρόμος (drómos, “running; racetrack; walkway”). Principally used in English in reference to structures mentioned in the Latin translation of Strabo's Geography.
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