vulnerary /VUL-nuh-rair-ee/ - used for or useful in healing wounds
After a day off for a familiar noun that has a historical reason for my initial thought that it looks like an adjective, we have another new word-of-the-day today. I recognized its link to "vulnerable" right away, as the author expected, and will need to remember that the "ary" indicates merely a connection to the root. I hope I'll never need to remember which one comes from vulnerarius and which from vulnerare, as I doubt I could keep them straight.
I wonder if this adjective is ever used figuratively, as in vulnerary words which heal the wounded spirit?
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