audacious
aw-DAY-shuss · adjective
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Origin
From Latin audacia ("boldness") plus the suffix -ious, with audacia itself coming from audax ("bold"), rooted in the verb audeo ("to be bold, to dare").
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Journey
The word has stayed tied to its root sense of boldness from audeo through audax and audacia into English.
Related words
It shares its root audeo with audax, the Latin word for "bold" that gave audacious its backbone.
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