Notoriously

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Notorious means "obvious, generally known". The word is often used to mean "habitual, notorious".

In the 15th century it is first used in the form notori (from Latin nōtōrius , a further training to nōtus , "known"); then notorious in the form since the 17th century .

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Wiktionary: notorious  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

  1. Knaur - The German Dictionary. Lexigraphical Institute Munich, 1985, page 705.
  2. Notōrisch , In: Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon. Volume 14. Leipzig 1908, pp. 818-819.
  3. ^ Friedrich Kluge: Etymological dictionary of the German language. De Gruyter, Berlin 1999, 23rd edition, page 592.