Is this a word?

This has to be a word. I cannot get any search engine to spellcheck it right or dictionary site to correct me.

Is this a word or close to a real word? If so what does it mean and how do is it really spelled?

 

Dictionary.com

Calagstine - no dictionary results

I have no idea what that word is.

 

Exactly! Why has it been in my head for so long! It must be close to a word that is real. The way I have spelled it is just how I remember it sounding.

 

What do you think it means?

 

Well damn, ran it through Google and Yahoo. No dice.

You, sir, have made a new word. Congrats! What would you like it to mean?

 

I will have to think about how to put the definition into words... hmmmm....

When I think of it I think of mid-evil times. Something dingy, mossy, worn, underlit.

 

Well, when I see it and say it in my head, two things appear:

1) The name of a fantasy city/character.

2) A name used in Roman times.

 

do you mean medieval times?

I have no clue what your mystery word is.

 

I think of a cave boner. Stalagmite?

 

This is probably why my friends have me make up words and definitions of words for them for fun. They are real in my mind!

Yes, it sounds like a city and roman like name. Not sure how I'll use it yet. But probably will for fun.

 

Did you mean Clandestine?

 

That is fitting with what I think of

 

Well, the internet doesn't know what it is.

Honestly, I think it's a made-up word. You probably misspelled another word and now your brain is saying this was the word you intended to write.

EDIT: I think losthawken has it right.

 

THERE IT IS! Thank You!

 

Woo Hoo!! *Counts invisible point in the air*

 

Make sure you understand the definition.

 

Oops, didn't read second page.

 

I might be a slightly mad individual but I saw your word as Cal-Ag-stine which, if you break it down becomes Calcium Silver followed by... stine.

I checked the etymology of the word clandestine to try and find out how it the the '-stine' at the end of it and apparently it comes from 'intestine' and could mean 'internal'.

So we have internal Calcium Silver.

I googled that and found references to calcium-silver batteries which one of the sites advertised as 'Calcium-silver technology delivers inexhaustible power reserves to meet any challenge'.

And now we have internal, inexhaustible energy.

Hmmm, I think I'll swap the 'might be' to 'am' in my first sentence...

 

Sounds similar to Caligula.

 

It may have come from an old inside joke with a friend. Start asking around?

 

Maybe?

Stygian- 1. of or pertaining to the river Styx or to Hades. 2.dark or gloomy. 3.infernal; hellish.

 

Great post

I like your logic, it makes "Calagstine" sound like a commercial product - maybe batteries for pacemakers or artificial organs or something