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 Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2006 6:18 pm
All that about cynicism is interesting. I remember someone telling me that he's one of the most cynical people you'll ever meet. Now THAT would be good to tell him. xp
How about this one?
Omnibenevolence:
omni - coming from omnis for "all"
benevolence - from benevolentia for "good feeling"
"All good"
I mentioned this word to a friend and she didn't even know what it meant. sweatdrop
I remember the one time when no one in my chemistry class knew what the teacher meant by "aquaria". Apparently, they didn't know that the word aquarium came from the Latin word for "source of water" and therefore has a Latin plural. The teacher complained about how the class hasn't been learning their Latin. xd I think some of them might actually have done Latin in previous years, while I didn't even have the chance to learn Latin and yet I knew that.
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Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2006 7:43 pm
Benevolentia itself would come from the prefix bene meaning 'good' (well, actually it's an adverb when used by itself, so 'well' would be more accurate) and volo, velle, volui, - which means 'wish.'
So, good wishes would be a more accurate translation.
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Posted: Sun May 14, 2006 5:25 am
At my school, the Latin- and Greek teachers once took a front page of a (Dutch) newspaper, and started marking ALL words that were based on words from the Greek or Latin language.
Almost all words were green when they had finished (they used green markers).
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Posted: Wed Jun 14, 2006 5:48 pm
lets see. Peninsula comes from paene insula or "Almost island".
convoke comes from convoco ot "to call together"
I think 60% of English comes from Latin and almost all of Spanish, Italian, french, Portuguese, adn Rumanian come from Latin.
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Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 9:16 am
Proudly_Jewish Here's one that's really fascinating (in my opinion anyway): draco - dragon And of course, we know that in stories, dragons are vile, vicious creatures.... that's why people or things who are said to draconian are dragon-like, aka vile, cruel, etc razz There was actually some Roman guy who was named Draco and he was extremely harsh so the adjective Draconian comes from him and doesn't have to do with dragons. I'm shaky about most of the dates but I think he was Roman.
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Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 9:18 am
The MoUsY spell-checker How about this one? Omnibenevolence: omni - coming from omnis for "all" benevolence - from benevolentia for "good feeling" "All good" You can actually break down benevolence, not into benevolentia but bene = well volo = to wish ergo to wish well
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Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 1:54 pm
AlexofSyrr I think 60% of English comes from Latin and almost all of Spanish, Italian, french, Portuguese, adn Rumanian come from Latin. I've heard that it's more like 51% percent of English, according to my Latin teachers. Hmm. I must use my studies of Latin to find some good words.... Coagulate-- comes from cogo, cogere, coegi, coactum meaning "gather together." Puerile-- from puer, "boy." Histrionic--from histrio, histronis meaning "actor." Ego--from the nominative of the fist person pronoun "I" Id--from the neuter singular of is, a third person pronoun. Pugnacious-- from pugno, pugnare, pugnavi, pugnatum meaning "fight" Jocular--from ioculor, ioculari, ioculatus sum meaning "joke, say in jest" Juvenile--from iuvenalis, iuvenale meaning "youthful". Interestingly enough, Juvenal was the name of a Roman satirist.
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Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 3:27 pm
here's one
Procrastinator
Pro_- forward/ for
_cras_- tomorow
_tinait_- um, not exactly sure about this one sweatdrop
_or- one who
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Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2007 3:46 pm
Defenestrate
De=out of
fenes=window
Defenestrate= to throw some/something out the window
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Circumambulate
Circum=circle
ambulo, ambulare=to walk
Circumambulate=to walk in circles
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Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 8:17 pm
I actually had a class exactly like this in college. We learned Latin and Greek roots for words in English. We got to break down words every Tuesday and Thursday. It was great fun.
I found Occident and Orient to be amusing words.
Occident has to do with falling (cid - to fall), so it means where the sun 'falls', or the West.
Orient has to do with rising (I don't remember how it's broken down sweatdrop ) so it became associated with the East, where the sun rises.
I don't actually have my textbook with me anymore, but I would look it up if I did.
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Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 9:32 pm
kingmorgant Proudly_Jewish Here's one that's really fascinating (in my opinion anyway): draco - dragon And of course, we know that in stories, dragons are vile, vicious creatures.... that's why people or things who are said to draconian are dragon-like, aka vile, cruel, etc razz There was actually some Roman guy who was named Draco and he was extremely harsh so the adjective Draconian comes from him and doesn't have to do with dragons. I'm shaky about most of the dates but I think he was Roman. I thought it had to do something with Sparta... Though I may be confused with Laconic, with comes from another name for Sparta, Laceadaemon, or something. Laconic = using few words. EDIT: Op! Yeah, I think you're right. I remember reading in history about some guy named Draco.
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