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Etymology Word of the Week

Director of Admissions Pat O'Rourke '90, a self-proclaimed "word nerd," brings you his Etymology Word of the Week. Every other week he presents an online Etymology lesson just for fun!

Etymology Word of the Week – As some of you know, in addition to working in the Admissions Office, I also teach Latin at Saint Ignatius and am something of a "word nerd."  Thus, each week, I’ll sneak a vocabulary word (sometimes derived from Latin, sometimes not) into the e-blast.  Here then is this week’s edition of the Etymology Word of the Week.

Monument

Definition: “A building, pillar, status, or the like erected in memory of a person, event, etc.”

Origin/Derivation:  From the Latin verb moneo, monere, monui, monitum meaning “to warn, to remind”.

Related Words: admonish, demonstrate, monitor, premonition 

 

 


(All information is from www.wikipedia.org, www.etymonline.com and/or www.dictionary.com)


NEW! Trivia Question of the Week:

What were the names of Alexandre Dumas’ “Three Musketeers”?  BONUS: What was the name of their young protege? 
 

 


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Answer:
Athos, Porthos, and Aramis (Bonus: D’Artagnan)