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.
Motivate
Definition: “To provide with a motive or a cause or reason to act; to impel.”
Origin/Derivation: From the Latin moveo, movere, movi, motum meaning "to move, impel."
Related Words/Phrases: motion, emotion, promotion, commotion, motor, automotive, locomotive, remote, remove, motif, leitmotif, and mutiny!
(All information is from www.wikipedia.org, www.etymonline.com and/or www.dictionary.com)
“Old Saw” of the Week:
See if you can “complete the phrase” of this time-worn (but true!) adage:
“Misery loves…”
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...company.”