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.
Feline
Definition: “Cat-like; of or belonging to a cat.”
Origin/Derivation: From the Latin feles, felis meaning "wild cat, cat, marten."
Related Words/Phrases: ovine (sheep), porcine (pigs), bovine (cows), canine (dogs), equine (horses), leonine (lions), lupine (wolves), piscine (fish), vulpine (foxes), serpentine (snakes), ursine (bears), and so on.
(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:
“A rising tide…”
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...Lifts all boats.”