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.
Incorrigible
Definition: “Bad beyond correction or reform; unruly; uncontrollable.”
Origin/Derivation: From the Latin prepositions in- meaning “not, opposite of” and com- (intensive) plus the Latin verb rego, regere, rexi, rectum meaning “to rule, to correct, to lead straight”.
Related Words/Phrases: regiment, regulate, rectify, rectangle, right
(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:
“Either I will find a way…
or I will make one.”
Caption: Quote by Hannibal Barca, Carthiginian general who famously crossed the Alps with elephants