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.
Resurrection
Definition: “The rising again of Christ after His death and burial.”
Origin/Derivation: From the Latin resurgere, resurrectum (“to rise again”), which is made up of the prefix re- meaning “again” and the verb surgo, surgere, surrexi, surrectum meaning “to surge, to rise”.
Related Words/Phrases: resurgent, insurgent, insurrection, sortie (military movement of troops/uprising), resource, Risorgimento (Italian political movement in the second half of the 19th century that resulted in its unification and ultimately its independence from Austria)
(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:
“Don’t hide your light…
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... under a bushel.”