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.
Mortgage
Definition: “The conveyance of an interest in real property as security for the repayment of money borrowed to buy the property.”
Origin/Derivation: From the French words mort meaning “dead” and gage meaning “pledge”.
Related Words: mortal, immortal, mortify, amortize, morbid, mortar, mortuary, post-mortem, remorse; wage
(All information is from www.wikipedia.org, www.etymonline.com and/or www.dictionary.com)
Trivia Question of the Week:
What grassland/ecosystem - home to the Great Migration - is mentioned in the lyrics of the 1982 Toto song “Africa”?
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Answer:
The Serengeti
NOTE: this same song, a Yacht Rock staple, also mentions Mount Kilimanjaro - thus making it a Geography teacher’s dream!