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.
Mellifluous
Definition: “Sweet-sounding; flowing with honey; sweetly or smoothly flowing.”
Origin/Derivation: From the Latin noun mel, mellis meaning “honey” and the Latin verb fluo, fluere meaning “to flow”.
Related Words: influence, affluence, confluence, superfluous, fluent, fluid, flume; caramel, molasses, Melissa
(All information is from www.wikipedia.org, www.etymonline.com and/or www.dictionary.com)
Trivia Question of the Week:
What 4 NBA teams have nicknames that do not end in “-S”?
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Answer:
Oklahoma City Thunder
Miami Heat
Utah Jazz
Orlando Magic