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.
Immortal
Definition: “Undying; not liable or subject to death; everlasting.”
Origin/Derivation: From the Latin preposition in which can mean "into, onto, in, on” but here means "not, opposite of" and the Latin adjective mortalis meaning "mortal", which comes from the Latin noun mors, mortis meaning "death".
Related Words: morbid, mortality, amortize, mortgage, mortify, mortuary, post-mortem, Voldemort, Le Morte d'Arthur
(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:
"One man's trash...”
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is another man's treasure.”