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.
Trident
Definition: “a three-pronged spear serving in Classical Mythology as the attribute of a sea god (such as Neptune).”
Origin/Derivation: From the Latin prefix tri- meaning “three” and the Latin noun dens, dentis meaning “tooth”.
Interesting Related Words: indent (originally meant “to furnish with teeth”; from there, it evolved into “to put a notch in” or “to give a serrated edge to”)
(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:
“Birds of a Feather..”
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flock together.”