Etymology Word of the Week

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.

Astronaut

Definition: “a person engaged in or trained for spaceflight.” 

Origin/Derivation: From the Greek noun aster meaning “a star” (or astron meaning “the stars”) and the Greek noun nautes meaning “sailor”.

Related Words:  ASTER/ASTRON - astral, astrophysics, astrology, astronomy, astrolabe, asterisk, asteroid, disaster(!); NAUTES - cosmonaut, juggernaut, Argonaut, aeronautics, nautical, nautilus, nausea

 

 

(All information is from www.wikipedia.org, www.etymonline.com and/or www.dictionary.com)

 

Trivia Question of the Week:

Name the 3 American astronauts who made up the crew of the Apollo 11 mission and who landed on the moon in July of 1969.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Answer:

Michael Collins (pilot)
Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin
Neil Armstrong