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.

 

Anonymous

 

Definition: “without any name acknowledged, as that of an author, contributor or the like.” 

Origin/Derivation: From the Greek stems an- meaning “without” and onyma meaning “name”. 

Related Words:  AN - anaerobic, anarchy, anemia, anesthesia, anomaly, anorexia, anodyne; ONYM - synonym, antonym, pseudonym, eponymous (something named after itself), acronym, homonym, metonymy

 

 

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

 

Trivia Question of the Week:

Although the French sculptor Frederic Auguste Bartholdi designed the Statue of Liberty, its metal framework was built by what famous French civil engineer?  

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Answer:

Gustave Eiffel, of Eiffel Tower fame