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.

 

Inverted

 

Definition: “turned upside down or reversed in position.”  

Origin/Derivation:  From the Latin stems in- meaning “inward” and verto, versum meaning “to turn”.

Related Words:  introverted, extrovert, inverse, adversity, advertisement, convert, divert, diversion, controversy, anniversary, university, etc.
 

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

 

Trivia Question of the Week:

Name the last 7 Vice Presidents of the United States of America.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Answer:

JD Vance, Kamala Harris, Mike Pence, Joe Biden, Dick Cheney, Al Gore, Dan Quayle