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-news.  Here, then, is this week’s edition of the Etymology Word of the Week.  

Redemption

Definition: “the act of atoning for guilt; salvation; recovery by payment, as of something pledged.” 

Origin/Derivation: From the Latin stems re- meaning “back, again” and emo, emere, emi, emptum meaning “to buy”. 

Related Words: redeem, exempt, pre-empt (BUT NOT: empire)

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

Trivia Question of the Week:

What 5 NHL teams have nicknames that do not end in “-S”?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ANSWER:

Lightning

Wild

Avalanche

Kraken

Mammoth