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.  

 

Nativity

 

Definition:  “Feast day celebrating the birth of Christ; or, a representation of the birth of Christ, as in art.”

Origin/Derivation: From the Latin adjective nativus meaning “born, native” which is derived from the Latin verb nascor, nasci, natus (or gnatus) meaning “to be born”.

Related Words: neonatal, naive, natural, innate

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

 

 

 

 

 

Trivia Question of the Week:

Who were the 3 men who comprised the “First Triumvirate” of Rome

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ANSWER:

Pompey, Crassus, and Julius Caesar