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.  

 

Quadruped

 

Definition: “An animal, especially a mammal, that has all four limbs specialized for walking.” 

Origin/Derivation: From the Latin stem quadri- meaning “four” and the Latin noun pes, pedis meaning “foot” (All information is from www.wikipedia.org, www.etymonline.com and/or www.dictionary.com).

Related Words: biped (2-footed animal), pinniped (animal like a seal with fins or flippers), centipede, millipede, gastropod, octopus, pedestrian, etc, etc

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

 

 

 

Trivia Question of the Week:

In what South American country was “Jonestown” located?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ANSWER:

Guyana