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.  

 

Admit

 

Definition: “To allow to enter; to grant or afford entrance to (as in a college or high school); to allow or concede as valid; to acknowledge or confess (as in guilt).” 

Origin/Derivation: From the Latin preposition ad meaning “to, toward” and the Latin verb mitto, mittere, misi, missum meaning “to send, let go” (All information is from www.wikipedia.org, www.etymonline.com and/or www.dictionary.com).

Related Words: permit, permission, commit, commission, submit, submission, transmit, transmission, intermission, remit, remission, dismiss, manumission, omit, omission, emit, emission, mission, missionary, intermittent (as in windshield wipers)

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

Trivia Question of the Week:

What are the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ANSWER:

Colossus of Rhodes

Hanging Gardens of Babylon

Great Pyramid of Giza (tomb of Cheops)

Temple of Artemis (at Ephesus)

Statue of Zeus (at Olympia)

Lighthouse of Alexandria

Mausoleum at Halicarnassus