Etymology Word of the Week
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.
Occident
Definition: “The West; the countries of Europe and America; the opposite of the Orient (the East); somewhat synonymous with Christendom.”
Origin/Derivation: From the Latin preposition ob meaning “to, toward” and the Latin verb cado, cadere, cecidi, casum meaning “to fall down, go down” (All information is from www.wikipedia.org, www.etymonline.com and/or www.dictionary.com).
Related Words: occasion, accident, cadaver, cadence, cascade, casualty, coincidence, decadence, deciduous, incident, recidivism
(All information is from www.wikipedia.org, www.etymonline.com and/or www.dictionary.com)
Trivia Question of the Week:
What 9 MLB players hit more than 600 home runs in their careers (hint: all of them are now retired)?
ANSWER:
Barry Bonds 762
Hank Aaron 755
Babe Ruth 714
Albert Pujols 703
Alex Rodriguez 696
Willie Mays 660
Ken Griffey, Jr. 630
Jim Thome 612
Sammy Sosa 609