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. 

 

Au Revoir

 

Definition:  “Goodbye for now.”

Origin/Derivation: From the French au meaning “to the” and revoir meaning “to see again, see in turn” which in turn comes from the Latin verb video, videre, visi, visum meaning “to see” (All information is from www.wikipedia.org, www.etymonline.com and/or www.dictionary.com).

Related Words:  voyeur, survey, deja vu

 

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

 

 

 

 

Trivia Question of the Week:

What is the name of Bill Murray’s character in Caddyshack?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ANSWER:

Carl Spackler