The suffix 'naut' comes from the Greek and Latin words for ships and sailing. Astronaut suggests 'a sailor in space.' Chimponaut suggests… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
“Here are three elements we often see in town names: If a town ends in “-by”, it was originally a farmstead or… — David Crystal Copy Share Image
“Let us look a little more closely at what is implied by change. It means that the being which is subject to… — Frank Sheed Copy Share Image
“...I threw out all those Latin words - the ones that end in 'ion' - the ones that never quite describe you...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“that circular loop was fatal. Patsy giving them their Latin name, herpes zoster, describing how the pain attacked the line of the… — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
The word comfort is from two Latin words meaning “with” and “strong” – He is with us to make us strong. Comfort… — Amy Carmichael Copy Share Image
The inflated style is itself a kind of euphemism. A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
It is worth the expense of youthful days and costly hours, if you learn only some words of an ancient language, which… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“For much of my life I was not acquainted with what may seem the obscure derivation of the adjective 'sincere.' It is… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
“The main thing that distinguishes mealtimes with Jesus, as Conrad Gempf has shown, from the meals of his contemporaries are four verbs.[44]… — Leonard Sweet Copy Share Image
“In our profession, we tend to name things exactly as we see them. Big red stars we call red giants. Small white… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outlines and covering up the details...” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Admiral Nelson won the great Battle of Trafalgar against the French during the Napoleonic Wars. The Viscount of Camperdown, who also won… — J. Ligon Duncan III Copy Share Image
“Greeks and Romans were anti-Mediterranean cultures, in the sense of being at odds with much of the political heritages of Persia, Egypt, and… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
“The word ‘equinox’ simply means ‘of equal length’ and refers to the twelve hours of daylight and twelve hours of darkness at… — Carole Carlton Copy Share Image
The Latin words humus, soil/earth, and homo, human being, have a common derivation, from which we also get our word 'humble.' This… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I loved those Latin words for their dignity, their foreignness, and the way my tongue had to wrap around them. I felt… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
“I knew that iridium-193 was one of two stable isotopes of iridium, a very rare, very dense metal, but I didn't know… — Gavin Extence Copy Share Image
“What a curious man you are!’ she said. ‘Why should you disbelieve the history?’ ‘I disbelieve the history because it isn’t history,’… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The word 'comfort' comes from the Latin words for 'with' and 'strength' and originally meant operating from a position of power. — Joseph Chilton Pearce Copy Share Image
“Mediocrity doesn’t always mean underperforming—it’s a sliding scale and a state of mind. It means settling in and succumbing to stasis. Mediocrity… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outline and covering up all the details. The… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The word compassion is derived from the Latin words pati and cum, meaning “to suffer with.” — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
