Etymology Quotes
6 quotes by 6 authors
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Etymology: from Latin ad-, "to" + visum, past participle of videre, "to see". Advice is what you get from your parents when you are growing…
— Evan Esar
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The word ‘sin’ is derived from the Indo-European root ‘es-,’ meaning ‘to be.’ When I discovered this etymology, I intuitively understood that for a [person]…
— Mary Daly
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Do not lose your enthusiasm. In its Greek etymology, the word enthusiasm means, "God in us."
— Ken Burns
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Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust…
— Salman Rushdie
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The universal principle of etymology in all languages: words are carried over from bodies and from the properties of bodies to express the things of…
— Giambattista Vico
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Prayer or not, I want to believe that, despite all evidence to the contrary, it is possible for anyone to find that one special person.…
— Rachel Cohn
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