среда, 30 мая 2012 г.
Words That Come from "Mother"
#1: Metropolis
Nowadays, it refers to a large city —
particularly an important one.
In ancient Greece,metropolis referred to the mother city of a
colony.
(Corinth, for example, was the metropolis
of Syracuse.)
Metropolis comes from the Greek mētēr ("mother") +polis ("city").
#2: Matrix
Is matrix the mother of all terms?
Maybe not, but the term originates in the Latinmater, meaning
"mother."
The original (now-archaic) meaning of matrix was "uterus." Today the word
usually refers to a situation or set of conditions
in which something develops or forms.
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понедельник, 28 мая 2012 г.
Favourite Words From Foreign Languages
Many English words come from other languages, but this list highlights some of our favorites from non-Romance languages – i.e. they don't trace back to Latin – that sound almost the same in the original.
#1: Karaoke
Language of Origin: Japanese
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