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  1. Verbum Hodiernum: lupus, lupī m. "wolf" You have to love a language with the luxury of both simple Anglo-Saxon and fancy Latinate terms. about 5 hours ago from web
  2. RT @LocutusOfBIYF gets it: "Boys becoming men, men becoming wolves." (http://bit.ly/2BGs0F) Apologies to those outside the US! Hence... about 5 hours ago from web
  3. Virtue, Latin 'virtus', is 'manliness', i.e., behavior befitting an adult male. Speaking of virtuality, compliments on your new avatar, TL! about 6 hours ago from web
  4. Re: 'vir' I can't outdo @TLockyer RT: "virile -ity; and a triumvirate of words from Latin "virtus" : virtue -ous, virtual, virtuoso." about 6 hours ago from web
  5. Verbum Hodiernum: vir, virī m. "man, male human" And the boy becomes the man. Or something like that. Derivatives? 12:59 PM Dec 4th from web
  6. Did I say the raising of culture? Mea cūlpa! The raising of children, of course. Not a word used much in American English, I believe. 12:58 PM Dec 4th from web
  7. Childhood can also be called puerice, though probably only if you live in the 1600s. Puericulture, the raising of culture, is still used. 9:54 AM Dec 4th from web
  8. But thanks to @TLockyer I now know puerperium, the period after childbirth, with the adjectives puerperial/puerperal/puerperous. New words! 9:51 AM Dec 4th from web
  9. From 'puer': Well, I knew puerile "childish (in a negative sense, usually)" and puerility/puerilism "childishness (ditto) or childhood"... 9:45 AM Dec 4th from web
  10. Verbum Hodiernum: puer, puerī m. "boy, child" After a lot of quite productive words how about one that's much less so? There are a couple... 7:37 AM Dec 2nd from web
  11. It is part of a common royal formula that X is king/queen/emperor of Y "by the grace of god" Latinists will note the proper word order! 9:54 PM Dec 1st from web
  12. @TLockyer reminds us that D G (deī grātiā) is/was familiar to folks in the UK and Commonwealth countries due to its presence on coinage... 9:50 PM Dec 1st from web
  13. The Latin can also mean 'sake' as in MGM's motto 'ars grātiā artis' (better written 'artis grātiā ars') "art for the sake of art". Roar! 9:43 PM Dec 1st from web
  14. RT @TLockyer "To try to gain favour is to ingratiate; to share in someone else's pleasure to congratulate, pleasure gratification." Indeed! 9:37 PM Dec 1st from web
  15. A few more from @TLockyer: RT "Something given free (as a favor) is gratis, the superfluous is gratuitous, a discretionary gift a gratuity." 9:33 PM Dec 1st from web
  16. The dependable @TLockyer adds other "thanks" forms: RT "grateful, (in)gratitude, ingrate (& obsolete "grate")." But not the verb 'grate'! 9:30 PM Dec 1st from web
  17. In Latin it's also used for "thanks", the plural, as in "to give thanks". That's why the Spanish 'gracias' & Italian 'grazie' are plural. 9:23 PM Dec 1st from web
  18. "Grace" can have so many meanings-both as noun and verb-with differing amounts of the 3 major senses of 'grātia': goodwill, favor, & charm. 9:21 PM Dec 1st from web
  19. RT @gregvoigt "I agree to grace your tweet-zone & gratify your quest for graceful words that come from gratis even if they seem gratuitous." 9:14 PM Dec 1st from web
  20. Goodness gracious! What a holiday! So many derivatives of 'grātia' to be grateful for, and with some many different senses... 9:11 PM Dec 1st from web
  • Name Dave Oosterhuis
  • Location Minneapolis, Minnesota
  • Bio Salvē! I'm a Latinist in the American Midwest quizzing you on Latin words and their English derivatives every day (or so).
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