by Dwane | Jun 7, 2023 | Education, English, Vocabulary
Antediluvian Antediluvian is a word we use to describe the period before the Flood described in the book of Genesis. Ur, for example, was a city in antediluvian times. We also use antediluvian as an adjective to describe something hopelessly old-fashioned. For...
by Dwane | May 15, 2023 | Education, English, Vocabulary
Eucharist: the Christian sacrament of Holy Communion, the bread and wine used in Holy Communion. This word made its way into English after a long journey through Greek, Latin, and French. In Old French, Eucharist was eucariste. Before that, in Latin, it was...
by Dwane | May 12, 2023 | Education, English, Vocabulary
Eucatastrophe: a sudden turn of events for good. Eucatastrophe happens when all seems lost, and at the last moment, all is saved. J.R.R. Tolkien came up with this word. He combined the Greek prefix eu (good) with catastrophe. In one of his essays, he called the...
by Dwane | May 11, 2023 | Education, English, Vocabulary
Ignite: to start a fire, to light up. In a Latin class today, we learned the Latin word for fire, ignis. From ignis, English derives the words ignite (to start a fire), ignition (this is why some grandpa’s ‘fire’ up the truck), igneous (rock formed via intense, fiery...
by Dwane | Apr 14, 2023 | Education, Latin, Visual Latin
I received this question a few days ago: Hi. I got the Bible.is app. I’ve memorized part of John 1 with Classical Conversations. The version you like has a few differences in pronunciation. We say ‘prin-kip-io”. The app says...
by Dwane | Mar 27, 2023 | Education, Vocabulary
Voilà came up in class this morning as we were reading through Le Français par la Métode Nature. Voilà is a French expression meaning “Here it is”, “See there” or “Look there”. Ultimately, voilà derives from Latin videre (to see)...
