by Dwane | Nov 6, 2015 | Latin, Q&A, Visual Latin
Yesterday, while I was teaching, I received this email. What does ‘agere’ mean? That was it. I knew immediately what the student was struggling with. After all, this word is one of the early tripwires in an online Latin course that I teach. It is now Saturday...
by Dwane | Mar 2, 2015 | Education, English, Latin, Vocabulary
Abeyance: a temporary halt, a temporary suspension. A temporary period of disuse. Abeyance shows up in English for the first time in 1528. Initially, it has a legal meaning. This makes sense. After all, the word comes from the old French word abeiance. The French...
