by Dwane | Mar 27, 2015 | Ebook, Education, English, Italian, Latin, Vocabulary
Cavalry: Once upon a time, soldiers who fought on horseback. These days, soldiers who fight from armored vehicles. Cavalry made its way into the English language from French. The French word cavalerie likely came from Italian cavalleria. Naturally, cavalleria...
by Dwane | Mar 26, 2015 | Ebook, Education, English, Latin
Cavalier Well, this word is tricky. Better to begin with the etymology. Cavalier comes from the Latin word caballarius, meaning, a horseman. Caballarius derives from the Latin word for horse, caballus. Caballus is the common, Vulgar Latin word for horse. It...
by Dwane | Mar 26, 2015 | Ebook, Education, English, Greek, Vocabulary
Hippogriff: A fabulous animal or monster, half horse and half griffon. I have to be honest. I question their existence. In the Harry Potter series, Buckbeak is a hippogriff. The U.S. Air Force, 50th Space Wing uses a hippogriff as their symbol. The word comes from...
by Dwane | Mar 24, 2015 | Ebook, Education, English, Italian, Latin
Cavalcade: A procession of riders on horseback. Or, a cavalcade might also be a ceremonial procession, as in, a parade. Cavalcades no longer require horses. These days, a cavalcade could be a procession of vehicles, as in, “the presidential cavalcade.” Several years...
by Dwane | Mar 17, 2015 | Education, English, Latin, Visual Latin, Vocabulary
Do I need Visual Latin to use Word Up? Do you want to sound smart? Then listen to old Earl Nightingale, who once said, “Before you do anything else, master your language.” I have taught Latin and Greek for years. I know, from experience, that these languages will...
