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Etymologizing a TON of everyday words - From connected to conjugate to decline to nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, and ablative!
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Con + tempor + ary - “with” + “tempor, temporis”
“With the times”
- Google: refers to one who lives at the same time as another
(Contemporaneous)
Con + nect - “with” + “nectere = to bind”
“To bind together with”
Con + templ + lation + “with” + “templatum = surveyed, observed”
- "reflect upon, ponder, study, view mentally, meditate," from Latin contemplatus, past participle of contemplari "to gaze attentively, observe; consider, contemplate," originally "to mark out a space for observation"
Tempo - the speed at which a passage of music is or should be played.
(Tempor)
Co + habitation =
(habito, habitare - “to live/ to live and/or have a home”)
- “To live together with”
Co + labor + ate = “to work together/with”
Con + solidate = to bring together with
(solidatum= to make solid/ bring together)
- "to combine into one body," from Latin consolidatus, past participle of consolidare "to make solid," from assimilated form of com "with, together" + solidare "to make solid," from solidus "firm, whole, undivided, entire,"
Con + done = “give with/together”
“With” + “gift”
- from assimilated form of com- (with) + donare "give as a gift," from donum "gift"
Solidarity = support or sympathy
“Solidatum” - to make solid/ bring together
Conjugate = “con” + “jungo” + “ate”
- “Action of joining together/with”
- in the grammatical sense, "inflect (a verb) through all its various forms," from Latin coniugatus, past participle of coniugare "to yoke together," from assimilated form of com "with, together" + iugare "to join," from iugum "yoke". "This use has its origin in the fact that in inflected languages, a verb is conjugated by conjoining certain inflectional syllables with the root
Declension = de + clinare
- from de "from" + clinare "to bend"
- in grammar, "the inflection of nouns, pronouns, and adjectives, especially with a change in form from the nominative case."
- This is ultimately from Latin declinationem (nominative declinatio) "a bending from (something), a bending aside; a turning away from (something)," also used in the grammatical sense, noun of action from past-participle stem of declinare "to lower; avoid, deviate; bend from, inflect,"
Nominative - from Latin nominativus "pertaining to naming, serving to name" (in casus nominativus), from nominat-, past-participle stem of nominare "to name, call by name, give a name to," from nomen "name"
Genitive - from Latin (casus) genitivus "case expressing possession, source, or origin."
- from genitivus "of or belonging to birth," which is from genitus, the past participle of gignere "to beget, produce."
- Gens, gentis in Latin refers to clan, tribe, people (Where genocide, geneaology, generation come from)
Dative - from Latin dativus "pertaining to giving," from datus "given" (from PIE root *do- "to give"); in grammatical use from Greek, from dotikos "of giving nature," from dotos "given"
Accusative - directly from Latin (casus) accusativus "(case) of accusing," from accusatus, past participle of accusare "to call to account, make complaint against"
Ablative - from Latin (casus) ablativus "(case) of removal," expressing direction from a place or time.
coined by Julius Caesar from ablatus "taken away," past participle of auferre "to carry off or away, withdraw, remove," which is from ab "off, away" + the irregular verb ferre (past participle latum) "to carry, to bear"