Latin in Layman’s - A Rhetoric Revolution

April 14, 2025


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Metabolism 

  • 1878 in the physiology sense of "the sum of the chemical changes within the body by which the protoplasm is renewed, changed, or prepared for excretion," 

  • from Greek metabole "a change," from metaballein "to change," from meta "change" + ballein "to throw".

  • Chemical 

    • from chemic "of alchemy" (a worn-down derivative of Medieval Latin alchimicus) + -al (of or pertaining to).

    • Catabolic 

      •  1876, katabolism, "destructive metabolism," 

      • from Greek from kata "down" + ballein "to throw".

      • Anabolic

        • "pertaining to the process of building up" (especially in metabolism), 1876, with -ic + Greek from ana "up, upward"  + ballein "to throw."

        • Reactant 

          • 1640s, "to exert, as a thing acted upon, an opposite action upon the agent," from re- "back" + “act” from Latin actus, past participle of agere "to set in motion, drive, drive forward," hence "to do, perform,"

          • Product

            • early 15c., "mathematical quantity obtained by multiplication," from Medieval Latin productum, in classical Latin "something produced," noun use of neuter past participle of producere "bring forth"

            • Endothermic

              • Endo- word-forming element meaning "inside, within, internal," from Greek endon "in, within." 

              •  from Greek therme "heat, feverish heat."

              • Exothermic

                •  from Greek exō (adv.) "outside," related to ex (prep.) "out of" 

                • from Greek therme "heat, feverish heat." 

                • Enzyme

                  • from Modern Greek enzymos "leavened," from en "in/within" + zymē "leaven" 

                  • En+zyme = “Leavened within/in”

                  • Hence, where we get leavened bread: substance, typically yeast, that is used in dough to make it rise.

                  • Catalyst

                    • 1650s, "dissolution," 

                    • from Latinized form of Greek katalysis "dissolution, a dissolving" 

                    • from kata "down" (or "completely"), + lyein "to loosen"

                    • Denaturation

                      • from Latin de "down, down from, from, off; concerning" (see de), also used as a prefix in Latin, usually meaning "down, off, away, from among, down from," (defenestration; the action of throwing someone out of a window.) 

                        • Fenestra (latin noun); window

                        • from Latin natura "course of things; natural character, constitution, quality; the universe," literally "birth," from natus "born," past participle of nasci "to be born,"

                        • Consumer 

                          • from Latin consumere "to use up, eat, waste," from assimilated form of com-, here perhaps an intensive prefix + sumere "to take," 

                          • from sub- "under" + emere "to buy, take"

                          • Carnivore 

                            •  from Latin carnivorus "flesh-eating" 

                            • Omnivore

                              •  formed from omnivorous on model of carnivore/carnivorous. French omnivore was noted as a neologism in that language in 1801 and might be the direct source of the English word.

                              • Aerobic 

                                • from Greek aero- "air" + bios "life" 

                                • Anaerobic 

                                  • from Greek an- "without" + aēr "air" + bios "life"

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