Latin in Layman’s - A Rhetoric Revolution

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"

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