by Wordpandit | Jul 14, 2011 | Word Origin |
Have a close read of the cartoon strip below: Well, you would have a sense of what the word means by now: women hater. Misogyny comes from the Greek roots, misein and gyne. Misein means to hate and gyne means women (always remember a gynaecologist: a doctor that...
by Wordpandit | Jul 9, 2011 | Word Origin |
Procrastination is one of those rare words that is universally applicable to all: we all take part in it at some point of time or the other. Procrastination is derived from the Latin roots pro- (meaning ‘forward’) and crastinus (meaning ‘of tomorrow’). Thus,...
by Wordpandit | Jul 5, 2011 | Word Origin
Origin of the word Parochial Parochial is derived from the word parish, which is basically a local church community. The word parish in turn comes from Greek and actually means ‘living nearby’. How this meaning transformed into the one parish holds now is unclear, but...
by Wordpandit | Jul 3, 2011 | Word Origin |
Origin of the word Virulent Virulent came into English through the Greek root ‘viru-,vir-’, meaning poison. And not to anyone’s surprise, this root is also the source of the word ‘virus’. Now we can see the connection, can’t we? Anything that is virulent is like...
by Wordpandit | Jun 28, 2011 | Word Origin |
Origin of the word Plebiscite: This is word that comes to English through an interesting etymological tree. The word plebiscite comes from the Latin plebiscita, which originally meant a decree of the Concilium Plebis, the popular assembly of the Roman Republic. This...
