The Romance of Words (4th ed.)

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Ernest Weekley. The Romance of Words (4th ed.)

The Romance of Words (4th ed.)

Table of Contents

PREFACE

FOOTNOTES:

THE ROMANCE OF WORDS

CHAPTER I

OUR VOCABULARY

FOOTNOTES:

CHAPTER II

WANDERINGS OF WORDS

FOOTNOTES:

CHAPTER III

WORDS OF POPULAR MANUFACTURE

FOOTNOTES:

CHAPTER IV

WORDS AND PLACES

FOOTNOTES:

CHAPTER V

PHONETIC ACCIDENTS

FOOTNOTES:

CHAPTER VI

WORDS AND MEANINGS

FOOTNOTES:

CHAPTER VII

SEMANTICS

FOOTNOTES:

CHAPTER VIII

METAPHOR

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CHAPTER IX

FOLK-ETYMOLOGY

FOOTNOTES:

CHAPTER X

DOUBLETS

FOOTNOTES:

CHAPTER XI

HOMONYMS

FOOTNOTES:

CHAPTER XII

FAMILY NAMES

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CHAPTER XIII

ETYMOLOGICAL FACT AND FICTION

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INDEX

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Ernest Weekley

Published by Good Press, 2019

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It may be remarked here that the number of Latin words used in their unaltered form in every-day English is larger than is generally realised. Besides such phrases as bona-fide, post-mortem, viva-voce, or such abbreviations as A.M., ante meridiem, D.V., Deo volente, and L. s. d., for libræ, solidi, denarii, we have, without including scientific terms, many Latin nouns, e.g., animal, genius, index, odium, omen, premium, radius, scintilla, stimulus, tribunal, and adjectives, e.g., complex, lucifer, miser, pauper, maximum, senior, and the ungrammatical bonus. The Lat. veto, I forbid, has been worked hard of late. The stage has given us exit, he goes out, and the Universities exeat, let him go out, while law language contains a number of Latin verb forms, e.g., affidavit (late Latin), he has testified, caveat, let him beware, cognovit, he has recognised—

"You gave them a cognovit for the amount of your costs after the trial, I'm told."

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