Etymology Word of the Week – As some of you know, in addition to working in the Admissions Office, I also teach Latin at Saint Ignatius and am something of a "word nerd." Thus, each week, I’ll sneak a vocabulary word (sometimes derived from Latin, sometimes not) into the e-blast. Here then is this week’s edition of the Etymology Word of the Week.
Accelerate
Definition: “To hasten the occurrence of; to cause faster or greater activity, development, or progress.”
Origin/Derivation: From the Latin prefix ad- (meaning “to, toward”) and the Latin verb celerare meaning “to hasten.” Celerare comes from the Latin adjective celer, celeris, celere which means “quick, fast.”
Related Words/Phrases: celerity, accelerator, accelerant; BUT NOT the vegetable/plant celery, which comes from the Italian word seleri, meaning “parsley”
(All information is from www.wikipedia.org, www.etymonline.com and/or www.dictionary.com)
“Old Saw” of the Week:
See if you can “complete the phrase” of this time-worn (but true!) adage:
“An ounce of prevention…”
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...is worth a pound of cure.”