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Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books LLC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Discover words to surprise, delight, and enamor. Learn terms for the sunlight that filters through the leaves of trees, for dancing awkwardly but with relish, and for the look shared by two people who each wish the other would speak first.
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"This is a study of French words and phrases which, untranslated, have entered the English lexicon. Historians calculate that English, since 1500, has borrowed more words from French than from any other modern foreign language. While it has naturalized many of these words, some have visibly retained their foreign roots, leading varied lives in the English-speaking world while eluding translation and resisting integration. Carrying traces of their...
5) Amo, amas, amat, and more: how to use Latin to your own advantage and to the astonishment of others
Author
Publisher
Harper & Row
Language
English
Description
Includes indexes. A collection of 1400 phrases, maxims, and proverbs giving the correct spelling, pronunciation, and literal meaning in Latin.
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The sixth edition expands the introduction to each chapter, and contains revised exercises in each chapter that reinforce and expand both vocabulary and analytical skills developed in previous chapters. The sixth edition also features expanded Latin and Greek alphabetical vocabulary lists, analytic exercises and other reader-friendly updates"--
Author
Publisher
Barnes & Noble Books
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
This volume explains the Latin and Greek roots of English words. These ancient root words are dependable and unchanging and serve as the key to understanding not only the vocabulary of English but many of the modern European languages as well. An understanding of the core meaning can provide a tool for unlocking the meaning of the thousands of Latin and Greek-based words.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
From one of America's top wordsmiths, a lively survey of words from abroad that make English a truly international language.
With dry wit and remarkable erudition, Eugene Ehrlich's You've Got Ketchup on Your Muumuu takes us on an eye-opening tour of our ever-changing language, showing us how English has, throughout its history, seamlessly sewn words from other languages into its original fabric. The language we call our own has in fact been culled...
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