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#77654 - 08/05/02 01:55 PM hermit
wwh Carpal Tunnel Registered: 01/18/01 Posts: 13858	Boorstein in "The Seekers" says "hermit" is derived from Greek for "desert" because the early Christian ascetics lived in the desert to escape temptation of the inhabited places.
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#77655 - 08/05/02 02:46 PM Re: monk
wwh Carpal Tunnel Registered: 01/18/01 Posts: 13858	(same source) monk (religious person) is from Greek "monachos" one who lives alone.
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#77656 - 08/05/02 03:43 PM Re: universitas
wwh Carpal Tunnel Registered: 01/18/01 Posts: 13858	(same source)"The word {red]universitasin the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, when the new institution was taking shape, did not describe the scope of knowledge to be explored.It did describe the people who came together in search.Then universitatis was a general name for a corporation, a group that had a legal existence. At the two original European universities, in Paris universitas was the group of masters, while in Bologna it meant the whole body of students."
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#77657 - 08/06/02 12:37 PM Re: rhapsody
wwh Carpal Tunnel Registered: 01/18/01 Posts: 13858	"The rhapsode (the word means 'song stitcher' in Greek)....." So a "rhapsody" is work of a bard in stitching together fragments, to create an epic. And I only knew the musical usage "free irregular form, suggesting improvisation" In anatomy, the muscles of the abdomen are divided longitudinally by the "median raphe"
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#77658 - 08/06/02 12:46 PM Re: monument
wwh Carpal Tunnel Registered: 01/18/01 Posts: 13858	"monument" is from Latin "monere = to remind"
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