A very apt word for the day for me. I was cleaning out my room and found a shoebox full of old and new postcards I'd been collecting over the past two decades. As I placed a few others I'd found in on top of the pile I said to myself "There's probably a word for this". And now I know.
There's a word for it, but the etymoloy is hard to find. I looked in a couple Greek - English
online dictionaries, and they all said the could not find "deltos" the root AHD gives. And there
seem to be no other words derived from the same root.
The online Liddell and Scott from Perseus has deltos. It means writing tablet, letter, will.
http://makeashorterlink.com/?D2E5116C3The index to their reference sources can be found here:
http://makeashorterlink.com/?W216526C3Bingley
could not find "deltos"...there seem to be no other words derived from the same root
What's that? You say you never saw a triangle-shaped postcard? [Confound it, why don't they make a tongue-in-cheek-emoticon?]
My turn to claim chopped liver status. It doesn't come from delta, the triangle-shaped Greek letter, but from deltos meaning writing tablet or document (such as a letter or will).
Bingley
why don't they make a tongue-in-cheek-emoticon
Just doesn't seem to work as well if you put it in clear, does it, wofa?