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A name often seen in paleology. From Brewer:
Silurian Rocks A name given by Sir R. Murchison to what miners call gray-wacke, and Werner termed
transition rocks. Sir Roderick called them Silurian because it was in the region of the ancient Silures that
he investigated them.
Silures, people of ancient Britain inhabiting what today is southeastern Wales. A powerful and warlike tribe, they offered fierce resistance to the Roman force that invaded their territory in AD 48 but were finally conquered in 78, after the Romans established a legionary fortress at Isca, modern Caerleon. The chief town of the Silures was Romanized as Venta Silurum, the modern Caerwent, near the Severn estuary east of Newport.
"Silures," Microsoft(R) Encarta(R) 98 Encyclopedia. (c) 1993-1997 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
Now I've got to find out who in hell the "Silures" were and from where.Back in a flash.
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From Brewer:
Simplicity is sine plica, without a fold; as duplicity is duplex plica, a double fold. Conduct “without a
fold” is straightforward, but thought without a fold is mere childishness. It is “tortuity of thought” that
constitutes philosophic wisdom, and “simplicity of thought” that prepares the mind for faith.
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From Brewer: We had some posts challenging this derivation, but I am feeling lazy about citing them.
Sincere (2 syl.) properly means without wax (sine cera). The allusion is to the Roman practice of
concealing flaws in pottery with wax, or to honey from which all the wax has been extracted. (See
Trench: On the Study of Words, lect. vii. p. 322.)
This derivation was in my first year Latin book.
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Brewer:
Sindhu' The ancient name of the river Indus. (Sanskrit, syand, to flow.)
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Brewer:
Sizar A poor scholar whose assize of food is given him. Sizars used to have what was left at the fellows'
table, because it was their duty at one time to wait on the fellows at dinner. Each fellow had his sizar.
(Cambridge University.)
I used to know a family by this name. They were all very bright.
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Brewer:
Skedaddle To run away, to be scattered in rout. The Scotch apply the word to the milk spilt over the pail
in carrying it. During the late American war, the New York papers said the Southern forces were
“skedaddled” by the Federals. (Saxon, scedan, to pour out; Chaldee, scheda; Greek, skeda'o, to seatter.)
No longer heard very often. Only in sense of running away to escape possible punishment.
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Brewer:
Slang Slangs are the greaves with which the legs of convicts are fettered; hence convicts themselves; and
slang is the language of convicts.
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Brewer:
Sleep (Anglo-Saxon slaepen). Crabbe's etymology of doze under this word is exquisite:-
“Doze, a variation from the French dors and the Latin dormio (to sleep), which was anciently
dermio and comes from the Greek derma (a skin), because people lay on skins when they
slept ”!- Synonyms.
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Dear /Faldage: It's time for Roth to wax you for a change. I am not sine cerumen in my ears.
but O try to be sincere. That MW site is ridiculous, feeling learned to drag in Spanish sin. I think
the oldtimers were correct.
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