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Latin word origins
A compact shelf of English words with routes through Latin.
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Browse English word-origin cards connected to Latin.
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Salary
The word still carries the old link between pay, provisions, and survival.
MoneyLatinMuscle
Anatomy can be stranger than metaphor.
BodyLatinCompanion
Friendship, at root, is lunch.
RelationshipsLatinCandidate
Campaign branding started with wardrobe.
PoliticsLatinNice
One of English's great reputation makeovers.
PersonalityLatinSincere
A good word for showing why origin stories need caution.
PersonalityLatinData
The modern internet runs on things given, collected, and reinterpreted.
TechnologyLatinCamera
The phone camera still carries a room inside the word.
TechnologyLatinOrigin
The word for beginnings is itself a traveled word.
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