Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/09/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Frank I would guess that any lawyer worthy if his "ipso facto" would know his "lengua Latina" (sp?) Remember that Marc is a "laudator temporis acti." Jerry frank theriault wrote: > Marc, > > So, what you're saying is that you know Latin? <g> > > -frank (who surely was put in his place...) > > Marc James Small wrote: > > > <snip>"Oriens" is a present active participle derived from the third -io > > declension intransitive verb, "orior", meaning, "I rise". Thus, the > > participle means rising, and the reference was to the rising sun. Later, > > the term came to mean "east" and "morning", as the morning sun, from Rome, > > was located to the east. > > > > I believe that we derive "orient", as in align, and "orienteering" from the > > same root, but I'm too lazy to pull my Lewis & Short or OLD at the moment. > > > > Vale! > > > > Marcus Iacobides Parvus > > > > msmall@infionline.net FAX: +540/343-7315 > > Cha robh bąs fir gun ghrąs fir! > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > -- > "Hell is others" > -Jean Paul Sartre > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html