Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/05/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]ARTHURWG@aol.com wrote: > > I knew a copy editor once who was a member of Mensa. He told me he joined to > meet women. He also said his attempt ended in failure. Arthur Confusing Mensa with Menses! mT-2. Important derivatives are: meal2, piecemeal, measure, dimension, immense, meter1, diameter, geometry, moon, Monday, month, menopause, menstruate, semester. mT-2. To measure. Contracted from *meơ-. I. Basic form mT-. 1. Suffixed form *mT-lo-. MEAL2; PIECEMEAL, from Old English mLl, “measure, mark, appointed time, time for eating, meal,” from Germanic *mTlaz. 2. Suffixed form *mT-ti-. a. MEASURE, (MENSURAL); (COMMENSURATE), DIMENSION, IMMENSE, from Latin mTthrh, to measure; b. METIS, from Greek mTtis, wisdom, skill. 3. METER1, METER2, (METER3), -METER, METRICAL, -METRY; DIAMETER, GEOMETRY, ISOMETRIC, METROLOGY, METRONOME, SYMMETRY, from Greek metron, measure, rule, length, proportion, poetic meter, possibly from mT-2 (but this is referred by some to med-). (from American Heritage Dictionary CD) Mark Rabiner