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08.15 Latin Lives! Interview Project
Interview #1
Name: Tina Brennan
Profession: Tennis Instructor
Term #1:
Racket
Term #2:
Court
Term #3:
Serve
Term #4:
Ball
Term #5:
Volley
Etymology of Term #1:
"handled hitting device used in tennis, etc.," c.
1500, probably originally "tennis- like game played with open hand"
(late 14c.), from
Middle French rachette, requette (Modern French raquette) "racket for hitting; palm of the hand,"
Etymology of Term #2: late 12c., from Old
French cort (11c.,
Modern French cour) "king's court, princely residence," from Latin cortem, accusative of cors (earlier cohors) "enclosed yard," and by extension (and perhaps by association with curia "sovereign's assembly"), "those assembled in the yard; company, cohort," from com- "together"
(see com-) + stem hort- related to hortus "garden, plot of ground" Etymology of Term #3:
1680s, in sports
(tennis, etc.), from serve (v.).
Etymology of Term # 4:
"round object," Old English *beal, from or corresponding to Old Norse bollr "ball," from Proto-Germanic *balluz (cognates: Old High German ballo, German Ball), from PIE root *bhel- (2) "to blow, inflate, swell" (see bole).
Etymology of Term #5:
1590s, "discharge in a volley," from volley (n.). Sporting sense (originally in tennis) of "to return the ball before it has hit the ground" is from 1819. Related:
Volleyed; volleying.
Did you write a thank-you note for the interview? Yes
Interview #2
Name: Davina Catino
Profession: Nurse
Term #1:
Stethoscope
Term #2: lithotomy Term #3: gurney Term #4: surgeons Term #5: pyorrhea Etymology of Term #1: instrument for examining the chest,
1820, from French stéthoscope, coined
1819 by its inventor,
French physician René-Théophile-Hyacinthe
Laënnec (1781-1826) from comb. form of
Greek stethos "chest, breast" + -scope. Greek stethos is perhaps related to sternon (see sternum); it meant "front of the chest” Etymology of Term #2: 1721, from Late Latin
Interview #1
Name: Tina Brennan
Profession: Tennis Instructor
Term #1:
Racket
Term #2:
Court
Term #3:
Serve
Term #4:
Ball
Term #5:
Volley
Etymology of Term #1:
"handled hitting device used in tennis, etc.," c.
1500, probably originally "tennis- like game played with open hand"
(late 14c.), from
Middle French rachette, requette (Modern French raquette) "racket for hitting; palm of the hand,"
Etymology of Term #2: late 12c., from Old
French cort (11c.,
Modern French cour) "king's court, princely residence," from Latin cortem, accusative of cors (earlier cohors) "enclosed yard," and by extension (and perhaps by association with curia "sovereign's assembly"), "those assembled in the yard; company, cohort," from com- "together"
(see com-) + stem hort- related to hortus "garden, plot of ground" Etymology of Term #3:
1680s, in sports
(tennis, etc.), from serve (v.).
Etymology of Term # 4:
"round object," Old English *beal, from or corresponding to Old Norse bollr "ball," from Proto-Germanic *balluz (cognates: Old High German ballo, German Ball), from PIE root *bhel- (2) "to blow, inflate, swell" (see bole).
Etymology of Term #5:
1590s, "discharge in a volley," from volley (n.). Sporting sense (originally in tennis) of "to return the ball before it has hit the ground" is from 1819. Related:
Volleyed; volleying.
Did you write a thank-you note for the interview? Yes
Interview #2
Name: Davina Catino
Profession: Nurse
Term #1:
Stethoscope
Term #2: lithotomy Term #3: gurney Term #4: surgeons Term #5: pyorrhea Etymology of Term #1: instrument for examining the chest,
1820, from French stéthoscope, coined
1819 by its inventor,
French physician René-Théophile-Hyacinthe
Laënnec (1781-1826) from comb. form of
Greek stethos "chest, breast" + -scope. Greek stethos is perhaps related to sternon (see sternum); it meant "front of the chest” Etymology of Term #2: 1721, from Late Latin