A list of 62 words by mikeropology.
- pareidoliawas added by mikeropology and appears on 131 lists
- obloquywas added by mikeropology and appears on 186 lists
- peripateticwas added by mikeropology and appears on 331 lists
- pulchritudewas added by mikeropology and appears on 290 lists
- ostensiblewas added by mikeropology and appears on 179 lists
- acolytewas added by mikeropology and appears on 105 lists
- plauditwas added by mikeropology and appears on 56 lists
- mendicantwas added by mikeropology and appears on 156 lists
- obduratewas added by mikeropology and appears on 281 lists
- ampersandwas added by mikeropology and appears on 122 lists
- ostensiblewas added by mikeropology and appears on 179 lists
- archetypewas added by mikeropology and appears on 109 lists
- circawas added by mikeropology and appears on 26 lists
- nepotismwas added by mikeropology and appears on 93 lists
- mercurialwas added by mikeropology and appears on 375 lists
- echoicwas added by mikeropology and appears on 19 lists
- triumphwas added by mikeropology and appears on 49 lists
- domewas added by mikeropology and appears on 37 lists
- rotundawas added by mikeropology and appears on 47 lists
- pantheonwas added by mikeropology and appears on 77 lists
- alibiwas added by mikeropology and appears on 47 lists
- faithwas added by mikeropology and appears on 102 lists
- articulatewas added by mikeropology and appears on 160 lists
- visionwas added by mikeropology and appears on 69 lists
- audiowas added by mikeropology and appears on 19 lists
- videowas added by mikeropology and appears on 41 lists
- primwas added by mikeropology and appears on 38 lists
- rhetoricwas added by mikeropology and appears on 179 lists
- justicewas added by mikeropology and appears on 85 lists
- totalwas added by mikeropology and appears on 20 lists
- vehementwas added by mikeropology and appears on 136 lists
- revokewas added by mikeropology and appears on 40 lists
- abrogatewas added by mikeropology and appears on 260 lists
- omnipotentwas added by mikeropology and appears on 83 lists
- lancewas added by mikeropology and appears on 61 lists
- secondwas added by mikeropology and appears on 51 lists
- initialwas added by mikeropology and appears on 24 lists
- pentagramwas added by mikeropology and appears on 21 lists
- aquaticwas added by mikeropology and appears on 77 lists
- proximitywas added by mikeropology and appears on 47 lists
- ultimatewas added by mikeropology and appears on 70 lists
- picturewas added by mikeropology and appears on 40 lists
- characterwas added by mikeropology and appears on 61 lists
- ascribewas added by mikeropology and appears on 97 lists
- paperwas added by mikeropology and appears on 87 lists
- dilemmawas added by mikeropology and appears on 55 lists
- sentencewas added by mikeropology and appears on 35 lists
- phrasewas added by mikeropology and appears on 39 lists
- paragraphwas added by mikeropology and appears on 25 lists
- etherealwas added by mikeropology and appears on 362 lists
- anodynewas added by mikeropology and appears on 298 lists
- synaesthesiawas added by mikeropology and appears on 79 lists
- apocryphawas added by mikeropology and appears on 61 lists
- historywas added by mikeropology and appears on 67 lists
- theaterwas added by mikeropology and appears on 19 lists
- ergowas added by mikeropology and appears on 70 lists
- libertywas added by mikeropology and appears on 62 lists
- hypothesiswas added by mikeropology and appears on 49 lists
- medianwas added by mikeropology and appears on 19 lists
- museumwas added by mikeropology and appears on 28 lists
- pudendumwas added by mikeropology and appears on 19 lists
- dirgewas added by mikeropology and appears on 143 lists
qroqqa commented on the list the-much-avoided-latin-rooted-english-list
Hmm. Something like 60% of English may be based on Latin, but something like 30% of this list is Greek. To quote a character in Stoppard's The Invention of Love, 'Latin and Greek are two entirely separate languages spoken by distinct peoples living in different parts of the ancient world.' If some of the Greek words happened to pass through Latin on their way to us, probably quite as many actually came to us from French.
March 19, 2009