[leps-talk] arenas

[Jorge Bizarro]

Hi

Well, I remember once to have noticed that Inglish has many "duplicate" words: tha native english one and the french equivalent.
That is probably because before Shakespeare, the fancy spoken tongue in the court of England was probably... french.

Examples;

law - legislation
peril - danger
homeseek - nostalgic
etc, etc.

Jorge

P.S. By the way does any-one knows what the greek "Doxo" means [DOXology, orthoDOX, DOXocopa]

I' ve found a superb work with the etimology of many generic lepidoptera names (besides Hemming), but it is in german:

Glaser, L., 1887. Catalogus etymologicus Coleopterorum et Lepidopterum. (...) A. Tagfalter: iv + 396 pp.; Friedländer & Sohn, Berlin.
(see LAMAS, for more detail)

best wishes
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Charles Bordelon 
  To: Ron Gatrelle ; leps-talk 
  Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 6:49 PM
  Subject: Re: [leps-talk] arenas


  You're right again, Ron...  I think, besides Webster, we should all have
  dictionaries of Latin, as well as Etymology, if we are going to try to
  understand this all...  Hell, I learned more about English by studying Latin
  and Spanish...  I learned Webster as a teen, because I was always
  grounded...  Latin and etymology came after reading the dictionary, of which
  I had plenty of time, then...  I can't stress how invaluable this is to
  understanding nomenclature.  cb
  ----- Original Message -----

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