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Podcast: Latin in Layman’s - A Rhetoric Revolution
Episode: Hormones and other processes/aspects of the body with the prefix "Endo-"
Description: endocrine (adj.)
"secreting internally,"
endo- + Latinized form of Greek krinein "to separate, distinguish".
certain (adj.)
c. 1300, "determined, fixed," from Old French certain "reliable, sure, assured" (12c.), from Vulgar Latin *certanus, extended form of Latin certus "determined, resolved, fixed, settled," of things whose qualities are invariable, "established," also "placed beyond doubt, sure, true, proved; unerring, to be depended upon" (also source of Old French cert, Italian certo, Spanish cierto), originally a variant past participle of cernere "to distinguish, decide," literally "to sift, separate." This Latin verb comes from the root *krei- "to...