Benjamin Scott wrote:
> But given the entomology of symposium as Latin for "drinking party", I
> vote we go with that. ;-)
On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Kevin D. Clark wrote:
> <nit-picking>
>
> In my experience that word is almost always categorized as being Greek
> in origin rather than Latin.
http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=symposium gives the
entomology as:
D> Latin /drinking party/, from Greek sumposion: sun-, /syn/- + posis,
D> drinking; see po(i)- in Indo-European Roots.
So I guess we're both right, but I'm no entomologist. Latin, Greek, or
Vorlon, I just got a kick out of the fact that it originally meant "drinking
party". ;-)
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