>>>>> "Benjamin" == Benjamin Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Benjamin> Benjamin Scott wrote:
>> But given the entomology of symposium as Latin for "drinking
>> party", I vote we go with that. ;-)
Benjamin> 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.
Benjamin>
Benjamin> http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=symposium
Benjamin> gives the entomology as:
D> Latin /drinking party/, from Greek sumposion: sun-, /syn/- +
D> posis, drinking; see po(i)- in Indo-European Roots.
Benjamin> So I guess we're both right, but I'm no entomologist.
Benjamin> Latin, Greek, or Vorlon, I just got a kick out of the
Benjamin> fact that it originally meant "drinking party". ;-)
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study of insects, an arthropod class comprising about
675,000 known species, and representing about nine
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bacterial, fungal, and protozoal diseases; parasites of
humans and livestock; destroyers of economically
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