Wednesday Words
nimiety - the state of being too much; excess.
fugacious - fleeting; lasting but a short time; from the Latin fugax meaning "ready to flee;" derivations are fugitive, refuge, and fugue which literally means "a musical flight."
celerity - rapidity of motion or action; quickness; from the Latin celer, "swift" and related to the word accelerate.
polymath - a person of great or varied learning; one acquainted with various subjects of study.
Are you a polymath? I have felt like a polymath this week: Monday, I subbed in English; Tuesday, Earth Science and English; today, math; and Friday, criminal justice (of all things!).
4 comments:
Cool words! I especially like fugacious. Connor takes Latin and also plays fugues, and he knew the Latin word fugax, but hadn't made the connection with fugue.
I think ALL homeschoolers are polymaths, Janie.:-)
One of the very first phrases my boys learned in Latin was tempus fugit - time flies.
When interested adults would ask them to say something in Latin, this was one of the stock answers.
I love Wednesday Words, Janie. I collect words (in my mind, often enough) for a post during the week only to find that they have dissipated by Wednesday.
This week I was reminded of frisson - shivers or shudders of intense emotion.
Polymath was one that I looked up recently; a few philosophers that I was readying about were refered to as polymaths.
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