To: heyheyhey
Greek words agricola (a farmer) or nauta (a sailor)Greek words? Methinks, dear Homer, you have nodded.
62 posted on
07/16/2002 11:28:45 AM PDT by
ninenot
To: ninenot
These two (unlike sophia) are found in Latin as well, but they are both Greek imports, as far as I remember from school. Greek agros (field, farm) is the root word for agricola. The Greek origin of nauta is easier to proof for this discussions sake -- e.g. when one dissects the word cosmonaut meaning in Greek space-(universe)-sailor one gets a purely Greek word cosmos and another Greek word nauta -- the latter borrowed by Latin.
I am going to double-check in some clever book later, but Im 98.675% certain it is correct. Cheers!
:)
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