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| "is your ride coming"
more specific form of transportation (meaning: is someone in a car coming to pick you up?)
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(such as with promulgate):
pupil: (black part of the eye) with the romans perhaps borrowing the metaphor of the little reflected image inthe eye from the greeks (cf. Grk. kore "maiden;pupil (of the eye)''
peculiar [l. peculiaris "of personal property" of ones own" individual" distinct or strange" L. PELKU "cattle"* hence "wealth" in pecuniary, impecuniour, and fee. peculium "ones property/slaves property" |
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[Grk. synecdoche "receiving jointly"< Grk. syn. "with, together"
tec- "out of/from" + doche "a receiving" (EX: part substituting for a whole: "nice threads" |
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"change of name by association"
[Grk.metonymia "change of name" another lecture example:
rostrum [L."beak of a bird/the rammming beak of a warship" rostra "beaks"] |
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Stomach:etym
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Hearse: [ME. "triangular harrow" <"riangular framework for holding candles over a bier"< place where body is displayed< "COFFIN"/funeral carriage |
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