[Ads-l] words connected to a single provenance

[Laurence Horn]

How about “emancipation”?

> On Aug 30, 2018, at 4:46 PM, Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU> wrote:
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> I think what Geoff is looking for are words or phrases that are particularly associated with a particular instance of use by a particular speaker or writer.  I don't think any of the terms on this list qualify.
> 
> Fred
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> Subject: Re: words connected to a single provenance
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> just single words this time
> 
> from ancient/Classical Greece:
> Marathon
> Oddysey
> Spartan
> laconic
> Atheneum
> hermetic
> plutonic
> Solon
> draconic
> 
> from ancient Rome:
> czar/tsar (from Caesar)
> consul
> tribune
> 
> from the Old Testament
> Job, Jonah, David, Goliath, Solomon, all used as metaphors
> Jeremiad
> sodomy
> babble
> 
> from Christianity:
> Pontiff (from Pontifex Maximus)
> Lutheran
> Mennonite, Campbellite, etc.
> Mormon
> simony
> gospel (metaphor for a body of belief)
> 
> Marxism and many other -isms
> 
> Napoleonic
> 
> Wagnerian
> 
> Hamlet=indecisive person
> 
> checkmate(from "shah mat")
> 
> bolivar (currency)
> 
> - Jim Landau
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