Short Dictionary of Classical Word Origins

Harry E. Wedeck

jaan 1957 · Rowman & Littlefield

Teave selle e-raamatu kohta

Whether one reads only newspapers or nothing more serious than a short story or a novel—whatever one reads one is constantly running up against an allusion to the Ancient Classics of Greece and Rome and, in almost every intelligent sentence or statement, one is meeting words that are fully understandable only if one knows something of their Greek or Latin origins.