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pax vobiscum
phrase
peace be with you.
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Pax vobiscum 鈥減eace be with you鈥� is a loan from Latin that comprises pax 鈥減eace鈥� and 惫艒产墨蝉肠耻尘 鈥渨ith you.鈥� Pax is the source of appease, pacify, pay, and peace; the noticeable variation in spelling stems from natural sound changes that occurred as Latin pax (stem pac-) evolved into Old French pais (and modern French paix). 痴艒产墨蝉肠耻尘 is a compound of 惫艒产墨蝉, the prepositional object form of 惫艒蝉 鈥測ou,鈥� and cum 鈥渨ith.鈥� Similar constructions survive today in modern Romance languages, such as Spanish conmigo 鈥渨ith me鈥� and Portuguese convosco 鈥渨ith you.鈥� The singular equivalent of pax 惫艒产墨蝉肠耻尘, said to one person, is pax t膿cum, while 鈥減eace be with us鈥� is pax n艒b墨scum. Pax vobiscum was first recorded in English in the 1810s.
how is pax vobiscum used?
Sholom Aleichem was a pseudonym assumed by Sholom Rabinowitz, born in 1859 in what is now Ukraine. In Hebrew, 鈥渟holom aleichem鈥� is a greeting that means 鈥減eace be with you.鈥� Who knows? Maybe if he wrote in Latin he would have called himself Pax Vobiscum.
鈥�Pax vobiscum!鈥� he called. Continuing in Latin, he said, 鈥淧eace to you this night. Please, put up your swords. You have nothing to fear from us.鈥�
torrid
adjective
oppressively hot, parching, or burning, as climate, weather, or air.
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Torrid 鈥渙ppressively hot鈥� comes from Latin torridus 鈥渄ried up, parched,鈥� from the verb 迟辞谤谤脓谤别 鈥渢o parch, burn.鈥� This Latin verb has two stems: torr-, as in torrent, and tost-, which is the source of toast. A popular hypothesis is that 迟辞谤谤脓谤别 is related to Latin terra 鈥渆arth,鈥� perhaps originally in the sense 鈥渄ry land,鈥� which is the source of the recent 51吃瓜 of the Day terrene. Because of Grimm鈥檚 law, Latin t tends to correspond to English th, and this is how Latin 迟辞谤谤脓谤别 is a distant relative of English thirst (from Old English thrust 鈥渄ryness鈥�). For more on terra, check out the recent 51吃瓜s of the Day testudinate and telluric, and to see Grimm鈥檚 law in action, compare togated and transcendental. Torrid was first recorded in English in the 1580s.
how is torrid used?
Torrid weather gripped large parts of western and central Europe on Wednesday, setting new June temperature records in Germany and the Czech Republic and forcing drivers to slow down on some sections of the famously speedy German autobahns.
corsair
noun
a pirate, especially formerly of the southern Mediterranean coast.
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Corsair 鈥渁 pirate鈥� is the product of a long chain of borrowings from one Romance language to the next on its way to English. The term comes via Middle French corsaire from 笔谤辞惫别苍莽补濒 corsar, and before that, the word traveled by way of Italian corsaro from Medieval Latin 肠耻谤蝉腻谤颈耻蝉 鈥減lunderer,鈥� equivalent to Latin cursus 鈥渁 running, course鈥� plus -腻谤颈耻蝉, an agent noun-forming suffix. Cursus comes from the verb currere 鈥渢o run,鈥� which has four common descendant forms in English: corr- via Italian and Spanish (as in corral and corridor), cour- via French (as in courier and discourse), cur(r)- (as in current and occur), and curs- (as in cursor and excursion). Corsair was first recorded in English in the 1540s.
how is corsair used?
Act One begins on the Greek island controlled by the corsairs, or pirates. There’s a raucous, offstage chorus introducing Corrado, the chief corsair, who is in exile.
London dismantled markets for trading pirate booty; pirate-friendly cities like Port Royal, Jamaica, were brought under heel, and blockades were launched on the potentates that harbored the corsairs of the southern Mediterranean and Southeast Asia.