Etymology allows recapture the underlying concrete image abstract words: "define", the Latin finis (end, limit), or remove, from limen (threshold); "recall" of cor (heart), "reveal" of velum (soft, "disaster" Astrum (star, star) ...
But it can also show a kind of rift between the original and derivative sense, to which only a "bridge" will link, as well chart the word "eyesore" which originates in the letter of the apostle Paul ad Ephesian " (to Ephesus), turgid and incomprehensible letter, which explained the subsequent term of the current pejorative monstrosity.
And the etymology leads us to find the underlying ideological depth, when we differentiate the terms "heritage" (munus = duty, task, the father) and "marriage" (duty, task, the mother) with all its connotations, or when we discover that the semantic essence of " vir" (man) is the sense of strength, the same as in the word "virtus" (virtue) and "vus "(force), while the word femina reserve is a sense of weakness, as opposed to vir, and that is used by Julius Caesar in De Bello cock, when, referring to the Belgians, states that are the strongest for not using products that tend to "ad effeminandos Animos " (to "feminize" weaken -read - the mood) and do not forget the times that, surprisingly, the meaning escapes the area in which it arose and reached results that defy all expectations as possible, as with the English word res (animal) that comes from res, rei (Latin for "thing") and passed into French as laugh, and Catalan as res, meaning "nothing in both cases.
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