Jérôme M. Berger wrote:
Justin Johansson wrote:
Yigal Chripun wrote:
Hum, didn't you mean a link to a *Latin* dictionary? ;)
You are quite correct to pull me up on that one. I guess to
be more specific I should have said a post-classical Latin
dictionary in which occurrence of said "retro" is more common.
btw. (and you gotta blow your trumpet sometimes) I won
First Prize for Latin at secondary college :-)
Hum, except that both "retro" and "iota" are actually Greek, not
Latin...
Jerome
I don't give an iota about iota. In my dictionary retro is a
Latin prefix. However in post-classical Latin it is not uncommon
to come across words that have a Greek origin. Me thinks we are
both right on this occasion; retro is a Latin prefix; it's in a
Latin dictionary and its etymology appears to have a Greek connection.
retro- pref. repr. L. retrō- adv. (‘behind’) used in combination as in
retrospicere (cf. RETROSPECT), retrogradus (see next), f. RE- + compar.
suffix as in intrō- INTRO-; in anat. and path. denoting ‘situated
behind’ the part of the body indicated by the second el., as
retro-ocular, -uterine.
T. F. HOAD. "retro-." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English
Etymology. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. (February 20, 2010).
http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O27-retro.html
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=retro-
http://ewonago.wordpress.com/what-is-the-relation-between-latin-and-greek/
http://ewonago.blogspot.com/2009/12/etymology-of-retro.html
