Hello! On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 11:50:40AM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Oliver Elphick <olly@lfix.co.uk> writes: > > > Umm...more Latin knowledge required here! It's spelt "prevalence" -- > > from Latin praevalens :-) > > Well, according to the OED... :) > > It's from French "prévalence", from medieval Latin "praevalentia", > from "praevalere", without going through the participle first. And while we are at it: "praevalere" itself is composed of "prae": from old-Indian "pura" (with "a" looking like a mixture of á and â, guess I need UTF to enter and send this) via the old-Greek, err, spell "pi alpha rho alpha iota (with acute)" and "valere": of AFAIK unknown origin, but related to old-Gothic "waldan" (which came via old-high-German "waltan" into current German -> "Schalten und Walten"). Now hideously off topic, cheers, Flo
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