cataracts
Posted: Mon Mar 04, 2013 7:37 pm
Oh RATS!
I was just SURE that this word, cataracts, had its go around in Dr. Goodword's word processor, or perhaps I was just hoping against hope.
I'm doing some reading for a class, and it'd be very helpful if I could understand the metamorphosis of the word, cataracts from the meaning: waterfall or deluge; to, the opaque area on the lens of the eye.
So, I'm calling on any of you out there in Dr. Goodword's team of 'wordies', (I don't know what you prefer to be called), you've all been so helpful to me in the past.
I did find the following information on the internet, but I need someone to explain it to me:
1430, from L. cataracta "waterfall," from Gk. katarhaktes "swooping, rushing down," from kata "down" + arhattein "to strike hard." Its alternative sense in L. of "portcullis" was probably passed through M.Fr. to form the Eng. meaning "eye disease" (1547), on the notion of "obstruction."
Thank you for any assistance and I would like to suggest that we get this one into the queue of possible words for a Dr. Goodword article. It would be awesome!
Sardith
I was just SURE that this word, cataracts, had its go around in Dr. Goodword's word processor, or perhaps I was just hoping against hope.
I'm doing some reading for a class, and it'd be very helpful if I could understand the metamorphosis of the word, cataracts from the meaning: waterfall or deluge; to, the opaque area on the lens of the eye.
So, I'm calling on any of you out there in Dr. Goodword's team of 'wordies', (I don't know what you prefer to be called), you've all been so helpful to me in the past.
I did find the following information on the internet, but I need someone to explain it to me:
1430, from L. cataracta "waterfall," from Gk. katarhaktes "swooping, rushing down," from kata "down" + arhattein "to strike hard." Its alternative sense in L. of "portcullis" was probably passed through M.Fr. to form the Eng. meaning "eye disease" (1547), on the notion of "obstruction."
Thank you for any assistance and I would like to suggest that we get this one into the queue of possible words for a Dr. Goodword article. It would be awesome!
Sardith