Where does the "atim" in "verbatim" come from?

[gopunk]

taking a etymology type class and preparing for a test.... i'm guessing this is two suffixes rolled into one and mangled a little... but which ones?

thanks


EDIT:

found the answer on my own.... verbatim comes from totidem verbis, literally translated as "just so many words" (i'm pretty i messed up on verbis, but you get the point)

 

[Zim Hosein]

I was going to post from the marketing department, but I'm glad I didn't

I liked your explanation better

 

[notfred]

I'm gonna take Latin. Seems like it'd be cool to know

 

[ElFenix]

dictionary.com doesn't know

 

[gopunk]

Originally posted by: notfred
I'm gonna take Latin. Seems like it'd be cool to know

do! it's a fun language imo... i took it for my foreign language req. here

 

[DoNotDisturb]

Originally posted by: ElFenix
dictionary.com doesn't know

wTf :|

 

[notfred]

Originally posted by: gopunk

Originally posted by: notfred
I'm gonna take Latin. Seems like it'd be cool to know

do! it's a fun language imo... i took it for my foreign language req. here

Yeah, they only offer latin 1A in the fall here though, so I can't take it this spring.

 

[gopunk]

Originally posted by: notfred

Originally posted by: gopunk

Originally posted by: notfred
I'm gonna take Latin. Seems like it'd be cool to know

do! it's a fun language imo... i took it for my foreign language req. here

Yeah, they only offer latin 1A in the fall here though, so I can't take it this spring.

oh yea, i think it is the same way here actually. latin profs have been kind of wacky cool in my experience.

 

[silverpig]

Originally posted by: notfred
I'm gonna take Latin. Seems like it'd be cool to know

I took a year of latin my first year at university. It wasn't too hard really. It's kinda odd because you can re-order the words in each phrase no matter how you want and it will still mean the same thing.

Hankus domum rediit = domum rediit Hankus = rediit domum Hankus = Hank returns home (IIRC, I hope I didn't mess that up).

 

[Supahfreak]

Does this help?!?!?!

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