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Theme for this week: Words learned through the etymology of A.Word.A.Day

pavor, pavoris m.

Definition: fear, panic

Sententia: Ut ludus appropinquat, fere integer/totus ludus pavorem tenet de aliquo: ei primi anni de anno primo altae scholae, ei tertii anni de physica, et ei quarti anni de collegium. Modo ei secundi anni sunt partim sine pavore, iam enim unum annum perfecerunt, non physicam facient, et satis temporis ante collegium habent.

As school approaches, almost the whole [the second word is more correct, but I personally like the word integer :)] school holds a fear about something: those of the first year about the first year of high school, those of the third year about physics, and those of the fourth year about college. Only those of the second year are mostly without fear, for they have completed one year, they will not do physics, and they have enough time before college.

The English word which derives from this word is pavid, found online at http://wordsmith.org/words/pavid.html. It is found on the syllabus only in Book 2 of the Aeneid (the Laocoon passage, for those who have taken AP Vergil already). A related verbal form of this word is "paveo." However, the antonym for this word would be more suitable for today, the day of the hundredth Latin word of the day! Euax! I feel like it should be celebrated as Hundred Day is celebrated in elementary school on the hundredth day of school =D And so in honor of this hundredth day, I encourage you to try out your vocabulary knowledge having been gained from the word of the day with Latin scrabble online! Link: http://thepixiepit.co.uk/scrabble/latin.htm