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Quiz: Origin of Words
What do you think? Are the following true or false?
1. The word assassin originates from the time of the Crusades. ____
2. The word addict comes from Greek allos meaning "other." Linguists believe it has to do with doing something again and again (another time). ____
3. The word cab comes from an old Italian word for "goat." The first carriages that worked as taxis used to bounce so much that they reminded people of goats on a hillside. ____
4. In the Middle Ages, many sheep were lost to epidemics. The word escape comes from a combination of the words for "sheep" and "ill" in Latin. ____
5. The word essay comes from the French "essayer", which means "to try." 6. In the Middle Ages, wives were bought. The word gift originates from this habit. ____
7. The word hospital comes from the Latin word hospitis, which means "someone who receives strangers into his home." ____
8. The word husband was first used in the Bible to refer to the person who "takes care of things." ____
9. The word ketchup comes from Chinese. ____
10. The word mistress, which means "lover," originally meant "wife." 11. The word muscle comes from the Latin word for mouse. ____
12. The word nice word comes from the Latin nescius for "ignorant." ____
13. The word robot comes from Ancient Greek. A similar word was used for "cattle." ____
14. The word silly comes from the French sillouette. It was first used in the 1800s to describe sculptures. ____
15. The word trivia was not used until the 1930s. It was the brand of a popular game of questions. ____