[PLUG-TALK] Why your Latin teacher was wrong

Paul Heinlein heinlein at madboa.com
Mon Sep 10 14:28:37 UTC 2018


On Mon, 10 Sep 2018, Rich Shepard wrote:

>  Example: why do “abjure” and “adjure” have opposite meanings?

That was is pretty simple: "ab" implies "from" while "ad" implies "to" 
or "toward." Sort of like offramp and onramp.

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Paul Heinlein
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