A new way to play Etymon
From 1st November (Etymon #161), free subscribers will be able to play three puzzles a month. Paid subscribers get every daily puzzle, 365 days a year, the complete 150+ puzzle archive and the new weekly game—see updated ‘How to play’ for details on the paid subscriber weekly game.
Until 11.59pm on Saturday 31st October, become an Etymon founding paid subscriber for just £39.60 a year. That’s 34% off the standard annual price of £60.
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P.S. Sunday’s Etymon puzzle is below.
The word was first recorded in English by 1560, from Latin. It appears in an English translation of A Famous Chronicle of Our Time, in a line praising the style and speech of the French poet Clément Marot.
French had already used the word by the fourteenth century, to mean harmony. English borrowed it from Latin, perhaps with French influence, and in 1591 Edmund Spenser, translating Petrarch’s Visions, used it for verses a reader was reading.
In Greek, the source word meant ‘measured flow’ and ‘proportion’. It is related to a Greek verb meaning ‘to flow’, which traces to a Proto-Indo-European root, *sreu-, with the same sense.
STREAM and RHEUMATISM come from that same root. STREAM goes back to an Old English word for a course of water, and by the early twelfth century it described anything issuing from a source. RHEUMATISM entered English in the 1680s, from Late Latin, as a joint disease thought to be caused by a body fluid flowing into the joint.
