This odd word doesn't come from ancient Latin, but it was coined to look as if it did. The term Johannes factotum, meaning "Jack-of-all-trades," first shows up in writing in 1592 to describe none other than Shakespeare himself. The word gofer is similar to factotum but a bit less d...
The word "curriculum" began as a Latin word which means "a race" or "the course of a race" (which in turn derives from the verb currere meaning "to run/to proceed"). The word is "from a Modern Latin transferred use of classical Latin curriculum "a running, course, career" (also ...
This odd word doesn't come from ancient Latin, but it was coined to look as if it did. The term Johannes factotum, meaning "Jack-of-all-trades," first shows up in writing in 1592 to describe none other than Shakespeare himself. The word gofer is similar to factotum but a bit less d...