Latin Illuminations: I shall be taking a different English word each week and attempting to cast new light on its meaning by looking at the Latin word or words from which it derives. I begin with the word ‘Altitude’.
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Most of you Latin students will have come across the 3rd-declension adjective incolumis, meaning ‘safe after danger’ or ‘uninjured’. There is also an adjective columis, though you won’t find it in your dictionary.
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