ETYMOLOGY OF WORDS

ETYMOLOGY OF WORDS

WATER
The word water comes from the Latin aqua, with the same meaning. From there also certain derivatives, such as aquarium, watercolor, aguada, aguaza, aguazal, etc.

CURRENT
The word current comes from the Latin currens, currentis and means "the one who runs". Its lexical components are: currere, plus the suffix -nte (agent, which does the action).

WAVE
The word wave comes from the French houle (movement or ripples in the sea). There are several theories about the genesis of the word, because it can also be; Of celtic (hoeval), of Breton (houl), of Danish (huul), etc.

SEA
The word sea comes from the Latin mare (mass of water). Also words like: tidal wave, tide, tide, seasickness, marina, seafood, etc.

OCEAN
The word ocean comes from the Greek (Okeanos) which was how the Greeks called the great expansion of water that surrounded the earth, as opposed to the internal Mediterranean.

SWIMMING
The word swimming comes from the Latin natatio, natiatationis, verbal action name with suffix, formed from the verb natare, "nadar". Natatio seems to be related to the Indo-European root meaning "to flow or to command", but also it is related with other terms in diverse languages with similar meaning, like the Greek.

SEAWEED

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The word seaweed comes from the Latin seaweed. It refers to a group of organisms constituted by autotrophic but not plant cells, which can live unicellular or multicellular. To designate this group of organisms the root -ficea, derived from the Greek, is used. The word dates from antiquity and referred to what the Romans knew as "sea plants".

RAIN

The word rain comes from the Latin pluvial, with the typical palatalization, word related to the impersonal verb pluêre (rain), whose vulgar variable plovere gave our verb llover.Palabras as rain and impluvio share its root

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