{"id":155,"date":"2011-05-06T08:03:26","date_gmt":"2011-05-06T12:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?p=155"},"modified":"2011-05-06T08:03:27","modified_gmt":"2011-05-06T12:03:27","slug":"latin-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?p=155","title":{"rendered":"Latin #3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Latin root #3: <strong>TANG, TACT, TIG<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Meaning: touch\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Words:\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>1. <strong>Tangible<\/strong> (adj) (-ible = able, having power): capable of being touched, touchable<\/p>\n<p>The <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">tangible<\/span> effects of living at the beach include sand in your fingernails, your hair, your teeth (oh, yes), and just about everywhere. Of course, if you regularly do this for fun, what else would you expect?<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-158\" href=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?attachment_id=158\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-158\" title=\"100_1043\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/100_10431-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/100_10431-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/100_10431-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As a side note, I think we could host a community game of Where\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Waldo? given my son\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s hair color.<\/p>\n<p>2. <strong>Tactile<\/strong> (adj) (-ile = relating to): relating to touch or sense of touch<\/p>\n<p>My son is definitely a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">tactile<\/span> learner, which makes for some interesting stories that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m sure will come up on this blog from time to time. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Mom, what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s wrong with poking a hole in the meat packaging? I need to see how strong it is.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d It also means that, when something like this washes up on shore, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re instantly on parental high alert.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-157\" href=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?attachment_id=157\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-157\" title=\"100_0996\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/100_0996-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/100_0996-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/100_0996-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>3. <strong>Contiguous<\/strong> (adj) (con- = with, together): touching together, sharing an edge<\/p>\n<p>Thus far, our children still hope to buy properties <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">contiguous<\/span> to ours when they grow up. I wonder how many more years it will be before that desire will change, and, as another side note, is there a point where that becomes creepy if it doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t change?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Latin root #3: TANG, TACT, TIG Meaning: touch\u00c2\u00a0 Words:\u00c2\u00a0 1. Tangible (adj) (-ible = able, having power): capable of being touched, touchable The tangible effects of living at the beach include sand in your fingernails, your hair, your teeth (oh, yes), and just about everywhere. Of course, if you regularly do this for fun, what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[17,28,18],"class_list":["post-155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-etymology-lessons","tag-etymology-2","tag-jellyfish","tag-latin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}