{"id":254,"date":"2011-06-02T12:03:24","date_gmt":"2011-06-02T16:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?p=254"},"modified":"2011-06-02T12:03:24","modified_gmt":"2011-06-02T16:03:24","slug":"latin-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?p=254","title":{"rendered":"Latin #5"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Latin root #5: TERRA<\/strong><\/p>\n

Meaning: land, earth<\/p>\n

Words:<\/p>\n

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  1. Terra cotta<\/strong> (n) (cocta = cooked or baked): cooked earth, a ceramic made of clay<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been sitting here staring at my computer for a full 12 minutes trying to think of something funny, interesting, profound, or even just plain stupid to say about terra cotta<\/span>, and I just can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t do it. Frankly, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m rarely this ambivalent or uninspired about anything.<\/p>\n

    <\/strong><\/p>\n

    2.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Extraterrestrial<\/strong> (adj or n) (extra- = outside of): outside of the earth<\/p>\n

    <\/strong><\/p>\n

    My middle child has told me twice now that he definitely does not believe that extraterrestrial<\/span> creatures are real. Both times, he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s followed that announcement with this question: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Do you think most of them are green?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

    3.\u00c2\u00a0 Mediterranean Sea<\/strong> (n) (medi = middle): the sea in the middle of land, a specific sea bordering parts of Europe, Asia and Africa<\/p>\n

    The parts of the Mediterranean Sea<\/span> that I have seen are absolutely breathtaking. However, the swimwear, or the lack thereof by many of the occupants of the shoreline is a little distracting, at least for this small-town Carolina girl.<\/p>\n

    4.\u00c2\u00a0 Subterranean<\/strong> (adj) (sub- = below, under): under the earth\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s surface<\/p>\n

    <\/strong><\/p>\n

    My kids dream of building a subterranean city underneath the sand on the beach. This is not surprising, as they are the offspring of a woman who once not only talked about but actually tried to dig a hole to China in her mother\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s strawberry patch. I actually thought it was all about tenacity and digging on a curve so as to avoid being burned by the earth\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s core. See, this is why I never taught science.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Latin root #5: TERRA Meaning: land, earth Words: Terra cotta (n) (cocta = cooked or baked): cooked earth, a ceramic made of clay I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been sitting here staring at my computer for a full 12 minutes trying to think of something funny, interesting, profound, or even just plain stupid to say about terra cotta, and […]<\/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":[17,124,18,123,122,121],"class_list":["post-254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-etymology-lessons","tag-etymology-2","tag-extraterrestrial","tag-latin","tag-mediterranean-sea","tag-subterranean","tag-terra-cotta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254","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=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}