{"id":134,"date":"2003-11-05T14:46:57","date_gmt":"2003-11-05T18:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/desultor\/2003\/11\/05\/pine-siskin\/"},"modified":"2003-11-05T14:46:57","modified_gmt":"2003-11-05T18:46:57","slug":"pine-siskin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/2003\/11\/05\/pine-siskin\/","title":{"rendered":"Pine Siskin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a189'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two exotic words seen &#8220;in the wild&#8221; today:<\/p>\n<p>Medieval prof today translated Einhard&#8217;s &#8220;<i>sacrum et salvarum<\/i>&#8221; (referring to Jerusalem) as &#8220;sacred and salvific, you might say&#8221;.  Salvific means &#8220;tending toward salvation&#8221; or &#8220;savey&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I stayed a bit after class to ask a question about syllable stress, and he whipped out &#8220;proparoxytone&#8221;, which is a word for words accented on the antepenult.  So proparoxytone is itself a proparoxytone.  I&#8217;d seen that one before years ago, during an ill-fated attempt to teach myself Greek, but had forgot it entirely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two exotic words seen &#8220;in the wild&#8221; today: Medieval prof today translated Einhard&#8217;s &#8220;sacrum et salvarum&#8221; (referring to Jerusalem) as &#8220;sacred and salvific, you might say&#8221;. Salvific means &#8220;tending toward salvation&#8221; or &#8220;savey&#8221;. I stayed a bit after class to ask a question about syllable stress, and he whipped out &#8220;proparoxytone&#8221;, which is a word [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}