{"id":283,"date":"2008-04-23T11:44:57","date_gmt":"2008-04-23T15:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/desultor\/2008\/04\/23\/in-which-desultor-revisits-his-roots"},"modified":"2008-05-05T11:42:21","modified_gmt":"2008-05-05T15:42:21","slug":"in-which-desultor-revisits-his-roots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/2008\/04\/23\/in-which-desultor-revisits-his-roots\/","title":{"rendered":"In which Desultor revisits his roots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was excited today by &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/whiskeyinateacup.com\/?p=292\">prodrome<\/a>&#8220;, which is sexy and fancy and new to me.  This breaks down to &#8220;pro&#8221; &#8211; ahead &#8211; and &#8220;drome&#8221;, which contains a notion of running or a race.  So we could call a prodrome a &#8220;forerunner&#8221; if we were feeling Englishy.<\/p>\n<p>We see drome in &#8220;hippodrome&#8221; &#8211; a racecourse for horses &#8211; and in &#8220;syndrome&#8221; &#8211; a running-together.  So we could say that the defining feature of a syndrome is symptoms running together &#8211; or &#8220;concurrency&#8221; if we were feeling Latinate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was excited today by &#8220;prodrome&#8220;, which is sexy and fancy and new to me. This breaks down to &#8220;pro&#8221; &#8211; ahead &#8211; and &#8220;drome&#8221;, which contains a notion of running or a race. So we could call a prodrome a &#8220;forerunner&#8221; if we were feeling Englishy. We see drome in &#8220;hippodrome&#8221; &#8211; a racecourse [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":129,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2605],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-etymology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283","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\/129"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}