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Re: Evidence of Warm Blooded Dinosaurs
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lugnet.off-topic.fun
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Wed, 26 Apr 2000 16:39:17 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Steve Bliss writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Jeff Stembel wrote:
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> > In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Jeremy H. Sproat writes:
> > > "Archosaur" == "ancient lizard"? I guess I need to look that one up in the
> > > standard literature.
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> > :D
> > IIRC, Archosaur means "Ruling Lizard". Actually, I'm quite sure. (Monarch =
> > single ruler... :D )
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> Was that a jest? I can't tell. To correct or to let lie, that is the
> question.
Nope, I wasn't jesting. I am not a jester, after all.
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> "Arch" is the prefix for "old". Like "archaic".
I believe you are thinking of "archaeo", as in Archaeopteryx. :) "The
Dinosaur Data Book" says, and I quote, "gave rise to the archosaurs or 'ruling
reptiles'"
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> "Monarch" originally meant "old man". Eventually, its meaning was narrowed to
> the person who was typically the most important old man: the ruler. The
> original version of the word was "arch-mon", from the Jamaican dialect.
Maybe we do need an off-topic.bs.... Anyway, in case you weren't kidding:
[Middle English monarke, from Old French monarque, from Late Latin monarcha,
from Greek monarkhos: mono-, mono- + arkhein, to rule.]
This is from Dictionary.com
Jeff
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| (...) That's correct. But "ancient" is palaeo-. ;) In "archaic" it's that last "a" that makes the difference--it's a merger of "archae" + "-ic". (...) There is an off-topic.bs...off-topic.geek. ;) Part of the reason why the words are so close, (...) (25 years ago, 28-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Evidence of Warm Blooded Dinosaurs
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| (...) Was that a jest? I can't tell. To correct or to let lie, that is the question. "Arch" is the prefix for "old". Like "archaic". "Monarch" originally meant "old man". Eventually, its meaning was narrowed to the person who was typically the most (...) (25 years ago, 26-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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