Examples: virulent, vitriolic, vituperative, voracious, violence, vendetta, etc. Is this some kind of code? I don't mean in a paranoid Da Vinci Code way, but in a coded linguistic paradigm sense.
2006-11-20 10:28:11 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
It's true -- a lot of these words seem to come from Latin -- which had a love affair with the V (in vino veritas; veni, vidi, vici). However, vim, vigor and voluptous are rather nice words of power and excess.
Maybe it's the little buzz you get when a "v" passes through your lips?
Vast. Victory. Vanity. Hmmm. They all do have a little sting to them, don't they?
2006-11-20 12:08:50 · answer #1 · answered by Madame M 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You want to go back to Latin and Greek and think of the classical origins of these words.
2006-11-20 18:31:12 · answer #2 · answered by Maria 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋