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From the Latin "Intro Ducere"

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From the Latin "Intro Ducere"	comment	Do you know where the word "introduce" comes from? It comes from the Latin, Intro Ducere, meaning "to guide into". As such, when you introduce you guide something into the issue being discussed, usually some new information, such as the etymology of a relevant word in that context. This happens in some works, when the etymology of words is used as a way to introduce bits of exposition, an explanation to a situation, a point or even a "Reason You Suck" Speech. This trope shows that the speaker is cultured, smart and - usually - in control, as most people in a pickle don't really worry about etymology. Usually starts with "Do you know where the word 'X' comes from?" - Note that the little etymology lesson must turn out to have something to do with the matter at hand. The examples may also be etymological fallacies ("logos" is Greek for "word", which is where "logic" comes from, so logic is just toying with words) or just plain nonsensical pseudo-etymology (Did you know "shit" originated as an acronym for Ship High In Transit? note No it didn't. It's actually (very distantly, through Proto-Indo-European) related to the Latin verb "scio" and thus to "science".) Beware: it's very easy for careless people to lapse into Artistic License â€“ Linguistics with etymologies. Just because a word was historically derived from an older word doesn't necessarily make that part of the word's meaning as it's used today. (When modern English speakers say we live in a "county", we probably don't mean "an area ruled by a count".) Compare Translation with an Agenda and Dictionary Opening. Subtrope of Gratuitous Latin, although other root languages may be used equally well.
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From the Latin "Intro Ducere" / int_10bc0a19	comment	In Night Watch, Carrot also informs Vimes that the word "copper" does not come from the fact that the Watch badge is made of copper, but from coppere, which means "to capture".
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From the Latin "Intro Ducere" / int_14fa819	comment	In the first Mameshiba video, Green Pea, the trivia is that the French word for dandelion, "pissenlit", means "urinate in bed".
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From the Latin "Intro Ducere" / int_1d1c7e55	comment	I Am Mordred: The name "Mordred" actually comes from Latin for "moderate", not "courageous counselor".
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From the Latin "Intro Ducere" / int_22211d68	comment	Bones: The Victim of the Week was a guy who seemed to really be Santa Claus. This gives them another opportunity to bicker Like an Old Married Couple. Booth's remark isn't quite From the Latin intro Ducere, but Brennan's correction is.
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From the Latin "Intro Ducere" / int_2275c659	comment	House offers one up in an episode of House while Cameron is doing a test:
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From the Latin "Intro Ducere" / int_283159ac	comment	From the New World: In episode 25 of its anime adaptation, Saki and Satoru are discussing the bakenezumi's origin, erroneously interpreting a similarity between naked mole-rat's scientific name (Heterocephalus glaber) and human being's scientific name (homo sapiens). While Greek element "hetero" (meaning different or other) in Heterocephalus is the opposite of Greek element "homo" (meaning same), this element is not the one used in "homo sapiens", which came from the Latin element "homo" (meaning human).
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From the Latin "Intro Ducere" / int_3f4a104b	comment	Dilbert creator Scott Adams jokes in one of his business book parodies that the word "analysis" comes from the root word "anal", and the suffix "-ysis", meaning "to pull numbers from". Another time he claims in reference to Boyish Short Hair, that "convenient" comes from an Elbonian word meaning "looks exactly like a man, but inexplicably has breasts".
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From the Latin "Intro Ducere" / int_400469e	comment	In Calvin and Hobbes, Hobbes claims "numerator" is Latin for "number eighter" while trying to help Calvin with a math problem.
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From the Latin "Intro Ducere" / int_405e4d16	comment	Pony Pals: Dirk Strider Edition: In his rant on the philosophy of memes, Dirk Strider makes liberal use of this trope, using Greek definitions Plato used in his own philosophy to rib on the various meanings of mimesis. He also does this several more times once he enters the text of the book itself.
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From the Latin "Intro Ducere" / int_4222ddd5	comment	The Devil's Dictionary makes a few jokes of this type: "Tedium" is alleged to derive "from a very obvious source—the first words of the ancient Latin hymn Te Deum Laudamus. In this apparently natural derivation there is something that saddens." "Tadpole," as mentioned in the "Leviathan" entry, is implied to be derived from its Latin name, Thaddeus polandensis (Thaddeus of Poland).
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From the Latin "Intro Ducere" / int_468bebb0	comment	Discworld series: Lords and Ladies: In Men at Arms, Carrot points out that, as a policeman — from polis, city — he is a man of the city. Later, when Carrot brings this up to the city's ruler, Lord Vetinari, Vetinari responds by pointing out that "politician" has the same root. In Night Watch, Carrot also informs Vimes that the word "copper" does not come from the fact that the Watch badge is made of copper, but from coppere, which means "to capture". In Interesting Times, we get a dodgy etymology of "teleport": "It comes from tele, meaning 'I see,' and 'porte,' meaning 'to go,' the whole meaning 'I see it's gone.' *It actually derives from "tele" = "far", and "port" meaning "door". Thus, a door to a faraway place. Soul Music has a semi-accurate etymology of "wizard". Susan reflects that the word derives from "wise", which is true - but the accompanying footnote claims "From the Old wys-ars: lit. one who, at the bottom, is very smart. In The Truth, Otto comments that another word for iconographer might be "photographer", based on the Latatian word "photos", which means "to prance about like a pillock ordering people around as if you own the place", although the rest of the conversation is based on it meaning "light" (Otto has invented "obscurography", where he takes pictures with darkness).
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From the Latin "Intro Ducere" / int_476bc61d	comment	From Kid Icarus: Uprising:
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From the Latin "Intro Ducere" / int_525c9c7a	comment	Dinotopia: Lee Crabb points out that "Dinotopia" may be a portmanteau of "dinosaur utopia", but its direct translation from the original Greek is "terrible place", reflecting his low opinion of the place (as a Genius Bonus, he's right, but the old meaning of "terrible" means something like "fearfully great" or "awe-inspiring" as opposed to the modern meaning of "really bad". This older meaning is an accurate description of Dinotopia while undermining Crabb's point).
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From the Latin "Intro Ducere" / int_5892c75b	comment	On The Unbelievable Truth, season 22, episode 4, Richard Osman discusses the Latin origins of place names, saying that London comes from "londo" meaning "Holy Christ" and "dono", meaning "is this pint of Guinness really five pound fifty?", Slough was called "Winsorium", which means "I'm afraid our nearest Waitrose is in Windsor" and the Latin name for Paris means "slough". The last one turns out to be true, as "Lutetia" is believed to come from a root meaning "swamp", which is also the meaning of the word "slough" (although this is not the origin of the place-name "Slough", which means "soil").
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From the Latin "Intro Ducere" / int_593d139f	comment	Dave Barry Slept Here notes that "ultimatum" comes "from the Latin, meaning 'a kind of thing that a person issues.'"
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From the Latin "Intro Ducere" / int_6059ad6b	comment	xkcd strip 1319, "Automation", which demonstrates the futility of automating software tasks, claims that "automating" comes from the roots "auto-" (self) and "mating" (screwing). Another strip involves a Stealth Pun when the wrong superhero shows up to foil an attack of giant insects...
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From the Latin "Intro Ducere" / int_61750a5f	comment	Fletcher in Porridge averts it for humorous effect in this exchange with Warden Barrowclough:
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From the Latin "Intro Ducere" / int_6209e22d	comment	In Malcolm X, Malcolm uses this to explain his feelings towards Elijah Muhammad, who had saved his life (in narration lifted directly from his Autobiography).
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From the Latin "Intro Ducere" / int_65aabcf0	comment	In Buso Renkin, Doctor Butterfly says that the word "Carnival" comes from "cannibalism" (It Makes Sense in Context). Nobuhiro Watsuki said in the liner notes of the tankoubon that this was a goof on his part ("carnival" is indeed cognate to Latin carnem, "meat", but the linkage actually comes from abstention from meat for Lent) and said to call it Butterfly's mistake In-Universe.
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From the Latin "Intro Ducere" / int_740815bb	comment	In Interesting Times, we get a dodgy etymology of "teleport": "It comes from tele, meaning 'I see,' and 'porte,' meaning 'to go,' the whole meaning 'I see it's gone.' *It actually derives from "tele" = "far", and "port" meaning "door". Thus, a door to a faraway place.
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From the Latin "Intro Ducere" / int_7460586f	comment	In Archer Krieger is discussing replacing Ray's paralyzed legs with mechanical ones. Ray refers to them as "robotic legs", but Krieger says that it's not robotics, it's bionics, "From the Greek, for like—'kick-ass'!" Ray asks him if there's a Greek word for "insane".
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From the Latin "Intro Ducere" / int_7616a253	comment	Watanuki does this to a woman in Ã—Ã—Ã—HOLiC, explaining that she doesn't love Doumeki, only admires him. Admiration, from Latin "Ad" - "On" and "Mirare" - "being amazed". At least, that's how it goes in Portuguese. He then proceeds to explain the Japanese etymology, and proceeds to use said little etymology lesson to make his point.
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From the Latin "Intro Ducere" / int_78db2b3b	comment	In Gulliver's Travels, Gulliver says that he "could never learn the true etymology" of the name of the floating island of Laputa. He rejects one derivation from "Lap, in the old obsolete language, signifies high; and untuh, a governor," and proposes his own hypothesis that "Laputa was quasi Lap outed; lap signifying properly the dancing of the sunbeams in the sea, and outed, a wing; which, however, I shall not obtrude, but submit to the judicious reader." Even more judicious is Swift's failure to suggest the obvious Spanish translation.
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From the Latin "Intro Ducere" / int_8c371d03	comment	A running joke in The World's End has the replicants take exception to being called robots because "the word robot comes from an Old Czech word 'robotnik' meaning 'slave'. And we're not slaves." (They're partially correct; robot comes from the modern Czech word "robota", meaning "serf labor" or "drudgery".)
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From the Latin "Intro Ducere" / int_9aac0273	comment	In Men at Arms, Carrot points out that, as a policeman — from polis, city — he is a man of the city. Later, when Carrot brings this up to the city's ruler, Lord Vetinari, Vetinari responds by pointing out that "politician" has the same root.
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From the Latin "Intro Ducere" / int_9b20c46e	comment	Lords and Ladies:
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From the Latin "Intro Ducere" / int_9d41fc3b	comment	Several times in Despicable Me, new villain Vector explains the origin of his name, neatly combining this trope with Don't Explain the Joke:
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From the Latin "Intro Ducere" / int_a5549ed0	comment	A totally serious conspiracy theory claimed that "lightning fall from heaven" (in reference to Luke 10:18, written as "I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven" in the King James Version) in Hebrew (as Jesus spoke) was baraq u bamah, i.e. Barack Obama, and this was a prophecy that Obama was The Antichrist - "I beheld Satan as Barack Obama". It's wrong on two counts: 1. Jesus spoke Aramaic, not Hebrew, and 2. even if he did speak Hebrew, the phrase they're claiming he would have said is complete gibberish.
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From the Latin "Intro Ducere" / int_a59e5413	comment	The father in My Big Fat Greek Wedding frequently claims that he can show the Greek root of any word. He's actually making most of it up.
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From the Latin "Intro Ducere" / int_a656a587	comment	In The Truth, Otto comments that another word for iconographer might be "photographer", based on the Latatian word "photos", which means "to prance about like a pillock ordering people around as if you own the place", although the rest of the conversation is based on it meaning "light" (Otto has invented "obscurography", where he takes pictures with darkness).
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From the Latin "Intro Ducere" / int_b9eade07	comment	In The Water-Babies, Charles Kingsley provides this definition of "amphibious", which is of course wrong in absolutely every respect, presumably indicating his opinion of the hypothetical "Government pupil-teacher" he attributes it to:
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From the Latin "Intro Ducere" / int_bff78dfe	comment	In Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, when Lex Luthor is introduced as a "philanthropist" as he's about to give a speech at a charity gala he's hosting, he begins his speech by pointing out that philanthropist is a greek word meaning a "a lover of humanity".
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From the Latin "Intro Ducere" / int_cac1f772	comment	CSI had one when Grissom investigated the death of a man who had Down's syndrome. After catching the murderer, Grissom calls back to an earlier conversation where the murderer called the victim a "retard" (Grissom corrected him, of course) and informs him that "retard" means "to hinder", so the killer's life "just got retarded".
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From the Latin "Intro Ducere" / int_d0799db8	comment	In Jurassic Park, Dr. Grant starts describing velociraptors, mentioning their birdlike qualities. He declares that "Even the word "raptor" means bird of prey!" That is true.... but only in English. The "raptor" in "velociraptor" is a latin word meaning "seizer or "thief"note it just happened to evolve into the meaning "bird of prey" in English somewhere down the line and velociraptor was so named because the scientists describing it thought that they raided nests, stealing eggs and hatchlings. Velociraptors are very birdlike, and since Jurassic Park introduced to the public the idea that dinosaurs are the ancestors of birds scientists have determined the velociraptors probably even had feathers, making them even more birdlike, but their naming is just a coincidence.
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From the Latin "Intro Ducere" / int_d461f757	comment	"Adam" is actually derived from the Hebrew Adama (sorry, Galactica fans, emphasis on the last syllable) meaning "earth" or "soil" (because, you know, Adam was made from earth/soil...). There are a bunch of Hebrew puns and Just So Stories in the old testament that really don't work well in translation or without their cultural background.
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From the Latin "Intro Ducere" / int_dcb07085	comment	Soul Music has a semi-accurate etymology of "wizard". Susan reflects that the word derives from "wise", which is true - but the accompanying footnote claims "From the Old wys-ars: lit. one who, at the bottom, is very smart.
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From the Latin "Intro Ducere" / int_e4e6153f	comment	In the Merry Gentry series, the narrator's monologue often explains the Gaelic origins of certain words, and connects their modern, metaphorical meaning to the ancient, literal meaning used by the fey in the story. For instance, "slogan" is a corruption of "slaugh-gairn" (Battle Cry), so called because Celtic war cries were a kind of incantation, calling on the faerie slaugh to help them. She also describes an actress as "glamorous" as a way of pointing out that her faerie power and her fame are synergistic.
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From the Latin "Intro Ducere" / int_e7e37776	comment	In Firefly, River comments on Mal's name, saying, "Mal. Bad. In the Latin." While technically this is true, in Mal Reynolds' case, "Mal" is short for "Malcolm", a Scottish name meaning "Follower of St. Columba."
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From the Latin "Intro Ducere" / int_fbd24f71	comment	Twilight Gets A Puppy: In season 4, chapter 57, an in-universe version of The World of Darkness features "were-ponies", with a passage from Spike's POV to rationalise the Orphaned Etymology.
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From the Latin "Intro Ducere" / int_fe08cb30	comment	The Punisher (2017): Frank's sidekick makes a point by claiming that the name of Cerberus, the canine guardian of the Greek underworld, comes from the Greek word for "spotted," meaning that the hellhound's original name was Spot. This is actually a real hypothesis of where the name comes from, but it is only one of several guesses, and there is no academic consensus on the name's origin.
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From the Latin "Intro Ducere"	processingCategory2	Dialogue
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From the Latin "Intro Ducere"	processingCategory2	This Trope Name References Itself
From the Latin "Intro Ducere"	processingCategory2	Word Power
Jurassic Park (1993) / int_eeaadd10	type	From the Latin "Intro Ducere"
Malcolm X / int_eeaadd10	type	From the Latin "Intro Ducere"
My Big Fat Greek Wedding / int_eeaadd10	type	From the Latin "Intro Ducere"
The World's End / int_eeaadd10	type	From the Latin "Intro Ducere"
Dave Barry Slept Here / int_eeaadd10	type	From the Latin "Intro Ducere"
Dinotopia / int_eeaadd10	type	From the Latin "Intro Ducere"
From the New World / int_eeaadd10	type	From the Latin "Intro Ducere"
Lords and Ladies / int_eeaadd10	type	From the Latin "Intro Ducere"
Men at Arms / int_eeaadd10	type	From the Latin "Intro Ducere"
Merry Gentry / int_eeaadd10	type	From the Latin "Intro Ducere"
The Devil's Dictionary / int_eeaadd10	type	From the Latin "Intro Ducere"
The Water-Babies / int_eeaadd10	type	From the Latin "Intro Ducere"
Buso Renkin (Manga) / int_eeaadd10	type	From the Latin "Intro Ducere"
×××HOLiC (Manga)	seeAlso	From the Latin "Intro Ducere"
CDT Space Liner (Roleplay) / int_eeaadd10	type	From the Latin "Intro Ducere"
CSI / int_eeaadd10	type	From the Latin "Intro Ducere"
Firefly / int_eeaadd10	type	From the Latin "Intro Ducere"
Porridge / int_eeaadd10	type	From the Latin "Intro Ducere"
Time Team / int_eeaadd10	type	From the Latin "Intro Ducere"
Pentiment (Video Game) / int_eeaadd10	type	From the Latin "Intro Ducere"
Poker Night at the Inventory (Video Game) / int_eeaadd10	type	From the Latin "Intro Ducere"
Mameshiba (Web Animation) / int_eeaadd10	type	From the Latin "Intro Ducere"
Brother Bear 2 / int_eeaadd10	type	From the Latin "Intro Ducere"
×××HOLiC (Manga) / int_eeaadd10	type	From the Latin "Intro Ducere"

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