Desultor » Etymology http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/desultor Insolens verbum, tanquam scopulum, evitare. Thu, 12 Mar 2009 19:47:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ In which Desultor revisits his roots http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/desultor/2008/04/23/in-which-desultor-revisits-his-roots/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/desultor/2008/04/23/in-which-desultor-revisits-his-roots/#comments Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:44:57 +0000 desultor http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/desultor/2008/04/23/in-which-desultor-revisits-his-roots I was excited today by “prodrome“, which is sexy and fancy and new to me. This breaks down to “pro” – ahead – and “drome”, which contains a notion of running or a race. So we could call a prodrome a “forerunner” if we were feeling Englishy.

We see drome in “hippodrome” – a racecourse for horses – and in “syndrome” – a running-together. So we could say that the defining feature of a syndrome is symptoms running together – or “concurrency” if we were feeling Latinate.

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