Sunday, April 10, 2005

 

Flocking to the Gates of Rome

One might think that the ecclesiastical word cardinal is derived from the red bird of the same name, but in fact it's the other way around. Cardinal itself comes from the Latin word for the hinge of a door, cardo, cardinis. For details see the Online Etymology Dictionary.



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