Once Upon A Word: A Word-Origin Dictionary For Kids-Building Vocabulary Through Etymology, Definitions & Stories

Once Upon a Word: A Word-Origin Dictionary for Kids-Building Vocabulary Through Etymology, Definitions & Stories

From the Author Did you know that... "Amateur" comes from the Latin amatorem, meaning "lover," because an amateur does something for the love of it rather than for work? "Thesaurus" essentially means "treasure trove," from the Greek thesauros, meaning "treasury" or "treasure chest"? "Clone," comes from the Greek klon, meaning "twig" because the earliest cloning process involved breaking twigs off of plants and using them to grow new ones? "Brilliant" comes from a Latin word literally meaning "shining like beryl" (beryl being a category of mineral/gemstone to which emerald and aquamarine belong)? "Algebra" comes from the Arabic al-jabr, meaning "a reunion of broken parts," and was both an Arabic mathematical term and a medical term for setting broken bones?Discover the magic of word origins in the pages of this new book of etymology, definitions, stories and more. Product Description Where do words come from?-Teaching kids ages 9 to 12 vocabulary through word origins The English language is made up of words from different places, events, and periods of time. Each of those words has an exciting story to tell us about where, when, how, and why they came about. Once Upon a Word is packed with easy-to-understand definitions and awesome word origin stories. With this dictionary for kids, you can understand the history and meaning of English words, improve your vocabulary and spelling, and learn to play with language. Explore how weird words like gnome, fun words like zombie, and common words like caterpillar came to exist. Discover why some words sound funnier than others (like cackle, sizzle, and twang) and why some groups of words start with the same few letters (like hydrate, hydrogen, and fire hydrant). In this dictionary for kids, there