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Julius Hamilton (Jun 16 2024 at 18:30):Amo novas linguas discere.
Julius Hamilton (Jun 16 2024 at 18:36):I imagine learning Latin to be an amazing experience for an English speaker, because of how fraught with Latinate words English is.
Discere means to learn, and is (citation needed) related to words like discern, disciple, and discipline. Mind blown.
Alexander Campbell (Jun 17 2024 at 08:09):'Discern' comes from the Latin compound verb 'dis-cerno'. The simple verb 'cerno' means 'decide/distinguish', and is cognate with Greek κρίνω, from which comes English 'critic', 'crisis', etc. Other compounds and cognates of 'cerno' have come into English, such as 'decree' (from the supine stem 'decretum' of the compound verb 'de-cerno'), and 'concern' (from post-classical 'con-cerno'), also 'crime' and 'discriminate' (both from the derived noun 'crimen'). For a category theory connection, apparently French 'crible' (= sieve) also comes from the same root.