Should Be Studying

[debka_notion]

I should be studying, but I'm taking a brief break to exclaim in amazement/humor/pleasure at some of the words I've encountered/acquired this semester:
-paytanic
-amphibolous
-proleptically
-prolegomon
-actu
-intertext
and the list continues- those are just the ones on my mind right now. Isn't academia wonderful?

Edit: More words as I run across them in notes and the like:
apotropaic
angelomorphism

Comments

[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

I know "proleptically" and "intertext", but not the other ones. Teach me the meanings so that I can boggle the Word spellcheck!

[doctor-nine.livejournal.com]

"in actu" would indeed be Latin. Literal definition would be something like "in the doing," "in the performance," something to that effect. It's from "agere" ultimately, I guess -- that crazy verb meaning to do/drive/lead/etc.

Oh, and actu by itself is meaningless, as that would be the ablative case. The free-standing word in the nominative is "actus."