{"id":18444,"date":"2019-10-25T16:18:30","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T16:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=18444"},"modified":"2019-10-25T16:18:30","modified_gmt":"2019-10-25T16:18:30","slug":"registering-the-matrix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=18444","title":{"rendered":"Registering the Matrix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/blog\/numberplates.jpg\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;\" alt=\"Language quiz image\" width=\"208\" height=\"167\"><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I learnt that the French for a number plate \/ license plate \/ vehilce registration plate is <strong>une plaque d&#8217;immatriculation<\/strong> [<a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.reverso.net\/english-french\/number%20plate\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>The word <strong>immatriculation<\/strong> means registration, and comes from the word <strong>immatriculer<\/strong> (to register), which comes from the Medieval Latin <em>immatriculare<\/em> (to join) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/immatriculer#French\">source<\/a>]. This comes from the Latin <em>m\u0101tr\u012bcula<\/em> (public register), a diminutive of <em>m\u0101tr\u012bx<\/em> (uterus, womb, source, origin, list, register) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/matriculate\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><em>M\u0101tr\u012bx<\/em> comes from Latin <em>m\u0101ter<\/em> (mother, woman, nurse, motherland), from the Proto-Italic <em>*m\u0101t\u0113r<\/em> (mother), from Proto-Indo-European <em>*m\u00e9h\u2082t\u0113r<\/em> (mother), which is the root of words for mother in many languages [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/mater#Latin\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>The English word matrix comes from the Latin <em>m\u0101tr\u012bx<\/em>, either directly, or via the Old French <em>matrice<\/em> (pregnant animal) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/matrix#English\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>I never know what connections I&#8217;ll find when I set off on an etymological adventure like this. Yesterday I found that matriculation and <em>m\u0101tr\u012bx<\/em> were connected, which inspired me to write this, but I wouldn&#8217;t have guessed that <em>m\u0101tr\u012bx<\/em> and <em>m\u0101ter<\/em> were also connected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I learnt that the French for a number plate \/ license plate \/ vehilce registration plate is une plaque d&#8217;immatriculation [source]. The word immatriculation means registration, and comes from the word immatriculer (to register), which comes from the Medieval Latin immatriculare (to join) [source]. This comes from the Latin m\u0101tr\u012bcula (public register), a diminutive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,107,111,10,15,34,45,46,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-etymology","category-french","category-language","category-latin","category-old-french","category-proto-indo-european","category-proto-italic","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18444"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18455,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18444\/revisions\/18455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}