1 An Overview of the Current Supreme Court Justices The Supreme Court of the United States, or Scotus, was founded in 1789 with the ratification of the United States Constitution.
Etymology (/ËÉt.ÉªËmÉl.É.dÊi/) is the study of the history of words, their origins, and how their form and meaning have changed over time. By extension, the term the etymology (of a word) means the origin of the particular word. For a language such as Greek with a long written history, etymologists make use of texts in these languages and texts about the languages to gather knowledge about how words were used during earlier periods of their history and when they entered the languages in question.
[Middle English, from Scottish Gaelic clann, family, from Old Irish cland, offspring, from Latin planta, plant, sprout; see plat- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.] Word History: The word clan is, from the etymological point of view, the same word as plant. Such a statement may at first appear unlikely to English speakers, since the two words begin with very different consonants. But to the speakers of the Celtic language of Ireland in the 400s, known as Old Irish, c and p sounded quite similar.