Word Origin and History for relative Expand. n. late 14c., a relative pronoun, from Old French relatif (13c.), from Late Latin relativus having reference or relation, from Latin relatus, past participle of referre to refer (see refer). Meaning person in the same family first recorded 1650s.
Kazimierz PuÅaski, English Casimir Pulaski (born March 6, 1745, Warsaw, Polandâdied October 11/15, 1779, aboard ship between Savannah, Georgia, and Charleston, South Carolina, U.S.), Polish patriot and U.S. colonial army officer, hero of the Polish anti-Russian insurrection of 1768 (the Confederation of Bar) and of the American Revolution.
The best (and best-known) Pulaski Day tribute comes from one-time Chicagoan Sufjan Stevens. On his album Illinois, Stevens used âCasimir Pulaski Dayâ to remember both the holiday and his friend, whoâd been battling bone cancer.