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.
In 1762, Pulaski started his military career as a page of Carl Christian Joseph of Saxony, Duke of Courland and vassal of the Polish king. He spent six months at the ducal court in Mitau, during which the court was interned in the palaces by the Russian forces occupying the area.