Via Mizner today exactly as Addison Mizner envisioned it to be. Via Mizner The Via Mizner is a historic site in Palm Beach, Florida. It is located at 337–339 Worth Avenue. On April 1, 1993, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. A “via” is derived from the Latin word meaning “way” or “path” and is defined by the World English Dictionary as a “way, road, channel, course of uncertain origin.” Via Mizner meanders approximately and connects Palm Beach's premier shopping street, Worth Avenue, to Peruvian Avenue, one city block to the north. The Via was created by
Latin obscenity from the root "trityo-" ("third") and originally meant a third party. The two meanings of "testēs" open the door for puns such as the following from Martial (2.72): Or Cicero's "testīs ēgregiōs!" ("outstanding witnesses!") in his amusing account of two witnesses hiding naked in a public bathhouse. The diminutive "testiculī" was entirely confined to the anatomical sense; it is used 33 times by the medical writer Celsus, but "testis" not at all. The satirists Persius and Juvenal also used the word "testiculī". Veterinary writers use both "testis" and "testiculus". In Catullus (63.5), the testicles are famously referred to as "pondera"