Via Mizner 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 the eccentric, visionary architect, Addison Mizner in 1923 after
Vulgar Latin vocabulary ( 'knee joint' ), originally a veterinary term only, replaced the classical Latin word for leg ("crus") in most Romance languages. (cf. Fr. jambe, It. gamba). Cooking terms were also often borrowed from Greek sources; a calque based on a Greek term was "ficatum (iecur)" (goose's liver fattened with figs, see foie gras for more information), with the participle "ficatum" becoming the common word for liver in Vulgar Latin (cf. Sp. "hígado", Fr. "foie", It. "fegato", Pt "fígado", Romanian "ficat"). Important religious terms were also drawn from religious texts written in Greek, such as "episcopus" (bishop), "presbyter" (priest), "martyr" etc.