April 2, 1999
A Digital Etymological Dictionary Unearths Greek and Latin Roots
Eugene J. Cotter knows that books can be cumbersome sometimes. A professor of classical studies and language at Seton Hall University, he has spent the past 35 years asking students to trace the ancestry of English words in bulky dictionaries, which takes a lot of time and involves flipping a lot of pages.
About nine years ago, Father Cotter started compiling a computer-based etymological dictionary that would streamline his students'
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