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Sometimes a falsely-assumed derivation of a word has reacted upon and modified its spelling. Thus it may have been with 'hurricane. In the tearing up and hurrying away of the canes in the sugar plantations by this West-Indian tornado, many have seen an explanation of the name; just in the same way as the Latin 'calamitas' has been derived from 'calamus, the stalk of the corn.
"Quanta pernis pestis veniet, quanta labes larido, Quanta sumini absumedo, quanta callo calamitas Quanta lanies lassitudo." Compare our verse: "Right round the rugged rock the ragged rascal ran." Ennius and the tragedians make it express the stronger emotions, as violence: "Priamo vi vitam evitari." A hard letter expresses difficulty or effort, e.g. manibus magnos divellere montis.
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