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ENGLISH
PORTUGUESE LINGUISTICS & CULTURE |
Autor: | Márcio Farias |
E-mail: | marcio_osorio@oi.com.br |
Data: | 08/ABR/2007 12:01 PM |
Assunto: | bode expiatório |
Mensagem: |
"Expiatório." (We all write it with an "x"--not with an "s".) As much as many of our words derive from Latin, so does expiatório (expiatorius, ~a, ~um "que serve para expiar" [= that which causes expiation or which makes one a scapegoat]). |