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British General Charles Napier, on capturing the province of Sindh (in present-day Pakistan), reputedly despatched to headquarters a message of a single word — “Peccavi” — Latin for “I have sinned.”
[prelude]…piece…phi-lan-thro-pist
or, I’ll help, but,–”do it my way”…hot words on a sinned roof…
Nooo…actually it’s just short for the Spanish sin virtud, “without virtue.”
Wouldn’t the spanish “sin”… “without” be a synonym for missing the mark. ie. “missing virtue”
There are a couple of types of sins, as translated into english… sins of commision (acts of sinning) & sins of omission (not doing, what is known to be, the right thing to do).
Why then, does the bible quote God in Hebrews 10:17 “And their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.”… have “sins” & “iniquities” two separate meanings (ideas)?
Wow! Some of this supports my theories about sin. I often wondered if there is a relationship between Sin & the mathematical sine (y = sin x). They say the Journey of Jesus parallels the passage of our sun through the seasons & zodiac houses. Anything circular can be extrapolated to a sinewave, including the horoscope. The bit about synn meaning true and archery is interesting… why am I thinking of apples right now. Perhaps when big J took the sins of the world away, sine x = 0. It would be interesting to model this. Or have I missed the mark with all this… sinning
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jeorney: I encouage your work and support your development of your theories; parallels and models, presentation of, would be good work.
…great Random Lesson(sin) Little Arrows 1968…my apple for TEAcher
Just like sin, the etymology of the geometric sine is also related to archery as bowstring. Probably because it’s like a the chord of an arc.
Outrageously, sine is also related to folds, bends & curves in clothes.
Are you thinking what I am thinking? 
Origins of Trig Functions
Sine = bosom
Tangent =
This one was intellectually delicious. Its absolutely fascinating to think that the current meaning of the word sin didn’t exist until the bible was translated into English. Makes good sense though.
My random lesson for today–God Bless the Greeks and keep sin in hell or what the hell does hell mean?
the result of love or worship of money on a manic population, and the spiritual state of being as result.
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“money”cUltUreMarina, I’m glad you brought this up, and I can tell that you love the truth because if you didn’t you wouldn’t be looking and finding the actual meanings for the words you’ve given on your page and telling us about them hahah. Correction is such a good thing and I love it as well as you. You’re very lovely, but you knew that already. Thank you for loving what I love – a good word.
-Shawn
It is sinful to……..my Lady.
I am checking out your archives (among other things) and appreciate the etymologies (as well as your pulchritudinous appearance).
Wow, yeah.
I have heard that a thousand times (being a church goer), but the leap from its Bible meaning to the English term through archery, while oft referred to, is not turning up in the usual dictionary etymologies I can lay a quick hand on.
hrm…
It is amazing to see how words leap out when you know the origin of the words. Sin as an archery term is certainly a valid way of describing what the Greek word is all about. It is quite fascinating, so it would be interesting to know the origin of the word “transgress”, which is used in a similar way. IIRC it means to go beyond the mark with the prefix “trans” meaning going beyond or something similar, such as Trans-Tasman flights, which happen regularly from Australia (my home country,) to New Zealand, meaning they go beyond the Tasman sea, which separates the two countries, not the Harbour Bridge.
Where did you find the information about “sin” being a archery term?
Latin Origins of Trig Functions
Date: 11/20/98 at 02:23:33
From: Kim Taing
Subject: Definitions in Latin
What are the origins of the words sine, cosine, tangent, etc.?
Basically the six trigonometric functions: sin, cos, tan, cscin,
cos, tan, csc, sec, cot, sec, cot.
Thanks.
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Date: 11/20/98 at 08:39:06
From: Doctor Rick
Subject: Re: Definitions in Latin
Hi, Kim. I’ve wanted to put together this information for some time.
Thanks for getting me to do it! The following is based on etymological
information from Webster’s Third New International Dictionary.
I will refer to the following figure. O is the center of the circle
shown passing through A and D.
* B
* D /|
*/ |
/ |* |
/ | * |
/ | * |
/ | *|
/ | *|
/ | *
/ | *
/_______________________|____*
O C A
SINE comes from the Latin SINUS, meaning a bend or gulf, or the bosom
of a garment. (We know the word from its anatomical meaning: the
cavities or bays in the facial bones and from the names of some “bays”
on the moon.) The term was used as a translation for the Arabic word
“jayb,” the word for a sine that also meant the bosom of a garment, and
which in turn comes from the Sanskrit word “jiva” meaning a bowstring.
from above of –Jeorney says: 10.1.2March 5, 2009 at 4:10 am
Origins of Trig Functions
thanks Marina!*!
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That would be a Sin. You look comfortable in this video talking about a little word that can start a lot of very uncomfortable fires. Great work, I don’t know if anybody has kudo’ed your bravery yet. I hope it’s you that picks out the word suggestions to investigate & I must say you do a very good job in the three or so minutes your videos take. When you did “faggot a bundle of sticks” I admired the way you “pulled it off” Any ways this comment took way too long to write & hope it can be read in way less time……..zzzzz
I’m a Christian, and I have come across the analogy that Sin is deriven or associated with Archery. It’s to do with when we miss the target, and even fall short. In Christian terms, when we fall short of God’s standards (perfection), is when we sin.
what is perfection?…in terms of cults?…321