“'To read' actually comes from the Latin reri 'to calculate, to think' which is not only the progenitor of 'read' but of 'reason' as well, both of which hail from the Greek arariskein 'to fit.' Aside from giving us 'reason,' arariskein also gives us an unlikely sibling, Latin arma meaning 'weapons.' It seems that 'to fit' the world or to make sense of it requires either reason or arms.”
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