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class (n.) – c. 1600, “group of students,” in U.S. especially “number of pupils in a school or college of the same grade,” from French classe (14c.), from Latin classis “a class, a division; army, fleet,” especially “any one of the six orders into which Servius Tullius divided the Roman people for the purpose of taxation;” traditionally originally “the people of Rome under arms” (a sense attested in English from 1650s), and thus akin to calare “to call (to arms),” from PIE root *kele- (2) “to shout.”…
I’ve been in shouting classes.
…School and university sense of “course, lecture” (1650s) is from the notion of a form or lecture reserved to scholars who had attained a certain level….
Algolei I 3 months ago
class (n.) – c. 1600, “group of students,” in U.S. especially “number of pupils in a school or college of the same grade,” from French classe (14c.), from Latin classis “a class, a division; army, fleet,” especially “any one of the six orders into which Servius Tullius divided the Roman people for the purpose of taxation;” traditionally originally “the people of Rome under arms” (a sense attested in English from 1650s), and thus akin to calare “to call (to arms),” from PIE root *kele- (2) “to shout.”…
I’ve been in shouting classes.
…School and university sense of “course, lecture” (1650s) is from the notion of a form or lecture reserved to scholars who had attained a certain level….
I’ve also been levelled in classes.
chief tommy 3 months ago
Are they a couple or not?
cuzinron47 3 months ago
She has a lot of tolerance to hang out with the classless.
Not Again 3 months ago
Call me when you have no class.
gcarlson 3 months ago
One of my theater nephews and a couple buddies would wear jackets and ties every Wednesday their senior year in high school to class up their classes.