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 15 days 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 14 days ago
Are they a couple or not?
cuzinron47 14 days ago
She has a lot of tolerance to hang out with the classless.
Not Again 14 days ago
Call me when you have no class.
gcarlson 14 days 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.