Anticipation

I have anticipation. It’s been building for a couple of weeks and, today, hits crisis point!

I was intrigued by the word as well. Anti-something, perhaps? That would be fun.

Looking back through the etymology, the 15th and 16th centuries are pretty dull in their development. It’s only when you get back to Latin (as is so often the case) that things get more interesting.

The prefix was originally, of course, ante- (with an e rather than i) meaning before. In later times, ante- morphed to anti- (in a way it didn’t do in antecedent, antenatal and the like). Capare, means (or meant) to take.

Anticipate. To take before. And so, I have been taking before in a big way, and a great deal before!

Today, though, it happens. Anticipation will be resolved and, like a child’s Christmas or that burnt-into-our-adult-consciousness last day of school, it will be most exciting.

What are you anticipating? May it be with delight.

Until later,

Kirsten