605: pedagogue and synagogue Aug 4, 2016

A lot of the time it is possible to see if words are related by just looking at the similarities in spelling or pronunciation. 'Pedagogue' comes ultimately from the Greek 'paidagōgos' which was a slave who accompanied a child to school. This was already covered on November 8, 2015, but now it should be noted that 'agōgos' meaning ‘guide’ comes from 'again' meaning 'lead'. 'Synagogue' as well comes the Greek, 'sun-' meaning ‘together’ and 'agein'. Although sometimes a connection in the meaning can be made words ending in '-logue' like 'catalogue' and 'prologue' do not fit into the aforesaid model for the creation of words, as they come from 'logos' which means 'saying'.