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Today's Word "Intransigent"
"We shouldn't dilute our own prestige by bending over backwards to accommodate every unreasonable demand of every intransigent government." -- Shashi Tharoor, 'Riot: A Love Story'
From Spanish "intransigente" from Latin in- "not" + transigentem, accusative present participle of transigir "to compromise," based on trans- "across" + agere "to do, act, move, drive." "Agere" is the origin of English "agent," "act," "actual," and "navigate," from navis "ship" + agere. "Ambassador" and "embassy" originate in Latin ambactus "servant" from *amb(i) "around" +ag-to- "one who moves," i.e. "one who goes around."
This news arrived on: 09/02/2005
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