by neufer » Mon Aug 14, 2017 6:13 pm
Case wrote:
I fondly remember an impressively large raised relief world map on the wall in a class room in elementary school. The exaggeration of height differences was not bothersome at all. Even then, the young minds looks for the extremes: Mt Everest in the vast Himalayan range and Tibetan Plateau, and the deep parts east of the Philippines. And how flat my local region was in comparison.
- It brought your young mind relief.
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=relief wrote:
relief (n.1) late 14c., "alleviation of distress, hunger, sickness, etc; state of being relieved; that which mitigates or removes" (pain, grief, evil, etc.)," from Anglo-French relif, from Old French relief "assistance," literally "a raising, that which is lifted," from stressed stem of relever.
relief (n.2) "projection of figure or design from a flat surface," c. 1600, from French relief, from Italian rilievo, from rilevare "to raise," from Latin relevare "to raise, lighten".
flat (adj.) c. 1300, "stretched out (on a surface), prostrate, lying the whole length on the ground," from Old Norse flatr "flat." From c. 1400 as "without curvature or projection." Sense of "prosaic, dull" is from 1570s, on the notion of "featureless, lacking contrast." Used of musical notes from 1590s, because the tone is "lower" than a given or intended pitch.
map (n.) 1520s, shortening of Middle English mapemounde "map of the world" (late 14c.) from Medieval Latin mappa mundi "map of the world;" first element from Latin mappa "napkin, cloth" (on which maps were drawn), "tablecloth, signal-cloth, flag," said by Quintilian to be of Punic origin (compare Talmudic Hebrew mappa, contraction of Mishnaic menaphah "a fluttering banner, streaming cloth") + Latin mundi "of the world," from mundus "universe, world" (see mundane).
[quote="Case"]
I fondly remember an impressively large raised relief world map on the wall in a class room in elementary school. The exaggeration of height differences was not bothersome at all. Even then, the young minds looks for the extremes: Mt Everest in the vast Himalayan range and Tibetan Plateau, and the deep parts east of the Philippines. And how flat my local region was in comparison.[/quote]
[list]It brought your young mind relief.[/list]
[quote=" http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=relief"]
relief (n.1) late 14c., "alleviation of distress, hunger, sickness, etc; state of being relieved; that which mitigates or removes" (pain, grief, evil, etc.)," from Anglo-French relif, from Old French relief "assistance," literally "a raising, that which is lifted," from stressed stem of relever.
relief (n.2) "projection of figure or design from a flat surface," c. 1600, from French relief, from Italian rilievo, from rilevare "to raise," from Latin relevare "to raise, lighten".
flat (adj.) c. 1300, "stretched out (on a surface), prostrate, lying the whole length on the ground," from Old Norse flatr "flat." From c. 1400 as "without curvature or projection." Sense of "prosaic, dull" is from 1570s, on the notion of "featureless, lacking contrast." Used of musical notes from 1590s, because the tone is "lower" than a given or intended pitch.
map (n.) 1520s, shortening of Middle English mapemounde "map of the world" (late 14c.) from Medieval Latin mappa mundi "map of the world;" first element from Latin mappa "napkin, cloth" (on which maps were drawn), "tablecloth, signal-cloth, flag," said by Quintilian to be of Punic origin (compare Talmudic Hebrew mappa, contraction of Mishnaic menaphah "a fluttering banner, streaming cloth") + Latin mundi "of the world," from mundus "universe, world" (see mundane).[/quote]