10 April 2015

univocal

[yoo-niv-uh-kuh l, yoo-nuh-voh-]

adjective
1. having only one meaning; unambiguous.

Origin of univocal

Late Latin
1535-1545; < Late Latin ūnivōc (us) ( ūni- uni- + -vōcus, adj. derivative of vōx, stem vōc-, voice ) + -al1

Related forms
univocally, adverb

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Today’s aphorism

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

– Buddha

On this day

10 April 1815 – Indonesia’s Mount Tambora volcano begins a three month long eruption that lasted until 15 July 1815. It killed 71,000 people and affected the world’s climate for the next two years.

10 April 1912 – the ill-fated Titanic departs the port in Southampton, England bound for New York. On 14 April 1912, she hit an ice-berg and sank, killing more than 1,500 people.

10 April 1919 – death of Emiliano Zapata Salazar, Mexican revolutionary.

10 April 1979 – birth of Rachel Corrie, American peace activist. She was killed on 16 May 2003 when run over by an Israeli bulldozer that she was trying to stop from demolishing a Palestinian house in Gaza. Rachel was committed from an early age to human rights and caring for the poor as shown in this speech she gave in the fifth grade: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g__QAJ5gtQk