Look to the Skies! Heaven-word Again

       Vincent Lloyd , writing in April 2014's Griffith Observer, gives us insight into some astronomical terms based on their etymology:

       Eclipse comes from the Greek "verb ekleipein,  'to leave out,' which is a combination of the prefix ek-, 'out' and the verb leipein, 'to leave.'...[A]n eclipse is an event in which the sun or the moon is 'left out' of the picture."  Very neat and pretty easy to remember.

       Universe is formed from two Latin words "unum, meaning 'one,' and versum, meaning 'turned.'"  As Lloyd puts it, the universe is "the whole thing turned into one."  "Turn" might have been a natural word to choose for the ancient world because even though they didn't know the earth itself was turning, they could see the wheel of the stars above them...turning.