LEGACY (n.)
From late fourteenth century, legacie is a group of people sent on a mission. Latin legatus means “ambassador, envoy,” a noun derived from legare “send with a message, appoint by a last will.”
From Proto-Indo-European (PIE) root *leg- “to collect, gather.” Some derivatives indicate meaning “to speak,” i.e., “to gather words, to pick out words.”
Sentences using LEGACY:
- “I thought—if I could make life, I could prove myself worthy of living. I thought a child was a legacy, but she was just a child.”
- “I was a foolish and bumbling ambassador. As she grew, she pulled away. She stared out windows, pining for the world. I gathered her close like curtains. I wanted to suck time from her like venom.”
- “The word ‘foolish’ comes from the Sanskrit vatula-, meaning literally ‘inflated with wind, windy.’ And this is my definition of legacy—hollow, noisy, phony, precarious.”