From Nancy Friedman, a link to this cartoon by Scott Hillburn: Oh, not a conjugal visit, a conjugational visit! Let’s conjugate, baby! The Latin verb conjugāre ‘to yoke together’ (con- ‘together’ plus jugāre ‘to join, yoke, marry’) lies behind both words. Conjugate came to English as a technical term from Latin grammar, meaning ‘to inflect (a … Continue reading A conjugational visit