Chapter 38 vocabulary words included:
coepit and
annus, leading us to wonder whether either or both was/were connected to the Latin words on the back of the U.S. Dollar Bill: "
annuit coeptis." It turns out that
annuit (He has favored) is not related to
annus (year). But
coeptis (beginning/undertaking) is the noun form of
coepit (he began). Click on this link for a full explanation of the symbols and words on the back of the dollar bill.
http://www.qsl.net/w5www/dollarbill.html
