Roman Words for People

The romans combined the latin prefix per meaning throug, to create peregrinus. This term evolved into the word pelegrin, which meant foreigner. And this term eventually evolved into the modern english word pilgrim. A young boy a pupis and a young girl a pupa equated little girls and dolls in latin. The terms became source of the word pupil in english, meaning a student. When you look into the centre of a person's eye, you can see a very small image of yourself reflected in the eyeball. They therefore used the word pupila, which literally meant little dull, to name that part of the eye, which also became pupil