Very interesting OP. One of my favorite sayings that I use regarding "words" is; A rose by any other name is still a rose and would smell just as sweet.

I studied Latin for years because I loved words since I was a kid as well. My dad had an incredible vocabulary and I was constantly forced by curiosity to look up the words he used and make them my own. I guess that is why I love reading...discovering words and how they are used. I enjoy playing mental games with myself when I am commuting and need to concentrate...like saying out loud all the words I can think of that end in -cious, or -tion, etc. ha ha Yeah, I need a life...but thanks for your post...a reminder that there is joy in the simplest of things...language and words...communicating effectively...

I enjoyed reading your post. You are an artist.

For myself, I don't think about individual words so much, but other things.

Apparently; as someone I know keeps reminding me, there is deliberately contrived hidden meaning planted within in a lot of Oscar Wilde's work.

I sometimes think about idioms ('I'm over the Moon' etc) and how much they are perfect little packages that convey so much using so little.

The study of etymology can reveal the organic birth of words. The pen is indeed mightier.

philanthropist. ??

The one I always mentally parse is "therapist".

Words are fascinating, yes. I'm reminded of something a wise loved one said...

 "When you meet someone who uses a word correctly, but mispronounces it, don't harangue or belittle them. They've learned that word on their own, through reading."

Sol is latin for sun, ancient mythology soul goes back to source, sun god, jesus is a solar deity, Ra, ect... soul/dier. Think about the mental conditioning. Sol/dier they forfeit their soul.

The soul and spirit are not exactly religious concepts. The soul is the natural state of being, a humans constitution. Who they are. The Spirit is the conscious perception of reality. Think... love, haste, hate, envy, jealousy ect...

We are talking esoteric or occult knowledge. Mainstream linguistics follows a more general socially accepted vernacular. No one likes to talk magic or double entendre. But facts are facts, what is is.

Take the term spirit, comes from latin spiritus i believe which relates to the Greek term psyche, have to do with mind or consciousness. Con- is a latin cognate meaning with.... ment is latin cognate from mentis meaning mind.. ect...

The term media... what is it... medes ancient phonecian city were all magi/atronomors were trained. Think 3 wise men, thats where they came from, medes. This is where we get the term media. What is media? Media is a communicative platform for the transference of Artistic and creative endeavors, a medium for the tranference of energies, concepts, thoughts, ideas, ect... when you go to a seance for the envocation of spiritual energies, the medium translates the spirit or consciousness.

This is pretty deep, more deep than most are willing to go. Maggi is where the term Magic Comes from, the maggi were trained in medes.

All words were created from a conscious thought. is spell, like cast a spell... the same as spell a term. I mean you are spelling out the vocation or envocation, envoking the spirit or conscious thought. Casting a spell envolves the envoking of the spoken words made manifest by the intent of the caster, the wish.

I am attempting to explain the action. I am not a magician or practicing wizard witch, I have done several studies which were derived from biblical text and ancient mysteries schools. Yin/Yang magic.

Rember the story of the crusifiction. How Pontius Pilot, not spell checking, washed his hands. He had a bowl brought to him to wash his hands. This was after the jews had chosen to slay the christ. He had to honor the wish of the jews, he was the magistrate. He washed his hands as a symbolic statement, or envocation of Spirit to cleanse his soul for the retribution of the crusifiction of the man jesus. Think karma, for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. An object in motion tends to stay in motion until it is met with an equal or opposit force. As above so below.

The spoken word or thought is made manifest from the conscious or spiritual realm into the physical reality. When a human consciously perceives and idea then manifests that idea or concept into reality, that is manifest destiny. That is magic! Not all that devil worsiping, spell casting, disappearing bs, that is mythology. This is it is Occult or Esoteric, hidden from common consciousness. Lying, manipulating, controling mental abuse, are technically forms of magic because you are manifesting destiny by unnatural means or acts/actions against the spirit.

This is actually a lot of fun for me. Yes I do believe in what I stated. Well known in occult societies. Not that I belong, I turned down an offer from the Masons, but for me its just doing the right thing for Earth and all beings, being a good human. The term Pagan is Latin, it means of the Earth.

I enjoy doing cryptic (aka British) style crosswords where there is a lot of word play in the clue in addition to the definition. For example:

Needless danger signal given off by aluminium gasket in plant (5,5)

would be FALSE ALARM

The clue can be broken down as a definition part (needless danger signal) and a cryptic part (the balance of the clue) which can be understood as AL (aluminium) + SEAL (gasket) in F-ARM (plant).

Yes, the whole puzzle is about finding such word play in the grid entries.

Liguistics 101, breaking down systemic morphemes into phonemes, looking at etymological roots, cognates.... you did not even need a class, that is an intelligence quotient!!

I have always been interested in the sources and roots of words, how they evolved from other words, how parts of words impart meaning. I did very badly in French in high school, but did pick up the mal=bad/bene=good and notice how that repeats in English. Malignant, benign, benefit, malign, malevolent/benevolent, malaise.

I used to take a word that I would see or read and repeat it in my head until the sound of the word made no sense and I lost all grasp understanding the word. I would repeat it until it became strange and foreign. Just random simple words. My fascination was in pronunciation of the word where yours seems to be in the construction and hidden meaning. Very interesting how your mind works.