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A few inches of wood that turns a person into an authority.
means A raised platform at the front of a room where speakers, dignitaries, or honored guests sit or stand above the crowd.
from From Old French 'deis,' a table or platform, which came from Latin 'discus' — a disk or quoit, and by extension a flat plate or table. The same 'discus' branches off into 'disc,' 'disk,' and 'dish,' so the slab of authority you stand on shares a root with the plate you eat from.
- origin
- From Latin discus, the same root as disk.
- height tax
- Even one step up commands measurable extra attention.
- medieval flex
- Lords ate on raised daises above their seated servants.
- courtroom kin
- The judge's bench is just a dais with rules.
- misspelled often
- Frequently confused with dias, which means nothing.