[si tacuissem]

Now, that's embarrassing. Normally, I wade through the whole thread before answering, but I stumbled over this "theory"/"theos" equivocation (,too) ...

repetitio est mater studiorum

[ndt]

"Normally, I wade through the whole thread before answering, but I stumbled over this "theory"/"theos" equivocation (,too)"

Actually I had to eat crow on that one. The earlier Latin form theoria does in deed seem to have the same root (God) as theocracy, theology etc. At least as far as I was able to find.