The name is Medieval Latin for he has declared upon oath.

The English word amber derives from the Arabic anbar, via Medieval Latin ambar and Old French ambre.

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Documents again began to be written in Sumerian, although Sumerian was becoming a purely literary or liturgical language, much as Latin later would be in Medieval Europe.

escolier " student ", from earlier escoler ), " knight bachelor ", a young squire in training, ultimately from Medieval Latin baccalāris ( cf.

The word " cipher " in former times meant " zero " and had the same origin: Middle French as < span lang =" fr "> cifre </ span > and Medieval Latin as cifra, from the Arabic صفر ṣifr = zero ( see Zero — Etymology ).

The word clock is derived ultimately ( via Dutch, Northern French, and Medieval Latin ) from the Celtic words clagan and clocca meaning " bell ".

The name was transmitted via the Latin delphinus ( the romanization of the later Greek δελφῖνος – delphinos ), which in Medieval Latin became dolfinus and in Old French daulphin, which reintroduced the ph into the word.

Possibly a borrowing ( probably via Frankish or Old High German ) of the Medieval Latin word foresta " open wood ", foresta was first used by Carolingian scribes in the Capitularies of Charlemagne to refer specifically to the king's royal hunting grounds.

The exact origin of Medieval Latin foresta is obscure.

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Its name derives from the operative words of the writ in Medieval Latin:

Medieval popular etymology also associated it ( wrongly ) with derivations from the Latin impetere ( to attack ).

In the Early Medieval period any well-equipped horseman could be described as a ' knight ,' or miles in Latin.

The word originates from the Latin loco – " from a place ", ablative of locus, " place " + Medieval Latin motivus, " causing motion ", and is a shortened form of the term locomotive engine, first used in the early 19th century to distinguish between mobile and stationary steam engines.

* Medieval Latin

Letter shapes have changed over the centuries, including the creation for Medieval Latin of lower case forms which did not exist in the Classical period.

* Medieval philosophical work in Latin

The name marjoram ( Old French majorane, Medieval Latin majorana ) does not directly derive from the Latin word maior ( major ).

The word manuscript derives from the Medieval Latin manuscriptum, a word first recorded in 1594 as a Latinisation of earlier Germanic words used in the Middle Ages: compare Middle High German hantschrift ( c. 1450 ), Old Norse handrit ( bef.

The name Mecklenburg derives from a castle named " Mikilenburg " ( Old Saxon: " big castle ", thus the Grecised name variant Megalopolis used in Medieval Latin sources ), located between the cities of Schwerin and Wismar.

* Medieval Latin

In England during the Early Medieval period, various forms of folk magic could be found amongst the Anglo-Saxons, who referred to such practitioners as wicca ( male ) or wicce ( female ), or at times also as dry, practitioners of drycraeft, the latter of which have been speculated as being anglicised terms for the Irish drai, a term referring to druids, who appeared as anti-Christian sorcerers in much Irish literature of the period.

The Westphalian Vehmic courts developed from the High Medieval “ free courts ” (), which had jurisdiction within a “ free county ” ().

The word " zenith " derives from the inaccurate reading of the Arabic expression (), meaning " direction of the head " or " path above the head ", by Medieval Latin scribes in the Middle Ages ( during the 14th century ), possibly through Old Spanish.

Medieval Islamic writers believed that the name “ Samarra ” is derived from the Arabic phrase “ Sarra man ra ’ a ” (), which translates to “ A joy for all who see ”.

The Museum of Medieval Stockholm (), centrally located north of the Royal Palace, was constructed around old monuments excavated in an extensive archaeological dig ( dubbed Riksgropen, " National / State Pit ") in the late 1970s.

The word itself is a corruption of the Medieval Greek afendis ( αφέντης ), from ancient Greek authentēs (), generally " doer, master ".

Medieval scholars may be considered forerunners of modern anthropology as well, insofar as they conducted or wrote detailed studies of the customs of peoples considered " different " from themselves in terms of geography.

Codex Zographensis in the Glagolitic alphabet from Medieval Bulgaria

Slievemore is rich in archaeological monuments that span a 5, 000 year period from the Neolithic to the Post Medieval.

Alexander III ( Medieval Gaelic: Alaxandair mac Alaxandair ; Modern Gaelic: Alasdair mac Alasdair ) ( 4 September 1241 – 19 March 1286 ) was King of Scots from 1249 to his death.

From the Medieval Arabic king lists of both African states, allegedly copied from earlier lists in ancient Near Eastern languages it appears that the state founders claimed to be deportees of the Assyrian empire who had fled from Syria and Samaria after the defeat of the Egyptian-Assyrian army at Carchemish in 605 BCE.

The word bronze is borrowed from, itself borrowed from ( compare Medieval ), whose origin is unclear.

In The Medieval Hero on Screen: Representations from Beowulf to Buffy, Diana Slampyak claims that Jen is a medieval hero in exile.

* Medieval and Renaissance manuscripts, including Vulgates, Breviaries, Contracts, and Herbal Texts from 12-17th century, Center for Digital Initiatives, University of Vermont Libraries

Medieval surgeons were very well capable of setting and caring for bone fractures resulting from blunt weapons.

The 12 year cycle, including Turkish / Mongolian translations of the animal names ( known as sanawat-e turki سنوات ترکی ,) remained in use for chronology, historiography, and bureaucratic purposes in the Persian and Turkish speaking world from Asia Minor to India and Mongolia throughout the Medieval and Early Modern periods.

Medieval painting of Death ( personification ) | Death playing chess from Täby | Täby Church in Sweden

The clavichord is a European stringed keyboard instrument known from the late Medieval, through the Renaissance, Baroque and Classical eras.

To Medieval thinking, all things were connected with each other — a mode of thought that finds its traces today in the occult sciences or esoteric thought — ranging from astrology to believing certain minerals have certain beneficiary effects.

" The linking of David to earthly kingship was reflected in later Medieval cathedral windows all over Europe through the device of the Tree of Jesse, its branches demonstrating how divine kingship descended from Jesse, through his son David, to Jesus.

Damascus steel was a term used by several Western cultures from the Medieval period onward to describe a type of steel created in India and used in swordmaking from about 300 BC to 1700 AD.

It appears in Middle English as olifant or olifaunt, and was borrowed from Medieval French olifanz.

The Ship as Symbol in Prehistoric and Medieval Scandinavia: Papers from an International Research Seminar at the Danish National Museum, Copenhagen, 5 – 7 May 1994.