The al-prefix was probably added through confusion with another legal term, allegeance, an " allegation " ( the French allegeance comes from the English ).

The term " Almoravid " comes from the Arabic " al-Murabitun " () which is the plural form of " al-Murabit " literally meaning " One who is tying " but figuratively means " one who is ready for battle at a fortress ".

The term " antibacterial " derives from Greek ἀντί ( anti ), " against " + βακτήριον ( baktērion ), diminutive of βακτηρία ( baktēria ), " staff, cane ", because the first ones to be discovered were rod-shaped, and the term " antibiotic " derives from anti + βιωτικός ( biōtikos ), " fil for life, lively ", which comes from βίωσις ( biōsis ), " way of life ", and that from βίος ( bios ), " life ".

The term " adrenal " comes from ad-( Latin, " near ") and renes ( Latin, " kidney ").

However, it has been strongly argued that this was a point made out of mis-translation, as pointed out by Amin Malouf, and that the origin of the term in Middle Eastern culture comes from phrase Asasiyun, meaning those who follow the Asas ; believers in the foundation of faith.

It has been suggested that the term comes from the Black Stump Wine Saloon that once stood about 10 kilometres out of Coolah, New South Wales on the Gunnedah Road.

Some etymologists believe it comes from a dialectal pronunciation of the Portuguese " bandore " or from an early anglicisation of the Spanish word " bandurria ", though other research suggests that it may come from a West African term for a bamboo stick formerly used for the instrument's neck.

The first recorded use of the term Bretwalda comes from a West Saxon chronicle of the late 9th century that applied the term to Ecgberht, who ruled from 802 to 839.

The term " Bohemianism ", when used to mean " social unconventionality ", comes from the French bohémien " Gypsy " " because Romani people were thought to come from Bohemia, or because they perhaps entered the West through Bohemia ".

The term " Balkan " itself likely comes from Turkish, meaning " a chain of wooded mountains.

The name comes from the medieval-Latin term balneum ( or balineum ) Mariae — literally, Mary's bath — from which the French bain de Marie, or bain-marie, is derived.

* According to culinary writer Giuliano Bugialli, the term comes from the Italian bagno maria, named after Maria de ' Cleofa, who developed the technique in Florence in the sixteenth century.

The term constitution comes through French from the Latin word constitutio, used for regulations and orders, such as the imperial enactments ( constitutiones principis: edicta, mandata, decreta, rescripta ).

The name of the hypothesis comes from the term the continuum for the real numbers.

Camouflage is a form of visual deception ; the term probably comes from camouflet, a French term meaning smoke blown in someone's face as a practical joke.

Each computer acts as both the client and the server which means all the computers on the network are equals, that is where the term peer-to-peer comes from.

The first component of the term comes from " cybernetics ", which is derived from the Greek κυβερνήτης ( kybernētēs, steersman, governor, pilot, or rudder ), a word introduced by Norbert Wiener for his pioneering work in electronic communication and control science.

The term " contra " comes from the Spanish contra, which means against but in this case is short for, in English " the counter-revolution ".

For terms such as these it is not possible and indeed not necessary to state a definition ; rather, one simply comes to understand the use of the term.

The term comes from the Greek δίς ( dis ), " twice " and πόλος ( pòlos ), " axis ".

The term economics comes from the Ancient Greek (, " management of a household, administration ") from (, " house ") + (, " custom " or " law "), hence " rules of the house ( hold )".

In Germany, the term was used mainly by proponents of closer adaptation to US policies, chiefly Franz Josef Strauss, but was initially coined in scholarly debate, and made known by the German political scientists Walter Hallstein and Richard Löwenthal, reflecting feared effects of withdrawal of US troops from Germany.

For the first time, the term " Kingdom ( Empire ) of the Germans " ( Regnum Teutonicorum ) was applied to a Frankish kingdom, although Teutonicorum at its founding originally meant something closer to " Realm of the Germanic peoples " or " Germanic Realm " than " realm of the Germans ".

However, the term is often used more loosely, describing horses with duplication of ancestors closer than the fourth generation.

This is often closer to what is meant when " molecular mass " and " molar mass " are used synonymously and may have derived from shortening of this term.

The English word commonwealth is a calque ( literal translation ) of res publica, and its use in English is closer to how the Romans used the term res publica.

There is even disagreement about the term " ragtime " itself ; experts such as David Jasen and Trebor Tichenor choose to exclude ragtime songs from the definition but include novelty piano and stride piano ( a modern perspective ), while Edward A. Berlin includes ragtime songs and excludes the later styles ( which is closer to how ragtime was viewed originally ).

" Unlike the modern usage of the term, these creatures are closer to the modern idea of androids or even clones, as they can be mistaken for humans and can think for themselves.

Long before Harry Nyquist had his name associated with sampling, the term Nyquist rate was used differently, with a meaning closer to what Nyquist actually studied.

Within the term of President Néstor Kirchner, from 2003 onwards, Argentina suspended its policy of automatic alignment with the United States and moved closer to other Latin American countries.

Although the term " dîme " comes from the Latin decima (" one tenth ", with the same origin as that of the U. S. coin, the dime ), the " dîme " rarely reached this percentage and ( on the whole ) it was closer to 1 / 13th of the agricultural production.

The motion of a charged body in a magnetic field, B involves the velocity through the Lorentz force term v × B, and might seem at first to be asymmetric under T. A closer look assures us that B also changes sign under time reversal.

However, the term was also used to describe advocates of market-orientated reform within the Australian Labor Party, whose position was closer to what has become known as the ' Third Way '.

The Italians usually used only tone blocks, for a very different effect, much closer to the drawings the term was originally used for, or watercolours.

Galton coined the term regression to describe an observable fact in the inheritance of multi-factorial quantitative genetic traits: namely that the offspring of parents who lie at the tails of the distribution will tend to lie closer to the centre, the mean, of the distribution.

In sharp contrast to this population genetic phenomenon of regression to the mean, which is best thought of as a combination of a binomially distributed process of inheritance ( plus normally distributed environmental influences ), the term " regression to the mean " is now often used to describe completely different phenomena in which an initial sampling bias may disappear as new, repeated, or larger samples display sample means that are closer to the true underlying population mean.

The term " orgiastic " does not generally connote group sex and is closer to the classical roots and this metaphorical usage.

The term liberalism is in Sweden and most of Europe not used in the way that it is currently used in the United States to denote modern liberals and progressives, but is closer to the traditional meaning of classical liberalism.

The term " neoconservative " ( sometimes shortened to " neocon ") was initially used in the 1930s, to describe American liberals who criticized communists for following a path closer to Soviet communism.

Though sometimes used interchangeably, sprechgesang is a term directly related to the operatic recitative manner of singing ( in which pitches are sung, but the articulation is rapid and loose like speech ), whereas sprechstimme is closer to speech itself ( because it does not emphasise any particular pitches ).

Instead of calling it a " parody mass ", the term " Imitation mass " has been suggested as being both more precise and closer to the original usage, since the term " parody " is based on a misreading of a late 16th century text.

In Portuguese, the words and are synonyms, the latter closer to the Latin term.

The term palatalized vowel is also sometimes used, to refer to a vowel that has become fronter or closer.

In baseball statistics, the term save is used to indicate the successful maintenance of a lead by a relief pitcher, usually the closer, until the end of the game.