However, while Apollo has a great number of appellations in Greek myth, only a few occur in Latin literature, chief among them Phoebus ( ; Φοίβος, Phoibos, literally " radiant "), which was very commonly used by both the Greeks and Romans in Apollo's role as the god of light.

The Greek sculptors considered the senses more important, and the proportions were used to unite the sensible with the intellectual.

The last stage in the development of the Kouros type is the late archaic period ( 520 – 485 BC ), in which the Greek sculpture attained a full knowledge of human anatomy and used to create a relative harmonious whole.

Accordingly the modern study of marine and freshwater algae is called either phycology or algology, depending on whether the Greek or Latin root is used.

The Latin word came from Greek ἄβαξ abax " board strewn with sand or dust used for drawing geometric figures or calculating "( the exact shape of the Latin perhaps reflects the genitive form of the Greek word, ἄβακoς abakos ).

The vowels are significant in the Greek language, and the syllabical Linear B script which was used by the Mycenaean Greeks from the 16th century BC had 87 symbols including 5 vowels.

The Greek alphabet, in its Euboean form, was carried over by Greek colonists to the Italian peninsula, where it gave rise to a variety of alphabets used to write the Italic languages.

One, the ABCDE order later used in Phoenician, has continued with minor changes in Hebrew, Greek, Armenian, Gothic, Cyrillic, and Latin ; the other, HMĦLQ, was used in southern Arabia and is preserved today in Ethiopic.

The Phoenician letter names, in which each letter was associated with a word that begins with that sound, continue to be used to varying degrees in Samaritan, Aramaic, Syriac, Hebrew, Greek and Arabic.

If the Greek letter is used, it is assumed to be a Fourier transform of another function,

Phoenician gave way to a number of new writing systems, including the Greek alphabet and Aramaic, a widely used abjad.

In English the noun alpha is used as a synonym for " beginning ", or " first " ( in a series ), reflecting its Greek roots.

Before the mention of Alemanni in the time of Caracalla, you would search in vain for Alemanni in the moderately detailed geography of southern Germany in Claudius Ptolemy, written in Greek in the mid-2nd century ; it is likely that at that time, the people who later used that name were known by other designations.

Even though the stone had been around centuries and was known to both the Sumerians and the Egyptians, both who used the gem for decoration and for playing important parts in their religious ceremonies, any agate of this color from Sicily, once an ancient Greek colony, is called Greek agate.

The Greek meter here is relatively simple, comprising the Greater Asclepiad, adroitly used to convey, for example, the rhythm of jostling cups ().

While scholars wanting to learn Greek used to employ learned Greeks to teach them directly, the Aldine editions, edited by Greek scholars, allowed many scholars across Europe to study Greek.

It represented the Argo, the ship used by Jason and the Argonauts in Greek mythology.

Similarly, in the Greek Magical Papyri, the term " Aion " is often used to denote the All, or the supreme aspect of God

The word " apoptosis " () is used in Greek to describe the " dropping off " or " falling off " of petals from flowers, or leaves from trees.

Union soldiers at times used it for sleeping quarters to escape from the rain or other inclement weather, and some of them left momentoes of their stay by carving their names and small tokens on its walls and beams.

The declarative operation EQU is used to equate symbolic names to item numbers ( see page 85 ).

The resultant conflicting usage of index words or electronic switches may be avoided by reducing the number of symbolic names used, e.g., through the proper use of the EQU, XRELEASE, or SRELEASE statements.

These glyphs were used as pronunciation guides for logograms, to write grammatical inflections, and, later, to transcribe loan words and foreign names.

In Cyrillic originally the letters were given names based on Slavic words ; this was later abandoned as well in favor of a system similar to that used in Latin.

Aphrodite also has many other local names, such as Acidalia, Cytherea and Cerigo, used in specific areas of Greece.

These names indicate the orbital shape and are used to describe the electron configurations.

In a genre such as farce or parody, anagrams as names may be used for pointed and satiric effect.

i. 24 ) refers to the ' potent names ' used by Egyptian sages, Persian Magi, and Indian Brahmins, signifying deities in the several languages.

Lists of these " year names " henceforth became a calendrical system used in most independent Mesopotamian city-states.

Their logo of the anchor and dolphin is represented today in the symbols and names used by some modern publishers such as Doubleday.

For many years there was confusion amongst botanists over the generic names Amaryllis and Hippeastrum, one result of which is that the common name " amaryllis " is mainly used for cultivars of the genus Hippeastrum, widely sold in the winter months for their ability to bloom indoors.

The common name " naked lady " used for Amaryllis is also used for other bulbs with a similar growth and flowering pattern ; some of these have their own widely used and accepted common names, such as the resurrection lily ( Lycoris squamigera ).

Sometimes, Roman numerals are still used for enumeration of lists ( as an alternative to alphabetical enumeration ), for sequential volumes, to differentiate monarchs or family members with the same first names, and ( in lower case ) to number pages in prefatory material in books.

He never used the first two of his given names, preferring to be known as Hermann Kolbe.

The Achaeans (, Akhaioí ) is one of the collective names used for the Greeks in Homer's Iliad ( used 598 times ) and Odyssey.

The other names are the Danaans (, Danaoi used 138 times in the Iliad ), Argives ( used 182 times in the Iliad ) while Hellenes (, Hellenes ) was used only once.

* Variable names were limited to two letters ; they could be made longer, but only the first two letters would be used.

* The () or () order shown in the table below, used where lists of names and words are sorted, as in phonebooks, classroom lists, and dictionaries, groups letters by similarity of shape.

The fragmentary fossil Onychopteryx from the Eocene of Argentina and the quite complete but no less enigmatic Early-Middle Eocene ( Ypresian-Lutetian, some 48 million years ago ) Foro panarium are sometimes used to argue for a hoatzin-cuculiform ( including turacos ) link.

* Jacksonian ( stage ), a regional stratigraphic stage used in the southeastern US, part of the upper Eocene series.

The thermal maximum caused a great extinction which is used to distinguish the Eocene fauna from that of the Paleocene.