Genetics ( from Ancient Greek, " genitive " and that from, " origin "), a discipline of biology, is the science of genes, heredity, and variation in living organisms.

Finnish folklorist Kaarle Krohn proposes that 20 of the 45 poems of The Kalevala are of possible Ancient Estonian origin or they at least deal with a motif of Estonian origin ( of the remainder, two are Ingrian and 23 are Western Finnish ).

Ancient Romans, such as Pliny the Elder ( Natural History, 3. 5 ) and Varro ( cited by Pliny ), speculated that the name Lusitania was of Roman origin, as when Pliny says lusum enim liberi patris aut lyssam cum eo bacchantium nomen dedisse lusitaniae et pana praefectum eius universae: that Lusitania takes its name from the lusus associated with Bacchus and the lyssa of his Bacchantes, and that Pan is its governor.

The word philosophy is of Ancient Greek origin: φιλοσοφία ( philosophía ), meaning " love of wisdom.

The origin of the word is from Ancient Greek, and the idea originally related to Buddhist monks in 550 BC.

Psychotherapy is an English word of Greek origin, deriving from Ancient Greek psyche ( ψυχή meaning " breath ; spirit ; soul ") and therapia ( θεραπεία " healing ; medical treatment ").

The word Panthera is probably of Oriental origin and retraceable to the Ancient Greek word panther, the Latin word panthera, the Old French word pantere, most likely meaning " the yellowish animal ", or from pandarah meaning whitish-yellow.

This novel is a continuation of the story that ends in a cliffhanger in The Vampire Lestat and explores the rich history and mythology of the origin of the vampires, which dates back to Ancient Egypt.

The personal table fork was most likely invented in the Eastern Roman, or Byzantine, Empire where they were in common use by the 4th century CE ( its origin may even go back to Ancient Greece, before the Roman period ).

It also became clear that the " astralizing " ( association or identification with heavenly bodies ) of Ancient Near Eastern deities was a late ( Iron Age ) development in no way connected with the origin of religion as theorized by some 19th-century schools of thought.

When Micipsa died in 118, he was succeeded jointly by his two sons Hiempsal I and Adherbal and Masinissa's illegitimate grandson, Jugurtha, of Ancient Libyan origin, who was very popular among the Numidians.

The Latin Myrrha originated from the Ancient Greek múrrā, but, ultimately, the word is of Semitic origin, with roots in the Arabic murr, the Hebrew mōr, and the Aramaic mūrā, all meaning " bitter " as well as referring to the plant.

However, it is possible to trace the origin of the word " ratio " to the Ancient Greek λόγος ( logos ).

the origin of Violin is traced into the Ravanastron. This Ancient instrument is said to have belonged to a sovereign of India 5000 BC.

The origin of turning dates to around 1300 BC when the Ancient Egyptians first developed a two-person lathe.

Ancient treatises also describe the connection of the origin of the swaras, or notes, to the sounds of animals and birds and man's effort to simulate these sounds through a keen sense of observation and perception.

Akathisia, or acathisia, is a syndrome characterized by unpleasant sensations of inner restlessness that manifests itself with an inability to sit still or remain motionless ( hence the word's origin in Ancient Greek: from-kathízein-" to sit " with a privative a as prefix expressing negation or absence ; literally meaning inability to sit ).

The binomial name is derived from Latin Podilymbus, a contraction of podicipes (" feet at the buttocks ", from podici -, " rump -" + pes, " foot ")— the origin of the name of the grebe order — and Ancient Greek kolymbos, " diver ", and podiceps, " rump-headed ", from podici-+ New Latin ceps.

There existed an oral tradition within Ancient Estonia of legends explaining the origin of the world.

: High creator, Ancient of Days, and unbegotten, who was without origin at the beginning and foundation, who was and shall be in infinite ages of ages ; to whom was only begotten Christ, and the Holy Ghost, co-eternal in the everlasting glory of Godhood.

In fact, Cyril Aldred proposed that her unusual name is actually a variant of the Ancient Egyptian word for " monkey ," making it unnecessary to assume a foreign origin for her.

The term " blunderbuss " is of Dutch origin, from the Dutch word donderbus, which is a combination of donder, meaning " thunder ", and bus, meaning " Pipe " ( Middle Dutch: busse, box, tube, from Late Latin, buxis, box, from Ancient Greek pyxίs ( πυξίς ), box: esp.

In his Ancient and Modern Britons, MacRitchie claimed that the Gypsies were not of foreign origin, but were in fact the more conservative element of the native British population who had retained their nomadic way of life while the majority adopted a settled lifestyle.

The inspiration oracular cult was probably introduced into Greece from Anatolia, which is the origin of Sibyl, and where existed some of the oldest oracular shrines.

Carved into the temple were three phrases: ( gnōthi seautón = " know thyself ") and ( mēdén ágan = " nothing in excess "), and ( eggýa pára d ' atē = " make a pledge and mischief is nigh "), In ancient times, the origin of these phrases was attributed to one or more of the Seven Sages of Greece,

Traces of evidence-based medicine's origin can be found in ancient Greece.

The origin of Christianity can also be traced through Koine Greek, as the Apostles used it to preach in Greece and the Greek-speaking world.

Though details of genealogy differ from one ancient author to another, the cultural significance of the mythic theme, that the descendants of Heracles, exiled after his death, returned after some generations in order to reclaim land that their ancestors had held in Mycenaean Greece, was to assert the primal legitimacy of a traditional ruling clan that traced its origin, thus its legitimacy, to Heracles.

The issue was settled in favour of the origin of Greek being that of a language which had both developed from all of these elements and then also taken its recognisable form all within Greece.

It is the business of the pope to look after the interests of the Roman empire, since the empire derives its origin and its final authority from the papacy ; its origin, because it was originally transferred from Greece by and for the sake of the papacy ... its final authority, because the emperor is raised to his position by the pope who blesses him, crowns him and invests him with the empire .... Therefore, since three persons have lately been elected king by different parties, namely the youth son of Henry VI, Philip Hohenstaufen, brother of Henry VI, and Otto Brunswick, of the Welf family, so also three things must be taken into account in regard to each one, namely: the legality, the suitability and the expediency of his election ...... Far be it from us that we should defer to man rather than to God, or that we should fear the countenance of the powerful .... On the foregoing grounds, then, we decide that the youth should not at present be given the empire ; we utterly reject Philip for his manifest unfitness and we order his usurpation to be resisted by all .... since Otto is not only himself devoted to the church, but comes from devout ancestors on both sides ..... therefore we decree that he ought to be accepted and supported as king, and ought to be given the crown of empire, after the rights of the Roman church have been secured.

While the origin of the city had remained unknown for centuries, the Pelasgi, the Greeks, the Etruscans, and the Ligurians had variously been proposed as founders of the city ( for example, a colony of the ancient city of Pisa, Greece ).

Many Spanish proverbs have a long history of cultural diffusion ; there are proverbs, for example, that have their origin traced to Babylon and that have come down to us through Greece and Rome ; equivalents of the Spanish proverb “ En boca cerrada no entran moscas ” ( Silence is golden ) belong to the cultural tradition of many north-African countries as far as Ethiopia ; having gone through multiple languages and millennia, this proverb can be traced back to an ancient Babylonian proverb.

In chapter 12, beginning on p. 276, Professor Nagy explores the meaning of the word origin and social context of a tribe in ancient Greece and beyond.

Several centuries later Ionia was the place where western philosophy began and was the homeland of Thales, Anaximander and Anaximenes. They were natural-philosophers of the Ionian school of philosophy and tried to explain the phenomena according to no-supernatural laws. They also searched a simple material-form behind the appearances of things ( origin ) and this conception had a great influence on the early archaic art in Greece.

* Etiope, G., D. Christodoulou, M. Geraga, P. Favali, & G. Papatheodorou, " The geological links of the ancient Delphic Oracle ( Greece ): a reappraisal of natural gas occurrence and origin ", Geology, 34, 821-824 ( 2006 )

Taranto was founded in 706 BC by Dorian Greek immigrants as the only Spartan colony, and its origin is peculiar: the founders were Partheniae (" sons of virgins "), sons of unmarried Spartan women and Perioeci ( free men, but not citizens of Sparta ); these out-of-wedlock unions were permitted extraordinarily by the Spartans to increase the prospective number of soldiers ( only the citizens of Sparta could become soldiers ) during the bloody Messenian wars, but later they were retroactively nullified, and the sons were then obliged to leave Greece forever.

Most ampelographers believe that the Malvasia family of grapes are of ancient origin, most likely originating in Greece.

" Foreign persons of Greek origin ", who neither live in Greece nor hold Greek citizenship nor were necessarily born there, may become Greek citizens by enlisting in Greece's military forces, under article 4 of the Code of Greek Citizenship, as amended by the Acquisition of Greek Nationality by Aliens of Greek Origin Law ( Law 2130 / 1993 ).

The current ruling dynasty of Greece was of German-Danish origin ( through the House of Oldenburg ), and the most recent native Greek rulers were as far back as the medieval Byzantine Empire.

Major countries of origin for trafficking victims brought into Greece include Nigeria, Ukraine, Russia, Bulgaria, Albania, Moldova, Romania, and Belarus.

The term " Areopagus " also refers to the judicial body of aristocratic origin that subsequently formed the higher court of modern Greece.

The origin of Bouzouki as a descendant of ancient Greek and eastern instruments, locates in ancient Greece, where there had been an instrument known as the pandura or pandourion, also called the " trichordo " because it had three strings ; it was the first fretted instrument known, forerunner of the various families of lutes worldwide.

The European Union treats the name " Retsina " as a protected designation of origin and traditional appellation for Greece and parts of the southern regions of Cyprus.

In terms of theories of cultural diffusion he influenced Nathanael Carpenter, and many subsequently, with his “ south-eastern origin ” theory of the transmission from peoples of the Middle East to Greece and Rome ( and hence to Northern Europe ).

After a long legal battle with Denmark, which produced a cheese under the same name using artificially blanched cow's milk, the term " feta " has been a protected designation of origin ( PDO ) since July 2002, which limits the term within the European Union to feta made exclusively of sheep's / goat's milk in Greece.