The English word alphabet came into Middle English from the Late Latin word alphabetum, which in turn originated in the Greek ἀλφάβητος ( alphabētos ), from alpha and beta, the first two letters of the Greek alphabet.

The town's name is attested as Aisincurt in 1175, derived from a Germanic masculine name Aizo, Aizino and the early Northern French word curt ' farm with a courtyard ' ( Late Latin cortem ).

Armageddon ( from Harmagedōn, Late Latin: ) is, according to the Bible, the site of a battle during the end times, variously interpreted as either a literal or symbolic location.

Attempts to find classical or Late Latin influence or analogue in Beowulf are almost exclusively linked with Homer's Odyssey or Virgil's Aeneid.

The word battle is a loanword in English from the Old French bataille, first attested in 1297, from Late Latin battualia, meaning " exercise of soldiers and gladiators in fighting and fencing ", from Late Latin ( taken from Germanic ) battuere " beat ", from which the English word battery is also derived via Middle English batri, and comes from the staged battles in the Colosseum in Rome that may have numbered 10, 000 individuals.

First attested in English 1664, the word " celery " derives from the French céleri, in turn from Italian seleri, the plural of selero, which comes from Late Latin selinon, the latinisation of the Greek σέλινον ( selinon ), " parsley ".

The word catholic ( derived via Late Latin catholicus, from the Greek adjective ( katholikos ), meaning " universal ") comes from the Greek phrase ( katholou ), meaning " on the whole ", " according to the whole " or " in general ", and is a combination of the Greek words meaning " about " and meaning " whole ".

* Vulgar Latin and Late Latin among the uneducated and educated populations respectively of the Roman empire and the states that followed it in the same range no later than 900 AD ; medieval Latin and Renaissance Latin among the educated populations of western, northern, central and part of eastern Europe until the rise of the national languages in that range, beginning with the first language academy in Italy in 1582 / 83 ; new Latin written only in scholarly and scientific contexts by a small minority of the educated population at scattered locations over all of Europe ; ecclesiastical Latin, in spoken and written contexts of liturgy and church administration only, over the range of the Roman Catholic Church.

Some authorities claim the word derives from the Late Latin phrase forestam silvam, meaning " the outer wood "; others claim the term is a latinisation of the Frankish word * forhist " forest, wooded country ", assimilated to forestam silvam ( a common practise among Frankish scribes ).

In Latin the word idiota (" ordinary person, layman ") preceded the Late Latin meaning " uneducated or ignorant person.

One of the most important figures of Late Antiquity and the last Roman Emperor to speak Latin as a first language, Justinian's rule constitutes a distinct epoch in the history of the Eastern Roman Empire.

Jordanes wrote in Late Latin rather than the classical Ciceronian Latin.

( For the avoidance of confusion, these texts were written in Late Latin, not the early version of the Latin language known as Old Latin, pre 75 BC.

Although technically even modern paperbacks are codices, the term is now used only for manuscript ( hand-written ) books which were produced from Late antiquity until the Middle Ages.

The term dagger appears only in the Late Middle Ages, reflecting the fact that while the dagger had been known in antiquity, it had disappeared during the Early Middle Ages, replaced by the hewing knife or seax.

Late in 48 BC, Caesar was again appointed Dictator, with a term of one year.

The ideal of chivalry as the ethos of the Christian warrior, and the transmutation of the term knight from the meaning " servant, soldier ", and of chevalier " mounted soldier ", to refer to a member of this ideal class, is significantly influenced by the Crusades, on one hand inspired by the military orders of monastic warriors, as seen retrospectively from the point of view of the beginning Late Middle Ages, and on the other hand influenced by Islamic ( Saracen ) ideals of furusiyya.

* Other authors use the term Mesolithic for a variety of Late Paleolithic cultures subsequent to the end of the last glacial period whether they are transitional towards agriculture or not.

The word " priest " is ultimately from Greek, via Latin presbyter, the term for " elder ", especially elders of Jewish or Christian communities in Late Antiquity.

The English term patriot is first attested in the Elizabethan era, via Middle French from Late Latin ( 6th century ) patriota " countryman ", ultimately from Greek πατριώτης ( patriōtēs ) " countryman ", from πατρίς, " fatherland ".

** Romaioi ( Ρωμαίοι ), Greek-speaking, Orthodox population of the Eastern Roman Empire dating to Late Antiquity ( the term translates literally to " Roman ")

This new use of the term was important in colouring the perception of the Vandals from later Late Antiquity, popularising the pre-existing idea that they were a barbaric group with a taste for destruction.

Historians of the 19th century invented the term Neoplatonism and applied it to him and his philosophy which was influential in Late Antiquity.

Much later, in the Late Middle Ages, the Roman Catholic Church on a few occasions used the term Dacia to denote Denmark, and referred to several notables from Denmark as " of Dacia ".

The term is more appropriate to the era of the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Europe when strong centrally governed nations were slowly forming and territorial governance was in the hands of a noble or of a noble house.

The term " Mass " is derived from the Late Latin word missa ( dismissal ), a word used in the concluding formula of Mass in Latin: " Ite, missa est " (" Go ; it is the dismissal ").

The province of Illyricum was divided into Dalmatia and Pannonia in 10 AD, but term Illyria remained in use in Late Latin and throughout the medieval period.

During his term, Ventura appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman, in which he responded controversially to the following question: " So which is the better city of the Twin Cities, Minneapolis or St.

Hence, by Late Antiquity the term " eunuch " had come to be applied not only to castrated men, but also to a wide range of men with comparable behavior, who had " chosen to withdraw from worldly activities and thus refused to procreate ".

Condottiero being the Late Middle Age-Through Renaissance term for "< nowiki > Mercenary </ nowiki > soldier leader " in Italian.

According to the Concise Oxford Dictionary, proud comes from late Old English prut, probably from Old French prud " brave, valiant " ( 11th century ) ( which became preux in French ), from Late Latin term prodis " useful ", which is compared with the Latin prodesse " be of use ".

It is interesting that Brian is not referred to in the passage from the ' Book of Armagh ' as the ' Ard Ri ' — that is, High-King — but rather he is declared " Imperator Scottorum ," or " Emperor of the Irish " (" Scottorum " then being the common Late Latin term for the Irish: Ireland was usually referred to in Latin as " Scotia Major " while Scotland was referred to as " Scotia Minor ").

Colvin goes so far as to term this, and the other scantily attested Luwic languages, Late Luwian, although they probably did not begin late.

Although some terms in academia do go out of style, such as " Dark Ages ", the term Barbarian is in full common currency among all mainstream medieval scholars and is not out of style or outdated, though a disclaimer is often felt to be needed, as when Ralph W. Mathisen prefaces a discussion of barbarian bishops in Late Antiquity, " It should also be noted that the word " barbarian " will be used here as a convenient, nonpejorative term to refer to all the non-Latin and non-Greek speaking exterae gentes who dwelt around, and even eventually settled within, the Roman Empire during late antiquity ".

Originally the term characterized the bulk of the Middle Ages, or roughly the 6th to 13th centuries, as a period of intellectual darkness between the extinguishing of the " light of Rome " after the end of Late Antiquity, and the rise of the Italian Renaissance in the 14th century.

What that spirit and attitude were we can best understand if we see more precisely how it contrasts with the communist tradition with the longest continuous history, the one which reached Christianity by the way of Stoicism through the Church Fathers of Late Antiquity.

Of the 48 constellations listed by Ptolemy, thirty can be shown to have a much longer history, reaching back into at least the Late Bronze Age.

Prior to that, hunting by local natives can be documented from Late Stone Age Scandinavia and eastern North America, as well as from early 5th century Labrador, where the bird seems to have occurred only as a straggler.

It can be sub-divided into the Early, High and Late Middle Ages.

) maintain their own Late Model rule books, and even individual racetracks can maintain their own rule books, meaning a Late Model that is legal in one series or at one track may not be legal at another without modifications.

Suburban villas on the edge of cities were also known, such as the Middle and Late Republican villas that encroached on the Campus Martius, at that time on the edge of Rome, and which can be also seen outside the city walls of Pompeii.

Late in life, regarding his time in real-estate-speculation-mad San Francisco, Sherman recalled: " I can handle a hundred thousand men in battle, and take the City of the Sun, but am afraid to manage a lot in the swamp of San Francisco.

The first societies led by big-men or chiefs emerged in the Middle Mumun ( 850 – 550 BC ), and the first ostentatious elite burials can be traced to the Late Mumun ( c. 550 – 300 BC ).

Many first hand accounts of the American War of Independence can be found in " the Diary of Lieutenant Frederick Mackenzie " or Serjeant Roger Lamb's " Original and Authentic Journal of Occurrences During the Late American War ".

Late frosts can damage the flower buds, resulting in misshaped flowers.

* 2000-It's for You ( double CD ; additional tracks from this 1997 solo tour can be found on The 77s ' Late compilation )

The history of the Malay language can be divided into five periods: Old Malay, the Transitional Period, the Malacca Period ( Classical Malay ), Late Modern Malay, and modern Malay.

She can be seen using a later generation of this device in her film Home of the Brave during the " Late Show " segment in which she manipulates a sentence recorded by William S. Burroughs.

As can be seen, the Peregrine is still genetically close to the hierofalcons, though their lineages diverged in the Late Pliocene ( maybe some 2. 5 – 2 mya in the Gelasian ).

In general, the elite burials at Altun Ha during the Late Classic can be characterized by large amounts of jade.

Late Preclassic caches at Altun Ha can be defined by the round platform.

Late harvest Rieslings can ripen to become very sweet dessert wines of the beerenauslese ( BA ) and trockenbeerenauslese ( TBA ) class.

In his later treatise on late capitalism, Mandel astonishingly hardly mentions the significance of taxation at all, a very serious omission from the point of view of the real world of modern capitalism since taxes can reach a magnitude of a third, or even half of GDP ( see E. Mandel, Late Capitalism.

In her book, Becoming a Stepfamily, Patricia Papernow ( 1993 ) suggests that each stepfamily goes through seven distinct stages of development, which can be divided into the Early, Middle, and Late stages.

Matthevia is a Late Cambrian polyplacophoran preserved as individual pointed valves, and sometimes considered to be a chiton, although it can at best be a stem-group member of the group.

The varied pronunciations of words in modern varieties of Chinese can help, but most modern varieties descend from a Late Middle Chinese koine and cannot very easily be used to determine the pronunciation of Early Middle Chinese.

Much of Brainerd's influence on future generations can be attributed to the biography compiled by Jonathan Edwards and first published in 1749 under the title of An Account of the Life of the Late Reverend Mr. David Brainerd.

Other Late Tang poetry developed a more allusive and surreal character, as can be seen, for example, in the works of Li He and Li Shangyin.