In its typography, the thorn is one of the few characters in a Latin-derived alphabet whose modern lower-case form has greater height than the capital in its normal ( roman ), non-italic form.

* The first chamber of the modern German parliament, is called the Bundestag ( federal diet ); the derivation is that "- tag " ( in that form, only used as a second part of a compositum ) in German means " assembly ", indicating the Latin-derived meaning.

Lithification (; from the Greek word lithos meaning ' rock ' and the Latin-derived suffix-ific ) is the process in which sediments compact under pressure, expel connate fluids, and gradually become solid rock.

The "- mas " part is from the Latin-derived Old English word for " Mass ", while the " X " comes from the Greek letter Chi, which is the first letter of the Greek word Χριστός, translated as " Christ ".

Corresponding to the Greek word theosis are the Latin-derived words " divinization " and " deification " used in the parts of the Catholic Church that are of Latin tradition.

One common example in French is the word for fox: the Latin-derived was replaced by, from Renart, the fox hero of the Roman de Renart ; originally German Reinhard.

For example the Arabic word for book / kita: b / is used in all the languages listed, apart from Malay and Indonesian ( where it specifically means " religious book ") and Portuguese and Spanish ( which use the Latin-derived " livro " and " libro ", respectively ).

The word " tabor " is simply an English variant of a Latin-derived word meaning " drum "-cf.

Old Norse kenna ( Modern Icelandic kenna, Swedish känna, Danish kende, Norwegian kjenne or kjenna ) is cognate with Old English cennan, Old Frisian kenna, kanna, Old Saxon ( ant ) kennian ( Middle Dutch and Dutch kennen ), Old High German ( ir -, in -, pi -) chennan ( Middle High German and German kennen ), Gothic kannjan < Proto-Germanic * kannjanan, originally causative of * kunnanan “ to know ( how to )”, whence Modern English can ' to be able ' ( from the same Proto-Indo-European root as Modern English know and Latin-derived cognition ).

It is also remarkable as a European nation which contains, and is divided by, a language boundary between Latin-derived French, and Germanic Dutch and German.

Cisgender has its origin in the Latin-derived prefix cis -, meaning " to / this the near side ," which is antonymous with the Latin-derived prefix trans -.

A Latin-derived alphabet is an alphabet that uses letters from the Latin script, which comprises the original Roman Latin alphabet and various extensions.

Street gangs that are aligned with the Mexican Mafia often use the number 13 as a gang identifier, as the letter " M " is the 13th letter of the modern Latin-derived alphabet.

The ascenders are the parts of minuscule characters that lie above the midline. In typography, an ascender is the portion of a minuscule letter in a Latin-derived alphabet that extends above the mean line of a font.

Labium ( plural labia ) is a Latin-derived term meaning " Lip ".

Quentin ( Latin Quintinus, from Quintus ) is a Latin-derived male ( and occasionally, female ) given name meaning " the fifth ".

It is equivalent to the Latin-derived term lutite.

The work consists of six conversations ( entretiens ) between two companionable friends whose Greek-and Latin-derived names both mean " well-born ", in the agreeable discursive manner of the well-informed amateur as it had become established in the salons — " the free and familiar conversations that well-bred people have ( honnêtes gens, a by-word of the précieuses of the salons ) when they are friends, and which do not fail to be witty, and even knowledgeable, though one never dreams there of making wit show, and study has no part in it.

* Size of lexicon-The history of English has resulted in a very large vocabulary, essentially one stream from Old English and one from the Norman infusion of Latin-derived terms.

Kuchi shōga can be transliterated from katakana to a Latin-derived alphabet using one of the various systems of rōmaji.

Schaefer ’ s concept of " vocality " offers neither a compromise nor a synthesis of the views which see the poem as on the one hand Germanic, pagan, and oral and on the other Latin-derived, Christian, and literate, but, as stated by Monika Otter: "... a ' tertium quid ', a modality that participates in both oral and literate culture yet also has a logic and aesthetic of its own.

A millennium after the fall of the Western Roman Empire of which they were part, these European nations began spreading their Latin-derived languages and cultures around the world through their own empires, especially in the Americas.

are present in other Latin-derived languages.

Latin America refers to countries in the Americas where Romance ( Latin-derived ) languages are spoken.

In the post-Roman period prior to 711, the history of the Spanish language began with Old Spanish ; the other Latin-derived Hispanic languages with a considerable body of literature are Catalan, and to a lesser degree Valencian.

However, more characters were needed than could fit in a single 8-bit character encoding, so several mappings were developed, including at least ten suitable for various Latin-derived alphabets.

These Latin-derived alphabets may discard letters, like the Rotokas alphabet, or add new letters, like the Danish and Norwegian alphabet.

Thence derive the alternative terms adicity and adinity for the Latin-derived arity.

Initially positive powers of ten had Greek-derived prefixes and negative power of ten Latin-derived prefixes.

The astrological sign of the planet Mercury, < big >☿</ big >, represents Wednesday — Dies Mercurii to the Romans, with similar names in Latin-derived languages, such as the Italian mercoledì ( dì means " day "), the French mercredi and the Spanish miércoles.

Languages with a Latin-derived alphabet have used multiple methods of sentence spacing since the advent of movable type in the 15th century.

This resulted in five conferences between 2000 and 2001, where a Latin-derived alphabet was devised, known as Uyghur Latin Yëziqi.

In the past, the disease was also known as malacosteon and its Latin-derived equivalent, mollities ossium.

The character has been used in several Latin-derived alphabets such as the one for Janalif, but in that language it denotes a different sound than it does in the IPA.

Greek uses very similar terms, but without the Latin-derived feira.

It may be thought unfortunate that he was called on entirely by accident to perform, if again we may trust the opening of the oratio, for it marks the beginning for us of his use of his peculiar form of witty word play that even in this Latin banter has in it the unmistakable element of viciousness and an almost sadistic delight in verbally tormenting an adversary.

Applying the techniques developed at Harvard for generating a paradigm from a representative form and its classification, we can add all forms of a word to the dictionary at once.

Thus, one can think of a dictionary entry as a word rather than a form.

Similarly, if the equivalents for the forms of a word do not vary, the equivalents need be entered only once with an indication that they apply to each form.

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 word was coined from the Greek root ἀνδρ-' man ' and the suffix-oid ' having the form or likeness of '.

An abbreviation ( from Latin brevis, meaning short ) is a shortened form of a word or phrase.

The same word in adjectival form ( purgatorius-a-um, cleansing ), which appears also in non-religious writing, was already used by Christians such as Augustine of Hippo and Pope Gregory I to refer to an after-death cleansing.

The word angulus is a diminutive, of which the primitive form, angus, does not occur in Latin.

In Swahili, the more naturalized word Marekani means specifically the United States, and Wamarekani are U. S. nationals, whereas the international form Amerika refers to the continent, and Waamerika are the inhabitants thereof.

ΑΒΡΑΣΑΞ, which is far more common in the sources than the variant form Abraxas, ΑΒΡΑΞΑΣ ) was a word of mystic meaning in the system of the Gnostic Basilides, being there applied to the “ Great Archon ” ( Gk., megas archōn ), the princeps of the 365 spheres ( Gk., ouranoi ).

An affix is a morpheme that is attached to a word stem to form a new word.

The word " allele " is a short form of allelomorph (' other form '), which was used in the early days of genetics to describe variant forms of a gene detected as different phenotypes.

When word of the dam's failure was telegraphed to Pittsburgh, Frick and other members of the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club gathered to form the Pittsburgh Relief Committee for assistance to the flood victims as well as determining never to speak publicly about the club or the flood.

Christianity's idea of " eternal life " comes from the word for life, zoe, and a form of aeon, which could mean life in the next aeon, the Kingdom of God, or Heaven, just as much as immortality, as in.

The etymology of the name Ares is traditionally connected with the Greek word ἀρή ( arē ), the Ionic form of the Doric ἀρά ( ara ), " bane, ruin, curse, imprecation ".

Gregory the Great in an epistle simplified the Latinized name Anglii to Angli, the latter form developing into the preferred form of the word.

These realities form a " composite faithfulness " and are ( i ) " perseverance in the apostolic doctrine "; ( ii ) " the will to proclaim God's word "; ( iii ) " communion in the fundamental continuity of the Church, the Body of Christ, the faithful celebration of Baptism and the Eucharist "; ( iv ) " succession in the laying on of hands, the sign of ministerial continuity ".

The Hebrew term Abaddon (, ), an intensive form of the word " destruction ", appears as a place of destruction in the Hebrew Bible.

The word was formerly written in English as " Accomptant ", but in process of time the word, which was always pronounced by dropping the " p ", became gradually changed both in pronunciation and in orthography to its present form ( see also comptroller ).