The name Austro-Asiatic comes from the Latin words for " south " and " Asia ", hence " South Asia ".

The name Asia Minor was given by the Latin author Orosios in the 4th century AD.

The name is Medieval Latin for he has declared upon oath.

Its name is Latin for " water-carrier " or " cup-carrier ", and its symbol is 20px (), a representation of water.

The name Anatolia comes from the Greek () meaning the " East " or more literally " sunrise ", comparable to the Latin terms " Levant " or " Orient " ( and words for " east " in other languages ).

It is an Ethiopian name of the Ge ‘ ez script, ’ ä bu gi da, taken from four letters of that script the way abecedary derives from Latin a be ce de.

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 ).

The Latin name ' Asteraceae ' is derived from the type genus Aster, which is a Greek term, meaning " star ".

The derivation of the name ( Latin Aprilis ) is uncertain.

Aventinus, whose name was real name is Johann or Johannes Turmair ( Aventinus being the Latin name of his birthplace ) wrote the Annals of Bavaria, a valuable record of the early history of Germany and the first major written work on the subject.

The generic name Alnus is the equivalent Latin name.

Adrian is a form of the Latin given name Hadrianus ( see Hadrian ).

The name means " red-beard " ( literally, " bronze-beard ") in Latin.

Variants of the name include: Alfonso ( Italian and Spanish ), Alfons ( Catalan, Dutch, German, Polish and Scandinavian ), Afonso ( Portuguese and Galician ), Affonso ( Ancient Portuguese ), Alphonse, Alfonse ( Italian, French and English ), Αλφόνσος Alphonsos ( Greek ), Alphonsus ( Latin ), Alphons ( Dutch ), Alfonsu in ( Leonese ), Alfonsas ( Lithuanian ).

Ambrosiaster is the name given to the writer of a commentary on St Paul's epistles, " brief in words but weighty in matter ," and valuable for the criticism of the Latin text of the New Testament.

However, virtually all major works of Greek and Latin prose possessed such clausulae ; and some scholars have rejected the identification of Libanius ' Marcellinus with Ammianus, since Marcellinus was a very common name and the tone suggests Libanius was addressing a man much younger than himself ( Ammianus was his contemporary ).

Algoritmi, the translator's rendition of the author's name, gave rise to the word algorithm ( Latin algorithmus, " calculation method ").

During the Hellenization of Latin literature, the myths of Ares were reinterpreted by Roman writers under the name of Mars.

Colloquially referred to as the New World, this second super continent came to be termed " America ", probably deriving its name from the feminized Latin version of Vespucci's first name .< ref > Rival explanations have been proposed ( see Arciniegas, Germán.

The name of the taxon Apicomplexa is derived from two Latin words-apex ( top ) and complexus ( infolds )-and refers to a set of organelles in the sporozoite.

The Latin name for Exeter, Isca Dumnoniorum (" Water of the Dumnonii "), suggests that the city was of Celtic origin.

The Historia Augusta suggests three alternative explanations: that the first Caesar had a thick head of hair ( Latin caesaries ); that he had bright grey eyes ( Latin oculis caesiis ); or that he killed an elephant ( caesai in Moorish ) in battle.

Graetz also suggests the possibility that Anatoli, in conjunction with Michael Scot, may have translated Maimonides ' Guide for the Perplexed into Latin ; but this suggestion has not yet been sufficiently proved ( compare Steinschneider, " Hebr.

Cameron, suggests that the termination of the word " Malachi " is adjectival, and equivalent to the Latin angelicus, signifying " one charged with a message or mission " ( a missionary ).

The medievalist Gaston Paris suggests that Geoffrey chose the form Merlinus rather than the regular Merdinus to avoid a resemblance to the Anglo-Norman word merde ( from Latin merda ), for faeces.

J. N. Hough suggests that Plautus ’ s use of Greek is for artistic purposes and not simply because a Latin phrase will not fit the meter.

* Anthony Cekada, an assistant pastor of sedevacantist bishop Daniel Dolan, in his book Work of Human Hands, says that the Mass of Paul VI is invalid and moreover strips down or removes completely every prayer in the Latin Rite which covers subjects such as judgment, heaven and hell, Satan, et al, and suggests that their full-scale removal, if such were to happen, would contribute to a lack of self-discipline and eventual loss of faith and skepticism among Catholics, responding to the post hoc ergo propter hoc accusation above.

Comparison of Jerome's Gospel texts with those in Old Latin witnesses, suggests that his revision was substantially concerned with redacting the expanded phraseology characteristic of the Western text-type, in accordance with Alexandrian, or possibly early Byzantine, witnesses.

The city was first established as a spa with the Latin name, Aquae Sulis (" the waters of Sulis ") by the Romans sometime in the AD 60s about 20 years after they had arrived in Britain ( AD43 ), although oral tradition suggests that Bath was known before then.

The Oxford English Dictionary suggests an alteration of Anglo – Norman pedoretés ( classical Latin pæderot -), a kind of opal, rather than the Arabic word faridat, meaning " gem ".

The Latin term fiat, translated as " let it be ," suggests the autocratic attitude ascribed to such a process.

Some research suggests that culture plays a larger role than economic conditions in gender preference and sex-selective abortion, because such deviations in sex ratios do not exist in sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean.

Other research suggests that it may owe its name to the Latin Murtae ( Mulberry ), which covered the regional landscape for many centuries.

The " Mero -" or " Mer -" element in the name suggests a sea or ocean ( see Old English " mere ," Latin " mare ," or even the Modern English word " mermaid ", etc .).

One hypothesis suggests that the common Spanish word for the dish, " cebiche ," has its origin in the Latin word cibus, which translates to English as " food for men and animals.

Proto-Celtic * Lugus may be related to the root of the Proto-Celtic * lug-rā ‘ moon ’ ( the origin of Welsh lloer, though Peter Schrijver suggests an alternative etymology for lloer, from Common Celtic * lus-rā, where the root would be cognate with that of Latin luridus * lus-idus " pale yellow ").

Yet in Arturo Uslar-Pietri's vague, ample usage, magical realism was wildly successful in summarizing for many readers their perception of much Latin American fiction ; this fact suggests that the term has its uses, so long as it is not expected to function with the precision expected of technical, scholarly terminology.

She suggests that by disassociating himself and his writings from Roh's painterly magic realism, Carpentier aimed to show how — by virtue of Latin America's varied history, geography, demography, politics, myths, and beliefs — improbable and marvelous things are made possible.

The word " condensation " suggests a process in which two or more things are brought " together " ( Latin " con ") to form something " dense ", like in condensation from gaseous to liquid state of matter ; this does not imply, however, that condensation reaction products have greater density than reactants.

However the river's name is unlikely to have derived from this behaviour: The Oxford Dictionary of English Place Names suggests that Mole either comes from the Latin mola ( a mill ) or is a back-formation from Molesey ( Mul's island ).

The Oxford Dictionary of English Place Names suggests that Mole either comes from the Latin mola ( a mill ) or is a back-formation from Molesey ( Mul's island ).

As their name (" footless " in Latin ) suggests, their legs are small and have limited function aside from perching.