The original phrase " the common-wealth " or " the common weal " ( echoed in the modern synonym " public weal ") comes from the old meaning of " wealth ," which is " well-being ", and is itself a loose translation of the Latin res publica ( republic ).

The < nowiki >< nowiki ></ nowiki > word bears a singular resemblance in sound to its < nowiki > Latin language | Latin < nowiki ></ nowiki > synonym vitula, vidula, whence < nowiki >< nowiki ></ nowiki > viole, Pr.

Patristic writers began applying the term, or hymnus in Latin, to Christian songs of praise, and frequently used the word as a synonym for " psalm ".

The Latin term renes is related to the English word " reins ", a synonym for the kidneys in Shakespearean English ( e. g. Merry Wives of Windsor 3. 5 ), which was also the time the King James Version was translated.

Retrieved September 7, 2012, from link .</ ref > is a term used chiefly in the United States to refer to people of Latin American extraction or descent, though the term has also been incorrectly used as a synonym for Hispanic.

The post-classical Latin paganismus gave rise to both paganism and to its synonym paynimry .< ref > OED etymology for paynim: < Anglo-Norman paenisme, painisme, paienime, painnim, peinibvgnb, bjkbyh ikbh

* The most common English synonym for " Satan " is " Devil ", which descends from Middle English devel, from Old English dēofol, that in turn represents an early Germanic borrowing of Latin diabolus ( also the source of " diabolical ").

The word " thesaurus " is derived from 16th-century New Latin, in turn from Latin thēsaurus, which is the latinisation of the Greek ( thēsauros ), literally " treasure store ", generally meaning a collection of things which are of big importance or value ( and thus the medieval rank of thesaurer was a synonym for treasurer ).

The word theosophia appeared in both Greek and Latin in the works of early church fathers as a synonym for “ theology ”.

Today, the word is generally used as a synonym of the Latin loanword " Universe " ( considered in its orderly aspect ).

In this view, Jupiter is the god of heaven and retains his identification with the sky among the Latin poets ( his name is used as a synonym for " sky ".

The French word was derived from the Spanish embarazar, whose first recorded usage was in 1460 in Cancionero de Stúñiga ( Songbook of Stúñiga ) by Álvaro de Luna .< sup > 7 </ sup > The Spanish word likely comes from the Portuguese embaraçar, which probably is a combination of the prefix em-( from Latin in-for " in -") with baraça " a noose ", or " rope ", which makes sense with the synonym encinta (" on noose, on rope " because of the old usage of women to wear a strap of cloth on their dresses when pregnant ).< sup > 8 </ sup > Baraça originated before the Romans began their conquest of the Iberian Peninsula in 218 BCE .< sup > 9 </ sup > Thus, baraça could be related to the Celtic word barr, " tuft ".

Buddhists do not worship Brahma ( a Hindu deity ) or " Deva " ( an ancient South Asian term for a deity, today meaning either a Hindi translation of the English " God "/ Latin " Deus " concept Christian Indians tend to use the term " Parameshvara " or " Supreme Creator God " for the Christian God the Father or a synonym for the ancient South Asian concept of Brahman ).

A synonym for elision is syncope, though the latter term is most often associated with the elision of vowels between consonants ( e. g., Latin tabula → Spanish tabla ).

The word " collateral " comes from medieval Latin collateralis, from col -, " together with " + lateralis ( from latus, later -, " side " ) and is otherwise mainly used as a synonym for " parallel " or " additional " in certain expressions (" collateral veins " run parallel to each other and " collateral security " means additional security to the main obligation in a contract ).

Henry Cockeram, in his English dictionary ( 1623 ), cited " philanthropie " as a synonym for " humanitie "( in Latin, humanitas ) — thus reaffirming the Classical formulation.

The related term vainglory is now often seen as an archaic synonym for vanity, but originally meant boasting in vain, i. e. unjustified boasting ; although glory is now seen as having an exclusively positive meaning, the Latin term gloria ( from which it derives ) roughly means boasting, and was often used as a negative criticism.

* Caudal ( anatomical term ) ( from Latin caudum ; tail ), a synonym for the term posterior

In the Southwest United States, Anglo, short for Anglo American, is used, erroneously, as a synonym for Non-Hispanic Whites ; that is, all European Americans ( except Latin Americans ), most of whom speak the English language but are not necessarily of English descent.

A synonym for metalepsis is transumption, derived from the Latin transsumptio invented by

However, chiquito which may mean " boy " or also a synonym of " small ", in its diminutive form will be said chiquitito across Spain and Latin America, whereas it will be said chiquitico in Costa Rica.

The entire exercise, Latin and English, is most suggestive of the kind of person Milton had become at Christ's during his undergraduate career ; ;

This, in more diplomatic language, is what Adlai Stevenson told the newspaper men of Latin America yesterday on behalf of the United States Government.

Most immediately relevant to these episodes in Goa, Katanga and Ghana, as to the Suez-Hungary crisis before them, is the belief that the main theater of the world drama is the underdeveloped region of Asia, Africa and Latin America.

Most of them, the world over, operate on the same principle by which justice is administered in France and some other Latin countries: the customer is to be considered guilty of abysmal ignorance until proven otherwise, with the burden of proof on the customer himself.

Indonesia is one of the twenty under-developed countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America that are receiving Soviet aid.

The Riegger, with its Latin hesitation bounce, is just this side of the pale ; ;

Albedo (), or reflection coefficient, derived from Latin albedo " whiteness " ( or reflected sunlight ), in turn from albus " white ", is the diffuse reflectivity or reflecting power of a surface.

A ( named a, plural aes ) is the first letter and vowel in the ISO basic Latin alphabet.

The order Caudata ( from the Latin cauda meaning " tail ") consists of the salamanders, elongated, low-slung animals that mostly resemble lizards in form, though this is a symplesiomorphic trait and the two groups are no more closely related than salamanders are to mammals.

The singular alga is the Latin word for a particular seaweed and retains that meaning in English.

Although some speculate that it is related to Latin algēre, " be cold ", there is no known reason to associate seaweed with temperature.

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.

An acid ( from the Latin acidus / acēre meaning sour ) is a substance which reacts with a base.

Some adaptations of the Latin alphabet are augmented with ligatures, such as æ in Old English and Icelandic and Ȣ in Algonquian ; by borrowings from other alphabets, such as the thorn þ in Old English and Icelandic, which came from the Futhark runes ; and by modifying existing letters, such as the eth ð of Old English and Icelandic, which is a modified d. Other alphabets only use a subset of the Latin alphabet, such as Hawaiian, and Italian, which uses the letters j, k, x, y and w only in foreign words.

The earliest known alphabet in the wider sense is the Wadi el-Hol script, believed to be an abjad, which through its successor Phoenician is the ancestor of modern alphabets, including Arabic, Greek, Latin ( via the Old Italic alphabet ), Cyrillic ( via the Greek alphabet ) and Hebrew ( via Aramaic ).

The basic ordering of the Latin alphabet ( ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ ) is well established, although languages using this alphabet have different conventions for their treatment of modified letters ( such as the French é, à, and ô ) and of certain combinations of letters ( multigraphs ).

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 names were abandoned in Latin, which instead referred to the letters by adding a vowel ( usually e ) before or after the consonant ( the exception is zeta, which was retained from Greek ).

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

A composer ( Latin com + ponere, literally " one who puts together ") is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media.

It represents a sonic shift away from regionalism and points to a new global Latin identity.

Sonus is a Latin word, derived from the Greek “ tonos ” that means “ noise, sound ” or “ tone, character, style .” It is also the root word for sonic and sound and was included in the names of well known companies including Sonus Networks, Sony and Panasonic, among others.