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.

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

The use of the word abacus dates before 1387 AD, when a Middle English work borrowed the word from Latin to describe a sandboard abacus.

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.

These can range from simple spelling changes and word forms to switching the entire writing system itself, as when Turkey switched from the Arabic alphabet to a Turkish alphabet of Latin origin.

In other languages having the meaning of the Latin word pavor, the derived words differ in meaning, e. g. as in the French anxiété and peur.

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 English word Alps derives from the French and Latin Alpes, which at one time was thought to be derived from the Latin albus (" white ").

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

The word angle comes from the Latin word angulus, meaning " a corner ".

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

The word art is derived from the Latin " ars ", which, although literally defined means, " skill method " or " technique ", holds a connotation of beauty.

The word Anglican originates in ecclesia anglicana, a medieval Latin phrase dating to at least 1246 that means the English Church.

The word Gringo is widely used in parts of Latin America in reference to U. S. residents, often in a pejorative way but not necessarily.

Throughout Latin America the word Gringo is also used for any foreigner from the United States, Canada, or Europe, however the true sense of the word is any foreigner.

The word derives from Latin ancora, which itself comes from the Greek ἄγκυρα ( ankura ).

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.

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.

27. 7 % of the population was foreign born, 51. 8 % came from Asia, 30. 8 % from Europe, 8. 2 % from Latin America and 9. 2 % from other ( mostly Canada ).

Cannon is derived from the Old Italian word cannone, meaning " large tube ", which came from Latin canna, in turn originating from the Greek κάννα ( kanna ), " reed ", and then generalized to mean any hollow tube-like object ; cognate with Akkadian term qanu and Hebrew qāneh, meaning " tube " or " reed ".

All Christian monasticism stems, either directly or indirectly, from the Egyptian example: Saint Basil the Great Archbishop of Caesaria of Cappadocia, founder and organizer of the monastic movement in Asia Minor, visited Egypt around AD 357 and his rule is followed by the Eastern Orthodox Churches ; Saint Jerome who translated the Bible into Latin, came to Egypt, while en route to Jerusalem, around AD 400 and left details of his experiences in his letters ; Benedict founded the Benedictine Order in the 6th century on the model of Saint Pachomius, but in a stricter form.

The word " corona " itself derived from the Latin, meaning crown, which in turn came from the Ancient Greek κορώνη ( korōnē ) meaning " garland " or " wreath ".

The hexameter came into Latin as an adaptation from Greek long after the practice of singing the epics had faded.

With the New Latin period, the language itself came to be regarded as a medium only for " serious " and learned expression, a view that left little room for Latin poetry.

The phrase enkyklios paideia ( ἐγκύκλιος παιδεία ) was used by Plutarch and the Latin word Enciclopedia came from him. The first work titled in this way was the Encyclopedia orbisque doctrinarum, hoc est omnium artium, scientiarum, ipsius philosophiae index ac divisio written by Johannes Aventinus in 1517.

For 2006, $ 9. 6 billion of revenue came from the Americas ( Canada, Latin America, and the United States ); $ 8 billion from Europe, Middle East, and Africa ; $ 1. 5 billion from Asia-Pacific ; Services ' revenue was: Infrastructure $ 12 billion, Applications Software $ 5. 9 billion, Business Process Outsourcing $ 3 billion and all other $ 421 million.

For the Greeks Autokratōr was not a military title, and was closer to the Latin dictator concept (" the one with unlimited power "), before it came to mean Emperor.

The Ciceronianus came out in 1528, which attacked the style of Latin that was based exclusively and fanatically on Cicero's writings.

For example, Latin P came to be written like Greek rho ( written Ρ but pronounced ), so the Roman letter equivalent to rho was modified to R to keep it distinct.

The English word guitar, the German, and the French were adopted from the Spanish, which comes from the Andalusian Arabic, itself derived from the Latin, which in turn came from the Ancient Greek, and is thought to ultimately trace back to the Old Persian language Tar, which means string in Persian.

Alternate suggestions include a derivative of cratis, a name for a type of woven basket that came to refer to a dish, or a derivative of Latin gradus meaning "' by degree ', ' by stages ', applied to a dish brought to the table in different stages or services during a meal ".

A new Danish translation with the text in Old Norse and a Latin translation came out in 1777-1783 ( by order of Frederick VI as crown prince ).

In England, Italian became the second most common modern language to be learned, after French ( though the classical languages, Latin and Greek, came first ).

However, this " nativist " position has been challenged by " revisionist " scholars who believe that much of it was created in Christian times in deliberate imitation of the epics of classical literature that came with Latin learning.

Julius and Claudius were two Roman family names ; in classical Latin, they came second.

His schooling continued at the University College School where, although accomplished at maths, he habitually came bottom of the class at Latin.

May I say that you have just demonstrated the truth of an old proverb -- the younger Pliny's, if memory serves me -- which, translated freely from the archaic Latin, says, ' The more haste, the less peed ' ''.

He had learned to dispute devastatingly, both formally and informally in Latin, and according to the rules on any topic, pro or con, drawn from almost any subject, more especially from Aristotle's works.

He also displayed the ability to write Latin verse on almost any topic of dispute, the verses, of course, to be delivered from memory.

Two committees of members of the Advisory Board constitute the committees of selection -- one for the selection of Fellows from Canada, the United States, and the English-speaking Caribbean area and one for the selection of Fellows from the Latin American republics and the Republic of the Philippines.

Political interference in Africa and Asia and even in Latin America ( though limited in Latin America by the special interest of the United States as expressed in the Monroe Doctrine, itself from the outset related to European politics and long dependent upon the `` balance of power '' system in Europe ) was necessary in order to preserve both common economic values and the European `` balance '' itself.

more doubtful, but possible, ( with an assist from the North ) was the neutralization of the Latin American countries ; ;

It was not even in writing Latin epigrams, sometimes bawdy ones, or in translating Lucian from Greek into Latin or in defending the study of Greek against the attack of conservative academics, or in attacking the conservative theologians who opposed Erasmus's philological study of the New Testament.

The President and his advisers felt that the time might have come to warn Premier Khrushchev against a grave miscalculation in areas such as Berlin, Iran or Latin America from which there would be no turning back.

He met with enthusiastic audience approval, especially when he swung from jazz to Latin American things like the Mambo.

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.

With the loss of the study of ancient Greek in the early medieval Latin West, Aristotle was practically unknown there from c. AD 600 to c. 1100 except through the Latin translation of the Organon made by Boethius.

In the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, interest in Aristotle revived and Latin Christians had translations made, both from Arabic translations, such as those by Gerard of Cremona, and from the original Greek, such as those by James of Venice and William of Moerbeke.

From Latin animātiō, " the act of bringing to life "; from animō (" to animate " or " give life to ") +-ātiō (" the act of ").

For this he was also known as Parnopius ( ; Παρνόπιος, Parnopios, from πάρνοψ, " locust ") and to the Romans as Culicarius ( ; from Latin culicārius, " of midges ").

To the Romans, he was known in this capacity as Averruncus ( ; from Latin āverruncare, " to avert ").

In this respect, the Romans called him Coelispex ( ; from Latin coelum, " sky ", and specere, " to look at ").

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