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 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 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 ).

The word is originally from a PIE verbal root, meaning " to think, remember ", whence also Latin mens " mind ", Sanskrit

By a process of folk etymology, the Romans could have confused the phones of her foreign name with those of the root men-in Latin words such as mens meaning " mind ", perhaps because one of her aspects as goddess pertained to the intellectual.

According to the University, the Latin motto Sidere mens eadem mutato can be translated as " Though the constellations change, the mind is universal ", therefore, conveying the aspiration that " the traditions of the older universities of the Northern Hemisphere are continued here in the Southern.

* In Romance languages many adverbs are formed from adjectives ( often the feminine form ) by adding '- mente ' ( Portuguese, Spanish, Galician, Italian ) or '- ment ' ( French, Catalan ) ( from Latin mens, mentis: mind, intelligence ).

Dementia ( taken from Latin, originally meaning " madness ", from de-" without " + ment, the root of mens " mind ") is a serious loss of global cognitive ability in a previously unimpaired person, beyond what might be expected from normal aging.

The standard common law test of criminal liability is usually expressed in the Latin phrase, actus non facit reum nisi mens sit rea, which means " the act does not make a person guilty unless the mind is also guilty ".

The gifted-only organization Mensa International was originally to be named mens in the sense of " mind ", but took instead the name Mensa ( Latin: " table ") to avoid ambiguity with " men's " in English and " mens " in other languages.

Actus reus, sometimes called the external element or the objective element of a crime, is the Latin term for the " guilty act " which, when proved beyond a reasonable doubt in combination with the mens rea, " guilty mind ", produces criminal liability in the common law-based criminal law jurisdictions of Canada, Australia, India, Pakistan, South Africa, New Zealand, England, Wales, Ireland and the United States.

Non compos mentis derives from the Latin non meaning " not ", compos meaning " having ( command of )", and mentis ( genitive singular of mens ), meaning " mind ".

English law has three levels of offence under the Theft Act 1968, each pertaining to the mens rea ( Latin for " guilty mind ") and the degree of violence used.

The possession of the beautiful and the good (" kalos kai agathos ") has a correspondent in Latin: " mens sana in corpore sano " ( healthy soul in healthy body ).

The school's motto is mens conscia recti, a Latin phrase borrowed from Vergil's Aeneid that means " a mind aware of what is right.

In criminal law, criminal negligence is one of the three general classes of mens rea ( Latin for " guilty mind ") element required to constitute a conventional as opposed to strict liability offense.

To constitute a crime, there must be an actus reus ( Latin for " guilty act ") accompanied by the mens rea ( see concurrence ).

The latter saying in Latin, mens agitat molem, is the official motto of the University of Warwick, Eindhoven University of Technology in The Netherlands and Newcastle University Union Society in the UK ( amongst others ).

The mens rea ( Latin for the " guilty mind ") for murder includes an intention to kill or cause grievous bodily harm where there is a high probability of death resulting, whereas attempted murder depends on an intention to kill, and an overt act towards the homicide.

Fagan v Metropolitan Police Commissioner 1 QB 439, 3 All ER 442, 3 WLR 1120, 52 Cr App R 700, DC is a leading case that illustrates the requirement of concurrence ( or coincidence ) of actus reus ( Latin for " guilty act ") and mens rea ( Latin for " guilty mind ") in order to establish an offence under the criminal law of England and Wales.

* The principal is the one whose acts or omissions, accompanied by the relevant mens rea ( Latin for " guilty mind "), are the most immediate cause of the actus reus ( Latin for " guilty act ").

In English criminal law on mens rea ( Latin for " guilty mind "), R v. Cunningham ( 1957 ) 2 AER 412 was the pivotal case in establishing both that the test for " maliciously " was subjective rather than objective, and that malice was inevitably linked to recklessness.

A regulatory offence or quasi-criminal offence is a class of crime in which the standard for proving culpability has been lowered so a mens rea ( Latin for " guilty mind ") element is not required.

One of these was Lusin, an obvious equivalent of Luna ( originally Lucna or Lucina ), and the other Ami ( n ) s, which now like the Latin mens, signifies " month.

The literal meaning of the original Latin word cursor expresses the idea of someone or something that runs.

That of the Latin Church more clearly expresses the communion of the new Christian with the bishop as guarantor and servant of the unity, catholicity and apostolicity of his Church, and hence the connection with the apostolic origins of Christ's Church.

" Imperfect " comes from the Latin " unfinished ", because the imperfect expresses an ongoing, uncompleted action.

Because Latin had no middle voice, Medieval Latin expresses such sentences by putting the verb in the passive voice, in a similar way to Latin deponent verbs.

In Ancient Greek grammar, privative a ( also known as privative alpha ; in Latin, α prīvātīvum ) is the prefix a-that expresses negation or absence ( e. g., a-theos, a-typical ).

A verbum dicendi ( Latin for " word " or " verb of speaking ") is a word that expresses speech or introduces a quotation, such as " say ", " utter ", " ask " or " rumble ".

Evangelium Vitae ( Latin: " The Gospel of Life ") is the name of the encyclical written by Pope John Paul II which expresses the position of the Catholic Church regarding the value and inviolability of human life.

In one of the best-known classical Latin poems of mourning, Catullus writes of his long journey to attend to the funeral rites of his brother, who died abroad, and expresses his grief at addressing only silent ash.

We read in the 80th Psalm: ' Thou has brought a vine out of Egypt: Thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it "-in Latin, ' Vineam de Aegypto transtulisti, ejicisti gentes et plantasti eam '; and the motto expresses our belief that He who brought over the vine continues to take care of it-Qui transtulit sustinet ".

The March 14 Equirria occurs the day before the Ides, when the Roman people celebrated the feast of Anna Perenna, whose name expresses her role as a goddess of the year ( Latin annus ; cf.