As Sally M. Foster noted, " Much ink has been spilt over what the ancient writers meant by Picts, but it seems to be a generic term for people living north of the Forth-Clyde isthmus who raided the Roman Empire.

Yoga ( Sanskrit, Pāli:, / ˈjəʊɡə /, ) is a commonly known generic term for physical, mental, and spiritual disciplines which originated in ancient India.

An ancient name of Tripura is Kirat Desh ( the land of Kirat ), probably referring to the Kirata Kingdom or the more generic term Kirata.

Strickland recognized its generic distinction and named the new genus Pezophaps (" pedestrian pigeon " in ancient Greek ).

Hocus Pocus or hocus-pocus is a generic term that may be derived from an ancient language and is currently used by magicians, usually the magic words spoken when bringing about some sort of change.

The generic name Diospyros comes from the ancient Greek words " Dios " ( διός ) and " pyros " ( πυρος ).

* A relict was an ancient term for a widow, but has come to be a generic or collective term for widows and widowers.

" Adam " can be the generic term for mankind in general, a male in particular, or as a title, as is seen in ancient Near Eastern parallels where the lu-sign for ruler means " man ".

Huaco or Guaco is the generic name given in Peru mostly to earthen vessels and other finely made pottery artworks by the Indigenous peoples of the Americas found in pre-Columbian sites such as burial locations, sanctuaries, temples and other ancient ruins.

The generic name Boa came from an ancient Latin word for a type of large snake.

According to the chronicle, Saurmag, the 2nd king of Kartli, died without a male heir, and the dynasty survived in the female line through the marriage of Saurmag's daughter to Mirian, who is referred to in this account as Nebrot ' iani ( ნებროთიანი ), which means the " race of Nimrod " and seems to be the generic term applied to the ancient Iranian nobility.

Subak, Subakgi or Yusul is either a specific or generic ancient Korean martial art.

The Chancellor ( Chinese:, zǎixiàng ;, chéngxiàng ) – also translated Chief Councillor and Prime Minister – was a generic name given to the highest-ranking official in the imperial government in ancient China.

The generic name, Archaeoindris, meaning " ancient indri-like lemur ", deriving from the Greek word ἀρχαῖος ( archaios, or " ancient ") and indris, a common variation of the generic name Indri.

The word " Nhang " is sometimes used as a generic term for a sea-monster in ancient Armenian literature.

The cards in Hecatomb draw from a variety of sources from ancient myth to the stories of H. P. Lovecraft, though some are generic creations of the designers of the game.

The Cylinder has also been claimed to be an early " human rights charter ", though the British Museum and a number of scholars of the ancient Near Eastern history reject this view as anachronistic and a misunderstanding of the Cylinder's generic nature.

Some of the ancient names of this body of water include Sindhu Sagar ( meaning " Sea of Sindh " in Sanskrit ) and Erythraean Sea.

While not very prominent in modern English, cases featured much more saliently in Old English and other ancient Indo-European languages, such as Latin, Ancient Greek, and Sanskrit.

Kedah — known as Kedaram, Cheh-Cha ( according to I-Ching ) or Kataha, in ancient Pallava or Sanskrit — was in the direct route of the invasions and was ruled by the Cholas from 1025.

Foundation of the Maurya Empire ( Sanskrit: म ौ र ् य र ा जव ं श, Maurya Rājavanśha ) which was geographically extensive and powerful empire in ancient India, ruled by the Mauryan dynasty from 321 to 185 BC. It was one of the world's largest empires in its time.

The oldest attested Indo-Iranian languages are Vedic Sanskrit ( ancient Indo-Aryan ), Older and Younger Avestan and Old Persian ( ancient Iranian languages ).

The Indian Ocean is known as Ratnakara in the ancient Sanskrit literature.

The first account by a western European to mention the ancient language Sanskrit came from Filippo Sassetti ( born in Florence in 1540 ), a merchant who traveled to the Indian subcontinent.

According to some of these sources, the Koh-i-Noor was originally found more than 5000 years ago, and is mentioned in ancient Sanskrit writings under the name Syamantaka.

The word Kashmir is an ancient Sanskrit word which literally means Land of Kashyap Rishi.

The film thus pays homage to India, incorporating an Indian-themed play based on the ancient Sanskrit drama The Little Clay Cart and a Bollywood-style dance sequence with a song from the film China Gate.

The Mahabharata ( Sanskrit, ) is one of the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India, the other being the Ramayana.

Early writing on mineralogy, especially on gemstones, comes from ancient Babylonia, the ancient Greco-Roman world, ancient and medieval China, and Sanskrit texts from ancient India and the ancient Islamic World.

A number of other ancient languages also used quantitative metre, such as Sanskrit and Classical Arabic ( but not Biblical Hebrew ).

The history of morphological analysis dates back to the ancient Indian linguist, who formulated the 3, 959 rules of Sanskrit morphology in the text by using a constituency grammar.

Nirvāṇa (;, nibbāna ; ) is an ancient Sanskrit term used in Indian religions to describe the profound peace of mind that is acquired with moksha ( liberation ).

" Soma " is Vedic Sanskrit for moon, describing both the shape of the bulb and its nocturnal juice emission, which in ancient times would have been visible by moonlight only.

Phonetics was studied as early as 500 BC in ancient India, with account of the place and manner of articulation of consonants in his 5th century BC treatise on Sanskrit.

Philosophical conceptions of qi from the earliest records of Chinese philosophy ( 5th century BCE ) correspond to Western notions of humours and the ancient Hindu yogic concept of prana, meaning " life force " in Sanskrit.

The name derives from the Sanskrit श ् र ी ल ं क ा śrī ( venerable ) and lankā ( island ), the name of the island in the ancient Indian epics Mahabharata and the Ramayana.

The term allocutio was used by the ancient Romans for the speech made by a commander to his troops, either before a battle or during it, to animate and encourage them.

As for the term " Compositae ", more ancient but still valid, it obviously makes reference to the fact that the family is one of the few angiosperms that have composite flowers.

The Navajo people, who now reside in parts of former Pueblo territory, referred to the ancient people as, an exonym meaning " ancient enemies " although it is now used in the term " ancient people, or " ancient ones.

Modern Armenia term means Republic of Armenia which occupies part of historical Armenia, whose ancient centers were in the valley of the Araks River and the region around Lake Van in Turkey.

The term apocrypha is used with various meanings, including " hidden ", " esoteric ", " spurious ", " of questionable authenticity ", ancient Chinese " revealed texts and objects " and " Christian texts that are not canonical ".

Abated, an ancient technical term applied in masonry and metal work to those portions which are sunk beneath the surface, as in inscriptions where the ground is sunk round the letters so as to leave the letters or ornament in relief.

Unlike in Hindu and Jain sources, in ancient Buddhist texts ahimsa ( or its Pāli cognate ) is not used as a technical term.

As such, it can be seen as connecting other disciplinary approaches for investigating ancient astronomy: astroarchaeology ( an obsolete term for studies that draw astronomical information from the alignments of ancient architecture and landscapes ), history of astronomy ( which deals primarily with the written textual evidence ), and ethnoastronomy ( which draws on the ethnohistorical record and contemporary ethnographic studies ).

The inhabitants were also known, by the ancient Romans, with the pejorative term latrones mastrucati, which means " thieves with a rough garment in wool ".

In the ancient world, at the Alexandrian Library, scholars coined the Greek term Hoi enkrithentes (“ the admitted ”, “ the included ”) to identify the writers in the canon.

The term ' democracy ' first appeared in ancient Greek political and philosophical thought in the city-state of Athens.

The term dialect ( from the ancient Greek word Διάλεκτος diálektos, " discourse ", from διά diá, " through " + λέγω legō, " I speak ") is used in two distinct ways, even by linguists.

Among the Aztecs, the ancient Mexican theory of rhetorics, poetry, dance, and instrumental music, used the Nahuatl term In xochitl-in kwikatl to refer a complex mix of music and other poetic verbal and non-verbal elements, and reserve the word Kwikakayotl ( or cuicacayotl ) only for the sung expressions ( Leon-Portilla 2007, 11 ).

The term " dictator " is comparable to, but not synonymous with, the ancient concept of a tyrant ; initially " tyrant ", like " dictator ", did not carry negative connotations.

The term euphemism itself was used as a euphemism by the ancient Greeks, meaning " to keep a holy silence " ( speaking well by not speaking at all ).

The term empirical was originally used to refer to certain ancient Greek practitioners of medicine who rejected adherence to the dogmatic doctrines of the day, preferring instead to rely on the observation of phenomena as perceived in experience.

The term is derived from the ancient Greek noun (), which means " the abandonment ", " the downfall ", or " the darkening of a heavenly body ", which is derived from the verb () which means " to abandon ", " to darken ", or " to cease to exist ," a combination of prefix (), from preposition (), " out ," and of verb (), " to be absent ".

The term ethnologia ( ethnology ) is credited to Adam Franz Kollár ( 1718-1783 ) who used and defined it in his Historiae ivrisqve pvblici Regni Vngariae amoenitates published in Vienna in 1783. as: “ the science of nations and peoples, or, that study of learned men in which they inquire into the origins, languages, customs, and institutions of various nations, and finally into the fatherland and ancient seats, in order to be able better to judge the nations and peoples in their own times .”

His nickname Unræd is usually translated into present-day English as " The Unready ", though, because the present-day meaning of " unready " no longer resembles its ancient counterpart, this translation disguises the meaning of the Old English term.

The term was used of the Empiric school of ancient Greek medical practitioners, who rejected the doctrines of the ( Dogmatic school ), preferring to rely on the observation of phenomena.

( Christ 1997, 2003 ) The term " The Goddess " may also refer to the concept of The One Divine Power, or the traditionally worshipped " Great Goddess " of ancient times.