In the Iliad, the word ares is used as a common noun synonymous with " battle.

In linguistics, ablative case ( abbreviated ) is a cases ( noun inflections ) in various languages whose common characteristic is that inter alia they mark motion away from something, though the details in each language may differ.

French Academy member Étienne Gilson summarized this long-known characteristic of the experienced world as follows :"... the word being is a noun ... it signifies either a being ( that is, the substance, nature, and essence of anything existent ), or being itself, a property common to all that which can rightly be said to be.

Cannon serves both as the singular and plural of the noun, although in American English the plural cannons is more common.

The word " demiurge " is an English word from a Latinized form of the Greek, dēmiourgos, literally " public worker ", and which was originally a common noun meaning " craftsman " or " artisan ", but gradually it came to mean " producer " and eventually " creator ".

Adjectives can be freely placed before or after the nouns they modify, though placing them before the noun is more common.

" Fenrir " appears twice in verse as a common noun for a " wolf " or " warg " in chapter 58 of Skáldskaparmál, and in chapter 56 of the book Háttatal.

In the most common case concord system, only the final word ( the noun ) in a phrase is marked for case.

Gnosis is the common Greek noun for knowledge ( in the nominative case γνῶσις f .).

Although the term Gulag originally referred to a government agency, the acronym acquired the qualities of a common noun, denoting: the Soviet system of prison-based, unfree labor — including specific labor, punishment, criminal, political, and transit camps for men, women, and children.

As a common noun, it simply connotes the country of one's origin.

Chrétien refers to his object not as " The Grail " but as " a grail " ( un graal ), showing the word was used, in its earliest literary context, as a common noun.

With the widespread use of the original acronym as a common noun, actual optical amplifiers have come to be referred to as " laser amplifiers ", notwithstanding the apparent redundancy in that designation.

The use of " minotaur " as a common noun to refer to members of a generic race of bull-headed creatures developed much later, in 20th-century fantasy genre fiction.

A common property of many Niger – Congo languages is the use of a noun class system.

This type of noun affixation is not very frequent in English, but quite common in languages which have the true grammatical gender, including most of the Indo-European family, to which English belongs.

* ( ii ) The more common meaning of classical Latin pāgānus is " civilian, non-militant " ( adjective and noun ).

Interestingly, the back-formed verb to quisle has since given rise to a much-less common, and malformed, version of the noun: quisler.

The term radar has since entered English and other languages as the common noun radar, losing all capitalization.

* rima pobre ( poor rhyme ): rhyme between words of the same grammatical category ( e. g. noun with noun ) or between very common endings (- ão ,-ar );

The term existed shortly before it became the name of a religious movement, and thus occasionally it is used as a common noun and would describe any Christology ( i. e. understanding of Jesus Christ ) that denies the Trinity or believes that God is only one person.

In America, vegetable farms are in some regions known as truck farms ; " truck " is a noun for which its more common meaning overshadows its historically separate use as a term for " vegetables grown for market ".

Jews ceased to pronounce the name in the intertestamental period, replacing it with the common noun Elohim, “ the God ”, to demonstrate the universal sovereignty of Israel's deity over all others.

Historically, nigger is controversial in literature due to its usage as both a racist insult and a common noun.

Thus, Thespis's true contribution to drama is unclear at best, but his name has been immortalized as a common term for performer — a " thespian.

Stoppard also littered his play with jokes referring to the common thespian tendency to swap Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in the midst of the play because the characters are basically identical.

In The Concept of Anxiety ( also known as The Concept of Dread, depending on the translation ), Kierkegaard used the word Angest ( in common Danish, angst, meaning " dread " or " anxiety ") to describe a profound and deep-seated spiritual condition of insecurity and fear in the free human being.

However Abdul is a common Arabic prefix meaning " Servant of the " and " Al " is Arabic for " the ", and if " hazra " means " he prohibited ", " he fenced in " or " Great Lord ", then the name would mean " Servant of the Prohibited ", " Servant of the Fenced in ", or " Servant of the Great Lord " which would make sense considering his role, even if it is not a proper Arabic name.

The last whorl ( known as the body whorl ) is auriform, meaning that the shell resembles an ear, giving rise to the common name " ear shell ".

ΑΒΡΑΣΑΞ, which is far more common in the sources than the variant form Abraxas, ΑΒΡΑΞΑΣ ) was a word of mystic meaning in the system of the Gnostic Basilides, being there applied to the “ Great Archon ” ( Gk., megas archōn ), the princeps of the 365 spheres ( Gk., ouranoi ).

Even though this usage is common, it is misleading as that is not the original meaning of the terms PAL / SECAM / NTSC.

However, these words all have the meaning " to fall from a height " and are clearly derived either from a common root or from each other.

With ISO / IEC 80000-13, this common meaning was codified in a formal standard.

The unit symbol kB is commonly used for kilobyte, but may be confused with the common meaning of kb for kilobit.

Being is also understood as one's " state of being ," and hence its common meaning is in the context of human ( personal ) experience, with aspects that involve expressions and manifestations coming from an innate " being ", or personal character.

The latter etymology was first suggested by John Mitchell Kemble who alluded that " of six manuscripts in which this passage occurs, one only reads Bretwalda: of the remaining five, four have Bryten-walda or-wealda, and one Breten-anweald, which is precisely synonymous with Brytenwealda "; that Æthelstan was called brytenwealda ealles ðyses ealondes, which Kemble translates as " ruler of all these islands "; and that bryten-is a common prefix to words meaning ' wide or general dispersion ' and that the similarity to the word bretwealh (' Briton ') is " merely accidental ".

Bootstrapping or booting refers to a group of metaphors that share a common meaning: a self-sustaining process that proceeds without external help.

* baio-warioz: the first component is most plausibly explained as a Germanic version of Boii ; the second part is a common formational morpheme of Germanic tribal names, meaning ' dwellers ', as in Anglo-Saxon-ware ); this combination " Boii-dwellers " may have meant " those who dwell where the Boii formerly dwelt ".

St. Jerome differed with St. Augustine in his Latin translation of the plant known in Hebrew as קיקיון ( qiyqayown ), using Hedera ( from the Greek, meaning ivy ) over the more common Latin cucurbita from which the related English plant name cucumber is derived.

The word borough derives from common Germanic * burg, meaning fort: compare with bury ( England ), burgh ( Scotland ), Burg ( Germany ), borg ( Scandinavia ), burcht ( Dutch ) and the Germanic borrowing present in neighbouring Indo-european languages such as borgo ( Italian ), bourg ( French ) and burgo ( Spanish and Portuguese ).

The Anglican Church of Korea has made a 1965 translation of the BCP in Korean and called it " gong-do-gi-do-mun " meaning common prayers.

The current consensus is that chordates are monophyletic, meaning that the Chordata include all and only the descendants of a single common ancestor which is itself a chordate, and that craniates ' nearest relatives are cephalochordates.

Psychologists believe that the search for meaning is common in conspiracism and the development of conspiracy theories, and may be powerful enough alone to lead to the first formulating of the idea.

Others, though, have argued that the level of disagreement about the meaning of the word indicates that it either means different things to different people, or else is an umbrella term encompassing a variety of distinct meanings with no simple element in common.

Another common type of crystallographic defect is an impurity, meaning that the " wrong " type of atom is present in a crystal.

", meaning " Ante Era Vulgaris " and " Era Vulgaris " or " Era Volgare " ( common era ), is increasing.

The meaning of " conservatism " in America has little in common with the way the word is used elsewhere.

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 ).

Its common name is derived from Tupi ka ' apiûara, a complex agglutination of kaá ( leaf ) + píi ( slender ) + ú ( eat ) + ara ( a suffix for agent nouns ), meaning " one who eats slender leafs ", or " grass-eater ".

Citizenship granted in this fashion is referred to by the Latin phrase jus sanguinis meaning " right of blood " and means that citizenship is granted based on ancestry or ethnicity, and is related to the concept of a nation state common in Europe.

The common name originally may have been spelled " chitmunk ," from the native Odawa ( Ottawa ) word jidmoonh, meaning " red squirrel " ( cf.