St. Gregory VII having, indeed, abridged the order of prayers, and having simplified the Liturgy as performed at the Roman Court, this abridgment received the name of Breviary, which was suitable, since, according to the etymology of the word, it was an abridgment.

rheology ) is the Greek word for " to stream, and to the etymology of Rhea according to Plato's Cratylus.

The veterans at first wore a combination of black police uniforms and tan army uniforms ( because of shortages ), which, according to one etymology, inspired the nickname Black and Tans.

The etymology of the name is contested, according to one view, the name Odysseus derives from the verb (), meaning " to be wroth against ', ' hate ", suggesting that the name could be rendered as " the one who is wrathful / hated ".

F. R. Schröder has proposed a fourth etymology according to which yggdrasill means " yew pillar ", deriving yggia from * igwja ( meaning " yew-tree "), and drasill from * dher-( meaning " support ").

The Arabic etymology, Ibrahim al-Khalil () means " Abraham the friend ", according to Islamic teaching signifying that, God chose Abraham as his friend.

In gratitude, Zeus placed her in the heavens as the constellation Ursa Minor ; according to folk etymology and the myth, Kynosoura is from κυνὸς οὐρά " dog's tail.

An alternate etymology suggested by Prof. Pischel derives Rudra (" the Red, the Brilliant ") from a lost root rud -, " to be red " or " to be ruddy ", or according to Grassman, " to shine ".

This is inferred from the etymology of the name, which, according to one theory, is resolvable into two Gaelic terms signifying a castle or fort in the copse or brushwood.

Folk etymology indicates that the word means " wise fool "; consequently " sophomoric " means " pretentious, bombastic, inflated in style or manner ; immature, crude, superficial " ( according to the Oxford English Dictionary ).

The words pentacle and pentagram ( a five-point unicursal star ) are essentially synonymous, according to the Online Oxford English Dictionary ( 2007 revision ), which traces the etymology through both French and Italian back to Latin, but notes that in Middle French the word " pentacle " was used to refer to any talisman.

The etymology of the term is uncertain ; the commonly mentioned derivation from Bokhara is, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, uncertain.

Because many cities in the region later received the appendix-inge, the name, according to this etymology, evolved to Vles-inge.

There are at least two explanations for the etymology of the name Jeddah, according to Jeddah Ibn Helwaan Al-Qudaa ' iy, the chief of the Quda ' a clan.

yll " star ", but according to Stuart Edward Mann, this last version is a folk etymology, which is based on the traditional equation.

Similar to the StarCraft etymology, the term is often altered according to the units involved, such as the Rhino tank rush of Red Alert 2, the Flash tank rush of Total Annihilation, the Samurai Ship rush of Total War: Shogun 2 and the Pitbull rush of Command & Conquer 3.

Current Polish etymology ( according to Rospond, Rymut and Malec ) clearly indicates a nickname Rzepa ( Polish name of turnip ), or the name of turnip itself, as the town name origin.

The etymology of the toponym Narva is not clear, but according to the most common theory it comes from a Vepsian word narva meaning waterfall or stream.

The first syllable is shown long and stressed ( Trēverī ) in Latin dictionaries, according to its Celtic etymology, thus giving the Classical Latin pronunciation.

The cucking stool, according to Blackstone, eventually became known as a ducking stool by folk etymology.

The differentiation between kamatz gadol and kamatz katan is made according to purely phonetic rules without regard to etymology, which occasionally leads to spelling pronunciations at variance with the rules laid down in Biblical Hebrew grammar books.

The four primary aicmí are, with their transcriptions in manuscript tradition and their names according to manuscript tradition in normalized Old Irish, followed by the their Primitive Irish sound values, and their presumed original name in Primitive Irish in cases where the name's etymology is known:

* according to a traditional etymology The word ` ajam comes from the Semitic root `- j-m. Related forms of the same root include, but are not limited to:

* according to A Persian etymology ` Ajam comes from the first name of the ancient Persian king, Jamshid, The etymology would have " Ajam " as an arabized version of the kings name ' Jam ' rooted in Sanskrit " Jam " or Yami ,( Sanskrit: यम ी) is the first woman, along with her twin brother Yama.

Although the OED2 notes Granholm was " jocular ", it accepts his ironic etymology from a fictional " Fink and Wiggles " for Funk & Wagnalls lexicographer.

Academics began to understand the origins and corrected etymology of the brown rat towards the end of the 19th century, as seen in the 1895 text Natural History by American scholar Alfred Henry Miles:

Through popular etymology, it has been falsely claimed that André-Marie Ampère used the symbol in his widely read publications, and that people began calling the new shape " Ampère's and ".

Some reports state that carriage drivers tied their reins with a four-in-hand knot, while others claim that the carriage drivers wore their scarves in the manner of a four-in-hand, but the most likely etymology is that members of the Four-in-Hand Club in London began to wear the neckwear, making it fashionable.

In 1979, the magazine began publishing Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist William Safire's " On Language ," a column discussing issues of English grammar, use and etymology.

There are various versions of who the original Vasily was, though these may be a product of false etymology, as the Russian name of the island may in fact be a corruption of its previous Swedish or Finnish name, because the island had been shown under them on Swedish maps before its present Russian history began after the Great Northern War.

Paeοn is probably connected with the Mycenean Pa-ja-wo, but the etymology is the only evidence.

In this interpretation, Apollo's title of Lykegenes can simply be read as " born in Lycia ", which effectively severs the god's supposed link with wolves ( possibly a folk etymology ).

The traditional etymology is from the Latin aperire, " to open ," in allusion to its being the season when trees and flowers begin to " open ," which is supported by comparison with the modern Greek use of ἁνοιξις ( anoixis ) ( opening ) for spring.

Adams ( 1997 ) have also proposed an etymology based on the connection with the Indo-European dawn goddess, from " very " and " to shine ".

Among Classical Greeks, amazon was given a popular etymology as from a-mazos, " without breast ", connected with an etiological tradition that Amazons had their left breast cut off or burnt out, so they would be able to use a bow more freely and throw spears without the physical limitation and obstruction ; there is no indication of such a practice in works of art, in which the Amazons are always represented with both breasts, although the left is frequently covered ( see photos in article ).

If this etymology is combined with the tradition reported by Geoffrey of Monmouth stating that Ambrosius Aurelianus ordered the building of Stonehenge – which is located within the parish of Amesbury ( and where Ambrosius was supposedly buried ) – and with the presence of an Iron Age hill fort also in that parish, then it may be tempting to connect Ambrosius with Amesbury.

The etymology of the name Ares is traditionally connected with the Greek word ἀρή ( arē ), the Ionic form of the Doric ἀρά ( ara ), " bane, ruin, curse, imprecation ".

Its connection with Ares, perhaps based on a false etymology, is purely etiological myth.

Art is an autonomous entity for philosophy, because art deals with the senses ( i. e. the etymology of aesthetics ) and art is as such free of any moral or political purpose.

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 ".

A more recent etymology by Xavier Delamarre would derive it from a Common Celtic * Beltinijā, cognate with the name of the Lithuanian goddess of death Giltinė, the root of both being Proto-Indo-European * gʷelH-" suffering, death ".

While folk etymology identifies it with " cape ", other suggestions suggest it to be connected to the Latin word caput (" head "), and thus explain it as meaning " chief " or " big head ".

Sophie and Michael D. Coe agree with this etymology.

Rhyming slang, in keeping with the rest of the language, is at the mercy of what one might loosely refer to as " false etymology ".

* Something associated with German, ( Deutsch ) through associated meaning and sound of the word and common etymology of " Deutsch " vs. " Dutch "

This statement was likely picked up by the author of the Estoire Merlin, or Vulgate Merlin, where the author ( who was fond of fanciful folk etymologies ) asserts that Escalibor " is a Hebrew name which means in French ' cuts iron, steel, and wood '" (" c ' est non Ebrieu qui dist en franchois trenche fer & achier et fust "; note that the word for " steel " here, achier, also means " blade " or " sword " and comes from medieval Latin aciarium, a derivative of acies " sharp ", so there is no direct connection with Latin chalybs in this etymology ).

The etymology connecting * alboz with albus " white " suggests an original dichotomy of " white " vs. " black " genii, corresponding to the elves vs. the dwarves which was subsequently confused.

In fact, the etymology of the family is enterobacterium with the suffix to designate a family ( aceae ) — not after the genus Enterobacter ( which would be " Enterobacteraceae ")— and the type genus is Escherichia.

The etymology of foo is explored in the Internet Engineering Task Force ( IETF ) RFC 3092, which notes usage of foo in 1930s cartoons including The Daffy Doc ( with Daffy Duck ) and comic strips, especially Smokey Stover and Pogo.

The etymology of feodum is complex with multiple theories, some suggesting a Germanic origin ( the most widely held view ) and others suggesting an Arabic origin.

In alternative etymology, linking the ginn-prefix in Ginnungagap with that found in terms with a sacral meaning, such as ginn-heilagr, ginn-regin ( both referring to the gods ) and ginn-runa ( referring to the runes ), interprets Ginnungagap as signifying a " magical ( and creative ) power-filled space ".