The latter is useful for modifying information about some or all forms of a word, hence reducing the work required to improve dictionary contents.

Gregory the Great in an epistle simplified the Latinized name Anglii to Angli, the latter form developing into the preferred form of the word.

In Brazil, the brew and the vine are informally called either caapi or cipó ; the latter is the Portuguese word for liana ( or woody climbing vine ).

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 ".

Today one difference between Bulgarian dialects in the country and literary spoken Bulgarian is the significant presence of Old Bulgarian words and even word forms in the latter.

" It is known as both chupacabras and chupacabra throughout the Americas, with the former being the original word, and the latter a regularization of it.

La Mancha is a region of Spain, but mancha ( Spanish word ) means spot, mark, stain, region and word are not etymologically related ( from Arab origin the former, from Latin macula the latter ), so " de La Mancha " ( lit.

As early as the 7th century the word 天皇 ( which can be read either as sumera no mikoto, divine order, or as tennō, Heavenly Emperor, the latter being derived from a Tang Chinese term referring to the Pole star around which all other stars revolve ) began to be used.

The prefix endo-derives from the Greek word " endon " ( ἔνδον ) meaning " within ," and the latter part of the word comes from the Greek word root " therm " ( θερμ -) meaning " hot.

Two versions existed for the 650s with a 2000 word memory drum: FOR TRANSIT I ( S ) and FOR TRANSIT II, the latter for machines equipped with indexing registers and automatic floating point decimal ( bi-quinary ) arithmetic.

The latter method is more common, especially since some words in Japanese have unique pronunciations ( jukujikun ) that are not related to readings of any of the characters the word is written with.

The Finnish and Estonian languages are both part of the non-Indo-European Uralic languages ; they share a similar grammar as well as several individual words, though sometimes as false friends: e. g. the Finnish word for ' south ', etelä is close to the Estonian word edel, but the latter means south-west.

The word is continued in German Deutsch ( meaning German ), English " Dutch ", Dutch Duits and Diets ( the latter referring to the historic name for Dutch or Middle Dutch, the former meaning German ), Italian tedesco ( meaning German ), Swedish / Danish / Norwegian tysk ( meaning German ) and Middle Low German dudesch meaning both Low German and the whole of Dutch / German / Low German, as well its descendant, modern Low German dütsch, meaning only Standard High German.

# If the borrowed word rhymes with one or more native words, the latter tend to dictate gender.

") A large segment of the technical community insist the latter is the " correct " usage of the word ( see the Jargon File definition below ).

* Machicolation: Machicolations ( from the French word machicoulis, implying a meaning of something like " neck-crusher ") consisted of openings between a wall and a parapet, formed by corbelling out the latter, so that the defenders might throw down stones, boiling water, and so forth, upon assailants below.

Oregano is the anglicised form of the Italian word origano, or possibly of the medieval Latin organum ; this latter is used in at least one Old English work.

From the latter, English obtained the word " Pharaoh ".

Those who subscribe to the proposition that there are inherent distinctions among people that can be ascribed to membership in a racial group ( and who may use this to justify differential treatment of such groups ) tend to describe themselves using the term “ racialism ” rather than “ racism ”, to avoid the negative connotations of the latter word.

Sulfur in organic form is present in the vitamins biotin and thiamine, the latter being named for the Greek word for sulfur.

The latter may range from loss of train of thought, to sentences only loosely connected in meaning, to incoherence known as word salad in severe cases.

Matsuo had faked death and was pitched on a stack of corpses, both the burned and the unburned, the latter decomposing rapidly under the tropical sun.

The latter tried to arbitrate through a delegation from Providence, which offer was declined by the invaders.

The latter was so upset on learning of the death of Morris, that he wrote Morgan a letter, showing his own warmhearted generosity.

But Morgan did not leave before he had written a letter to a William Pickman in Salem, Massachusetts, apparently an acquaintance, praising Washington and saying that the slanders propagated about him were `` opposed by the general current of the people to exalt General Gates at the expense of General Washington was injurious to the latter.

Nogaret is hardly an impartial witness, and even he did not make his charges against Boniface until the latter was dead, but there is some truth in what he said and more in what he did not say.

In all the talk of feudal rights, the knights and bishops must never forget the woolworkers, nor was it easy to do so, for all along the road to Italy they passed the Florentine pack trains going home with their loads of raw wool from England and rough Flemish cloth, the former to be spun and woven by the Arte Della Lana and the latter to be refined and dyed by the Arte Della Calimala with the pigment recently discovered in Asia Minor by one of their members, Bernardo Rucellai, the secret of which they jealously kept for themselves.

For the oyabun to make such a trip was either a sign of great weakness or an indication of equally great confidence, and from all the available information it was probably the latter.

He appeared in the hopples about November 14, was treated for worms on the 18th, the latter date being the first time he struck a real pace.

A detailed study of this latter phenomenon was not attempted in this paper.

To prepare the latter, silver chloride was precipitated from a solution containing Af obtained from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

During the latter procedure the temperature was maintained at 2-degrees-C by surrounding the apparatus with ice.

The latter adhesive was found to be much more satisfactory.

At the central level the scrutin uninominal voting system was selected over some form of the scrutin de liste system, even though the latter had been recommended by Duverger and favored by all political parties.

When the power of the latter was made both limited and explicit -- when norms were clarified and made more precise and the creation of new norms was placed exclusively in parliamentary hands -- two purposes were served: Government was made subservient to an institutionalized popular will, and law became a rational system for implementing that will, for serving conscious goals, for embodying the `` public policy ''.

The latter now furnishes the area with electricity distributed from a modern sub-station at Manchester Depot which was put into operation February 19, 1930 and was improved in January 1942 by the installation of larger transformers.

During the Han dynasty, another Yin-Yang conception was applied to the Lo Shu, considering the latter as a plan of Ancient China.

As the 6502 by itself was too slow to control both the game play and the vector hardware at the same time, the latter task was delegated to the DVG.

The term allegiance was traditionally often used by English legal commentators in a larger sense, divided by them into natural and local, the latter applying to the deference which even a foreigner must pay to the institutions of the country in which he happens to live.

On publication of the latter, Poirot was the only fictional character to be given an obituary in the New York Times ; 6 August 1975 " Hercule Poirot is Dead ; Famed Belgian Detective ".

Even though this period-known in its earlier part as the Spring and Autumn period and the Warring States period-in its latter part was fraught with chaos and bloody battles, it is also known as the Golden Age of Chinese philosophy because a broad range of thoughts and ideas were developed and discussed freely.