The name actinium originates from the Ancient Greek aktis, aktinos ( ακτίς, ακτίνος ), meaning beam or ray.

Meanwhile others have concluded that the name of the island originates from the Indo-European root * bhel meaning white, fair.

The name boron originates from the Arabic word buraq or the Persian word burah ; which are names for the mineral borax.

Barium's name originates from the alchemical derivative " baryta ", which itself comes from Greek βαρύς ( barys ), meaning " heavy.

Its name originates from the gin's popularity in India during the British Raj and the sapphire in question is the Star of Bombay on display at the Smithsonian Institution.

The " Indians " name originates from a request by the club owner to decide on a new name, following the 1914 season.

The dumpster diving term originates from the best-known manufacturer of commercial trash bins, Dempster, who use the trade name " Dumpster " for their bins, and the fanciful image of someone leaping head first into a dumpster as if it were a swimming pool.

Originally written by four graduate students at the Computer Systems Research Group at the University of California, Berkeley ( UCB ), the name originates as an acronym from Berkeley Internet Name Domain, reflecting the application's use within UCB.

The Greek and English name originates with the Septuagint translation of the 3rd century BCE.

The name La Niña originates from Spanish, meaning " the girl ", analogous to El Niño meaning " the boy ".

This name originates from sičan, written as svičan in the New Carniolan Almanac from 1775 and changed to its final form by Franc Metelko in his New Almanac from 1824.

The name originates from Old High German Hadwig, Haduwig ( hadu meaning battle, and wig meaning fight ).

" The word mesmerize originates from the name of Franz Mesmer, and was intentionally used to separate its users from the various " fluid " and " magnetic " theories embedded within the label " magnetism ".

The name originates from its purpose ( wolf hunting with dogs ) rather than from its appearance.

The " Royals " name originates from the American Royal, a livestock show, horse show, and rodeo held annually in Kansas City since 1899.

The name originates from the Makatao language of the local aboriginal tribe and translates as " bamboo forest ".

The name originates from the ancient practice of military mining, where tunnels were dug under enemy fortifications or troop formations by sappers.

The " Athletics " name originates from the late 19th century " athletic clubs ", specifically the Philadelphia Athletics baseball club.

The name Quinquagesima originates from Latin quinquagesimus ( fiftieth ), referring to the fifty days before Easter Day using inclusive counting which counts both Sundays ( normal counting would count only one of these ).

* The Marvel Comics character known as Tyrannus has the " real name " of " Romulus Augustus ", and originates in ancient Rome.

The name originates from the use of the word ricordare especiale, which means " remember " in Italian.

In South Asia, nutmeg, which originates from the Banda Islands in the Molukas, has a Sanskrit name.

The " Mariners " name originates from the prominence of marine culture in the city of Seattle.

The name comes from the Rock of Gibraltar, which in turn originates from the Arabic Jebel Tariq ( meaning " Tariq's mountain ") named after Tariq ibn Ziyad.

The name of Germany and the German language, in French, Allemagne, allemand, in Portuguese Alemanha, alemão, in Spanish Alemania, alemán, and in Welsh ( Yr ) Almaen, almaeneg are derived from the name of this early Germanic tribal alliance.

Variants of the name include: Alfonso ( Italian and Spanish ), Alfons ( Catalan, Dutch, German, Polish and Scandinavian ), Afonso ( Portuguese and Galician ), Affonso ( Ancient Portuguese ), Alphonse, Alfonse ( Italian, French and English ), Αλφόνσος Alphonsos ( Greek ), Alphonsus ( Latin ), Alphons ( Dutch ), Alfonsu in ( Leonese ), Alfonsas ( Lithuanian ).

Some Portuguese scholars believe that Garcia's supposed Christian name, " Diego ", was a misnomer or a misreading that came into use towards the end of the 16th century.

The anti-torpedo boat origin of this type of ship is retained in its name in other languages, including French ( contre-torpilleur ), Italian ( cacciatorpediniere ), Portuguese ( contratorpedeiro ), Polish ( kontrtorpedowiec ), Czech ( torpédoborec ), Greek ( antitorpiliko, αντιτορπιλικό ), and Dutch ( torpedobootjager ).

That was one ( perhaps the main ) reason that a new name was devised for its successor currency, euro, which was felt not to favour any single language .. One other factor that maybe also influenced the decision not to use the name ecu for the actual EURO, was that in some European languages, as Portuguese, it also means " ass "

The generic name is derived from the Spanish and Portuguese name for the species, and the specific name impennis is from Latin and refers to the lack of flight feathers or pennae.

Edwige is a French version of the name ; Edvige is the Italian version ; Eduviges is the Portuguese, Spanish and Catalan version, all of them from the Latinized version ( Eduvigis is also common ), Hadewych is a Dutch version ; Hedvig is a Danish, Icelandic, Norwegian and Swedish version.

On St. Laurence's Day in 1500, Portuguese explorer Diogo Dias landed on the island and christened it São Lourenço, but Polo's name was preferred and popularized on Renaissance maps.

Muslims had actually lived in the region for quite some time ; the famous Arab historian and geographer, Al-Masudi, reported Muslims amongst Africans in the land of Sofa in 947 ( modern day Mozambique, itself a derivative of the name of the Arab Shiekh who ruled the area at the time when the Portuguese arrived, Musa bin Ba ' ik ).

* 1491 – Kongo monarch Nkuwu Nzinga is baptised by Portuguese missionaries, adopting the baptismal name of João I.

The name Newfoundland is derived from English as " New Found Land " ( a translation from the Portuguese Terra Nova, and still reflected in the province's French language name, " Terre Neuve ").

The name of the genus, Pongo, comes from a 16th-century account by Andrew Battell, an English sailor held prisoner by the Portuguese in Angola, which describes two anthropoid " monsters " named Pongo and Engeco.

The ocean's current name was given by Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan during the Spanish expedition of world circumnavigation in 1521, who encountered favourable winds as he reached the ocean and called it Mar Pacifico in Portuguese, meaning " peaceful sea ".

A postmodernism that lives up to its name, therefore, must no longer confine itself to the premodern preoccupation with " things " nor with the modern confinement to " ideas ," but must come to terms with the way of signs embodied in the semiotic doctrines of such thinkers as the Portuguese philosopher John Poinsot and the American philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce.

Riurik is the Slavic rendering of the same Germanic name as the modern English Roderick, or Spanish and Portuguese Rodrigo.

was the name given to Sri Lanka by the Portuguese when they arrived in 1505, which was transliterated into English as Ceylon.

However, both the location of the island and its name were quoted in a Dutch book in 1508, which described a 1505 Portuguese expedition led by Francisco de Almeida from the East Indies: " n the twenty-first day of July we saw land, and it was an island lyng six hundred and fifty miles from the Cape, and called Saint Helena, howbeit we could not land there.

Portuguese trading posts were installed in Tanguegueth in Cay, a town they renamed Fresco Rio ( the future Rufisque ) because of the freshness of its sources in the Baol Sali ( later the seaside town of Saly ) which takes the name of Portudal, or to Joal in the Kingdom of Sine.