The derogatory term rabiblanco (" white tail "), of uncertain origin, has been used for generations to refer to the usually Caucasian members of the elite families.

* Vyacheslav V. Ivanov, " Comparative Notes on Hurro-Urartian, Indo-European, and Northern Caucasian " discusses the difficulties and disagreements faced by linguists working in this area, the term Alarodian being created especially for the Hurro-Urartian-Nakh-Avar languages as a family.

The term Caucasian generally describes people whose ancestry can be traced to Europe, the Middle East and North Africa.

Northwest Caucasian languages have been suggested as being related to the Northeast Caucasian languages and both are often merged under the blanket term " North Caucasian languages "; several linguists, notably Sergei Starostin, posit a phylogenetic link between these two families.

However, the term oblique is also used for languages without a nominative case, such as ergative – absolutive languages ; in the Northwest Caucasian languages, for example, the oblique-case marker serves to mark the ergative, dative, and applicative case roles, contrasting with the absolutive case, which is unmarked.

North Caucasian languages ( sometimes called simply Caucasic as opposed to Kartvelian, and to avoid confusion with the concept of " Caucasian race ") is a blanket term for two language phyla spoken chiefly in the north Caucasus and Turkey: the Northwest Caucasian family ( Pontic, Abkhaz – Adyghe, Circassian, West Caucasian ) and the Northeast Caucasian family ( Caspian, Nakh – Dagestanian, East Caucasian ); the latter includes the former North-central Caucasian ( Nakh ) family.

The term octoroon referred to a person with one-eighth African ancestry ; that is, someone with family heritage of one biracial grandparent, in other words, one African great-grandparent and seven Caucasian great-grandparents.

Blond hair is most common in Caucasian infants and children, so much so that the term " baby blond " is often used for very light colored hair.

In just about any area that fell under the crown's dominion, the term was made use of, and anyone of mixed Caucasian and conquered races could be properly described as being half-caste.

The term Caucasian race ( also Caucasoid, Europid, or Europoid ) has been used to denote the general physical type of some or all of the populations of Europe, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, Western Asia ( the Middle East ), parts of Central Asia and South Asia.

The term " Caucasian race " was coined by the German philosopher Christoph Meiners in his The Outline of History of Mankind ( 1785 ).

However, in 1795, a colleague of Meiners from the University of Göttingen, Blumenbach, one of the earliest anthropologists, adopted the term Varietas Caucasia (" Caucasian Variety "), for a new major hypothetical racial division.

Some anthropologists in the latter half of the 20th century, used the term " Caucasoid " in their literature, such as Boyd, Gates, Coon, Cole, Brues and Krantz replacing the earlier term " Caucasian " as it had fallen out of usage.

In the 19th century, the term was used more broadly for all ethnic groups speaking non-Nakh Northeast Caucasian languages, including Caucasian Avars, Laks, and many others ( although the Vainakh peoples, who were Northeast Caucasian language speakers were referred to as " Circassians ").

The second period was characterized by the Spanish attempts to reimpose arbitrary rule during the period known as the Reconquista of 1814 – 1817 (" Reconquest ": the term echoes the Reconquista in which the Christian kingdoms retook Iberia from the Muslims ).

Although by 1000 Germanic conquest of central, western, and southern Europe west of and including Italy was complete, excluding only Muslim Iberia, there was no process equivalent to Han sinification, and " Germany " remained largely a conceptual term referring to an amorphous area of central Europe.

When used as a historical period in traditional Spanish and Portuguese historiography, the term Reconquista has often been used to refer to a period extending from 718 ( or 722 according to other sources ) to 1492, when the last remaining Islamic state in Iberia, the Emirate of Granada, was defeated.

In modern Iberia, the term is applied to people of Moroccan ethnicity.

The use of this plant rapidly expanded from Iberia throughout Africa and Asia and ultimately reached Central Europe through the Balkans which were under Ottoman rule, explaining the Slavic origin of the modern English term.

As the branches of Vulgar Latin began to evolve into separate Romance languages, the term that would evolve into español began to be used to refer to these derivative languages ( especially as opposed to the Arabic and Hebrew of the Moorish and Jewish inhabitants of Iberia ).

With this, the break with the Roman concept of Hispania was complete, and the term acquired its modern meaning of'all of Iberia except for Portugal and Andorra '.

The proper term which more enlightened scholars use is Iberia, the geographical vast peninsula, encompassing Portugal, an autonomous kingdom since 1139, and several other kingdoms.

Several centuries later, following the mass forced conversion of Sephardi Jews ( those Jews with extended histories in Spain and Portugal, known jointly as Iberia, or " Sepharad " in Hebrew ) of the 14th and 15th centuries, the term " anusim " became widely used by Spanish rabbis and their successors for the following 600 years, henceforth becoming associated with Sephardic history.

The term was introduced by the Old Christians of Iberia who wanted to distinguish themselves from the conversos ( converts ).

The Rite of Iberia ( the Roman Hispania, modern Spain and Portugal ), fairly widely used from the fifth century to the end of the eleventh, and still lingering on as an archaeological survival in chapels at Toledo and Salamanca, was so nearly allied to the Gallican Rite that the term Hispano-Gallican is often applied to the two.

The Council of Nicaea did not end the controversy, as many bishops of the Eastern provinces disputed the homoousios, the central term of the Nicene creed, as it had been used by Paul of Samosata, who had advocated a monarchianist Christology.

However, it has been strongly argued that this was a point made out of mis-translation, as pointed out by Amin Malouf, and that the origin of the term in Middle Eastern culture comes from phrase Asasiyun, meaning those who follow the Asas ; believers in the foundation of faith.

The literature of European archaeology, in general, avoids the use of ' chalcolithic ' ( the term ' Copper Age ' is preferred ), whereas Middle Eastern archaeologists regularly use it.

The term Eastern Danish is occasionally used for Bornholmian, but including the dialects of Scania ( particularly in a historical context ).

Deuterocanonical books is a term used since the sixteenth century in the Catholic Church and Eastern Christianity to describe certain books and passages of the Christian Old Testament that are not part of the Hebrew Bible.

Outside of the Roman Catholic Church, the term deuterocanonical is sometimes used, by way of analogy, to describe books that Eastern Orthodoxy, and Oriental Orthodoxy included in the Old Testament that are not part of the Jewish Tanakh, nor the Protestant Old Testament.

Unfortunately, the use of the term " pan-Orthodox " is confusing to those not within Eastern Orthodoxy, and it leads to mistaken impressions that these are ersatz ecumenical councils rather than purely local councils to which nearby Orthodox hierarchs, regardless of jurisdiction, are invited.

The term Western Orthodoxy is sometimes used to denominate what is technically a Vicariate within the Antiochian Orthodox Church and thus a part of the Eastern Orthodox Church as that term is defined here.

In the Pyramid Texts and Coffin Texts it is revealed the ancient Egyptians believed Nun ( the Ocean ) was a circular body surrounding nbwt ( a term meaning " dry lands " or " Islands ") and therefore believed in a similar Ancient Near Eastern circular earth cosmography surrounded by water.

Ostdeutschland ( an ambiguous term meaning simultaneously East or Eastern Germany ) was not commonly used in East or West German common parlance to refer to the German Democratic Republic, because Ostdeutschland usually referred to the former eastern territories of Germany.

Müller made the term central to his criticism of Western theological and religious exceptionalism ( relative to Eastern religions ), focusing on a cultural dogma which held " monotheism " to be both fundamentally well-defined and inherently superior to differing conceptions of God.

Pāṇini's influence is also present in Bloomfield's approach to determining parts of speech ( Bloomfield uses the term ' form-classes ') in both Eastern Ojibwa and in the later Menomini language, published posthumously in 1962.

The term is also occasionally employed to refer to modern or contemporary events, peoples, states or parts of states in the same region, namely Cyprus, Iraq, Israel, the Palestinian territories, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria ( compare with Near East, Middle East, Eastern Mediterranean and Western Asia ).

XIII by James of Bulgaria ), which would be passed to mean " funeral meal " and then " food to serve " during this office ( see today's μαχαρωνιά-macharōnia in Eastern Thrace, in the sense of " rice-based dish served at the funeral "), in which case the term would be composed of the double root of μακάριος " blessed " and αἰωνίος ( aiōnios ), " eternally ", and the second from the Greek μακαρία " barley broth ", which would have added the suffix-one.

"( ) Although the term is not specifically used of her in the New Testament, Eastern Christianity refers to her as " Equal to the Apostles "), and later traditions name her as " the apostle to the apostles.

Today the term " priest " is used in Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Anglicanism, and some branches of Lutheranism to refer to those who have been ordained to a ministerial position through receiving the sacrament of Holy Orders, although " presbyter " is also used.

For example, research was carried out and regular conferences held in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union although the word parapsychology was discarded in favour of the term " psychotronics ".

The term prime time is often defined in terms of a fixed time period — for example, from 19: 00 to 22: 00 ( Central and Mountain Time ) or 20: 00 to 23: 00 ( Eastern and Pacific Time ) ( 7 p. m. to 10 p. m. or 8 p. m. to 11 p. m .).

** Romaioi ( Ρωμαίοι ), Greek-speaking, Orthodox population of the Eastern Roman Empire dating to Late Antiquity ( the term translates literally to " Roman ")

In particular, Gerald Gardner, who first popularized Wicca in England, was a noted folklorist with an interest in Far Eastern culture who spent much of his adult life in Ceylon and Burma, so it seems very plausible that he could have been familiar with this Hindu term.

The group adopted a Middle Eastern theme and soon established Temples meeting in Mosques ( though the term Temple has now generally been replaced by Shrine Auditorium or Shrine Center ).

The Eastern Orthodox use the term " Mystical Supper " which refers both to the biblical event and the act of Eucharistic celebration within liturgy.

The Eastern Orthodox Church, Oriental Orthodox Church, and Church of the East have sometimes used the term " transubstantiation " ( metousiosis ); however, terms such as " divine mystery ", " trans-elementation " ( μεταστοιχείωσις metastoicheiosis ), " re-ordination " ( μεταρρύθμισις metarrhythmisis ), or simply " change " ( μεταβολή ) are more common among them.

Examples of official documents of the Eastern Orthodox Church that use the term " μετουσίωσις " or " transubstantiation " are the Longer Catechism of The Orthodox, Catholic, Eastern Church ( question 340 ) and the declaration by the Eastern Orthodox Synod of Jerusalem of 1672: