The al-prefix was probably added through confusion with another legal term, allegeance, an " allegation " ( the French allegeance comes from the English ).

There is no earlier use of the term and Adjacium is not an attested Latin word, which probably means that it is a Latinization of a word in some other language.

Abettor ( from to abet, Old French abeter, à and beter, to bait, urge dogs upon any one ; this word is probably of Scandinavian origin, meaning to cause to bite ), is a legal term implying one who instigates, encourages or assists another to commit an offence.

In Europe a similar liquid process in open-topped crucibles took place which was probably less efficient than the Roman process and the use of the term tutty by Albertus Magnus in the 13th century suggests influence from Islamic technology.

Mexican factory workers and railroad crews first arrived in the Chicagoland area ( Chicago, Illinois ), used the term among themselves, probably to mean chicanery or the working man.

This is a rare term, but probably does equate to castrato.

Camouflage is a form of visual deception ; the term probably comes from camouflet, a French term meaning smoke blown in someone's face as a practical joke.

The term Germani, therefore, probably applied to a small group of tribes in northeastern Gaul who may or may not have spoken a Germanic language, and whose links to Germania are unclear.

It was in the Roman glassmaking center at Trier, now in modern Germany, that the late-Latin term glesum originated, probably from a Germanic word for a transparent, lustrous substance.

Before the apparition of the first gospel, the gospel of Mark which was probably written around the years 65 – 70, Paul the Apostle used the term gospel when he reminded the people of the church at Corinth " of the gospel I preached to you " ( 1 Corinthians 15. 1 ).

The term " Gardnerian " was probably coined by the founder of Cochranian Witchcraft, Robert Cochrane in the 1950s or 60s, who himself left that tradition to found his own.

The term human rights probably came into use some time between Paine's The Rights of Man and William Lloyd Garrison's 1831 writings in The Liberator, in which he stated that he was trying to enlist his readers in " the great cause of human rights ".

Due to the vast influence of immigration from the Canary Islands, the term probably came from the mojo creole marinades adapted in Cuba using citrus vs traditional Isleno types.

The term “ penny ”, as it refers to nails, probably originated in medieval England to describe the price of 100 nails.

Widespread usage of the term New Age began in the mid-1970s ( reflected in the title of monthly periodical New Age Journal ) and probably influenced several thousand small metaphysical book-and gift-stores that increasingly defined themselves as " New Age bookstores.

Both were drawn from the Classical Latin term origanum, which probably referred specifically to sweet marjoram, and was itself a derivation from the Greek ( origanon ), which simply referred to " an acrid herb ".

Historically, the term was probably influenced by Gothic haiþi " dwelling on the heath ", appearing as haiþno in Ulfilas ' bible as " gentile woman " ( translating the " Hellene " in ).

The word has an unknown origin and was originally ( c. 1440 ) used as a term for a short knife or dagger, probably related to Dutch spyd and / or the Latin " spad -" root meaning " sword "; cf.

This is probably because the term “ nanotechnology ” gained serious attention just before that time, following its use by Drexler in his 1986 book, Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology, which cited Feynman, and in a cover article headlined " Nanotechnology ", published later that year in a mass-circulation science-oriented magazine, OMNI.

The word " Gothic " was applied as a pejorative term to all things Northern European and, hence, barbarian, probably first by Giorgio Vasari.

Yahalom is usually translated by the Septuagint as an " onyx ", but sometimes as " beryl " or as " jasper "; onyx only started being mined after the Septuagint was written, so the Septuagint's term " onyx " probably does not mean onyx – onyx is originally an Assyrian word meaning ring, and so could refer to anything used for making rings.

Osteomalacia is the term used to describe a similar condition occurring in adults, generally due to a deficiency of vitamin D. The origin of the word " rickets " is probably from the Old English dialect word ' wrickken ', to twist.

The term probably was derived and translated incorrectly from Middle High German and referred to playing cards on a barrel head ( from kopf, meaning head, and Schaff, meaning a barrel ).

David Roberts, in his book " In Search of the Old Ones: Exploring the Anasazi World of the Southwest ", explained his reason for using the term " Anasazi " over a term using " Puebloan ", noting that the latter term " derives from the language of an oppressor who treated the indigenes of the Southwest far more brutally than the Navajo ever did.

The term " antibacterial " derives from Greek ἀντί ( anti ), " against " + βακτήριον ( baktērion ), diminutive of βακτηρία ( baktēria ), " staff, cane ", because the first ones to be discovered were rod-shaped, and the term " antibiotic " derives from anti + βιωτικός ( biōtikos ), " fil for life, lively ", which comes from βίωσις ( biōsis ), " way of life ", and that from βίος ( bios ), " life ".

It is also possible that the term derives from the Welsh Brit Gweldig, the term for a ruler of Britain.

The term " Bronze Age " ultimately derives from the Ages of Man, the stages of human existence on the Earth according to Greek mythology.

The name " Bohemia " derives from the Latin term for the Celtic tribe inhabiting that area, the Boii, who were called Boiohaemum in the early Middle Ages.

The term " common law " originally derives from the 1150s and 1160s, when Henry II of England established the secular English tribunals.

This learned term derives from the Latin cognatus ( blood relative ).

The term derives from the same Latin root as the word " city ", civis, meaning citizen.

The term cabal derives from Kabbalah ( a word that has numerous spelling variations ), the mystical interpretation ( of Babylonian origin ) of the Hebrew scripture, and originally meant either an occult doctrine or a secret.

Here, again, a new term appears in the record, the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle for the first time using the word scottas, from which Scots derives, to describe the inhabitants of Constantine's kingdom in its report of these events.

The term " clipper " most likely derives from the verb " clip ", which in former times meant, among other things, to run or fly swiftly.

This version of " critical " theory derives from Kant's ( 18th-century ) and Marx's ( 19th Century ) use of the term " critique ", as in Kant's Critique of Pure Reason and Marx's concept that his work Das Kapital ( Capital ) forms a " critique of political economy.

The term derives its etymology from the Daedalus Labyrinth or " complicated maze ".

The term derives from the Greek διακριτικός ( diakritikós, " distinguishing ").

The term Houge derives from the Old Norse word haugr, meaning a mound or barrow.

The term derives from the verb διασπείρω ( diaspeirō ), " I scatter ", " I spread about " and that form διά ( dia ), " between, through, across " + the verb σπείρω ( speirō ), " I sow, I scatter ".

The term ethology derives from the Greek word èthos ( ήθος ), meaning character.

The term derives from the Greek ( esôterikos ), a compound of ( esô ): " within ", thus " pertaining to the more inward ", mystic.

The term empire derives from the Latin imperium ( power, authority ).