The modern English term Easter developed from the Old English word Ēastre or Ēostre (), which itself developed prior to 899, originally referring to the name of the Anglo-Saxon goddess Ēostre.

The term thealogy is sometimes used in the context of the Neopagan Goddess movement, a pun on theology and thea θεά " goddess " intended to suggest a feminist approach to theism.

Gaia philosophy ( named after Gaia, Greek goddess of the Earth ) is a broadly inclusive term for related concepts that living organisms on a planet will affect the nature of their environment in order to make the environment more suitable for life.

A term may be omitted from a well-known kenning: val-teigs Hildr “ hawk-ground ’ s valkyrie / goddess ” ( Haraldr Harðráði: Lausavísa 19 ).

It is envisioned either as a goddess or else as a sleeping serpent, hence a number of English renderings of the term such as ' serpent power '.

However, due to some difficulties in conclusively identifying these figurines with " mother goddess ", some scholars prefer using the term " female figurines with likely cultic significance ".

In the Hymskvidha, Tyr's father is named as the etin Hymir – the term " Hymir's kin " was used a kenning for etinkind – while his mother goes unnamed, but is otherwise described in terms that befit a goddess.

In the work by anthropologist Raphael Patai entitled The Hebrew Goddess, the author argues that the term Shekhinah refers to a goddess by comparing and contrasting scriptural and medieval Jewish Kabbalistic source materials.

Regarding the dísir, Simek states that Old Norse dís appears commonly as simply a term for " woman ", just as Old High German itis, Old Saxon idis, and Old English ides, and may have also been used to denote a type of goddess.

She was the most influential goddess throughout the legacy of Greece and was also adopted by Rome as their most important goddess, Fortuna, hence deriving the term, fortune.

The basic sense of the term is goddess, the feminine of the Latin word divus ( Italian divo ), someone deified after death, or Latin deus, a god.

The word is cognate with the Hindu term Devi meaning goddess ( masculine Deva meaning god ) which in turn originates from the ancient Sanskrit language, one of the earliest Indo-European languages ; the word is also cognate with the Avestan term denoting the Zoroastrian concept of the Daevas and with the Lithuanian word deivė, meaning a female deity.

The concept of Mahadevi as the supreme goddess emerged in historical religious literature as a term to define the powerful and influential nature of female deities in India.

Mother goddess is a term used to refer to a goddess who represents motherhood, fertility, creation, or who embodies the bounty of the Earth.

The modern English term " Easter " is the direct continuation of Old English Ēastre, whose role as a goddess is attested solely by Bede in the 8th century.

According to Rudolf Simek, Old Norse dís appears commonly as simply a term for ' woman ,' just as Old High German itis, Old Saxon idis, and Anglo-Saxon ides, and may have also been used to denote a type of goddess.

Sarah " Saartjie " Baartman ( before 1790 – 29 December 1815 ) ( also spelled Bartman, Bartmann, Baartmen ) was the most famous of at least two Khoikhoi women who were exhibited as freak show attractions in 19th-century Europe under the name Hottentot Venus —" Hottentot " as the then-current name for the Khoi people, now considered an offensive term, and " Venus " in reference to the Roman goddess of love.

The term is derived from the original name of the goddess Sati, also known as Dakshayani, who self-immolated because she was unable to bear her father Daksha's humiliation of her ( living ) husband Shiva.

The latter term was applied to those with periods of mental disorder ; deriving from either Roman mythology describing people " moonstruck " by the goddess Luna or theories of an influence of the moon.

The term triple goddess is infrequently used outside of Neopaganism to instead refer to historical goddess triads and single goddesses of three forms or aspects.

`` Disaffiliation '', by the way, is the term used by the critic and poet, Lawrence Lipton, who has written several articles on this subject, the first of which, in The Nation, quoted as Epigraph: `` We disaffiliate.

It holds an equally valuable lesson for a society where the word `` intellectual '' has become a term of opprobrium to millions of well-meaning people who somehow imagine that it must be destructive of the simpler human virtues.

As he died because of a small wound on his heel, the term Achilles ' heel has come to mean one's point of weakness.

The term " the United States " has historically been used, sometimes in the plural (" these United States "), and other times in the singular, without any particular grammatical consistency.

The term was originally coined in the 19th century by the founding sociologist and philosopher of science, Auguste Comte, and has become a major topic for psychologists ( especially evolutionary psychology researchers ), evolutionary biologists, and ethologists.

In more modern English usage, the term " adobe " has come to include a style of architecture popular in the desert climates of North America, especially in New Mexico.

The term " droid ", coined by George Lucas for the original Star Wars film and now used widely within science fiction, originated as an abridgment of " android ", but has been used by Lucas and others to mean any robot, including distinctly non-human form machines like R2-D2.

Thus the term asteroid has come increasingly to refer specifically to the small bodies of the inner Solar System out to the orbit of Jupiter, which are usually rocky or metallic.

The precise reference of this term has varied over time, perhaps originally referring only to the Ionian colonies along the coast.

The precise reference of this term has varied over time, perhaps originally referring to the Ionian colonies on the Asia Minor coast.

Other terms that have been used include neosyllabary ( Février 1959 ), pseudo-alphabet ( Householder 1959 ), semisyllabary ( Diringer 1968 ; a word which has other uses ) and syllabic alphabet ( Coulmas 1996 ; this term is also a synonym for syllabary ).

The term " absolute value " has been used in this sense since at least 1806 in French and 1857 in English.

* The modern term " style " has a bearing on how material items such as pottery or architecture can be interpreted.

The term anti-Semitic has been used on occasion to include bigotry against other Semitic-language peoples such as Arabs, but such usage is not widely accepted.

The House of Representatives has 18 members, elected for a two year term, 17 in single-seat constituencies and one by a public meeting on Swain Island.

The Senate also has 18 members, elected for a four year term by and from the chiefs of the islands.

However, this ambiguity has been the source of controversy, particularly among Latin Americans, who feel that using the term solely for the United States misappropriates it.

The term can also refer to an establishment which has long ceased to function as an abbey, in some cases for centuries ( for example, see Westminster Abbey below ).

But no attempt to identify the figures on existing gems with the personages of Gnostic mythology has had any success, and Abrasax is the only Gnostic term found in the accompanying legends which is not known to belong to other religions or mythologies.

This etymology has remained the standard derivation of the term.

The term Suebi has a double meaning in the sources.

The term has the meaning of one being crestfallen, depressed, despondent, downcast, gloomy, sullen and evidently frowning, scowling.

From the Early Modern period, their name has become a term for female warriors in general.

The term is often used synonymously with the term antibiotic ( s ); today, however, with increased knowledge of the causative agents of various infectious diseases, antibiotic ( s ) has come to denote a broader range of antimicrobial compounds, including anti-fungal and other compounds.