This movement began in Italy in the 14th century and the term, literally meaning rebirth, describes the revival of interest in the artistic achievements of the Classical world.

Another occasionally used term for the genre is " allohistory " ( literally " other history ").

The term " adiabatic " literally means impassable, coming from the Greek roots ἀ-(" not "), διὰ-(" through "), and βαῖνειν (" to pass "); this etymology corresponds here to an absence of heat transfer.

The term " Almoravid " comes from the Arabic " al-Murabitun " () which is the plural form of " al-Murabit " literally meaning " One who is tying " but figuratively means " one who is ready for battle at a fortress ".

While the term — literally meaning " sailing the air "— originally referred solely to the science of operating the aircraft, it has since been expanded to include technology, business and other aspects related to aircraft.

Ahimsa (; IAST:, Pāli: ) is a term meaning to do no harm ( literally: the avoidance of violence – himsa ).

Indonesians now commonly use the term ' gelap mata ' ( literally ' darkened eyes ') to refer to individual amok.

By extension, the term " embark " literally means to board the kind of boat called a " barque ".

The name comes from the medieval-Latin term balneum ( or balineum ) Mariae — literally, Mary's bath — from which the French bain de Marie, or bain-marie, is derived.

In modern day Italian, this term designates a bordello ( also called " casa chiusa ", literally " closed house "), while the gambling house is spelled casinò with an accent.

The term capital originates from the Latin capitalis, literally " regarding the head " ( referring to execution by beheading ).

Dim sum, literally " touch your heart ", is a Cantonese term for small hearty dishes.

The term baekjeong literally means " a butcher ", but later changed into " common citizens " to change the class system so that the system would be without untouchables.

A parallel view lies in the term universology, which literally means " the science of the universe.

The French term danse macabre may derive from the Latin Chorea Machabæorum, literally " dance of the Maccabees.

In English, the term mikado ( 御門 or 帝 or みかど ), literally meaning " the honorable gate " ( i. e. the gate of the imperial place, which indicates the person who lives in and possesses the place ), was once used ( as in The Mikado, a 19th century operetta ), but this term is now obsolete.

Kaisertum might literally be translated as " emperordom " ( on analogy with " kingdom ") or " emperor-ship "; the term denotes specifically " the territory ruled by an emperor ", and is thus somewhat more general than Reich, which in 1804 carried connotations of universal rule.

He is perhaps deriving the term from Latin gēnomos ( itself representing a Greek, literally " earth-dweller ").

The term literally means " low sugar blood " ( Gr. ὑπογλυκαιμία, from hypo -, glykys, haima ).

Hindi, Maithili, Bhojpuri, Nepali, Marathi and Sanskrit have the term ( Devanagari: म ा त ृ भ ू म ी), literally " Mother-Earth ".

" In Taiwan, the term 母國 ( literally " motherland ") is also used, though that may be due to Japanese or Western influence.

Hīnayāna ( ह ी नय ा न ) is a Sanskrit and Pāli term literally meaning: the " Inferior Vehicle ", " Deficient Vehicle ", the " Abandoned Vehicle ", or the " Defective Vehicle ".

In Western usage, yaoi is distinguished from shōnen-ai ( literally, " boy-love "), in which two males merely express romantic feelings for each other without actually having sexual relations ; however in current Japanese usage this term most commonly refers to pornographic shotacon for men.

The Big Book ( from Alcoholics Anonymous ) states that once a person is an alcoholic, they are always an alcoholic, but does not define what is meant by the term " alcoholic " in this context.

The term " outback " was first used in print in 1869, when the writer clearly meant west of Wagga Wagga, New South Wales.

( The term " reenactment " is a common misnomer ; games are contested and not meant to recreate a specific historical event.

The concept of the overlordship of the whole of Britain was at least recognised in the period, whatever was meant by the term.

The term " Casino " is of Italian origin, the root word being " Casa " ( house ) and originally meant a small country villa, summerhouse or pavilion.

Arias thus remained barred from a second term as president ; however, in April 2003 – by which time two of the four judges who had voted against the change in 2000 had been replaced – the Court reconsidered the issue and, with the only dissenters being the two anti-reelection judges remaining from 2000, declared the 1969 amendment null and thus opened the way to reelection for former presidents – which in practice meant Arias.

Coal ( from the Old English term col, which has meant " mineral of fossilized carbon " since the 13th century ) is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock usually occurring in rock strata in layers or veins called coal beds By comparison in 2007, natural gas provided of oil equivalent per day, while oil provided per day.

The term is meant to evoke the image of a nineteenth century factory, powered by steam, pushing gears and rods, noisy and clamorous.

The term conservative was meant to signify that Jews should attempt to conserve Jewish tradition, rather than reform or abandon it, and does not imply the movement's adherents are politically conservative.

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.

Originally the term " Bronze Age " meant that either copper or bronze was being used as the chief hard substance for the manufacture of tools and weapons.

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

Its use began to develop from this original sense when the Hebrew Bible was translated into Greek ; in Ancient Greece the term διασπορά ( diaspora ) meant " scattering " and was used to refer to citizens of a dominant city-state who emigrated to a conquered land with the purpose of colonization, to assimilate the territory into the empire.

The popularity of the term deconstruction combined with the technical difficulty of Derrida's primary material on deconstruction and his reluctance to elaborate his understanding of the term has meant that many secondary sources have attempted to give a more straightforward explanation than Derrida himself ever attempted.

In Playford's original notation, this term meant the same thing that Corner ( or sometimes Opposite ) means today.

The Old French term esbat ( Modern French ébat ) meant amusement or diversion, with a connotation of frolicking.

While the Finnish political and intellectual elite mostly understood the term to refer more to the foreign policy problems of other countries, and meant mostly for domestic consumption in the speaker's own country, many ordinary Finns considered the term highly offensive.

A term from Greek philosophy, it meant the principle of cosmic reason.

Other sources claim the root to be an old Saxon mining term that seems to have meant decayed, rotten or possibly worthless material.

For the first time, the term " Kingdom ( Empire ) of the Germans " ( Regnum Teutonicorum ) was applied to a Frankish kingdom, although Teutonicorum at its founding originally meant something closer to " Realm of the Germanic peoples " or " Germanic Realm " than " realm of the Germans ".

The controversy is usually based on the assumption that the term originally meant someone messing about with something in a positive sense, that is, using playful cleverness to achieve a goal.

Some contend that the term " Christian " was first coined as a derogatory term, meaning " little Christs ", and was meant as a mockery, a term of derision for those that followed the teachings of Jesus.