Instead they introduced the word " meaning response " for the meaning that the brain associates with the placebo, which causes a physiological placebo effect.

He had observed that another, entirely different and unrelated, and far more recent meaning of the term placebo was emerging into far more common usage in the technical literature ( see homonym ); namely that a " placebo response " ( or " placebo reaction ") was a " pleasant " response to a real or sham / dummy treatment ( this new and entirely different usage was based on the Latin meaning of the word placebo, " I shall please ").

Kennedy chose the Latin word nocebo (" I shall harm ") because it was the opposite of the Latin word placebo, and used it to denote the counterpart of the placebo response: namely, an " unpleasant " response to the application of real or sham treatment.

We are not certain that the word " democracy " was extant when systems that came to be called democratic were first instituted, but around 460 BC an individual is known whose parents had decided to name him ' Democrates ', a name which may have been manufactured as a gesture of democratic loyalty ; the name can also be found in Aeolian Temnus, not a particularly democratic state.

A good example of the contempt the first democrats felt for those who did not participate in politics can be found in the modern word ' idiot ', which finds its origins in the ancient Greek word, idiōtēs, meaning a private person, a person who is not actively interested in politics ; such characters were talked about with contempt, and the word eventually acquired its modern meaning.

Plancius called the constellation " Paradysvogel Apis Indica "; the first word is Dutch for ' bird of paradise ', but the others are Latin for " Indian Bee "; " apis " ( Latin for " bee ") is presumably an error for " avis " or " bird ".

The word was coined in 1834 from the Greek ἄνοδος ( anodos ), ' ascent ', by William Whewell, who had been consulted by Michael Faraday over some new names needed to complete a paper on the recently discovered process of electrolysis.

George Gummerman and Miranda Warburton view archaeoastronomy as part of an archaeology informed by cultural anthropology and aimed at understanding a " group's conception of themselves in relation to the heavens ', in a word, its cosmology.

The word is derived from the Latin words bi ( s ) ' two ( 2 )' and ped-' foot ', as contrasted with quadruped ' four feet '.

Since the early 20th century it has been commonly accepted that Old Irish Bel ( l ) taine is derived from a Common Celtic * belo-te ( p ) niâ, meaning " bright fire " ( where the element * belo-might be cognate with the English word bale in ' bale-fire ' meaning ' white ' or ' shining '; compare Anglo-Saxon bael, and Lithuanian / Latvian baltas / balts, found in the name of the Baltic ; in Slavic languages byelo or beloye also means ' white ', as in Беларусь ( White Russia or Belarus ) or Бе ́ лое мо ́ ре Sea ).

The word broch is derived from Lowland Scots ' brough ', meaning ( among other things ) fort.

This will not do as a definition of the word ' property ' because, like ' attribute ', ' quality ' is a near-synonym of ' property '.

The word was coined in 1834 from the Greek κάθοδος ( kathodos ), ' descent ' or ' way down ', by William Whewell, who had been consulted by Michael Faraday over some new names needed to complete a paper on the recently discovered process of electrolysis.

The word ' catapult ' comes from the Latin ' catapulta ', which in turn comes from the Greek καταπέλτης ( katapeltēs ), itself from ( kata ), " downwards " + πάλλω ( pallō ), " to toss, to hurl ".

Perhaps the most cited explanation is that " chocolate " comes from Nahuatl, the language of the Aztecs, from the word chocolātl, which many sources derived from xocolātl, from xococ ' sour ' or ' bitter ', and ātl ' water ' or ' drink '.

Another theory says that the name " Dada " came during a meeting of the group when a paper knife stuck into a French-German dictionary happened to point to ' dada ', a French word for ' hobbyhorse '.

") contributed to what has been called my ' image ', which is a word that baffles me.

Nobita's main human friends and / or rivals include Takeshi ( nicknamed ' Gian ', from the English word giant ), a consummate bully, and Suneo, a wealthy but cunning and arrogant brat.

Alfred Korzybski criticized the use of the verb " to be ", and stated that, " Any proposition containing the word ' is ' its other forms ' are ,' ' be ', etc.

The island's name in English translates as ' strong fortune ' or ' strong wind ', the Spanish word for wind being ' viento '.

The Finnish and Estonian languages are both part of the non-Indo-European Uralic languages ; they share a similar grammar as well as several individual words, though sometimes as false friends: e. g. the Finnish word for ' south ', etelä is close to the Estonian word edel, but the latter means south-west.

Most historians believe that the older name for Ghent, ' Ganda ', is derived from the Celtic word ' ganda ' which means confluence.

These richly grassed ' meersen ' (" water-meadows ": a word related to the English ' marsh ', but not meaning exactly the same: a ' meers ' is not permanently under water ) were ideally suited for herding sheep, the wool of which was used for making cloth.

Some other, rarer, names for this alphabet are Bukvitsa ( from common Slavic word ' bukva ' meaning ' letter ', and a suffix '- itsa ') and Illyrian.

However, research has revealed some extremely early loanwords, such as szó (' word '; from the Turkic languages ) and daru (' crane ', from the related Permic languages.

It may be thought unfortunate that he was called on entirely by accident to perform, if again we may trust the opening of the oratio, for it marks the beginning for us of his use of his peculiar form of witty word play that even in this Latin banter has in it the unmistakable element of viciousness and an almost sadistic delight in verbally tormenting an adversary.

The singular alga is the Latin word for a particular seaweed and retains that meaning in English.

The use of the word abacus dates before 1387 AD, when a Middle English work borrowed the word from Latin to describe a sandboard abacus.

The Latin word came from Greek ἄβαξ abax " board strewn with sand or dust used for drawing geometric figures or calculating "( the exact shape of the Latin perhaps reflects the genitive form of the Greek word, ἄβακoς abakos ).

The English word alphabet came into Middle English from the Late Latin word alphabetum, which in turn originated in the Greek ἀλφάβητος ( alphabētos ), from alpha and beta, the first two letters of the Greek alphabet.

These can range from simple spelling changes and word forms to switching the entire writing system itself, as when Turkey switched from the Arabic alphabet to a Turkish alphabet of Latin origin.

In other languages having the meaning of the Latin word pavor, the derived words differ in meaning, e. g. as in the French anxiété and peur.

The town's name is attested as Aisincurt in 1175, derived from a Germanic masculine name Aizo, Aizino and the early Northern French word curt ' farm with a courtyard ' ( Late Latin cortem ).

The English word Alps derives from the French and Latin Alpes, which at one time was thought to be derived from the Latin albus (" white ").

An abbreviation ( from Latin brevis, meaning short ) is a shortened form of a word or phrase.

The word angle comes from the Latin word angulus, meaning " a corner ".

The word angulus is a diminutive, of which the primitive form, angus, does not occur in Latin.

The word art is derived from the Latin " ars ", which, although literally defined means, " skill method " or " technique ", holds a connotation of beauty.

The word Anglican originates in ecclesia anglicana, a medieval Latin phrase dating to at least 1246 that means the English Church.

The word Gringo is widely used in parts of Latin America in reference to U. S. residents, often in a pejorative way but not necessarily.

Throughout Latin America the word Gringo is also used for any foreigner from the United States, Canada, or Europe, however the true sense of the word is any foreigner.

The word derives from Latin ancora, which itself comes from the Greek ἄγκυρα ( ankura ).