The word " assassin " was derived from Hasan-i Sabbah and his Assassins | Assassin's Order of Nizari Ismailism.

The modern word " assassin " is derived from their name.

Albino, palaver, lingo, verandah, and coconut from Portuguese ; diva, prima donna, pasta, pizza, paparazzi, and umbrella from Italian ; smorgasbord and ombudsman from Swedish, Danish and Norwegian ; sauna from Finnish ; adobe, alcohol, algebra, algorithm, apricot, assassin, caliber, cotton, hazard, jacket, jar, julep, mosque, Muslim, orange, safari, sofa, and zero from Arabic ( often via other languages ); behemoth, hallelujah, Satan, jubilee, and rabbi from Hebrew ; taiga, steppe, bolshevik, and sputnik from Russian ; brahman, guru, karma, and pundit from Sanskrit ; honcho, sushi, and tsunami from Japanese ; dim sum, gung ho, kowtow, kumquat, ketchup, and typhoon from Cantonese ; kampong and amok from Malay ; and boondocks from the Tagalog word, bundok.

He also gets word that the rival Tattaglia crime family has killed Luca Brasi, the Don's personal assassin, and orders Tessio's men to kill the family's underboss, Bruno Tattaglia, when they refuse to turn him over.

Sicarius ( plural: Sicarii ) was ( a ) a Latin word ( dagger-man ) for " assassin ", and by extension sometimes used to mean a concealed dagger ( sicae ), and ( b ) a personal name.

For example, if the word " ass " is filtered, so may " glass ", " molasses ", " assassin ", and other words which contain the sequence " ass ".

I suggested that one must let it in because it is the truth, but Beckett did not take to the word truth.

The key word in my plays is ' perhaps ' ''.

If they avoid the use of the pungent, outlawed four-letter word it is because it is taboo ; ;

The word `` mimesis '' ( `` imitation '' ) is usually associated with Plato and Aristotle.

Complicity is an embarrassing word.

As a word of caution, we should be aware that in actual practice no message is purely one of the four types, question, command, statement, or exclamation.

Harris J. Griston, in Shaking The Dust From Shakespeare ( 216 ), writes: `` There is not a word spoken by Shylock which one would expect from a real Jew ''.

To innocence, a word given is a word that will be kept.

Sensibility is a vague word, covering an area of meaning rather than any precise talent, quality, or skill.

Therefore, what we must prove or disprove is that there were Saxons, in the broad sense in which we must construe the word, in the area of the Saxon Shore at the time it was called the Saxon Shore.

There's more reading and instruction to be heard on discs than ever before, although the spoken rather than the sung word is as old as Thomas Alva Edison's first experiment in recorded sound.

Now, of course, that the Russians are the nuclear villains, radiation is a nastier word than it was in the mid, when the US was testing in the atmosphere.

As Sir Giles Overreach ( how often had he had to play that part, who did not believe a word of it ), he raised his arm and declaimed: `` Where is my honour now ''??

The gulf between the `` rich '' and the `` poor '' has narrowed, in the industrialized Western world, to the point that the word `` poor '' is hardly applicable.

Here is a word of advice when you go shopping for your pansy seeds.

Any alteration of one of these factors is distortion, although we generally use that word only for effects so pronounced that they can be stated quantitatively on the basis of standard tests.

In analyzing the watercolors of Roy Mason, the first thing that comes to mind is their essential decorativeness, yet this word has such a varied connotation that it needs some elaboration here.

For example, probably very few people know that the word `` visrhanik '' that is bantered about so much today stems from the verb `` bouanahsha '': to salivate.

The latter is useful for modifying information about some or all forms of a word, hence reducing the work required to improve dictionary contents.

Equivalents could be assigned to the paradigm either at the time it is added to the dictionary or after the word has been studied in context.

From the point of view of syntactic analysis the head word in the statement is the predicator has broken, and from the point of view of meaning it would seem that the trouble centers in the breaking ; ;

When a word represents a larger construction of which it is the only expressed part, it normally has more stress than it would have in fully expressed construction.

If word classes differ in their resistance or liability to stem replacement within meaning slot, it is conceivable that individual meanings also differ with fair consistence trans-lingually.

This was the Greek word most often translated as `` baptism ''.

The context in which an ambiguous word is used often makes it evident which of the meanings is intended.

In popular usage, abjads often contain the word " alphabet " in their names, such as " Arabic alphabet " and " Phoenician alphabet ".

In the later novels Christie often uses the word mountebank when Poirot is being assessed by other characters, showing that he has successfully passed himself off as a charlatan or fraud.

Abbreviations have been used as long as phonetic scripts have existed, in some sense actually being more common in early literacy, where spelling out a whole word was often avoided, initial letters commonly being used to represent words in specific application.

Although the Greek word " techně " is often mistranslated as " art ," it actually implies mastery of any sort of craft.

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.

* Full stops / Periods in abbreviations: Americans tend to write Mr., Mrs., St., Dr .; the British will most often write Mr, Mrs, St, Dr, following the rule that a full stop / period is used only when the last letter of the abbreviation is not the last letter of the complete word.

Arrays are often used to implement tables, especially lookup tables ; the word table is sometimes used as a synonym of array.

In common speech the word artillery is often used to refer to individual devices, together with their accessories and fittings, although these assemblages are more properly referred to as equipments.

West Berlin issued its own postage stamps, which were often the same as West German postage stamps but with the additional word " Berlin " added.

Medical terms related to blood often begin with hemo-or hemato-( also spelled haemo-and haemato -) from the Greek word ( haima ) for " blood ".

However, Bragning is often, like some others of these dynastic names, used in poetry as a general word for ' king ' or ' ruler '.

The number of bits ( or numeral places ) a CPU uses to represent numbers is often called " word size ", " bit width ", " data path width ", or " integer precision " when dealing with strictly integer numbers ( as opposed to floating point ).

Its members are formally referred to as carnivorans, while the word " carnivore " ( often popularly applied to members of this group ) can refer to any meat-eating organism.

A copula is often a verb or a verb-like word, though this is not universally the case.

The word " Reserve " is also often included, such as the Reserve Bank of India, Reserve Bank of Australia, Reserve Bank of New Zealand, the South African Reserve Bank, and U. S. Federal Reserve System.

The coining of the word cryptozoology is often attributed to Belgian-French zoologist Bernard Heuvelmans, though Heuvelmans attributes coinage of the term to the late Scottish explorer and adventurer Ivan T. Sanderson.

The word is often used in yogic practice to refer to celibacy or denying pleasure, but this is only a small part of what brahmacharya represents.

The concept of context-sensitive grammar was introduced by Noam Chomsky in the 1950s as a way to describe the syntax of natural language where it is indeed often the case that a word may or may not be appropriate in a certain place depending upon the context.

A comic book or comicbook, also called comic paper or comic magazine ( often shortened to simply comic or comics ) is a magazine made up of " comics "— narrative artwork in the form of separate panels that represent individual scenes, often accompanied by dialog ( usually in word balloons, emblematic of the comic book art form ) as well as including brief descriptive prose.