Related to this word is the Latin verb sapere, meaning " to taste, to be wise, to know "; the present participle of sapere forms part of Homo sapiens, the Latin binomial nomenclature created by Carolus Linnaeus to describe the human species.

In the scientific binomial Ananas comosus, ananas, the original name of the fruit, comes from the Tupi word nanas, meaning " excellent fruit ", as recorded by André Thevet in 1555, and comosus, " tufted ", refers to the stem of the fruit.

Note that all parts of the binomial are italicised except the actual word " subsp.

Owing to its supposed fondness for picking up coins, Linnaeus gave it the binomial name Corvus monedula, choosing the specific name mǒnēdŭla, which is derived from moneta, the Latin stem of the word " money ".

Generally, beer in modern Chinese is referred to by the compound ( binomial character / syllable ) word (), and would be distinguished as a specific type from the main generic type of jiu.

When made up of two words ( a binomial ) the name usually consists of a noun ( like salt, dog or star ) and an adjectival second word that helps describe the first, and therefore makes the name, as a whole, more " specific ", for example, lap dog, sea salt, or film star.

In the taxonomic nomenclature of zoology, the word " morpha " plus a Latin name for the morph can be added to a binomial or trinomial name.

The binomial nomenclature of taxonomy and biology is a major source for these items of vocabulary ; for many unfamiliar species that lack a common English name, the name of the genus becomes the English word for that life form.

The binomial name Drosera regia is derived from the Greek word droseros, meaning " dew-covered " and the specific epithet regia comes from the Latin for " royal ", a reference to what Stephens described as its " striking appearance ".

The word means it won't boil away easily, nothing else.

If the word deliberate means anything, both of them certainly deliberately destroyed themselves.

by means of an origin statement which refers to an actual address, the corresponding index word will be reserved.

You may be sure he marries her in the end and has a fine old knockdown fight with the brother, and that there are plenty of minor scraps along the way to ensure that you understand what the word Donnybrook means.

In the Ancient Macedonian language ( pella ) means stone, and some toponyms are derived from this word: ( Pella: capital of Ancient Macedonia ), ( Pellini-Pallini ).

" Without a clear Sinhala connection, they suggest one from the Tamil language instead: anai-kondra ( anaik-konda ), meaning " which killed an elephant .” Per National Geographic, the word anaconda comes from the Tamil word anaikolra, which means elephant killer.

In Arabic, " A " (), " B " (), "" (), " D " () make the word " abjad " which means " alphabet ".

The word used in the Arabic language for allegiance is bay ' at ( Arabic: بيعة ), which means " taking hand ".

They named the element " astatine ", a name coming from the great instability of the synthesized matter ( the source Greek word αστατος ( astatos ) means " unstable ").

The term Rococo was derived from the French word " rocaille ", which means pebbles and refers to the stones and shells used to decorate the interiors of caves.

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

The French word artiste ( which in French, simply means " artist ") has been imported into the English language where it means a performer ( frequently in Music Hall or Vaudeville ).

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

In Swahili, the more naturalized word Marekani means specifically the United States, and Wamarekani are U. S. nationals, whereas the international form Amerika refers to the continent, and Waamerika are the inhabitants thereof.

The word is originally Greek () and means " those hidden away ".

But this extremely ingenious theory would at most explain only the mystic word Abracadabra, whose connection with Abrasax is by no means certain.

Their most widely known ethnonym is derived from the word ainu, which means " human " ( particularly as opposed to kamui, divine beings ), basically neither ethnicity nor the name of a race, in the Hokkaidō dialects of the Ainu language ; Emishi ( Ebisu ) and Ezo ( Yezo ) ( both ) are Japanese terms, which are believed to derive from another word for " human ", which otherwise survived in Sakhalin Ainu as enciw or enju.

The word acropolis literally in Greek means " city on the extremity " and though associated primarily with the Greek cities Athens, Argos, Thebes, and Corinth ( with its Acrocorinth ), may be applied generically to all such citadels, including Rome, Jerusalem, Celtic Bratislava, many in Asia Minor, or even Castle Rock in Edinburgh.

The word ' Ānanda ' means ' bliss ' in Pali, Sanskrit as well as other Indian languages.

The word " democracy " ( Greek: δημοκρατία ) combines the elements dêmos ( δῆμος, which means " people ") and krátos ( κράτος, which means " force " or " power ").

The Constitution of the Southern `` Confederation '' differed from that of the Federal Union only in two important respects: It openly, defiantly, recognized slavery -- an institution which the Southerners of 1787, even though they continued it, found so impossible to reconcile with freedom that they carefully avoided mentioning the word in the Federal Constitution.

To you, for instance, the word innocence, in this connotation, probably retained its Biblical, or should I say technical sense, and therefore I suppose I must make myself quite clear by saying that I lost -- or rather handed over -- what you would have considered to be my innocence two weeks before I was legally entitled, and in fact by oath required, to hand it over along with what other goods and bads I had.

) He smiled, and said a word or two to the interpreter, who turned to me, `` The President wonders where you are going after you leave Taipei ''??

From the point of view of word formation real might be expected to have two syllables.

The deeds of this team, through two seasons and in the two World's Series that followed, have been written and talked about until hardly a word is left to be said.

The poem consisted of only two words, the word `` Wait '', repeated over and over at irregular intervals and with different inflections, and then the word `` Now ''!!

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.

The word " alphabet " in English has a source in Greek language in which the first two letters were " A " ( alpha ) and " B " ( beta ), hence " alphabeta ".

For example the word learn can be signed two different ways.

The oldest known document using the German word Alphorn is a page from a 1527 account book from the former Cistercian abbey St. Urban near Pfaffnau mentioning the payment of two Batzen for an itinerant alphorn player from the Valais.

Abbreviations were of two kinds: the use of a single letter for a single word,

Amphisbaena (, plural: amphisbaenae ), amphisbaina, amphisbene, amphisboena, amphisbona, amphista, amphivena, or anphivena ( the last two being feminine ), a Greek word, from amphis, meaning " both ways ", and bainein, meaning " to go ", also called the Mother of Ants, is a mythological, ant-eating serpent with a head at each end.

It might be connected to the Germanic word belt, a name used for two of the Danish straits, the Belts, while others claim it to be derived from Latin balteus ( belt ).

especially in England English is tautologous ," and it shares " all the ambiguities and tensions in the word British, and as a result can be used and interpreted in two ways, more broadly or more narrowly, within a range of blurring and ambiguity.

These two invasions caused English to become " mixed " to some degree ( though it was never a truly mixed language in the strictest sense of the word ; mixed languages arise from the cohabitation of speakers of different languages, who develop a hybrid tongue for basic communication ).

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

# There are two word endings to change each of the 150 adjectives: -" ER " and -" EST ".

# There are two word endings to change the verb word endings, -" ING " and -" ED ".