It is in line with this interpretation, which applies the word " catholic " ( universal ) to no one denomination, that they understand the phrase " One Holy catholic and Apostolic Church " in the Nicene Creed, the phrase the Catholic faith in the Athanasian Creed and the phrase " holy catholic church " in the Apostles ' Creed.

Some Protestant churches avoid using the term completely, to the extent among many Lutherans of reciting the Creed with the word " Christian " in place of " catholic ".

It is from the word katholikos (" according to the whole ") that the word catholic comes.

When Ignatius wrote the Letter to the Smyrnaeans in about the year 107 and used the word catholic, he used it as if it were a word already in use to describe the Church.

The word " catholic " is derived from the Greek adjective καθολικός pronounced katholikos, which means " general " or " universal ".

The central component of this complete philosophic reconciliation was the Russian Slavophile concept of sobornost ( organic or Spontaneous order through integration ; which is related to the Russian word for ' catholic ').

" Transcendental " is a word derived from the scholastic, designating there the extra-categorical attributes of beings < ref name = catholic > Turner, W. ( 1912 ).

" In this context, " holy " refers to being set apart for a purely sacred purpose ; " apostolic " means founded by one of Jesus's own apostles ; and " catholic " is the Greek word for " universal ," indicating a worldwide church.

* Catholic Church ( the word " catholic " means " universal ")

Within the Catholic Church, the term gōng jiào ( 公教, literally " universal teaching ") is not uncommon, this being also the original meaning of the word " catholic ".

Do you say chantey, as if the word were derived from the French word chanter, to sing, or do you say shanty and think of a roughly built cabin, which derives its name from the French-Canadian use of the word chantier, with one of its meanings given as a boat-yard??

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

It is also known as Alyeska, the " great land ", an Aleut word derived from the same root.

The Ancient Greek word for seaweed was φῦκος ( fūkos or phykos ), which could mean either the seaweed ( probably red algae ) or a red dye derived from it.

The name " abjad " is derived from the Arabic word for alphabet.

The name " argon " is derived from the Greek word αργον meaning " lazy " or " the inactive one ", a reference to the fact that the element undergoes almost no chemical reactions.

The word archipelago is derived from the Greek ἄρχι-– arkhi-(" chief ") and πέλαγος – pélagos (" sea ") through the Italian arcipelago.

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 ").

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 " acoustic " is derived from the Greek word ακουστικός ( akoustikos ), meaning " of or for hearing, ready to hear " and that from ἀκουστός ( akoustos ), " heard, audible ", which in turn derives from the verb ἀκούω ( akouo ), " I hear ".

The Latin-derived form of the word is " tecnicus ", from which the English words technique, technology, technical are derived.

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

Chinese měiguórén for example, is derived from a word for the United States, měiguó, where měi is an abbreviation for Yàměilìjiā " America " and guó is " country ".

The word was probably derived from the contemporary name, les argotiers, given to a group of thieves at that time.

However, the connection that has derived ambrosia from the Greek prefix a-(" not ") and the word brotos (" mortal "), hence the food or drink of the immortals, has been questioned as coincidental by some modern linguists.

The word originally referred to a solid waxy substance derived from the sperm whale ( now called ambergris ).

For a long time, scholars believed that the alphorn had been derived from the Roman-Etruscan lituus, because of their resemblance in shape, and because of the word liti, meaning Alphorn in the dialect of Obwalden.

This word is usually conceded to be derived from the Hebrew ( Aramaic ), meaning " Thou art our father " ( אב לן את ), and also occurs in connection with Abrasax ; the following inscription is found upon a metal plate in the Carlsruhe Museum:

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 angst was introduced into English from Danish angst via existentialist Søren Kierkegaard.

The English word amber derives from the Arabic anbar, via Medieval Latin ambar and Old French ambre.

The word is derived from the Greek ( antiphōna ) via Old English, a word which originally had the same meaning as antiphon.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word baroque is derived from the Portuguese word " barroco ", Spanish " barroco ", or French " baroque ", all of which refer to a " rough or imperfect pearl ", though whether it entered those languages via Latin, Arabic, or some other source is uncertain.

The word battle is a loanword in English from the Old French bataille, first attested in 1297, from Late Latin battualia, meaning " exercise of soldiers and gladiators in fighting and fencing ", from Late Latin ( taken from Germanic ) battuere " beat ", from which the English word battery is also derived via Middle English batri, and comes from the staged battles in the Colosseum in Rome that may have numbered 10, 000 individuals.

This thesis is supported by the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, explaining that the Turko-Mongol name Timur underwent a similar evolution, from the Sanskrit word cimara (" iron ") via a modified version * čimr to the final Turkicized version timür, with-ür replacing-r due to the Turkish vowel harmony ( hence babr → babür ).

To many historic church denominations, to be " born again " was understood as spiritual regeneration via the sacrament of baptism by the power of water and word.

The word derives, via Italian, from the lower Latin cupula ( classical Latin cupella from the Greek κύπελλον kupellon ) small cup ( Latin cupa ) indicating a vault resembling an upside down cup.

The word clarinet may have entered the English language via the French clarinette ( the feminine diminutive of Old French clarin or clarion ), or from Provençal clarin, " oboe ".

The word clock is derived ultimately ( via Dutch, Northern French, and Medieval Latin ) from the Celtic words clagan and clocca meaning " bell ".

By the time Bramah's beer pumps became popular, the use of the word draught to mean the act of serving beer was well established and transferred easily to beer served via the hand pumps.

An alternative explanation is that the term entered France via Spain, the, maqabir ( cemetery ) being the root of the word.

The name was transmitted via the Latin delphinus ( the romanization of the later Greek δελφῖνος – delphinos ), which in Medieval Latin became dolfinus and in Old French daulphin, which reintroduced the ph into the word.

Middle High German has a feminine singular elbe and a plural elbe, elber, but the word becomes very rare, mostly surviving in the adjective elbisch, and is replaced by the English form elf, elfen via 18th century German translations of Shakespeare's A Midsummernight's Dream.

The word " Emerald " is derived ( via Old French: Esmeraude and Middle English: Emeraude ), from Vulgar Latin: Esmaralda / Esmaraldus, a variant of Latin Smaragdus, which originated in Greek: σμάραγδος ( smaragdos ; " green gem "); its original source being either the Sanskrit word मरकत marakata meaning " emerald " or the Semitic word baraq ( ב ָּ ר ָ ק ; الب ُ راق ; " lightning " or " shine ") ( cf.

The word flute first entered the English language during the Middle English period, as floute ,, or else flowte, flo ( y ) te, possibly from Old French flaute and from Old Provençal flaüt, or else from Old French fleüte, flaüte, flahute via Middle High German floite or Danish fluit.

The English word is thought to date from 1200 – 50, from the Middle English feith, via Anglo-French fed, Old French feid, feit from Latin fidem, accusative of fidēs ( trust ), akin to fīdere ( to trust ).

Possibly a borrowing ( probably via Frankish or Old High German ) of the Medieval Latin word foresta " open wood ", foresta was first used by Carolingian scribes in the Capitularies of Charlemagne to refer specifically to the king's royal hunting grounds.

The Greek word euangelion is also the source ( via Latinised evangelium ) of the terms " evangelist " and " evangelism " in English.