Long after the Roman census was no longer taken, the Latin word lustrum has survived, and been adopted in some modern languages, in the derived sense of a period of five years, i. e. half a decennium.

The word is of Latin origin ; during the Roman Republic, the census was a list that kept track of all adult males fit for military service.

FamilySearch also includes an 1880 United States federal census index, an 1881 British census index, an 1881 Canadian census index, and the U. S. Social Security Death Index, as well as research guides and genealogical word lists.

In 2009, a census worker, Bill Sparkman, was found dead, hanged from a tree with the word " fed " scrawled on his chest, after conducting door-to-door interviews in the area.

The name of the village is spelled De Land by the census bureau, but it is alternately spelled as one word ( DeLand ).

For instance, Steven Cox and Kendell Easley list four separate approaches to a solution, ranging from a grammatical approach to the translation of the Greek word prote used in Luke to be read as " registration before Quirinius was governor of Syria " to archeological arguments and references to Tertullian that indicate that a " two step census " was performed, involving an early registration, given that Luke 2: 2 refers to the " first enrolment ".

The following census, in 1890, replaced the word pardo by mestiço ( that of mixed origins ).

Among other uses, the word was applied to the poll tax of a half shekel to be paid by every male above twenty years at the census.

Most scholars believe that Luke made an error in referring to the census but other scholars have attempted to reconcile its account with Matthew, ranging from a grammatical approach to the translation of the Greek word prote used in Luke to be read as " registration before Quirinius was governor of Syria " to archeological arguments and references to Tertullian that indicate that a " two step census " was performed, involving an early registration, given that Luke 2: 2 refers to the " first enrolment ".

Another historian, Dr Maung Maung, notes that the word Rohingya is not used in the 1824 census, conducted by the British.

Conversely, where the word " banci " seems innocuous enough in Malaysia (" census "), in Indonesia it is a derogatory term for " transvestite ".

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.

Alexander's selection of this word pre-dates the modern meaning of the word originated by Sigmund Freud.

The book Hong Kong Action Cinema ( ISBN 0-87951-663-1 ) by Bey Logan suggests the word originated in Hong Kong action movies and eventually migrated to the gaming lexicon.

Amok originated from the Malay word mengamuk, which roughly defined means “ to make a furious and desperate charge ”.

The word " eurycerus " is originated from the fusion of " eurus " ( broad, widespread ) and " keras " ( an animal's horn ).

The theory that the word originated as an acronym from the names of the group of ministers is a folk etymology, although the coincidence was noted at the time and could possibly have popularized its use.

The word cola as part of the Coca-Cola trademark may have originated from the kola nuts that were originally used as the source of caffeine.

The name " dill " comes from Old English dile, thought to have originated from a Norse or Anglo-Saxon word dylle meaning to soothe or lull, the plant having the carminative property of relieving gas.

The word originated as the title of a magistrate in ancient Rome appointed by the Senate to rule the republic in times of emergency ( see Roman dictator and justitium ).

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 English term fugue originated in the 16th century and is derived from the French word fugue or the Italian fuga.

It is most commonly believed that the term grimoire originated from the Old French word grammaire, which had initially been used to refer to all books written in Latin.

It was in the Roman glassmaking center at Trier, now in modern Germany, that the late-Latin term glesum originated, probably from a Germanic word for a transparent, lustrous substance.

Smith theorizes the word originated in the Ohio River commerce culture as a term for Indiana farmer flat-boatmen and did not become an insult until 1836.

The name " lynx " originated in Middle English via Latin from Greek word " λύγξ ", derived from the Indo-European root "* leuk -", meaning " light, brightness ", in reference to the luminescence of its reflective eyes.

The word meme originated with Richard Dawkins ' 1976 book The Selfish Gene.

The word " chocolate " originated from Mexico's Aztec cuisine, derived from the Nahuatl word xocolatl.

The word " negotiation " originated from the Latin expression, " negotiatus ", past participle of negotiare which means " to carry on business ".

The genus Amoeba and amoeboids in general both derive their names from the ancient Greek word for change.

The etymology is uncertain, but a strong candidate has long been some word related to the Biblical פוך ( pūk ), " paint " ( if not that word itself ), a cosmetic eye-shadow used by the ancient Egyptians and other inhabitants of the eastern Mediterranean.

The word is from the ancient Greek ἀνάλυσις ( analusis, " a breaking up ", from ana-" up, throughout " and lysis " a loosening ").

Similarly, the ancient English word for bird was " brid ".

According to Benjamin Thorpe " Grimm says the word embla, emla, signifies a busy woman, from amr, ambr, aml, ambl, assiduous labour ; the same relation as Meshia and Meshiane, the ancient Persian names of the first man and woman, who were also formed from trees.

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.

The word " Acts " denoted a recognized genre in the ancient world, " characterizing books that described great deeds of people or of cities.

Athlon is the ancient Greek word for " Champion / trophy of the games ".

Many believe that al-kīmīā is derived from χημία, which is in turn derived from the word Chemi or Kimi, which is the ancient name of Egypt in Egyptian.

For purposes of international communication and trade, the official names of the chemical elements both ancient and more recently recognized are decided by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry ( IUPAC ), which has decided on a sort of international English language, drawing on traditional English names even when an element's chemical symbol is based on a Latin or other traditional word, for example adopting " gold " rather than " aurum " as the name for the 79th element ( Au ).

Forms of this word are attested in several ancient Semitic languages, including kamūnu in Akkadian.

Sir Henry Maine ( 1861 ) studied the ancient codes available in his day, and failed to find any criminal law in the " modern " sense of the word.

He read an unabridged dictionary ( the 13th edition of Webster ’ s ) through, word for word, studying not only the definitions of the words but also their derivations from ancient languages.

According to Needham, though there is no way of answering the question of whether the crossbow first arose among the cultures neighboring ancient China before the rise of Chinese culture in their midst, or whether it spread outwards from China to all the environing peoples, the former seems the more probable hypothesis given linguistic evidence, which posits that the Chinese word for ' crossbow ' came from an Austroasiatic language.

In ancient Greek, muthos, from which the English word " myth " derives, meant " story, narrative.

Even though the rights of the individual were not secured by the Athenian constitution in the modern sense ( the ancient Greeks had no word for " rights "), the Athenians enjoyed their liberties not in opposition to the government but by living in a city that was not subject to another power and by not being subjects themselves to the rule of another person.

The term dialect ( from the ancient Greek word Διάλεκτος diálektos, " discourse ", from διά diá, " through " + λέγω legō, " I speak ") is used in two distinct ways, even by linguists.

In ancient Greece, the word mousike was used to mean any of the arts or sciences governed by the Muses.

Among the Aztecs, the ancient Mexican theory of rhetorics, poetry, dance, and instrumental music, used the Nahuatl term In xochitl-in kwikatl to refer a complex mix of music and other poetic verbal and non-verbal elements, and reserve the word Kwikakayotl ( or cuicacayotl ) only for the sung expressions ( Leon-Portilla 2007, 11 ).