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 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.

Technically, it is inaccurate, since the word literally refers to a stance where a person stands with their elbows bent and their hands on their hips ( arms akimbo ) not a posture well suited to shooting.

The word accintus meaning a soldier ( literally, " girt " as for battle ) attests this differing usage.

Although the word " chalcogen " is literally taken from Greek words being " copper-former ", the meaning is more in line with " copper-ore former " or more generally, " ore-former ".

Celibacy, termed brahmacharya in Vedic scripture, is the fourth of the yamas and the word literally translated means " dedicated to the Divinity of Life ".

Although it is usually translated as " element ", the Chinese word xing literally means something like " changing states of being ", " permutations " or " metamorphoses of being ".

The Sanskrit word ' Vāta ' literally means " blown ", ' Vāyu ' " blower ", and ' Prāna ' " breathing " ( viz.

( For example, " tiānqì ", literally " sky breath ", is the ordinary Chinese word for " weather ").

In standard Greek usage, the older word " ecclesia " ( ἐκκλησία, ekklesía, literally " assembly ", " congregation ", or the place where such a gathering occurs ) was retained to signify both a specific edifice of Christian worship ( a " church "), and the overall community of the faithful ( the " Church ").

The Irish word derives from Old Irish, which referred to a wooden structure or vessel, stemming from crann, which means " tree ", plus a diminutive ending — literally " young tree ".

First attested in English in the mid-15th century, the word carat came from Middle French carat, in turn from Italian carato, which came from Arabic qīrāṭ ( قيراط ), which came from Greek kerátion ( κεράτιον ) meaning carob seed ( literally " small horn ")

The word most commonly translated simply as " sin ", het, literally means " to go astray.

The root of the word " divine " is literally " godlike " ( from the Latin deus, cf.

The word " demiurge " is an English word from a Latinized form of the Greek, dēmiourgos, literally " public worker ", and which was originally a common noun meaning " craftsman " or " artisan ", but gradually it came to mean " producer " and eventually " creator ".

The word " existence " comes from the Latin word existere meaning " to appear ", " to arise ", " to become ", or " to be ", but literally, it means " to stand out " ( ex-being the Latin prefix for " out " added to the Latin verb stare, meaning " to stand ").

The word dandelion ( literally, tooth of lion, referring to the shape of the leaves ) is another example, being a substitute for pissenlit, meaning " wet the bed ", a possible reference to the fact that dandelion was used as a diuretic.

The word " ecumenical " derives from the Greek language "", which literally means " the inhabited world ", – a reference to the Roman Empire that later was extended to apply to the world in general.

The word episcopal is derived from the, transliterated epískopos, which literally means overseer ; the word, however, is used in religious contexts to refer to a bishop.

As a result, the English word is now associated with the Nazi government of Germany not used often in post-World War II English unless one wishes to invoke the Nazis, or one is translating literally from a foreign language where that language's equivalent of " fatherland " does not bear Nazi connotations.

The word galaxy is derived from the Greek galaxias (), literally " milky ", a reference to the Milky Way galaxy.

" The Chinese word for " gunpowder " is, which literally means " Fire Medicine "; however this name only came into use some centuries after the mixture's discovery.

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

The word `` binomial '' means `` of two names '' or `` of two terms '', and both usages apply in our work: the first to the names of the two outcomes of a binomial trial, and the second to the terms P and Af that represent the probabilities of `` success '' and `` failure ''.

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 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 ' 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 ").