In order to help reestablish his name and improve the image of his business from the earlier controversies associated with the dangerous explosives, Nobel had also considered naming the highly powerful substance " Nobel's Safety Powder ", but settled with Dynamite instead, referring to the Greek word for ' power '.

Known to the Iranians by the Pahlavi compound word kah-ruba ( from kah “ straw ” plus rubay “ attract, snatch ,” referring to its electrical properties ), which entered Arabic as kahraba ' or kahraba, it too was called amber in Europe ( Old French and Middle English ambre ).

When the word for onion, chung, is used, it is understood that one is referring to " green onions " ( otherwise known to English-speakers as scallions or spring onions, green onions ).

The word neuroleptic was derived from the ( neuron, originally meaning " sinew " but today referring to the nerves ) and " λαμβάνω " ( lambanō, meaning " take hold of ").

The word " alkali " is derived from Arabic al qalīy ( or alkali ), meaning the calcined ashes ( see calcination ), referring to the original source of alkaline substances.

The word British is an adjective referring in various ways to the United Kingdom, or the island of Great Britain, and its people.

In Mexico as translations from English to Spanish applied to Mexico City, the word borough has resulted in a delegación ( delegation ), referring to the 16 administrative areas within the Mexican Federal District.

The name most likely corresponds to the word Breton, the French adjective referring to the Atlantic province of Brittany.

The word capoeira probably comes from Tupi, referring to the areas of low vegetation in the Brazilian interior.

The term clone is derived from the Ancient Greek word κλών ( klōn, “ twig ”), referring to the process whereby a new plant can be created from a twig.

The word ' Onager ' is derived from the Greek word ' onagros ' for wild ass, referring to the “ kicking motion and force ” that were recreated in the Mangonel's design.

" The word " mathematics " may have originally been plural in concept, referring to mathematic endeavors, but metonymic shift — that is, the shift in concept from " the endeavors " to " the whole set of endeavors "— produced the usage of " mathematics " as a singular entity taking singular verb forms.

Jingoism is the British parallel form of this French word, when referring to nation.

Based on what Krishnamurti states referring to a scholarly paper published in the International Journal of Dravidian Linguistics, the Sanskrit word itself is later than since the dates for the forms with-r-are centuries later than the dates for the forms without-r-(, -, damela-etc.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary Online, the first known recorded usage of the word diaspora in the English language was in 1876 referring " extensive diaspora work ( as it is termed ) of evangelizing among the National Protestant Churches on the continent ".

As an idea, curriculum stems from the Latin word for race course, referring to the course of deeds and experiences through which children grow to become mature adults.

The modern English term Easter developed from the Old English word Ēastre or Ēostre (), which itself developed prior to 899, originally referring to the name of the Anglo-Saxon goddess Ēostre.

The name Helsingør is derived from the word hals meaning " neck " or " narrow strait ", referring to the narrow strait ( Øresund, or The Sound ) between what is now Helsingør and Helsingborg, Sweden.

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.

On the other hand, oaf is simply a variant of the word elf, presumably originally referring to a changeling or to someone stupefied by elvish enchantment.

As early as the 7th century the word 天皇 ( which can be read either as sumera no mikoto, divine order, or as tennō, Heavenly Emperor, the latter being derived from a Tang Chinese term referring to the Pole star around which all other stars revolve ) began to be used.

In the strictest technical sense, the word " stability " is a thermodynamic term referring to the energy of a substance relative to a reference state or to some other substance.

Following the defeat of the Axis powers in World War II, the term fascist has been used as a pejorative word, often referring to widely varying movements across the political spectrum.

" English borrowed the word from Spanish in the early 18th century.

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 ).

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.

The word " allele " is a short form of allelomorph (' other form '), which was used in the early days of genetics to describe variant forms of a gene detected as different phenotypes.

The word astrology comes from the early Latin word astrologia, deriving from the Greek noun, ' account of the stars '.

Steiner began using the word to refer to his philosophy in the early 1900s as an alternative to theosophy, the term for Madame Blavatsky's movement, itself from the Greek, with a longer history with a meaning of " divine wisdom ".

The English word " amputation " was first applied to surgery in the 17th century, possibly first in Peter Lowe's A discourse of the Whole Art of Chirurgerie ( published in either 1597 or 1612 ); his work was derived from 16th century French texts and early English writers also used the words " extirpation " ( 16th century French texts tended to use extirper ), " disarticulation ", and " dismemberment " ( from the Old French desmembrer and a more common term before the 17th century for limb loss or removal ), or simply " cutting ", but by the end of the 17th century " amputation " had come to dominate as the accepted medical term.

Some etymologists believe it comes from a dialectal pronunciation of the Portuguese " bandore " or from an early anglicisation of the Spanish word " bandurria ", though other research suggests that it may come from a West African term for a bamboo stick formerly used for the instrument's neck.

Since the early 20th century it has been commonly accepted that Old Irish Bel ( l ) taine is derived from a Common Celtic * belo-te ( p ) niâ, meaning " bright fire " ( where the element * belo-might be cognate with the English word bale in ' bale-fire ' meaning ' white ' or ' shining '; compare Anglo-Saxon bael, and Lithuanian / Latvian baltas / balts, found in the name of the Baltic ; in Slavic languages byelo or beloye also means ' white ', as in Беларусь ( White Russia or Belarus ) or Бе ́ лое мо ́ ре Sea ).

According to Montgomery and Hammer Daniel's use of the word ' Chaldean ' to refer to astrologers in general is an anachronism, as during the Neo-Babylonian and early Persian periods ( when Daniel is said to have lived ), it referred only to an ethnicity.

Breton artist Alan Stivell was one of the earliest musicians to use the word Celtic and Keltia in his marketing materials, starting in the early 1960's as part of the worldwide folk music revival of that era with the term quickly catching on with other artists worldwide.

The linguist Jorma Koivulehto wrote ( 2001 ) of the annual Finnish Kekri celebration having borrowed the word from early Indo-Aryan.

The word " file " was used publicly in the context of computer storage as early as February, 1950.

Because of the stylistic similarities between comic strips and early animated movies, " cartoon " came to refer to animation, and the word " cartoon " is currently used to refer to both animated cartoons and gag cartoons.

Note how the word endings do not coincide with the end of a metrical foot ; for the early part of the line this forces the natural accent of each word to lie in the middle of a foot, playing against the natural rhythm of the ictus.

In the following example of Ennius's early Latin hexameter composition, metrical weight (" ictus ") falls on the first and last syllables of certabant ; the ictus is therefore opposed to the natural stress on the second syllable when the word is pronouned.

The word dragon entered the English language in the early 13th century from Old French dragon, which in turn comes from Latin draconem ( nominative draco ) meaning " huge serpent, dragon ," from the Greek word δράκων, drakon ( genitive drakontos, δράκοντος ) " serpent, giant seafish ", which is believed to have come from an earlier stem drak -, a stem of derkesthai, " to see clearly ," from Proto-Indo-European derk-" to see " or " the one with the ( deadly ) glance.

Others have speculated that the word comes from the Arabic-Persian word Darazo ( " bliss ") or from Shaykh Hussayn ad-Darazī, who was one of the early converts to the faith.

In the early stages of the movement, the word " Druze " is rarely mentioned by historians, and in Druze religious texts only the word Muwaḥḥidūn (" Unitarian ") appears.