The English word " dragon " derives from Greek δράκων ( drákōn ), " dragon, serpent of huge size, water-snake ", which probably comes from the verb δρακεῖν ( drakeîn ) " to see clearly ".

They are sometimes portrayed as having especially large eyes or watching treasure very diligently, a feature that is the origin of the word dragon ( Greek drakeîn meaning " to see clearly ").

Gildas Hamel, drawing on the Book of Jonah and Greco-Roman sources — including Greek vases and the accounts of Apollonius of Rhodes, Gaius Valerius Flaccus and Orphic Argonautica — identifies a number of shared motifs, including the names of the heroes, the presence of a dove, the idea of " fleeing " like the wind and causing a storm, the attitude of the sailors, the presence of a sea-monster or dragon threatening the hero or swallowing him, and the form and the word used for the " gourd " ( kikayon ).

The modern Chinese word for dinosaur is konglong ( 恐龍, meaning " terrible dragon "), and villagers in central China have long unearthed fossilized " dragon bones " for use in traditional medicines, a practice that continues today.

* The Swedish symphonic metal band Therion used the Enochian word for dragon (" vovin ") as the title of their 1998 album, Vovin.

The word for dragon in Germanic mythology and its descendants is worm ( Old English: wyrm, Old High German: wurm, Old Norse: ormr ), meaning snake or serpent.

English " dragon " derives ( via Middle English, Old French, and Latin ) from Greek dracon, " serpent, dragon "; the Greek word derives from Indo-European * derk -, " to see ", and may originally have meant something like " monster with the evil eye.

The word " paper " in the name of Puff's human friend ( Jackie Paper ) was said to be a reference to rolling papers, and the word " dragon " was interpreted as " draggin '," i. e. inhaling smoke ; similarly, the name " Puff " was alleged to be a reference to taking a " puff " on a joint.

The name Drac is the Occitan and Catalan word for ' dragon ', from the Latin ( French for ' dragon ' is dragon ).

The angelic word " telocvovim " is glossed as " he who has fallen ", but it is actually a Germanic-like combination of two other angelic words: " teloch " ( glossed as " death ") and " vovin " ( glossed as " dragon ").

Swedish explorers later named it " Drake Kill ", " drake " being a Swedish word for dragon, and " kill " meaning channel or arm of the sea ( river, stream, etc.

He placed the bread and cheese at the same moment in the mouth of the accused, and, on doing so, recited the conjuration: ' I exorcize thee, most unclean dragon, ancient serpent, dark night, by the word of truth, and the sign of light, by our Lord Jesus Christ, the immaculate Lamb generated by the Most High, that bread and cheese may not pass thy gullet and throat, but that thou mayest tremble like and thou mayest tremble like an aspen-leaf, Amen ; and not have rest, O man, until thou dost vomit it forth with blood, if thou hast committed aught in the matter of the aforesaid theft.

Much of the manga contains references to role-playing games and occasionally either other manga or anything that begins with the word dragon.

Similarly, if the equivalents for the forms of a word do not vary, the equivalents need be entered only once with an indication that they apply to each form.

There was a tap at the door and Oliver entered with the word that Heiser wished to see the Captain.

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 ).

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 origin of the term is uncertain, and many researchers have different theories on how the word entered the English vocabulary.

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 " chocolate " entered the English language from Spanish.

Since the 1980s the term " new religions " or " new religious movements " has slowly entered into Evangelical usage, alongside the word " cult ".

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

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 word entered English from a French word which probably derived from Italian moschea, a variant of Italian moscheta, from either Armenian mzkiṭ or Greek μασγίδιον, from Arabic masjid, meaning " place of worship " or " prostration in prayer ", from the Arabic sajada, meaning " to bow down in prayer " or " worship ", probably ultimately of Aramaic origin.

The English word nitrogen ( 1794 ) entered the language from the French nitrogène, coined in 1790 by French chemist Jean-Antoine Chaptal ( 1756 – 1832 ), from " nitre " + Fr.

After the Flood Noah offered a sacrifice ( the word nihoah, describing the " pleasant " odour of the sacrifice, is yet another pun on Noah's name ) and entered into a covenant with God regulating the shedding of blood ( i. e., mankind's permission to kill under regulated circumstances ).

The term " raggamuffin " is an intentional misspelling of " ragamuffin ", a word that entered the Jamaican Patois lexicon after the British Empire colonized Jamaica in the 17th century.

from Low German schmuggeln or Dutch smokkelen (=" to transport ( goods ) illegally "), apparently a frequentative formation of a word meaning " to sneak " most likely entered the English Language during the 1600-1700s < sup ></ sup >

The word vanilla entered the English language in the 1754, when the botanist Philip Miller wrote about the genus in his Gardener ’ s Dictionary.

But as the word entered the Southern German dialects via Saxony and Westphalia, the word's meaning in Early Modern German became attached to the activities of these courts specifically.

Some scholars have argued that Georgian was the origin of this word and that it entered into the Indo-European languages via Semitic.

Most etymologists believe that barbecue derives from the word barabicu found in the language of the Taíno people of the Caribbean and the Timucua of Florida, and entered European languages in the form barbacoa.

The word soldier entered modern English in the 14th century, from the equivalent Middle English word soudeour, from Anglo-French soudeer or soudeour, meaning mercenary, from soudee, meaning shilling's worth or wage, from sou or soud, shilling.

Suddenly the Spanish became an English in which only one word emerged with clarity and precision, `` son of a bitch '', sometimes hyphenated by vicious jabs of a beer bottle into Johnson's quivering ribs.

When the Half Moon put in at Dartmouth, England, in the fall of 1609, word of Hudson's findings leaked out, and English interest in him revived.

In his mind he spoke simultaneously the English sentence and the Martian word and felt closer grokking.

The singular alga is the Latin word for a particular seaweed and retains that meaning in English.

The use of the word abacus dates before 1387 AD, when a Middle English work borrowed the word from Latin to describe a sandboard abacus.

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.

For example, the spelling of the Thai word for " beer " retains a letter for the final consonant " r " present in the English word it was borrowed from, but silences it.

Only after 1915, with the suggestion and evidence that this Z number was also the nuclear charge and a physical characteristic of atoms, did the word and its English equivalent atomic number come into common use.

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

Much like the relationship between British English and American English, the Austrian and German varieties differ in minor respects ( e. g., spelling, word usage and grammar ) but are recognizably equivalent and largely mutually intelligible.

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 ".

Thomas Henry Huxley, an English biologist, coined the word agnostic in 1869.

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

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 ").

Cognate words are the Greek ( ankylοs ), meaning " crooked, curved ," and the English word " ankle ".

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

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 English word ' artiste ' has thus, a narrower range of meaning than the word ' artiste ' in French.