The word astronomy ( from the Greek words astron ( ἄστρον ), " star " and-nomy from nomos ( νόμος ), " law " or " culture ") literally means " law of the stars " ( or " culture of the stars " depending on the translation ).

The word comes from Greek ανομία, namely the prefix a-" without ", and nomos " law ".

Athens had no legal science, and Ancient Greek has no word for " law " as an abstract concept, retaining instead the distinction between divine law ( thémis ), human decree ( nomos ) and custom ( díkē ).

Legalism's root word, " law " ( Greek nomos ), occurs frequently in the New Testament, and sometimes connotes legalism.

" Nomological " comes from the Greek word " νόμος " ( nomos ), i. e., " law.

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.

:: Out of Zion the word of the law will go forth, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

As the word Capoeira was still forbidden by Brazilian law, Bimba called his new style Luta Regional Baiana ( meaning regional fight from Bahia ).

* The episode " The Stones of Blood ", of the 16th season of Doctor Who, the Fourth Doctor encounters the Ogri, a silicon-based life form, and in the same sub-plot, the Megara, who are made entirely out of an unknown substance, possibly energy, and they uphold the word of the law, and execute all who break the law with a beam of energy.

Many Jews view Christians as having quite an ambivalent view of the Torah, or Mosaic law: on one hand Christians speak of it as God's absolute word, but on the other, they apply its commandments with a certain selectivity ( compare Biblical law in Christianity ).

The same neuropsychological law ...— called by Jean Piaget generalizing assimilation — applies to word formation as well as to grammar.

People were ordered by law to drop their Western Christian names ; the titles Mr. and Mrs. were abandoned for the male and female versions of the French word for " citizen "; Men were forbidden to wear suits, and women to wear pants.

In the Rigveda, the word appears as an n-stem,, with a range of meanings encompassing " something established or firm " ( in the literal sense of prods or poles ), figuratively " sustainer, supporter " ( of deities ), and semantically similar to the Greek ethos (" fixed decree, statute, law ").

In the House of Commons of the United Kingdom on January 19, 1996, health minister Gerald Malone noted that the title doctor had never been restricted to either medical practitioners or those with doctoral degrees in the UK, commenting that the word was defined by common usage but that the titles " physician, doctor of medicine, licentiate in medicine and surgery, bachelor of medicine, surgeon, general practitioner and apothecary " did have special protection in law.

Luther controversially added the word " alone " ( allein in German ) to so that it read: " thus, we hold, then, that man is justified without doing the works of the law, alone through faith ".

The Latin word for guilt is culpa, a word sometimes seen in law literature, for instance in mea culpa meaning " my fault ( guilt ).

The English term is based on the Latin word jurisprudentia: juris is the genitive form of jus meaning " law ", and prudentia means " prudence " ( also: discretion, foresight, forethought, circumspection ; refers to the exercise of good judgment, common sense, and even caution, especially in the conduct of practical matters ).

The proprietary Aramaic ( one of Judaism's holy languages with Hebrew ) word for this type of allowing systematic disagreement in Jewish law, is " Machloket " or argument.

In one case she paskinned din on " klaustra " a rare Greek word referring to an object, used in the Talmud, unfortunately Rabbi Yehudah Hanassi did not believe women could be credited with paskining din, as it says ' do not speak too much to women ' ( Tannah Rabbi Jesse the Galilean ), and therefore credited the law to Rabbi Joshua who may have been her father.

An unjust law is not a law, in the full sense of the word.

Besides the Bible, children needed to read in order to “ understand ... the capital laws of this country ,” as the Massachusetts code declared, order being of the utmost importance, and children not taught to read would grow “ barbarous ” ( the 1648 amendment to the Massachusetts law and the 1650 Connecticut code, both used the word “ barbarisme ”).

Although the word " product " has broad connotations, product liability as an area of law is traditionally limited to products in the form of tangible personal property.

For example, the Sanskrit word dharma, sometimes translated as " religion ", also means law.

This fourth commandment begins with the word ' remember ,' showing that the Sabbath already existed when God wrote the law on the tables of stone at Sinai.

The word is often used to distinguish law made by legislative bodies from case law, decided by courts, and regulations issued by government agencies.

In later writers, the word, usually spelled " Paean ", becomes a mere epithet of Apollo in his capacity as a god of healing.

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

German words with umlaut would further be alphabetized as if there were no umlaut at all — contrary to Turkish which allegedly adopted the German graphemes ö and ü, and where a word like tüfek, " gun ", would come after tuz, " salt ", in the dictionary.

A possible etymology is a derivation from the Greek word – aiges = " waves " ( Hesychius of Alexandria ; metaphorical use of ( aix ) " goat "), hence " wavy sea ", cf.

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 '.

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.

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

The Christian writer's traditional re-interpretation is that the Hebrew word Sheol can mean many things, including " grave ", " resort ", " place of waiting " and " place of healing ".

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.

The French, Portuguese, German, and Italian languages use cognates of the word " American ", in denoting " U. S. citizen ".

It was inspired by the English garden city movement ; hence the original English name Park ( in the Catalan language spoken in Catalonia where Barcelona is located, the word for " Park " is " Parc ", and the name of the place is " Parc Güell " in its original language ).

The Greek word " amethystos " may be translated as " not drunken ", from Greek a -, " not " + methustos, " intoxicated ".

" Grace ", however, to John Newton had a clearer meaning, as he used the word to represent God or the power of God.

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.

It may be derived from an Iranian ethnonym * ha-mazan -, " warriors ", a word attested as a denominal verb ( formed with the Indo-Iranian root kar-" make " also in kar-ma ) in Hesychius of Alexandria's gloss (" hamazakaran: ' to make war ' ( Persian )").

The second question is the meaning of the word avita: Gildas could have meant " ancestors ", or intended it to mean more specifically " grandfather " — thus indicating Ambrosius lived about a generation before the Battle of Mons Badonicus.