The word marina was coined by NAEBM originally to describe a waterfront facility where recreational boats could find protection and basic needs to lay over in relative comfort.

Following the tradition of these Ancient Greek folk etymologies, in the Doric dialect the word originally meant wall, fence from animals and later assembly within the agora.

The word archipelago was originally applied specifically to the Aegean Sea and its islands.

Though the word atom originally denoted a particle that cannot be cut into smaller particles, in modern scientific usage the atom is composed of various subatomic particles.

The word is originally Greek () and means " those hidden away ".

The word originally referred to a solid waxy substance derived from the sperm whale ( now called ambergris ).

The word acre is derived from Old English æcer originally meaning " open field ", cognate to west coast Norwegian ækre and Swedish åker, German Acker, Dutch akker, Latin ager, and Greek αγρός ( agros ).

The word aeon (), also spelt eon or æon, originally means " life ", and / or " being ", though it then tended to mean " age ", " forever " or " for eternity ".

The word is derived from the Greek ( antiphōna ) via Old English, a word which originally had the same meaning as antiphon.

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 originally could refer to any small boat ; the modern meaning arose around 1480.

The term " Casino " is of Italian origin, the root word being " Casa " ( house ) and originally meant a small country villa, summerhouse or pavilion.

The word " Mexico " as spoken in its original Nahuatl, and by the Spaniards at the time of the conquest, was pronounced originally with a " sh " sound (" Mesh-ee-co "), as opposed to current pronunciation, and was transcribed with an " x " as was the usage in Spanish at the time.

The word Yin originally referred to a hillside facing away from the sun.

On the other hand, the Oxford English Dictionary states that the word " ften ( and perhaps originally ) applied to a quibbling or evasive way of dealing with difficult cases of duty.

The word originally meant okra, which is a word brought to the region from western Africa.

The Latin word basilica ( derived from Greek, Basiliké Stoà, Royal Stoa ), was originally used to describe a Roman public building ( as in Greece, mainly a tribunal ), usually located in the forum of a Roman town.

One theory is that it originally derives from the Latin word macula, meaning " spot " or “ opacity ” ( as in macula of retina ).

The term cabal derives from Kabbalah ( a word that has numerous spelling variations ), the mystical interpretation ( of Babylonian origin ) of the Hebrew scripture, and originally meant either an occult doctrine or a secret.

The common name originally may have been spelled " chitmunk ," from the native Odawa ( Ottawa ) word jidmoonh, meaning " red squirrel " ( cf.

" 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.

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 word consilience was originally coined as the phrase " consilience of inductions " by William Whewell (" consilience " refers to a " jumping together " of knowledge ).

This word was first applied to the imported hot-blooded cattle, but later was more commonly used as reference to a human tenderfoot.

Later, the word became almost exclusively applied to a cow thief, startin' from the days of the maverick when cowhands were paid by their employers to `` get out and rustle a few mavericks ''.

The same use of an entirely different word applied for all the other tenses.

ΑΒΡΑΣΑΞ, which is far more common in the sources than the variant form Abraxas, ΑΒΡΑΞΑΣ ) was a word of mystic meaning in the system of the Gnostic Basilides, being there applied to the “ Great Archon ” ( Gk., megas archōn ), the princeps of the 365 spheres ( Gk., ouranoi ).

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.

The word was applied to amaranth because it did not soon fade and so symbolized immortality.

The word aegis is identified with protection by a strong force with its roots in Greek mythology and adopted by the Romans ; there are parallels in Norse mythology and in Egyptian mythology as well, where the Greek word aegis is applied by extension.

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.

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.

In this sense the word baccalarius or baccalaureus first appears at the University of Paris in the 13th century, in the system of degrees established under the auspices of Pope Gregory IX, as applied to scholars still in statu pupillari.

Its members are formally referred to as carnivorans, while the word " carnivore " ( often popularly applied to members of this group ) can refer to any meat-eating organism.

Since then the word “ mail ” has been commonly, if incorrectly, applied to other types of armour, such as in “ plate-mail ” ( first attested in 1835 ).

The word " campus " has also been applied to European universities, although most such institutions are characterized by ownership of individual buildings in urban settings rather than park-like lawns in which buildings are placed.

The name comes from the Spanish word chaparro, applied to scrub oaks.

The word " design " is often considered ambiguous, as it is applied differently in a varying contexts.

Eccentricity, defined as taking characteristics such as dress and appearance to extremes, began to be applied generally to human behavior in the 1770s ; similarly, the word dandy first appears in the late 18th century: In the years immediately preceding the American Revolution, the first verse and chorus of " Yankee Doodle " derided the alleged poverty and rough manners of American-born colonists, suggesting that whereas a fine horse and gold-braided clothing ("

Possibly the earliest and nearest approach to the discovery of the identity of lightning, and electricity from any other source, is to be attributed to the Arabs, who before the 15th century had the Arabic word for lightning ( raad ) applied to the electric ray.

In Danish, the word " fregat " is often applied to warships carrying as few as 16 guns, such as HMS Falcon ( 1802 ) which the British classified as a sloop.

The modern word guitar, and its antecedents, have been applied to a wide variety of cordophones since ancient times and as such is the cause of confusion.

Usage of the word has evolved to include any graphics applied to surfaces in a manner that constitutes vandalism.

It has been conjectured that the name glagolitsa developed in Croatia around the 14th century and was derived from the word glagolity, applied to adherents of the liturgy in Slavonic.

Within lexical semantics, especially as applied to computers, modeling word meaning is easier when a given word is understood in terms of related words ; semantic networks are therefore important in computational linguistics.