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 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 ).

Lexical ambiguity can be addressed by algorithmic methods that automatically associate the appropriate meaning with a word in context, a task referred to as word sense disambiguation.

In common speech the word artillery is often used to refer to individual devices, together with their accessories and fittings, although these assemblages are more properly referred to as equipments.

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.

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.

The word video in video game traditionally referred to a cathode ray tube ( CRT ) display device, but it now implies any type of display device that can produce two or three dimensional images.

" The Ancient Greek word krima ( κρίμα ), from which the Latin cognate derives, typically referred to an intellectual mistake or an offense against the community, rather than a private or moral wrong.

( Sebelum Masehi, before Masehi, from Arabic word of Masih, referred to Jesus ) and M. ( Masehi, after Masehi ) were generally used.

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 ".

A word that describes a place using a non-native terminology or language is referred to as an exonym.

In American English, the word company can include entities such as partnerships that, in British English would not be referred to as companies as they are not a separate legal entity.

The word distributed in terms such as " distributed system ", " distributed programming ", and " distributed algorithm " originally referred to computer networks where individual computers were physically distributed within some geographical area.

Heidegger's term referred to a process of exploring the categories and concepts that tradition has imposed on a word, and the history behind them.

But the form of the OHG and Gothic words suggests it is also a borrowing, perhaps indeed directly or indirectly from Greek " ἐλέφας " ( elephas ), which in Homer only meant " ivory ", but from Herodotus on the word also referred to the animal.

" One Cree speaker suggested the original word that became corrupted to Eskimo might indeed have been askamiciw ( which means " he eats it raw "), and the Inuit are referred to in some Cree texts as askipiw ( which means " eats something raw ").

For instance, the word presbyterian (, presbítes ) is used to describe a church governed by a hierarchy of assemblies of elected elders, referred to as Presbyterian.

The word Tsar derives from Latin Caesar, but this title was used in Russia as equivalent to King ; the error occurred when medieval Russian clerics referred to the biblical Jewish kings with the same title that was used to designate Roman and Byzantine rulers-Caesar.

Confusingly, in Portugal, the word vihuela referred to the guitar, whereas guitarra meant the " Portuguese guitar ", a variety of cittern.

This is the meaning which is most commonly referred to explain the Nazi use of the word: the political party is considered the generator, and every member of a political body, a professional group or society is considered a motor wired to it.

Although Irish and Manx are often referred to as Irish Gaelic and Manx Gaelic ( as they are Goidelic or Gaelic languages ), the use of the word Gaelic is unnecessary because the terms Irish and Manx, when referring to language, only ever refer to these languages, whereas Scots has come to refer to a Germanic language, and therefore " Scottish " can refer to things not at all Gaelic.

This word originally referred to wheat and other porridges now known as groats in parts of the U. K., maize being unknown in Europe in the Middle Ages.

The word derives from the old Norse " gata ", meaning road or path, and originally referred to the gap in the wall or fence, rather than the barrier which closed it.

The word originally referred only to special religious days.