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.

Alexander's selection of this word pre-dates the modern meaning of the word originated by Sigmund Freud.

The book Hong Kong Action Cinema ( ISBN 0-87951-663-1 ) by Bey Logan suggests the word originated in Hong Kong action movies and eventually migrated to the gaming lexicon.

Amok originated from the Malay word mengamuk, which roughly defined means “ to make a furious and desperate charge ”.

The word " eurycerus " is originated from the fusion of " eurus " ( broad, widespread ) and " keras " ( an animal's horn ).

The word " census " originated in ancient Rome from the Latin word (" to estimate ").

The theory that the word originated as an acronym from the names of the group of ministers is a folk etymology, although the coincidence was noted at the time and could possibly have popularized its use.

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 name " dill " comes from Old English dile, thought to have originated from a Norse or Anglo-Saxon word dylle meaning to soothe or lull, the plant having the carminative property of relieving gas.

The word " Emerald " is derived ( via Old French: Esmeraude and Middle English: Emeraude ), from Vulgar Latin: Esmaralda / Esmaraldus, a variant of Latin Smaragdus, which originated in Greek: σμάραγδος ( smaragdos ; " green gem "); its original source being either the Sanskrit word मरकत marakata meaning " emerald " or the Semitic word baraq ( ב ָּ ר ָ ק ; الب ُ راق ; " lightning " or " shine ") ( cf.

The English term fugue originated in the 16th century and is derived from the French word fugue or the Italian fuga.

It is most commonly believed that the term grimoire originated from the Old French word grammaire, which had initially been used to refer to all books written in Latin.

It was in the Roman glassmaking center at Trier, now in modern Germany, that the late-Latin term glesum originated, probably from a Germanic word for a transparent, lustrous substance.

Smith theorizes the word originated in the Ohio River commerce culture as a term for Indiana farmer flat-boatmen and did not become an insult until 1836.

The name " lynx " originated in Middle English via Latin from Greek word " λύγξ ", derived from the Indo-European root "* leuk -", meaning " light, brightness ", in reference to the luminescence of its reflective eyes.

The word meme originated with Richard Dawkins ' 1976 book The Selfish Gene.

The word " chocolate " originated from Mexico's Aztec cuisine, derived from the Nahuatl word xocolatl.

The word " negotiation " originated from the Latin expression, " negotiatus ", past participle of negotiare which means " to carry on business ".

For example, there was sheet music with the word `` jazz '' in the title, to illustrate how a word of uncertain origin took hold.

The word abbot, meaning father, is a title given to the head of a monastery in various traditions, including Christianity.

For some time the existence of the word bretwalda in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, which was based in part on the list given by Bede in his Historia Ecclesiastica, led historians to think that there was perhaps a ' title ' held by Anglo-Saxon overlords.

Written in Koine Greek, its title is derived from the first word of the text, apokalypsis, meaning " unveiling " or " revelation ".

However, a title came into usage from the first word of the book in Koine Greek: apokalypsis, meaning " unveiling " or " revelation ".

When the word ballad appears in the title of a song, as for example in The Beatles's " The Ballad of John and Yoko " or Billy Joel's " The Ballad of Billy the Kid ", the folk-music sense is generally implied.

The Greek word Messias appears only twice in the Greek Old Testament of the promised prince ( Daniel 9: 26 ; Psalm 2: 2 ); yet, when a name was wanted for the promised one, who was to be at once King and Savior, this title was used.

The title " Messiah " comes from the Hebrew word מ ָ ש ִׁ יח ַ ( māšiáħ ) meaning anointed one.

Various smaller communities, such as the Old Catholic and Independent Catholic Churches, include the word Catholic in their title, and share much in common with Roman Catholicism but are no longer in communion with the See of Rome.

In England, the clerks of Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester, made a practice of using the Latin word consul rather than the more common comes when translating his title of ' Earl '.

The name Childe is probably derived from the Old English word cild which was used as a title of honour.

Doctor, as a title, originates from the Latin word of the same spelling and meaning.

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.

Although the word has a pejorative meaning nowadays, it was once a legitimate title of office in the Byzantine Empire.

Butler meant the title to be read as the word Nowhere backwards, even though the letters " h " and " w " are transposed, therefore Erewhon is an anagram of nowhere.

The word Qoheleth has found several translations into English, including the Preacher ( following Jerome's suggested Latin title concionator and Martin Luther's Der Prediger ).

One of these offices was princeps senatus, (" first man of the Senate ") and became shortened into Augustus ' chief honorific, Princeps ( usually translated as " first citizen ") form which the modern English word and title prince is descended.

Baslieus, a title which had long been used for Alexander the Great was already in common usage as the Greek word for the Roman emperor, but its definition and sense was " King " in Greek, essentially equivalent with the Latin Rex.

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.

It was Prince who changed the title to Follies ; he was " intrigued by the psychology of a reunion of old chorus dancers and loved the play on the word ' follies '".

A guessing game is a game in which the object is to guess some kind of information, such as a word, a phrase, a title, or the location of an object.

Like journey, the distance that could be travelled in a day, the title ' journeyman ' derives from the French words for ' day ' ( jour and journée ) from which came the middle English word journei.

The Doge of Venice (; Venetian: Doxe ; ; both derived from Latin dux, " military leader "), often mistranslated as Duke ( the Italian word for duke is " Duca "), was the chief magistrate and leader of the Most Serene Republic of Venice for over a thousand years.

The justices ' alternative title of " magistrate " dates from the 16th century, although the word had been in use centuries earlier to describe some legal officials of Roman times.

It should not be confused with the different word wāli () which is an administrative title that means magistrate and is still used today in some Muslim countries, such as the Wali of Swat.

The Roman legal concept of imperium meant that an " imperial " magistrate or promagistrate had absolute authority within the competence of his office ; a promagistrate with imperium appointed to govern a province, therefore, had absolute authority within his capacity as governor of that province ; indeed, the word provincia referred both to the governor's office or jurisdiction and to the territory he governed.

The word worship is used in a strong sense in relation to God ( latria ), but also in a weak sense in relation to man: for instance, " His Worship the Mayor ", or " Your Worship " ( when addressing a magistrate in Court ), or the worship of the saints ( dulia ) as distinct to the adoration of God ( latria ).

It is roughly equivalent to the English family name Constable ; the German word Schulz originates from the local official known as Dorf-Schulz ( e ), a local law enforcement officer like a police officer or magistrate.