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Ender is a masculine Turkish given name, derived from the Arabic word Andar (اندر) meaning extremely rare. [ 1 ] It is also a family name, prevalent in families of German or Austrian origin and, as a surname, it is derived from the Middle High German word 'entar', which meant 'edge' or 'end'.
For example, the letter 'D' begins with the word for master (Dominus), as he is the head of a household (Domus); the adjective docile (docilis) is derived by Isidore from the verb for "to teach" (docere), because docile people are able to learn; and the word for abominable (Nefarius) is explained as being not worth the grain called spelt (far).
This is a list of English words inherited and derived directly from the Old English stage of the language. This list also includes neologisms formed from Old English roots and/or particles in later forms of English, and words borrowed into other languages (e.g. French, Anglo-French, etc.) then borrowed back into English (e.g. bateau, chiffon, gourmet, nordic, etc.).
A Dictionary of English Etymology is an etymological dictionary of the English language written by Hensleigh Wedgwood and published by Trübner and Company in three volumes from 1859 to 1865 (vol. 1 1859, vol. 2 1862, vol. 3 1865), with a second edition published in 1871. [1] It was reviewed anonymously [2] [3] [4] and by Herbert Coleridge. [5]
Ursula K. Le Guin coined the word "ansible" in her 1966 novel Rocannon's World. [1] [4] The word was a contraction of "answerable", as the device would allow its users to receive answers to their messages in a reasonable amount of time, even over interstellar distances.
[1] [2] Slogans, film titles, and a variety of other things have been structured in threes, a tradition that grew out of oral storytelling [3] and continues in narrative fiction. Examples include the Three Little Pigs, Three Billy Goats Gruff, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, and the Three Musketeers. Similarly, adjectives are often grouped in ...
Encomium (pl.: encomia) is a Latin word deriving from the Ancient Greek enkomion (ἐγκώμιον), meaning "the praise of a person or thing." [1] Another Latin equivalent is laudatio, a speech in praise of someone or something.
[2] [3] The noosphere represents the highest stage of biospheric development, that of humankind's rational activities. [ 4 ] The word is derived from the Greek νόος (" nous , mind, reason") and σφαῖρα ("sphere"), in lexical analogy to " atmosphere " and " biosphere ". [ 5 ]