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Live capons in Hainan, China, displaying characteristic small head, comb and wattle. A capon (from Latin: cāpō, genitive cāpōnis) is a male chicken that has been castrated or neutered, either physically or chemically, to improve the quality of its flesh for food, and, in some countries like Spain, fattened by forced feeding.
This list contains Germanic elements of the English language which have a close corresponding Latinate form. The correspondence is semantic—in most cases these words are not cognates, but in some cases they are doublets, i.e., ultimately derived from the same root, generally Proto-Indo-European, as in cow and beef, both ultimately from PIE *gʷōus.
This is a list of Latin words with derivatives in English language. Ancient orthography did not distinguish between i and j or between u and v. [1] Many modern works distinguish u from v but not i from j. In this article, both distinctions are shown as they are helpful when tracing the origin of English words. See also Latin phonology and ...
Neutering, from the Latin neuter ('of neither sex'), [1] is the removal of a non-human animal's reproductive organ, either all of it or a considerably large part.The male-specific term is castration, while spaying is usually reserved for female animals.
Neuter is a Latin adjective meaning "neither", and can refer to: Neuter gender, a grammatical gender, a linguistic class of nouns triggering specific types of inflections in associated words; Neuter pronoun; Neutering, the sterilization of an animal
In addition, almost 22 million people in 110 countries study it. Spanish is the third most used language on the internet, according to the Cervantes Institute. More than 60 million Latinos live in ...
In Dutch, ae is an old spelling variant of aa but now only occurs in names of people or (less often) places and in a few loanwords from Greek and Latin. In Zhuang, ae represents /a/ ( a represents /aː/). In Revised Romanization of Korean, ae represents /ɛ/. ãe is used in Portuguese for /ɐ̃ĩ̯/.
Press "4" or the "Enter" key on the keyboard to attack. If stuck for a word, a useful technique is to separate out all the vowels so that you can quickly tell at a glance which vowels and ...