While those three names are common adjective names, like with names from nouns, there are many adjective names that exist in society that are in a different language and you didn't even realize it. A prime example of this is the popular name 'Sophia' which is actually the Greek word for...
German Boys' First Names - Vornamen Symbols used: Gr. (Greek), Lat. (Latin), OHG (Old High German), Sp. (Spanish). Gott-names - In the era of Pietism (17th/18th century) it was popular to create German male names withGott(God) plus a pious adjective.Gotthard("God" and "hard")...
were sharing some of the most common Old English last names to help you uncover your family history. Lee, Lewis, Long, Lumbard, Lyon, Maddern, Marshall, Martin, Mason, This last name originated from the British Isles, and is actually taken from the Greek name Alexandros, which refers...
heroine –courageous woman; principle female character: The heroine of the play was a great actress. Abused, Confused, & Misused Words by Mary Embree Copyright © 2007, 2013 by Mary Embree her·o·in (hĕr′ō-ĭn) n. A white, odorless, bitter crystalline compound, C21H23NO5, that...
Greek myths (& all myths) probably started out as such- certainly epic poems like The Iliad & The Odyssey did. Even music & paintings have adopted this format in their many ‘movements’ & diptychs, triptychs, etc.- as well as sequence paintings. But the serial form is perfectly tailored...
Eleutherodactylus - Greek - free toes (refers to the lack of webbing between the toes often found in other frog species) coqui - refers to the two-part sound made by male frogs that sounds like "ko - kee." Alternate Names Coquí Puerto Rican Coquí Related or Similar California Herps...
You always read in articles about, “Oh, you know. She fell in love with a handsome man on her Turkish or Greek holiday.” It sounds insane, and it’s something everyone laughs about it and goes, “Oh, yeah, one of those stories.” I think that when they meet an older guy, they...
Classical evidence on these matters, as about Greek and Roman folklore in general, we have to sift painfully from the works of literary authors who were concerned with other topics. Still, in the region of the ghostly, as in folklore at large, we have relics enough to prove that the ancie...
One other theory states that it might be the result of a slow perversion of the Greek expression cata doxa, which means "contrary to experience or belief" and which sounds similar to "cats and dogs" in English. Thus, "raining cats and dogs" would mean it is raining unbelievably hard. A...
Controls were both male and female. The de novo replication cohort consisted of 266 self-volunteered female UK cases, collected through the charity Charlotte's Helix (www.charlotteshelix.net). All participants were adults and had been diagnosed with AN by their clinician. In addition, all ...