malicious"). The metaphoric use of the Greek word,melas, however, tended to reflect the notion of "shrouded in darkness, overcast." In English it has been the color of sin and sorrow at least since c. 1300; the sense of "with dark purposes, malignant" emerged 1580s (inblack art"necr...
black widow (n.) type of venomous spider (Latrodectus mactans) in U.S. South, 1904, so called from its color and from the female's supposed habit of eating the male after mating (the males seem to get eaten more often before they mate, when they first enter the webs of the females...
aThe etymology of the word “Risk” can be traced to the Latin word “Rescum” meaning Risk at Sea or that which cuts (Raghavan, 2003). 词“风险”的语源学可以被追踪到海上切开Raghavan的或那的拉丁词“Rescum”意思 (风险, 2003年)。[translate]...
17.Etymology.the study of words and word roots.may sound like the kind of thing done by boring librarians in small.dusty rooms. Yet etymologists actually have a uniquely interesting job. They are in many ways just like archaeologists digging up the ph
For each entry, the dictionary provides the correct pronunciation, followed by a short definition, and the century and source of the word's first recording. Then come the etymological notes. Thus one learns that "froth" (an aggregation of small bubbles on liquid) was first noted in the 14th...
Kimiya: Secrets of the Ancients – but Egyptian, Greek or Chinese? “Kemet” was the native Egyptian name for Egypt. It was the word for “black” and significantly, the word used to distinguish the fertile Nile lands from the red desert soils. Some think that the Greeks then called the...
Ancient Greek had the word "drakon", which means "serpent." [1] In addition, this term are related to others which mean things along the lines of "sharp-sighted," [1] "to watch," [2] or "to look at." [2] Therefore, this creature wasn't necessarily seen as a Western Dragon as...
of the term is disputed: it may come from a type of dance called a ‘gigue’ at which musicians would be booked to play, or it may be that the ‘gig’ referred to a carriage on which Black American musicians would play in the early twentieth century because if they played on the ...
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local or state legal restrictions on black persons, free or slave, 1774, American English, though the first reference is to French colonies in the West Indies. also from1774 Trends ofblack code Shareblack code ‘cite’ https://www.etymonline.com/word/black code ...