1.the history of a particular word or element of a word. 2.an account of the origin and development of a word or word element. 3.the study of historical linguistic change, esp. as manifested in individual words. [1350–1400; Middle English < Latinetymologia< Greeketymología; seeetymon...
Today I found out the origin of the word “soccer”. For all you out there who love to complain when Americans, and certain others, call “Football”, “Soccer”, you should know that it was the British that invented the word and it was also one of the first names of what we ...
known as hominins, are notable among hominoids for their bipedal locomotion, slow rate of maturation, large brain size, and, at least among the more recent hominins, the development of a relatively sophisticated capacity for language, of sophisticated tool use and manufacture, and of complex socia...
不能承受的生命之轻..本书描述一九六八年苏俄入侵捷克时期,民主改革的气息演变成专横压榨之风潮,本书剖示隐密的无情,探讨爱的真谛,涵盖了男女之爱、朋友之爱、祖国之爱。在任何欲望之下,每个人对于各类型的爱皆有自由抉择的权利,自
the origin of a word. the first stage of existence; beginning: the origin of Quakerism in America. ancestry; parentage; extraction: to be of Scottish origin. Synonyms: descent, linage, birth Anatomy. the point of derivation. the more fixed portion of a muscle. Mathematics. the point in...
the opinion of the editor (who has rarely studied the vast literature on the subject) rather than the ultimate truth. The only uncontroversial facts are that the first Jewish ghetto appeared in Venice in 1516 and that in the Pope’s bull of 1562 the enclosure assigned to the Jews in Rome...
From Thomas Taylor, The Famine of the Word: A Treatise (by 1632/1653): This was the state of this people, in their transportation by Salmanassar, but especially in that remarkable Plague by Titus and Vespasian, the like of which was never since the beginning of the Worl...
I think we can see Liz’s story is sort of an origin point for so many cultural themes today. FromTime Its 2018 report, “Reclaiming Native Truth,” explored the perceptions that Americans have of Native people, the origins of those perceptions and the impact that the perceptions have on ...
— An appellation, sometimes, but not necessarily, of derision and contempt; applied to both sexes, but generally to women. Usually, OLD GEEZER. For synonyms, see WITCH. [Cited examples:] 1885. Truth about the Stage, p. 16. If we wake up the old GEEZERS we shall get notice to quit ...
"Speaking truth to power" has become a popular way to describe taking a stand, even when the people speaking truth to power are powerful themselves. Although the origin of the phrase is commonly ascribed to a 1955 book advocating against the Cold War, its appears to have been coined earlier...