The word septuagenary comes from the Latin word septuāgēnārius, from septuāgēn(ī), meaning “seventy each,” from septuāgintā,“seventy.” The suffix -ary is used to indicate a person (as seen in common words like secretary). It’s much more common to refer to someone as a ...
The notion in the Late Latin development is "those following (someone's) way." But the history of the word seems to be confused with that of Latinsecta, fem. past participle ofsecare"to cut" (from PIE root*sek-"to cut"). The meaning "separately organized religious body, denomination"...
from PIE*at-no-"which goes," also "a year" (as "going around"), suffixed form of root*at-"to go" (source also of Sanskritatati"goes, wanders,"atamana-"to travel, wander,"atya-"steed, runner"). The root also has Germanic derivatives meaning "a year," such as Gothicaþnam(...
Septaria crystals are also known by the names Dragonstone, Septeyre and Septarian stone. There are two schools of thought about the meaning of the name Septaria. The first meaning is thought to originate from the Latin word 'saeptum" meaning partition due to the cracks or separations in the...
On Septuagesima Sunday the Alleluia is sung for the last time (put away, “depositio”), and not heard again until it suddenlybursts into glory during the Mass of the Easter Vigil, when the celebrant intones this sacred word after the Epistle, repeating it three times as a jubilant hera...
I think it is necessary to exlplain the word ”climb mountains”. It is not an exercise to keep your body healthy as we usually think but an activity which has the meaning of going up in one’s life step by step. Along the way to the mountain top,people can admire the beauty of ...
The rule of thumb adopted was that students should meet each word at least twelve times in receptive mode. The words were distributed more or less equally between the 16 eReaders meaning that each reader would focus on around 170 BNL words, and each of the five texts in each reader would...