Let’s just say it was a long time ago — at least in the Middle Ages. Many sources, including the Ask Oxford website and a book called “Letter by Letter: An Alphabetical Miscellany,” report that the “at” s
"reduce to nothing," 1520s,from Medieval Latin annihilatus, past participle of annihilare "reduce to nothing," from Latin ad "to" (see ad-) + nihil "nothing" (see nil). What does this word mean annihilate? transitive verb. 1a :to cause to cease to exist: to do away with entirely...
"removal of errors; the correction of that which is erroneous or faulty; alteration for the better; correction," mid-15c., of ways of life; 17c., of texts; fromLatin emendationem(nominative emendatio) "a correction, improvement," noun of action from past-participle stem of emendare "to ...
Ampeater Music is a website devoted to bridging the gap between unsigned (or just plain underexposed) artists and music lovers everywhere. Every day we feature a different artist on what we call The Ampeater Review. Each fea
The forbidden fruit of the serpent probably wasn’t our apple, unknown in Palestine at the time of the Bible’s composition, but it became so in the popular imagination because of a play on the Latin wordsmālum(an apple) andmălum(an evil): the Latin of Genesis 2:17 “But of the ...
Once the babies begin, the life ends I love this one. (Especially the opening mullet!) This is a warning video for all the women out there. Men don’t understand pregnancy. You know, like being worried about poking the baby in the head. ...
Life on the Sidewalk...(No, I'm not lost. To be lost you have to know where you're supposed to be in the first place.)
The modern English word “spirit” originates from the Latin word spiritus, meaning “breath,” from the root word (s)peis-, “to blow.” Spirit also has the meanings of soul, courage,” and “vigor.” In Greek, the word for spirit is pneuma and in Hebrew roo’ach. Opposing terms ...