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• And then my etymological heart quickened in the presence of the Grand Design, for there was one more definition: "One of the cotyle-dons or lobes of the placenta in ruminating animals. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIV No 3
• In present-day usage, despite Fowler's strictures, concern for classical and linguistic purity is minimal and the coining of etymological hybrids is casual and massive.
• Algorisme being popularly reduced in OFr. to augorime, English also shows two forms, the popular augrime, ending in agrim, agrum, and the learned algorism which passed through many pseudo-etymological perversions, including a recent algorithm in which it is learnedly confused with Gr. ‘number.' Languagehat.com: MATHEMATICAL TERMS.
• Martin accuses the English translators of interpreting such words in their "etymological" sense, and consulting profane writers, Homer, Early Theories of Translation
• In etymological terms, the word Maremma derives from the Latin mare, or sea, and is related to the French marais.
• Savagery, etymologically derived from the Latin word for "forest", was associated with wildness and stood in opposition to civilization. Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
• He wrote about perspective phenomena, but the etymological synonymity of optics and perspective has often led to the misconception that he wrote about perspective constructions.
• With weapons and instruments of scholarship interspersed throughout its cabinets, this etymological play — transparent to Federico's colleagues52 — suggests that the entire Urbino studiolo may be interpreted simultaneously as an armariolum and armamentum, a witty spin on the traditional rhetorical trope of the vita activa and vita contemplativa. 53 48 Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
• From an etymological point-of-view, the word entrepreneur is based on the Sanskrit word "Antha Prerna," which in translation means "self-motivated. Gregory Hosono: Entrepreneurship in 500 Words
• The author declares with aplomb that etymologically speaking the word is entirely incorrect.