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This article is about the phrase. For the film, see Terms of Endearment. For other uses, see Terms of Endearment (disambiguation). A term of endearment is a word or phrase used to address or describe a person, animal or inanimate object for which the speaker feels love or affection. Terms of endearment are used for a variety of reasons, such as parents addressing their children and lovers ...
-dotter (Norwegian, Swedish) "daughter (of)" [citation needed]-dóttir "daughter (of)" (patronymic suffix (sometimes matronymic) (by law) of not a family name but part of the Icelandic last name where (usually) the father's name is always slightly modified and then dóttir added) [citation needed]-dze "son of" [citation needed]
This is a list of English words inherited and derived directly from the Old English stage of the language. This list also includes neologisms formed from Old English roots and/or particles in later forms of English, and words borrowed into other languages (e.g. French, Anglo-French, etc.) then borrowed back into English (e.g. bateau, chiffon, gourmet, nordic, etc.).
"Lolita" is a term of endearment from the book Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov. Luddite : [ 23 ] A person who resists new technology, especially digital technology; this term may be misused to refer to people with anti-establishment views, e.g. someone who boycotts Amazon or refuses to own a mobile phone . [ 24 ]
The usual English term for politely addressing a woman is madam or its abbreviation ma'am. In English, relatively few job titles are un-gendered . [ citation needed ] Some names for jobs are gender-neutral, e.g. mail carrier (postal worker), but where there is a common word with a -man suffix, sometimes -lady may be used as an equivalent, e.g ...
English-speaking nations of the former British Empire may also use this slang, but also incorporate their own slang words to reflect their different cultures. Not only is the slang used by British expats, but some of these terms are incorporated into other countries' everyday slang, such as in Australia, Canada and Ireland.
Other examples: Arria was a daughter of Thrasea Paetus and his wife Arria; [6] [7] and possibly Considia, daughter of Servilius Nonianus. [8] [9] Empresses bearing pagan names—e.g. Aelia Eudocia, formerly Athenaïs—were renamed to have more Christian names, sometimes for an earlier empress.