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Some nouns ending in -a refer only to men: cura ("priest") ends in -a but is grammatically masculine, for a profession held in Roman Catholic tradition only by men. Invariable words in Spanish are often derived from the Latin participles ending in -ans and -ens (-antem and -entem in the accusative case): estudiante. Some words that are ...
For job titles ending in epicene suffixes such as -iste (le/la dentiste) or -logue (le/la psychologue), the only change is in the article (le/la) and any associated adjectives. Abbreviated professions only change the article as well (le/la prof). In some cases, words already had a feminine form which was rarely used, and a new one was created.
Origin of the word "master" are late Old English: "a man having control or authority; a teacher or tutor", from Latin magister (n.), a contrastive adjective ("he who is greater") meaning "chief, head, director, teacher", and the source of Old French maistre, French maître, Spanish and Italian maestro, Portuguese mestre, Dutch meester, German ...
B. Baader; Baanders; Backer; Bäcker; Bailey (surname) Bailhache; Baily (surname) Bajraktarević; Baker (surname) Bakker; Bal (surname) Baltacha; Bandler; Banister ...
Although conferred in English, the degree may be abbreviated in Latin (viz., compare Latin Ed.D. used for either Doctor of Education or Educationis Doctor; and M.D., used for both Medicinae Doctor and Doctor of Medicine, the latter which can also be abbreviated D.M.). Doctor of Juridical Science: S.J.D. An academic, not a professional designation.
Many grammars of Spanish suggest that nouns ending in -a are feminine, [14] [15] but there is no requirement that Spanish nouns ending in -a be feminine. [10] Thus, grammars that pose such a requirement also typically include a long list of exceptions, such as el alerta 'alert', el bocata 'sandwich', el caza 'fighter plane', and many others.
Alexander Carse (c. 1770 – 1843), Scottish painter; Clarence Holbrook Carter (1904–2000), American artist; Ramon Casas i Carbó (1866–1932), Spanish/Catalan artist and graphic designer; Felice Casorati (1883–1963), Italian painter, sculptor and print-maker; Judy Cassab (1920–2015), Australian painter
C2D or C 2 D – (i) Intel Core 2 Duo; C2IEDM or C 2 IEDM – (i) Command and Control Information Exchange Data Model; C2IS or C 2 IS – (i) Command and Control Information System; C2PC or C 2 PC – (i) Command and Control Personal Computer; C2V or C 2 V – (i) Command and Control Vehicle; C2W or C 2 W – (i) Command and Control Warfare; C3 ...