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Estrela Mountain Dog — Estrela Mountains, where this dog breed is originally from; Fez, (also called tarboosh), a hat — Fez, a city in Morocco; Finlandization, the influence a large country can have on a smaller one, after Finland; gauze, a thin translucent open-weave fabric⏤after the city of Gaza, which is where it is thought to have ...
A laconic phrase or laconism is a concise or terse statement, especially a blunt and elliptical rejoinder. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is named after Laconia , the region of Greece including the city of Sparta , whose ancient inhabitants had a reputation for verbal austerity and were famous for their often pithy remarks.
This is a list of Latin words with derivatives in English language. Ancient orthography did not distinguish between i and j or between u and v. [1] Many modern works distinguish u from v but not i from j. In this article, both distinctions are shown as they are helpful when tracing the origin of English words. See also Latin phonology and ...
The Laconian (Ancient Greek: Λακωνικοί Κύνες, romanized: Lakonikoí Kýnes), also known as the Spartan and the Castorian, is an extinct dog breed from Ancient Greece typically used for hunting. The breed originating in Laconia, a region of Ancient Greece, famous for its city state, Sparta.
Alogia may be on a continuum with normal behaviors. People without mental illness may have it occasionally including when fatigued or disinhibited, when writers use language creatively, when people in certain disciplines—such as politicians, administrators, philosophers, ministers, and scientists—use language pedantically.
This list contains Germanic elements of the English language which have a close corresponding Latinate form. The correspondence is semantic—in most cases these words are not cognates, but in some cases they are doublets, i.e., ultimately derived from the same root, generally Proto-Indo-European, as in cow and beef, both ultimately from PIE *gʷōus.
An aphorism (from Greek ἀφορισμός: aphorismos, denoting 'delimitation', 'distinction', and 'definition') is a concise, terse, laconic, or memorable expression of a general truth or principle. [1] Aphorisms are often handed down by tradition from generation to generation.
The English chorus girls are dead–their pans are cold.” [4] The Oxford English Dictionary cites a 1928 New York Times article as having the first appearance of the term in print. [ 5 ] That article, a collection of film slang compiled by writer and theatrical agent Frank J. Wilstach , defines "dead pan" as "playing a role with ...