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- ...ammatically]] a Latin noun or adjective. Sometimes the species name looks Latin but doesn't actually mean anything, and is chosen for purposes of euphony o8 KB (1,288 words) - 16:16, 27 December 2011
- ...ret-]]'', to run or roll. Other [[English]] words descended from the same Latin lexon and therefore distantly related to "rew" include "[[Wiktionary:rotate9 KB (1,439 words) - 19:52, 21 January 2024
- ...as originally written with a [[futhorc|runic alphabet]]. Even after the [[Latin alphabet]] was introduced by [[Ireland|Irish]] missionaries around the nint ...rrowing many words from [[Wikipedia:Old Norse|Old Norse]] and later from [[Latin]] and [[Greek]], and still later, after the [[Wikipedia:Norman conquest|Nor16 KB (2,574 words) - 20:12, 2 July 2013
- ...quivalently, from the [[cognate]] [[Latin]] adjective ''[[Wiktionary:varus#Latin|vārus]]'', meaning "bent", plus the [[suffix]] [[Wiktionary:-ate#Suff ...ote different types of varate, even when the root it is attached to is not Latin, or even [[Indo-European]]. The resultant words are perhaps etymonic chim&17 KB (2,716 words) - 19:02, 7 January 2022
- ...words was different from how the name "Fido" is pronounced in English; the Latin ''fīdō'' and the Italian and Spanish ''fido'' were all pronou19 KB (3,013 words) - 16:26, 13 April 2022
- ...vil, and the [[neuter]] [[plural]] of the [[suffix]] ''[[Wiktionary:-aster#Latin|-aster]]'', to signify an imperfect semblance). In any case, neither "gesi15 KB (2,265 words) - 13:27, 29 January 2024
- ...arth" is already a sufficiently distinctive name that there's no need to [[Latin]]ize it. There is no popular adjective corresponding to "Earth", however&m6 KB (1,017 words) - 01:10, 12 May 2013
- ...commonly used for years, some authorities prefer the use of "a", for the [[Latin]] [[root (linguistics)|root]] ''[[Wiktionary:annus|annus]]'', meaning year ...to the 18⅔ year period of the cycle of [[eclipse]]s). There are [[Latin]]ate general terms for periods of multiple years—three years is a tri24 KB (4,050 words) - 01:18, 27 February 2024
- ...o more evidence that anyone involved with Plex's exile spoke or understood Latin than English, and in any case there's no obvious reason why it would be giv18 KB (3,022 words) - 04:11, 11 May 2013
- ...couldn't end a sentence in Latin), or to split an [[infinitive]] (because Latin infinitives were single words and couldn't be split). ...e alphabets, including the [[Cyrillic alphabet|Cyrillic]] as well as the [[Latin alphabet]] used to write English (and many other languages), have both a bl48 KB (7,378 words) - 00:48, 1 June 2015
- ...m" (pronounced {{IPA|/ˈkɒzəm/}}), the former from a [[Latin]] word meaning "everything" and the latter, of course, a shortened form of10 KB (1,653 words) - 02:15, 9 May 2013
- The word florum frequently comes ultimately from the [[Latin]] word ''[[Wiktionary:flōs|flōs]]'', meaning "[[flower]]"&mdash12 KB (1,856 words) - 04:05, 29 January 2022
- ...s use to signify things relating to turnskins is "versipellar" (from the [[Latin]] ''versipellis'', of which the [[English]] word "turnskin" is a [[calque]]15 KB (2,340 words) - 04:16, 11 May 2013
- ...rules, but is a [[regularization|regularized]] form constructed with the [[Latin]]-derived [[suffix]] [[Wiktionary:-ian#English|-ian]].16 KB (2,619 words) - 15:12, 18 January 2024
- ...ens'', with an s, even in the singular. (Technically, the plural of the [[Latin]] words involved would be "Homines sapientes", but scientific names are not15 KB (2,410 words) - 20:44, 26 February 2012
- ...officials. (Such branches exist in the governments of several states of [[Latin America]].)24 KB (3,717 words) - 00:08, 18 May 2013
- ...on;ριοχη''), "singulum" (plural ''singula''; from Latin, and not to be confused with the homophonic "[[Wiktionary:cingulum|cingulum30 KB (4,907 words) - 03:47, 11 May 2013