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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 o

...ret-]]'', to run or roll. Other [[English]] words descended from the same Latin lexon and therefore distantly related to "rew" include "[[Wiktionary:rotate

...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|Nor

...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&

...words was different from how the name "Fido" is pronounced in English; the Latin ''fīdō'' and the Italian and Spanish ''fido'' were all pronou

...vil, and the [[neuter]] [[plural]] of the [[suffix]] ''[[Wiktionary:-aster#Latin|-aster]]'', to signify an imperfect semblance). In any case, neither "gesi

...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&m

...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 tri

...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 giv

...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 bl

...m" (pronounced {{IPA|/ˈkɒzəm/}}), the former from a [[Latin]] word meaning "everything" and the latter, of course, a shortened form of

The word florum frequently comes ultimately from the [[Latin]] word ''[[Wiktionary:flōs|flōs]]'', meaning "[[flower]]"&mdash

...s use to signify things relating to turnskins is "versipellar" (from the [[Latin]] ''versipellis'', of which the [[English]] word "turnskin" is a [[calque]]

...rules, but is a [[regularization|regularized]] form constructed with the [[Latin]]-derived [[suffix]] [[Wiktionary:-ian#English|-ian]].

...ens'', with an s, even in the singular. (Technically, the plural of the [[Latin]] words involved would be "Homines sapientes", but scientific names are not

...officials. (Such branches exist in the governments of several states of [[Latin America]].)

...on;ριοχη''), "singulum" (plural ''singula''; from Latin, and not to be confused with the homophonic "[[Wiktionary:cingulum|cingulum