Word origins

• lutenistOne who plays the lute, a lutist.
• MagoniaA cloud realm from which felonious aerial sailors were said to come in flying ships, according to an ancient treatise against weather magic by the Carolingian bishop Agobard of Lyon.
• majestaticmajestic
• malleatePossessing or resembling a malleus, or another structure shaped like a hammer.
• maritageThe right of the lord of the fee to dispose of the heiress, later also of the male heir, in marriage.
• maritagiumSynonym of maritage.
• menologiumA calendar of the days of the month or of all the days of the year divided by month, particularly as a table of information divided in this way and
• MerovechA semi-legendary 5th-century Frankish leader regarded as the eponymous ancestor of the Merovings (the members of the Merovingian dynasty).
• MerovingA descendant of Merovech; a Merovingian.
• mezereonAn ornamental shrub, Daphne mezereum, having purple flowers and bright red fruit.
• mineryA mining business.
• mirachThe abdominal wall.
• morigerationServile acquiescence; unqualified sycophancy towards a bully or a tyrant.
• murdrumA secret killing, distinguished from simple homicide in that the victim and the killer are unknown.
• murmurationAn act or instance of murmuring.
• musica fictaThe use of chromatically altered tones in the contrapuntal music of the 10th to the 16th centuries.
• negatoryNegative; negating.
• nenupharA water lily, especially the European white water lily (Nymphaea alba) or the yellow water lily (Nuphar lutea).
• nichilNihil
• nihil albumSynonym of zinc oxide, particularly white forms.
• nolleityThe state of being unwilling; nolition.
• nullius filiusA child of unknown parentage; an orphan.
• obnebulateTo cloud or obscure (something).
• olibanumA gum resin from trees of the genus Boswellia, formerly used as a medicine and now mainly as incense.
• p͛-Scribal abbreviation of pre-.
• panaritiumThe purulent inflammation of a digit.
• paraphernalOf or pertaining to a woman's parapherna
• pediluviumThe bathing of the feet.
• pejoritypejoration; process of making or becoming worse
• perfricationA thorough rubbing, as with an ointment or embrocation.
• pia materThe innermost of the meninges, the membranes that surround the brain and spinal cord.
• pignorateSynonym of pignoratitious.
• polysyndetonThe use of many conjunctions to achieve an overwhelming effect in a sentence.
• pomatumSynonym of ointment, particularly thick waxy ointments scented with fruit used to beautify the skin or hair.
• posituraA stroke added to a medieval punctus; a punctuation mark created by addition of such a stroke.
• post meridiemAfter noon, in the afternoon.
• preceptoryA community of the Knights Templar, or the physical buildings or estate of such a community.
• presbyteratepresbytership, eldership
• presbyteressA presbyter or priest's wife.
• priorateThe dignity, office, or government of a prior.
• provisoryTemporary; pending something more permanent.
• punctusThe basic dot (‧) used to end a sentence in medieval punctuation (ancestral to the full stop/period).
• punctus circumflexusA medieval punctuation mark indicating a short pause (approximately '̣).
• punctus elevatusA medieval punctuation mark indicating a medium-length pause (approximately ⸵).
• punctus flexusSynonym of punctus circumflexus.
• punctus interrogativusA medieval question mark, ⟨⹔⟩, possibly the ancestor of the modern mark ⟨?⟩.
• punctus versusA medieval punctuation mark marking the end of a sentence (approximately ;)
• putrescenceThe condition of being putrid; decay
• ꝓ-Scribal abbreviation of pro-.
• ꝓcheinScribal abbreviation of prochein.
• quindecimSynonym of quinzieme, a tax of one fifteenth (6.7%).
• QuinquagesimaA moveable feast in the Christian calendar on the Sunday 49 days before Easter Sunday (50 days counting inclusively).
• quo warrantoA legal proceeding used to challenge the right of an individual or corporation to hold a public office or to exercise a certain franchise or privilege.
• rascetaThe wrinkling and creases on the inner surface of the wrist.
• ratio decidendiThe legal principle or rationale on which a judicial decision is based.
• regnalOf or pertaining to the reign of a monarch (or pope).
• respondeat superiorA legal doctrine which holds that an employer, officer, manager, supervisor, or other individual or group superior to an employee or subordinate may be legally liable for the acts of that employee or subordinate.
• rubineA reddish aniline dye.
• Salic lawThe code of laws of the Salian Franks, particularly the one excluding women from inheritance.
• salvatellaThe dorsal vein of the little finger, bleeding from which was anciently held to be a treatment for melancholy.
• saphenaA prominent vein or nerve, the saphenous vein
• scarificatorAn instrument, principally used in cupping, containing several lancets that are moved simultaneously by a spring, used for making slight incisions on a body.
• seriositySynonym of seriousness.
• serpigoA dry, scaly eruption on the skin; especially, a ringworm.
• subethAbnormal, especially excessively deep, sleep.
• substantifyTo give material form or substance to; to embody.
• superbiousproud, overbearing
• syllabizeTo syllabify.
• taleaA repeated rhythmic pattern used in isorhythm implying a piece cut off.
• TavastiaA historical province of Sweden, c. 1250 to 1809, and of Finland, since 1809. Official name: Häme.
• tenesmusA continual or recurrent but ineffectual inclination to evacuate the bowels, caused by disorder of the rectum or other illness.
• terra sigillataA type of astringent earth or clay originally from the Greek islands, formerly used as a medicine and antidote.
• thaumaturgeA performer of thaumaturgy; a performer of miracles; a magician.
• thaumaturgusA miracle worker.
• theologistOne who is skilled in, professes or practices that which relates or pertains to God.
• theriacA universal antidote against all poisons, particularly medicines considered to derive from a recipe of the Roman physician Andromachus and representing an improvement on mithridate.
• TheudebaldA male given name from the Germanic languages, of historical usage, notably borne by the Frankish king Theudebald.
• TheudebertA male given name from the Germanic languages, of historical usage.
• titubancystammering in speech
• trapeA messy or untidy woman.
• triforiumThe gallery of arches above the side-aisle vaulting in the nave of a church.
• trisagionA liturgical prayer that runs “Holy God, Holy Mighty, Holy Immortal, have mercy on us” in English, typically sung before certain scriptural readings at Eucharistic liturgies in Eastern Christianity, and during the Good Friday service in the Roman Rite.
• TurcomanA member of a mainly nomadic Turkic people inhabiting a region east of the Caspian Sea; a Turkmen.
• turpethOperculina turpethum (obs. syn. Convolvulus turpethum, Ipomea turpethum, Merremia turpethum), a plant in the morning glory family.
• vadiumA pledge or security; bail.
• vadium vivumA living pledge, which exists where an estate is granted until a debt is paid out of its proceeds.
• velleityThe lowest degree of desire or volition; a total lack of effort to act.
• VenedotiaThe Kingdom of Gwynedd, a Roman Empire successor state that emerged in sub-Roman Britain in the 5th century during the Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain.
• vestiariumvestry
• vindicableable to be vindicated; justifiable
• viz.Videlicet: namely, to wit, that is to say, specifically, as an illustration.
• volitationFlight; flying.
• zerumbetZingiber zerumbet, a Javanese plant resembling ginger.