Word origins

• furcateForked, branched; divided at one end into parts.
• furcocercousHaving a forked tail
• Geldonia1199 Geldonia, an Eoan asteroid from the outer regions of the asteroid belt.
• glomeryGrammar, particularly medieval Latin grammar.
• gnathonicDeceitful and flattering; toadying.
• graduandA student who has completed the requirements for, but has not yet been awarded, a particular degree.
• graecismusUse of Greek words and examples.
• Great CharterMagna Carta.
• griseousHaving a gray, mottled appearance
• GrumiumXi Draconis A, a component of the binary star Xi Draconis in the northern circumpolar constellation of Draco.
• GruyèreA hard yellow cheese originating from Gruyères, Switzerland and made in the cantons of Fribourg.
• guberniumSynonym of guberniya.
• Guiscardthe sobriquet of Robert de Hauteville, a Norman adventurer remembered for the conquest of southern Italy and Sicily, founder of the County of Sicily
• haecceityThe essence of a particular thing that gives it its unique particularity; those qualities that make an individual this specific individual and not some other.
• hanaperA kind of basket, usually of wickerwork, and adapted for the packing and carrying of articles; a hamper
• hegiraA journey taken to escape from danger; an exodus.
• heresiacheretical
• hereticateTo denounce as heresy or a heretic.
• hermodactylA type of root, probably from a plant of the genus Colchicum, as imported and used in Western medicine.
• hesychastA monk of the Orthodox Catholic Church that engages in noetic prayer.
• hidroticRelating to hidrosis.
• Holy OfficeThe Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
• honorificabilitudinitatibusThe state of being able to achieve honours; honourableness.
• honorificabilitudinityThe quality of being honourable; honourableness.
• hyleSynonym of matter, physical substance.
• hyperduliaA level of veneration higher than dulia but less than latria, properly given to the Virgin Mary only.
• hypnalislegendary asp said to kill people by making them go in an endless sleep or by attacking them in their sleep.
• idoneityThe state or quality of being idoneous.
• imburseTo put into a purse; to save, to store up.
• impignorationThe act of pawning or pledging; the state of being pawned.
• importancyImportance; significance.
• impropriateTo appropriate for private use.
• incastellateTo make into a castle.
• incathedrateTo officially invest into a position of authority.
• incensorySynonym of censer (“religious ornamental container for burning incense”).
• in flagrante delictoIn the act of committing a misdeed.
• insipidityThe condition of being insipid; insipidness.
• instanterimmediately; instantly; without delay.
• intendimentUnderstanding; careful consideration, attention.
• intonateTo intone or recite (words), especially emphatically or in a chanting manner.
• intromissionThe state of being allowed to enter; admittance
• invaginatesheathed
• itinerationA travelling around.
• jactitationBragging or boasting, especially in a false manner to another's detriment.
• lachrymalConnected with weeping or tears.
• lapidariumA place where stone monuments and fragments of archaeological interest are exhibited.
• lapis calaminarisSynonym of calamine, a pink form of zinc oxide formed as a byproduct during sublimation.
• lazuriteA mineral of metamorphosed limestones. Lazurite forms the gemstone lapis lazuli, and crushed lazurite provided the ultramarine color in artists' paint of the Old Masters. Sodalite and lazurite form the sodalite group of silicate minerals. Chemical composition: Sodium aluminum silicate with sulphur, Na₄₋₅Al₃Si₃O₁₂S.
• legendariumA literary collection of legends, particularly those detailing the life of a saint.
• lenticularisa cloud species which consists of rounded lens shaped of cloud, often forming near mountains. Associated with cirrocumulus, and altocumulus, and sometimes stratocumulus genera.
• leprosariaSynonym of leprosarium.
• leprosariumAn isolated building or community used to house lepers, usually in permanent quarantine from the rest of society.
• leudA Frankish vassal or tenant in the Early Middle Ages.
• librateTo oscillate (like the beam of a balance).
• lineateTo mark with lines.
• litraA silver coin in ancient Sicily, worth one fifth of a drachm.
• lividnessThe state or condition of being livid (dark or pallid).
• lixiviateTo separate (a substance) into soluble and insoluble components through percolation; to leach.
• locum tenensA professional person (such as a doctor or clergyman) who temporarily fulfills the duties of another.
• logotheteAny of various state officials or functionaries in the Byzantine Empire.
• lohochA medicine in a soft form taken by licking; a lambative, a linctus.
• LotharingiaA historical region, early medieval kingdom and former duchy in Western Europe; a successor kingdom of the Carolingian empire, now politically split between Lorraine in France, western Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg.
• lutenistOne who plays the lute, a lutist.
• machicolateTo furnish with machicolations.
• macilenceLeanness; emaciation.
• 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
• majorationIncrease; enlargement.
• malleatePossessing or resembling a malleus, or another structure shaped like a hammer.
• man proposes, God disposesThings do not always work out as they are planned.
• maritageThe right of the lord of the fee to dispose of the heiress, later also of the male heir, in marriage.
• maritagiumSynonym of maritage.
• mayor of the palaceIn the Merovingian kingdoms, the king’s steward and, by the 7th century, de facto regent.
• 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
• menologyThe study of months; the names and system of months within a given calendar.
• 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.
• minoressSynonym of Poor Clare: a nun of the Order of Saint Clare.
• minoriteSynonym of Franciscan: a friar of the Order of Friars Minor.
• mirachThe abdominal wall.
• MisniaMeissen.
• morbillimeasles, rubeola
• morbilliformResembling the erythematous, maculopapular rash of measles.
• morigerationServile acquiescence; unqualified sycophancy towards a bully or a tyrant.
• morose delectationThe act of lingering with pleasure on an impure thought.
• motu proprioOf one’s own free will, of one’s own volition.
• 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
• NicosianOf, from, or pertaining to Nicosia, the capital of Cyprus and Northern Cyprus.
• nihil albumSynonym of zinc oxide, particularly white forms.
• nolleityThe state of being unwilling; nolition.
• nullius filiusA child of unknown parentage; an orphan.
• obedientiaryThe holder of a monastic rank or office below that of superior.
• obnebulateTo cloud or obscure (something).