Word origins

• LondiniumA city in Britannia, Roman Empire: An ancient settlement in the area of modern London.
• scamanderTo wander about with no fixed purpose.
• SennacheribThe king of the Neo-Assyrian Empire from 705 BCE to 681 BCE, famous for the role he plays in the Bible which describes his campaign in the Levant.
• criminationAn accusation of wrongdoing, a recrimination
• custosA warden.
• triangulateTo locate by means of triangulation.
• infimum(of a subset) the greatest element of the containing set that is smaller than or equal to all elements of the subset. The infimum may or may not be a member of the subset.
• CroesusA rich person.
• obdurateStubbornly persistent, generally in wrongdoing; refusing to reform or repent.
• tenuisOf Greek consonants, neither aspirated nor voiced, as [p], [t],
• DodonaA town and religious shrine of ancient in Greece.
• ArminiusA chieftain of the Cherusci (an ancient Germanic tribe) who defeated the Romans in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest.
• ParthiaA region in northeastern Iran.
• topiaA kind of mural decoration common in Ancient Roman houses, usually featuring landscapes.
• PelagiaA female given name
• procreativeHaving the power to beget; generative.
• trigaA three-horse chariot used by the Ancient Romans.
• diffidentLacking confidence in others; distrustful.
• tenentA tenet.
• AntoninaA female given name from Latin of mainly historical use English.
• ElymusA mythical prince, ancestor of the Elymians
• matriculateTo enroll as a member of a body, especially of a college or university.
• castrateA castrated man; a eunuch.
• DaphnisA moon of Saturn.
• convolvulusAny of several plants, of the genus Convolvulus, found in temperate climates, having small trumpet-shaped flowers.
• scriptorA writer, regarded as producing a work but not as providing its explanation (which is instead determined by the reader), according to the theories of Roland Barthes.
• arguendofor the sake of argument; assuming without deciding; identifying the premises of a hypothetical argument while making it clear that no finding is being made on whether the premises are true.
• ususThe use of something.
• circumnavigateTo travel completely around somewhere or something (especially the Globe), especially by sail.
• excipientAn ingredient that is intentionally added to a drug for purposes other than the therapeutic or diagnostic effect at the intended dosage.
• celluleA small cell.
• cauteryThe use of either extreme heat or extreme cold to either cut or seal body tissue.
• climactericPertaining to any of several supposedly critical years of a person's life.
• luxuriateTo enjoy luxury, to indulge.
• puellaA young girl.
• virgaA type of note used in plainsong notation, having a tail and representing a single tone.
• capiasAn arrest warrant; a writ commanding officers to take a specified person or persons into custody.
• striaA stripe, usually one of a set of parallel stripes.
• CannaeA village in the Apulia region of south east Italy, known as the site of a battle in 216 B.C. in which the Carthaginians under Hannibal defeated the Romans
• eluteTo separate one substance from another by means of a solvent; to wash; to cleanse.
• VietorA Latin surname from the Germanic languages
• senatusA governing body in certain universities.
• acclivityA slope or inclination of the earth, as the side of a hill, considered as ascending, in opposition to declivity, or descending; an upward slope; ascent.
• ThermopylaeA narrow pass on the east-central coast of Greece adjacent to the Maliakos Gulf, northwest of Athens. Its name is derived from its hot sulphur springs. It was the site of the Battle of Thermopylae, at which the Spartan King Leonidas stood off, for a time, the Persian armies of Xerxes.
• IxionKing of Lapiths, who was punished by Zeus for trying to seduce Hera by being bound to a winged fiery wheel that was always spinning.
• melasmaA tan or dark skin discoloration, particularly common in pregnant women, thought to be caused by the stimulation of melanocytes by estrogen and progesterone.
• preternaturalBeyond or not conforming to what is natural or according to the regular course of things; strange.
• countertenorAn adult male singer who uses head tone or falsetto to sing far higher than the typical male vocal range.
• petronellaA traditional Scottish country dance.
• responsaA body of written decisions and rulings given by legal scholars in response to questions addressed to them.
• pepoA fruit of plants of the gourd family Cucurbitaceae, possessing a hard rind and producing many seeds in a single, central, pulpy chamber.
• omentumEither of two folds of the peritoneum that support the viscera.
• BoranA member of the Borani
• meumspignel, Meum athamanticum
• scillaA plant of the genus Scilla; a squill.
• jynxA bird, the wryneck, once thought a bird of ill omen (Jynx torquilla).
• inversusThe inverted part of a composition.
• dissidenceThe state of being dissident; dissent
• caninusThe caninus muscle.
• incusA small anvil-shaped bone in the middle ear.
• nablaA Hebrew stringed instrument.
• ruptionA breaking or bursting open; breach; rupture.
• ParthA Parthian.
• fiscusA government treasury.
• columbariumA columbary, especially a large and architecturally impressive one for housing a large colony of pigeons or doves, such as those in ancien régime France.
• stipesThe vertical beam of a cross used for crucifixion.
• titillationA pleasurable or sexually exciting sensation.
• enucleationThe surgical removal of an intact organ, especially of the eye and of cysts and tumors.
• PolybiusA male given name of historical usage, notably borne by Polybius, an Ancient Greek historian of the Hellenistic period.
• fractTo break; to violate.
• abruptionA sudden termination or interruption.
• organumA type of medieval polyphony which builds upon an existing plainsong.
• copulateTo engage in sexual intercourse.
• AvernusThe entrance to Hell or the underworld, or the underworld itself.
• limulusHorseshoe crab, king crab.
• occiputThe back part of the head or skull.
• ApuleiusAn author in the Roman Empire, Lucius Apuleius Madaurensis.
• nutationA bobbing motion that accompanies the precession of a spinning rigid body.
• EvropaEurope.
• philippicAny of the discourses of Demosthenes against Philip II of Macedon, defending the liberty of Athens.
• cumulateTo accumulate; to amass.
• diabolusSynonym of tritone.
• PelagiusA male given name of historical usage.
• puerDung (of dogs, fowls, etc) used in tanning, after applying lime, to soften skins.
• SiwaAn oasis in Egypt.
• plumbagoA plant of the genus Plumbago; leadwort.
• lugubriousGloomy, mournful or dismal, especially to an exaggerated degree.
• castigateTo punish or reprimand someone severely.
• operculumA covering flap in animals and insects, such as a gill cover or the lid of nits.
• AchaemenidOf or relating to the dynasty which ruled the Persian empire c. 550–330 BCE (the Achaemenid Empire), founded by Achaemenes.
• muscaAn autumn constellation of the southern sky, said to resemble a fly, between the constellations of Carina and Apus.
• hierophantAn ancient Greek priest who interpreted sacred mysteries, especially the priest of the Eleusinian Mysteries.
• globulusThe nucleus globosus.
• tabernaA type of shop or stall in Ancient Rome.
• plebsThe plebeian class of Ancient Rome or its equivalent in other ancient societies.
• TridentineRelating to Trent, Italy.
• agglomeratecollected into a ball, heap, or mass
• hallucinateTo seem to perceive things (with one or more of one's senses) which are not really present; to have visions; to experience a hallucination.
• senexAn older or old man, chiefly as a stock character.
• SilvanusA god of forests.