Word origins

• spiritus mundiThe spirit, outlook, point of view, or social and cultural values characteristic of an era of human history.
• spiritus rectorA ruling or guiding spirit.
• spleniumThe thick posterior part of the corpus callosum of the brain.
• spleniusEither of two flat oblique muscles which are attached to the vertebrae on each side of the neck and upper thoracic region and which draw back the head.
• spodiumBone charcoal, used as bleaching material or in the purification of sugar.
• spoliaOld objects, artifacts, and/or sculptural elements reused in a later work of architecture.
• spolia opimaThe spoils taken by a Roman general from an opponent commander, originally after single combat.
• spoliumThe property of a beneficed ecclesiastic not transmissible by will.
• squamaA scale cast off from the skin; a thin dry shred of epithelium.
• squameThe scale, or exopodite, of an antenna of a crustacean.
• squamiformHaving the shape or structure of a scale.
• stabat materA hymn, sung in Latin, telling of the sorrow of the Virgin Mary at the crucifixion of Jesus Christ; the music for this hymn.
• StabiaeAn ancient city in Italy near Pompeii, in Campania; now Castellammare di Stabia
• stabilimentThe act of making firm
• stabilimentumA particular web structure made by some spiders.
• stagnumA millpond.
• stanno-tin
• stannumtin
• staphyleThe uvula of the soft palate.
• statu-quo-iteA supporter of the status quo; one who believes that society is in an acceptable state and should not be changed.
• status absolutusSynonym of absolute state (Latin designation)
• status constructusSynonym of construct state.
• status quoThe state of things; the way things are, as opposed to the way they could be; the existing state of affairs.
• status rectusSynonym of governed state (Latin designation)
• stello-Synonym of astro-.
• stemmaA family tree or recorded genealogy.
• stemma codicumA schema, resulting from the stemmatological process of recension, in which all surviving manuscripts of a given text are represented with their derivation, via intermediary hyparchetypes, from a single archetype.
• stercorariousOf or relating to dung.
• sternutateTo expel air as a reflex induced by an irritation in the nose.
• SthenelusA king of Tiryns and Mycenae, son of Perseus
• stillicideWater falling in drops, especially in a row from the eaves of a roof, or from icicles or stalactites.
• stillicidiumA morbid trickling.
• stipatePressed together; crowded.
• stipulaA stipule.
• stirpsA branch of a family.
• stoicnessThe quality or state of being stoic; impassiveness, endurance, or indifference to pleasure or pain.
• stolaThe traditional garment of women in Ancient Rome, corresponding to the toga worn by men.
• stomachousBitter, resentful.
• stramineousPertaining to or made of straw; having little value, insubstantial.
• strategusThe leader or commander of an army; a general.
• strigateHaving transverse bands of colour.
• strigilA grooming tool used to scrape away dead skin, oil, dirt, etc.
• strigilisAn organ for cleaning the antennae on the first tarsal joint of a bee's foreleg.
• strigulaAny line or line-shaped pattern.
• strongylaRounded needle-shaped spiracle on sponges.
• strophiumA band worn around the breasts, serving as a form of bra in ancient times.
• stultiloquyFoolish talk; babble.
• stuprumrape
• sturioniansturgeon
• stylobateThe top step of the crepidoma, i.e. the platform upon which the superstructure of the building is erected.
• StymphalusAn ancient town in Arcadia, in modern Greece, near modern Stymfalia.
• suaveolentSweet-smelling.
• suaviloquenceThe quality of pleasantness or sweetness in speech or writing.
• suaviloquentSweetly speaking; using agreeable speech.
• suavitudeSweetness, pleasantness; suavity.
• subclavatePartially clavate, somewhat clavate.
• subcoeruleusBeneath the locus coeruleus
• subcoriaceousSlightly leathery
• subdentateImperfectly dentate; having a vaguely toothlike shape.
• subfiliformSomewhat filiform.
• subgloboseSomewhat globose.
• subiculumThe most inferior component of the hippocampal formation, lying between the entorhinal cortex and the CA1 subfield of the hippocampus proper.
• subintroduceTo introduce in a secret or subtle manner.
• subintroductaeSynonym of Agapetae
• sub judiceUnder consideration; being presently considered, litigated, or adjudicated.
• subjugatorA person who subjugates or conquers.
• subjugatrixA female subjugator.
• sublevateTo raise up; to elevate.
• subligaculumA kind of underwear worn in Ancient Rome.
• subligariaAn intricately folded cloth used as underwear by both men and women in Ancient Rome.
• sublobatePartly lobate, having a somewhat lobey shape.
• submembranaceousAlmost or imperfectly membranaceous.
• subministrationThe act of subministering.
• sub modoSubject to a modification or qualification.
• subniviumThe seasonal microenvironment beneath the snow.
• subordoSynonym of suborder.
• subprismaticOnly somewhat characteristic of a prism; not quite prismatic.
• subrogateTo replace one person or thing with another.
• subsecuteTo follow closely, or so as to overtake; to pursue.
• sub silencioin a clearly implied but not overtly stated way
• substituendA substitute; something that substitutes for another.
• substituendumSomething to be substituted or replaced.
• substructionunderbuilding; substructure
• subter-under; secret
• subterraneSynonym of subterranean.
• subterranysubterranean
• subterreneunderground, subterranean
• subuculaA man's undergarment or shirt.
• sub voceunder the word or heading that has been specified
• succubaA female demon or fiend; a succubus.
• succusThe expressed juice or sap of a plant, often for medicinal use
• succussionA shaking of the body to ascertain whether there is liquid in the thorax.
• SuchusSynonym of Sobek (“An ancient Egyptian deity associated with the crocodile.”).
• sudateTo perspire, to sweat.
• sudationPerspiration; sweat (fluid).
• SudeticOf, from, constituting, inhabiting, or pertaining to the Sudetes or the Sudetenland.
• sudorSweat; the salty fluid excreted by the sweat glands.
• SuebiA group of Germanic tribes living mostly near Elbe in what is now central Germany around the first century BCE.
• suffigalSynonym of suffixal.
• suffigationSynonym of suffixation.