Word origins

• anilityThe condition of being anile.
• Anno HegiraeIn the year of the Hijra (counted by the Islamic calendar).
• annominationparonomasia; punning
• annosityFullness of years; great length of life; agedness; lengthiness of life span.
• annotatrixA female annotator.
• annotinousA year old, or having yearly growths.
• annuleA circular band formed by two transverse grooves in the cuticle of some nematodes with consequent apparent segmentation; annulus.
• annumerationFurther addition to a previous number or quantity.
• ansateThat has a handle or a part that resembles a handle.
• ansatedSynonym of ansate.
• antecursorA forerunner; a precursor.
• antemuralAn outwork of a strong, high wall, with turrets, in front of the gateway (as of an old castle), for defending the entrance.
• antepenultimaThe last syllable of a word except two
• antepenultimeSynonym of antepenult.
• antevertTo prevent, to avert.
• anticipantExpectant.
• anticousFacing toward the axis, or central part, of the flower
• AntisthenesA transliteration of the Ancient Greek male given name Ἀντισθένης (Antisthénēs), notably borne by Antisthenes of Athens (445–365 B.C.), a Greek philosopher, founder of the school of Cynicism and a pupil of Socrates.
• antithetAn antithetical or contrasted statement; a statement containing antithesis
• antliaThe spiral tubular proboscis of butterflies.
• antoeciThe inhabitants at two points on the globe that share a longitude and for which the sum of their degrees of latitude equals zero.
• anxietudeThe state or condition of being troubled, worried, or anxious; anxiety.
• apocatastasisAn apocalypse leading to the remaking of the world rather than a Final Judgment, (Christianity) an Origenist doctrine condemned by the 543 C.E. Synod of Constantinople.
• ApollineOf or relating to the god Apollo.
• a potiorifrom the stronger or more important; according to the majority
• applicateAn applied material; an application
• aqua fortisA corrosive liquor made of saltpeter, serving as a solvent for dissolving silver and all other metals except gold.
• aqua regiaA mixture of three parts concentrated hydrochloric acid to one part concentrated nitric acid, named for its ability to dissolve gold.
• aquila albacalomel, or various other substances
• arbiter elegantiarumAn authority on manners or etiquette.
• arbitratrixA female arbitrator.
• arbitrixA female arbiter, an arbitress.
• archisynagogueThe head of a synagogue.
• -ariumA place associated with a specified thing.
• articulusA joint of the cirri of the Crinoidea.
• aspectionThe act of viewing; a look.
• -asterUsed to form diminutive and pejorative nouns, labeling someone pretending to be what they are not.
• asteriscusOne of the otoliths found in the lagena of many nonmammalian vertebrates.
• -ateforms adjectives with meaning "having the specified thing"
• AtropatesA Persian nobleman of the 4th century BC who was satrap of Media under Darius III and retained control of northern Media (named after him Atropatian Media or simply Atropatia/Atropatene) following Alexander the Great's conquest.
• AtropatiaSynonym of Atropatene
• auctrixA class of natural faculty.
• a vinculo matrimoniiDescribing an absolute divorce, after which the parties may remarry.
• baculumA bone found in the penis of some placental mammals.
• BelisamaA goddess worshipped in ancient Gaul and Britain.
• benefactrixA female benefactor.
• bibliothecaryA librarian.
• BoiiA Gallic tribe of the later Iron Age.
• bonus geniusA small wooden doll that is covered with a cape and made to vanish as part of a magic trick.
• bucculaA fold of fat beneath the chin.
• bulbusBulb (e.g., flower bulb, body part).
• bulimia nervosaAn eating disorder characterized by a binge-and-purge cycle: extreme overeating followed by self-induced vomiting.
• ByzasThe legendary founder of Byzantium.
• calamaryA squid.
• camelopardSynonym of giraffe.
• CandaulesA king of Lydia.
• cantionA song, poem or incantation.
• captivatrixA female captivator.
• caput succedaneumA neonatal condition involving a serosanguinous, subcutaneous, extraperiosteal fluid collection with poorly defined margins caused by the pressure of the presenting part of the scalp against the dilating cervix during delivery.
• carpe diemEnjoy the present, make the most of today, (common mistranslation) seize the day.
• casus rectusThe nominative case, sometimes grouped with the vocative case, as a single morphological case contrasted with the oblique case.
• catachresisA misuse of a word; an application of a term to something which it does not properly denote.
• CatachryseaDahab (a town in South Sinai governorate, Egypt)
• catapultaA Roman catapult (weapon for launching projectiles).
• caulisEach of the main stalks which support the volutes and helices of a Corinthian capital.
• caveaThe seating section of a Greek or Roman theatre or amphitheatre.
• centiloquiumA treatise consisting of a hundred astrological aphorisms.
• centiloquyA work divided into a hundred parts.
• centuriationA method of land measurement used in Ancient Rome, characterised by the regular layout of a square grid traced using surveyors' instruments.
• chamaeleonA small circumpolar constellation of the southern sky, imagined to resemble a chameleon, which lies south of the constellations Carina and Musca.
• chartulaA small piece of paper for the storage of one dose of a medicinal powder.
• chodchodA form of oriental ruby, carbuncle or possibly jasper
• chorographyThe study of provinces, regions, cities, etc., as opposed to larger-scale geography.
• cinctureAn enclosure, or the act of enclosing, encircling or encompassing
• circumvertTo rotate; to cause to turn around.
• cisalpineOn this side of the Alps (chiefly the south side where Rome is located).
• citrinitasA "yellowing" process, one of the four major stages of the alchemical magnum opus.
• co-Jointly: the root verb is done in coordination between multiple actors or entities
• coadjutrixA female coadjutor
• cogitabundDeep in thought; meditative, thoughtful.
• cognatusA blood relative
• cognosceTo determine a person to be insane or mentally incompetent.
• coitus reservatusSexual intercourse in which the penetrative partner does not attempt to ejaculate but rather remain at the plateau phase of intercourse for as long as possible.
• combinateThe result of a combining of two or more components.
• Comma JohanneumThe Johannine Comma; a phrase included in some manuscripts of 1 John 5:7–8.
• communicatrixA female communicator.
• communis opinioThe prevailing doctrine or generally accepted view; consensus.
• competitrixA female competitor.
• compotationThe social act of drinking together.
• conationThe power or act which directs or impels to effort of any kind, whether muscular or psychical.
• concessioThe rhetorical device of conceding or admitting something but pardoning it.
• conciliatrixA female conciliator.
• concrementconcretion
• condonationThe condoning of an offence.
• conductrixA female conductor; a woman who conducts.
• confluviumSynonym of confluence (“convergence or combination”).
• consentaneousDone or made by general consent; widely agreed or approved.
• conservatrixA female conservator.
• ConstantinopolitanRelating to Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul).
• contemplatrixA female contemplator.