Word origins

• HasdrubalA male given name from Punic, of historical usage, notably borne by Hasdrubal Barca and several other Carthaginians
• vexillumA flag, banner, or standard.
• acquiescentWilling to acquiesce, accept or agree to something without objection, protest or resistance.
• OstrobothniaA region of Finland, on the east coast of the Gulf of Bothnia.
• taxaneAny of a class of diterpenoid drugs that inhibit cancer cell growth and division.
• HalicarnassusAn ancient Greek city on the southwest coast of Caria, Anatolia, in modern-day Turkey.
• SilviusThe son of Ascanius and his wife.
• LucaniaA region of ancient Italy, comprising modern Basilicata and Cilento.
• BoeotiaA historical region and modern regional unit of the administrative region of Central Greece, Greece, formerly renowned for the French proverbially equating the residents with philistinism. Capital: Livadeia.
• exordiumA beginning.
• palpateTo examine or otherwise explore through touch, particularly (medicine) in reference to an area or organ of the human body.
• despondTo give up the will, courage, or spirit; to become dejected, lose heart.
• liguleA strap-shaped structure.
• sacramentumAn Ancient Roman oath or vow that rendered the swearer "given to the gods", in the negative sense if he violated it.
• dominiumThe ownership of a thing.
• collocate(said of certain words) To be often used together, form a collocation; for example strong collocates with tea.
• fornicateTo engage in fornication.
• aegilopsAn ulcer or fistula in the inner angle of the eye.
• librariusAn ancient or medieval scribe, copyist, or secretary.
• cellulaA small compartment or chamber.
• argillaceousPertaining to clay; made of, containing, or resembling clay; clayey.
• indiciumAn indication; a sign.
• stropheA turn in verse, as from one metrical foot to another, or from one side of a chorus to the other.
• ThomistA follower or advocate of Thomism.
• ichneumonAn Egyptian mongoose (Herpestes ichneumon), found in Africa and southern Europe.
• augiteA variety of pyroxene, usually of a black or dark green color, occurring in igneous rocks, such as basalt.
• QEF“quod erat faciendum”, “what was to have been done” – used to end a mathematical passage other than a proof.
• PuppisA winter constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble the stern of a ship. Until 1763, it was part of a larger constellation, Argo Navis.
• commensurableAble to be measured using a common standard.
• piscivorousThat feeds on fish; fish-eating.
• fumigateTo disinfect, purify, or rid of vermin with the fumes of certain chemicals.
• hilumThe eye of a bean or other seed, or the center of that eye; the mark or scar at the point of attachment of an ovule or seed to its base or support.
• vorticalOf or pertaining to a vortex; containing vortices; moving in a vortex.
• scripsitAn inscription indicating the identity of the person who wrote something.
• KitaiSynonym of Khitan, in its various senses.
• CajetanA male given name from Latin, of historical use.
• ValentinusA Gnostic theologian who lived in Egypt and Rome c. 100 – c. 153.
• vituperationThe act of vituperating; severely blaming or censuring.
• intercurrentRunning between or among, in a physical sense; interlayered.
• AlcidesSynonym of Hercules.
• suspensiveThat suspends, temporarily stops.
• staminateHaving functional stamens, but (typically) no carpels.
• septuagenarianSynonym of seventysomething: a person between 70 and 79 years old.
• CleliaA female given name from Latin.
• veratrumAny of various poisonous herbs of the genus Veratrum
• CapricornusA constellation of the zodiac traditionally figured in the shape of a goat or the mythical sea goat (upper half goat, lower half fish).
• StellartonA town in Nova Scotia, Canada, just outside of the larger town of New Glasgow.
• vatesA poet or bard who is divinely inspired.
• dirigentSomething that or someone who directs; a director or guide.
• arsenicalOf or pertaining to, or containing, arsenic.
• EleusinianPertaining to ancient Eleusis, in Attica, or the Eleusinian Mysteries of Demeter celebrated there.
• CyrenaicaA geographic region, an and former province of northeastern Libya; in modern usage, extended to the entire eastern portion of Libya.
• CraiglockhartA suburb of Edinburgh, Scotland (OS grid ref NT2270).
• tortuositytortuousness; tortuous condition or nature.
• pileusThe cap of a mushroom.
• capitulumA densely clustered inflorescence composed of a large number of individual florets arising from a platform-like base.
• pestilentialProducing, spreading, promoting or infected with pestilence; causing infection. (of people, animals, places or substances)
• toltA writ by which a cause pending in a court baron was removed into a county court.
• filioqueThe use of the Latin word filioque (“and from the son”) in the Western form of the Nicene Creed, to indicate that the Holy Spirit proceeds from both the Father and the Son (as opposed to the Eastern Orthodox Churches which believe the Spirit proceeds from the Father alone).
• circumlocutionA roundabout or indirect way of speaking; thus
• superficiesThe area of a two-dimensional surface.
• adnexaThe appendages of an organ, such as the Fallopian tubes of the uterus.
• omnificentAll-creating, omnific.
• unicumA unique example or specimen of something
• videlicetNamely, to wit, that is to say (used when clarifying or naming the preceding item or topic)
• delictA wrongful act, analogous to a tort in common law.
• CernunnosA deity, usually depicted as a man with antlers, associated with stags, horned serpents, dogs and bulls.
• obstreperousAttended by, or making, a loud and tumultuous noise; boisterous.
• ArmoricaThe north-western part of ancient Gaul, corresponding to modern Brittany.
• CorcyraThe island of Corfu in ancient times.
• tutelaryRelating to guardianship or protection.
• multiparousHaving two or more pregnancies resulting in viable offspring.
• pyrexiaFever.
• invertibilityThe condition of being invertible.
• TuronianThe second age in the Late Cretaceous epoch, or a stage in the Upper Cretaceous series, spanning the time between 93.5 ± 0.8 Ma and 89.3 ± 1 Ma (million years ago), preceded by the Cenomanian stage and underlying the Coniacian stage.
• lacunarA sunken panel or coffer in a ceiling or a soffit; a ceiling containing panels of this kind.
• parabellumA type of cartridge used in some handguns.
• deflagrationThe act of deflagrating; an intense fire; a conflagration or explosion. Specifically, combustion that spreads subsonically via thermal conduction.
• ambulateTo walk; to relocate oneself under the power of one's own legs.
• SeleuciaA former city in Mesopotamia, the capital city of the Seleucid Empire.
• climacusA neume denoting a descending set of three tones.
• luesA plague or disease.
• impecuniousLacking money.
• barathrumA pit, especially one at Athens into which criminals were thrown.
• gestorA manager of another's affairs.
• geminateForming a pair.
• ElagabalusThe deity Elagabal, venerated in ancient times at Emesa in Syria (and later elsewhere in the Roman Empire), identified with a large black stone.
• simpliciterSimply, absolutely; without any qualification or condition.
• scomberA fish of the genus Scomber.
• paronychiaAn infection of the cuticle of a fingernail or toenail.
• decaniOf the side of the chancel, apse, altar or choir on which the dean's stall is placed (the right hand side to a person facing the altar); decanal.
• clathrateHaving a lattice-like structure.
• PistoriusA surname from the Germanic languages
• retroflexBent or curved backwards.
• subshrubA low-growing woody shrub or perennial with a woody base.
• carabusAn ancient small boat made of wickerwork covered with a hide or leather.
• CastalianOf or relating to Castalia, a mythical fountain of inspiration on Mount Parnassus, sacred to the Muses.
• loticCharacterized by flowing water; swiftly flowing; concerned with flowing rivers, streams, etc.
• syndeticOf or related to syndeton, the use of a conjunction.
• Milesiana native or inhabitant of the ancient city of Miletus in Asia Minor.