I loved classical words and their depiction of simple properties — the crystal forms, colors, shapes, and optics of minerals — like diaspore and anastase and microlite and polycrase.
"Euthanasia" is the comforting, classical word that we use for the act of killing people who are fed up with life.
He was making a play on words with the classical word Tartarus (Hell) and the ancient tribal name of Tatar borne by some of the nomads, but his account catches the terror that the Mongols evoked.
In vocabulary, especially, many of the sober classical words are rejected in favour of more colourful popular terms, especially derivatives and diminutives: thus, portare 'to carry' (French porter, Italian portare, etc). is preferred to ferre; cantare 'to sing again and again' (French chanter Spanish and Portuguese cantar, etc).
There is some degree of artificiality in this system, since cepacia is not a classical word but a later scientific coinage, formed from the classical Latin caepa.
DOCTOR SAMUEL JOHNSON knew a great deal about the English language, spoke it wittily and wrote it in quadrupedantic polygrammata - silly long pseudo-classical words, that is, some of them (like those two) invented for the occasion.
Resolution 5B sought to amend the above definition by the insertion of the word classical before the word planet in paragraph (1) and footnote [1].
The word ecumenism comes from a family of Classical Greek words: oikos, meaning a "house," "family," "people," or "nation"; oikoumenē, "the whole inhabited world"; and oikoumenikos, "open to or participating in the whole world".
Now, the classical Greek word for "say" is also lego, giving us words such as "dyslexic".
The classical Greek word euangelion means "a reward for bringing of good news" or the "good news" itself.
