The word, derived from ancient Greek, means to speak freely or boldly.
"So far no English word derived from it exists," she wrote.
The churches are called ecclesias, the word derived from the Greek verb for "calling together".
"Dianetics", a word derived from Latin, means the study of knowledge.
There is a movement disorder known as choreoathetosis, a word derived from ancient Greek that means "restless dance".
This Anglo-Saxon four-letter word, derived from Old English and Old Norse, has always packed a punch, politically.
(We interrupt this column for a moment of pedantry. "Boycott" is an eponym, a word derived from a name. Capt.
Barbarian, word derived from the Greek bárbaros, used among the early Greeks to describe all foreigners, including the Romans.
"Jubilee," a word derived from the Hebrew yovel, was translated in early Greek Bibles as "a trumpet blast of liberty".
The officials were named prévôts, a word derived from the Latin preapositus, meaning an assistant assigned to a military authority.
Partridge characteristically observed that the Oxford English Dictionary hazarded no etymology, but that did not stop him having "little doubt" that the upstart word derived from "sling".
