Tuesday 13 November 2012

pentagon=البنتاغون


pentagon=البنتاغون
ONLINE ETYMOLOGY DICTIONARY:pentagon (n.)
plane figure with five angles and five sides, 1560s, from M.Fr. pentagone or directly from L.L. pentagonum "pentagon," from Gk. pentagonon, noun use of neuter of adjective pentagonos "five-angled," from pente "five" (see five) + gonia "angle" (see knee (n.)). The U.S. military headquarters Pentagon was completed 1942, so called for its shape; used allusively for "U.S. military leadership" from 1945. Related: Pentagonal.
 
 
 
 

palladium=بلاديوم

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palladium=بلاديوم
ONLINE ETYMOLOGY DICTIONARY:palladium (n.2) 

metallic element, coined 1803 by discoverer William Hyde Wollaston (1766-1828), from Pallas, name of an asteroid discovered the previous year (by German astronomer Olbers) and named for the goddess (see Pallas).
Pallas 

Greek goddess' name, lit. "little maiden," related to pallake "concubine," and probably somehow connected to Avestan pairika "beautiful women seducing pious men."
palladium (n.1) 
"safeguard," c.1600, originally (late 14c.) "sacred image of Pallas Athene," from L. palladium, from Gk. Palladion, noun use of neuter of Palladios "of Pallas." It stood in the citadel of Troy and the safety of the city was believed to depend on it.




methodology=ميتودولجيا


methodology=ميتودولجيا

ONLINE ETYMOLOGY DICTIONARY: methodology (n.)
1800, from Fr. méthodologie or directly from Mod.L. methodologia; see method + -ology.
method (n.)
early 15c., "regular, systematic treatment of disease," from L. methodus "way of teaching or going," from Gk. methodos "scientific inquiry, method of inquiry, investigation," originally "pursuit, a following after," from meta- "after" (see meta-) + hodos "a traveling, way" (see cede). Meaning "way of doing anything" is from 1580s; that of "orderliness, regularity" is from 1610s. In reference to a theory of acting associated with Russian director Konstantin Stanislavsky, it is attested from 1923.
-ology
word-forming element indicating "branch of knowledge, science," now the usual form of -logy. Originally used c.1800 in nonce formations (commonsensology, etc.), it gained legitimacy by influence of the proper formation in geology, mythology, etc., where the -o- is a stem vowel in the previous element. 
 
 
 

cyclops= صقلوب, سكلوبس

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cyclops= صقلوب, سكلوبس

WIKIPEDIA: A cyclops /ˈsklɒps/; Greek: Κύκλωψ, Kuklōps; plural cyclopes /sˈklpz/; Greek: Κύκλωπες, Kuklōpes), in Greek mythology and later Roman mythology, was a member of a primordial race of giants, each with a single eye in the middle of his forehead.[1] The name is widely thought to mean "circle-eyed"
Hesiod described one group of cyclopes and the epic poet Homer described another, though other accounts have also been written by the playwright Euripides, poet Theocritus and Roman epic poet Virgil.