Friday 30 November 2012

Apocrypha=الأبوكريفا


Apocrypha=الأبوكريفا

ONLINE ETYMOLOGY DICTIONARY:

Apocrypha
late 14c., neuter plural of L.L. apocryphus "secret, not approved for public reading," from Gk. apokryphos "hidden; obscure," thus "(books) of unknown authorship" (especially those included in the Septuagint and Vulgate but not originally written in Hebrew and not counted as genuine by the Jews), from apo- "away" (see apo-) + kryptein "to hide" (see crypt). Properly plural (the single would be Apocryphon or apocryphum), but commonly treated as a collective singular.


apo-
before vowels, ap-, prefix meaning "from, away from, separate, free from," from Gk. apo "from, away from; after; in descent from," in compounds, "from, asunder, away, off; finishing, completing; ceasing from; back again," from PIE root *apo- "off, away" (cf. Skt. apa "away from," Avestan apa "away from," L. ab "away from, from," Goth. af, O.E. of "away from").
crypt (n.)
early 15c., "grotto, cavern," from L. crypta "vault, cavern," from Gk. krypte (short for krypte kamara "hidden vault"), fem. of kryptos "hidden," verbal adj. from kryptein "to hide," from PIE *krau- "to conceal, hide" (cf. O.C.S. kryjo, kryti "to hide"). Meaning "underground burial vault or chapel in a church" first attested 1789.

pyrolusite=بيرولوزيت


pyrolusite=بيرولوزيت

ONLINE ETYMOLOGY DICTIONARY:

pyrolusite (n.)
"manganese dioxide," the name given in Roman times, when it was used, in a heated state, to decolorize glass, from Greek elements pyro- "by heat, by fire" (see pyro-) + lysis "a loosening" (see lose).
pyro-
word-forming element form meaning "fire," from Gk. pyro-, combining form of pyr (gen. pyros) "fire" (see fire (n.)).

lose (v.)
O.E. losian "be lost, perish," from los "destruction, loss," from P.Gmc. *lausa- (cf. O.N. los "the breaking up of an army;" O.E. forleosan "to lose, destroy," O.Fris. forliasa, O.S. farliosan, M.Du. verliesen, O.H.G. firliosan, Ger. verlieren), from PIE root *leu- "to loosen, divide, cut apart, untie, separate" (cf. Skt. lunati "cuts, cuts off," lavitram "sickle;" Gk. lyein "to loosen, untie, slacken," lysus "a loosening;" L. luere "to loose, release, atone for, expiate").