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late 14c., "archetype, concept of a thing in the mind of God," from Latin idea "Platonic idea, archetype," a word in philosophy, the word (Cicero writes it in Greek) and the idea taken from Greek idea "form; the look of a thing; a kind, sort, nature; mode, fashion," in logic, "a class, kind, sort, species," from idein "to see," from PIE *wid-es-ya-, suffixed form of root *weid-"to see."
Oct 31, 2017 · Earth as a goddess, from Greek Gaia, spouse of Uranus, mother of the Titans, personification of gaia "earth" (as opposed to heaven), "land" (as opposed to sea), "a land, country, soil;" it is a collateral form of gē (Dorian ga) "earth," which is of unknown origin and perhaps from a pre-Indo-European language of Greece.
Sep 28, 2017 · as to produce the illusion of movement," coined 1890s by Lumiere brothers, who invented the technology, from Latinized form...of Greek kinēmat-, combining form of kinēma "movement," from kinein "to move" (from PIE root *keie- "to set in motion")....The word was earlier in English in its fuller form, cinematograph (1896), but this has been displaced by the short form....The meaning "movies ...
Jan 2, 2024 · dream. (n.) "sequence of sensations or images passing through the mind of a sleeping person," mid-13c., probably related to Old Norse draumr, Danish drøm, Swedish dröm, Old Saxon drom "merriment, noise," Old Frisian dram "dream," Dutch droom, Old High German troum, German Traum "dream."
Apr 24, 2023 · Contains a bibliography of indices, dictionaries, and concordances of ancient Greek authors, of monographs on ancient Greek lexical fields, of single Greek words, and a thematic index. Die Sprache—Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft. 1949–. Published in Vienna and dedicated to Indo-European linguistics and philology. ISSN 0376-401X.
Feb 24, 2024 · testament. (n.). late 13c., in law, "last will, expressing the final disposition of one's property," from Latin testamentum "a last will, publication of a will," from testari "make a will, be witness to," from testis "witness," generally accepted to be from PIE *tri-st-i-"third person standing by," from root *tris-"three" (see three) on the notion of "third person, disinterested witness."
Oct 31, 2018 · This dictionary forms part of the project Indo-European Etymological Dictionary, which was initiated by Robert Beekes and Alexander Lubotsky in 1991. The aim of the project is to compile a new and comprehensive etymological dictionary of the inherited vocabulary attested in the Indo-European languages, replacing the now outdated dictionary of Pokorny (1959).
