late 14c., from Old French infinité “infinity; very large number or quantity” (13c.), from Latin infinitatem (nominative infinitas) “boundlessness, endlessness,” from infinitus boundless, unlimited” (see infinite). Latin infinitas was used as a loan-translation of Greek apeiria “infinity,” from apeiros “endless.”
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H, or h, is the eighth letter in the ISO basic Latin alphabet. Its name in English is aitch, or regionally haitch. The original Semitic letter Heth most likely represented the voiceless pharyngeal fricative. The form of the letter probably stood for a fence or posts.
Infinity is a concept referring to that which is boundless, endless, or larger than any number. It is often denoted by the infinity symbol ∞. Since the time of the ancient Greeks, the philosophical nature of infinity was the subject of many discussions among philosophers. In the 17th century, with the introduction of the infinity symbol and the infinitesimal calculus, mathematicians began to work with infinite series and what some mathematicians (including l’Hôpital and Bernoulli) regarded as infinitely small quantities, but infinity continued to be associated with endless processes.
infinite (adj.)late 14c., “eternal, limitless,” also “extremely great in number,” from Old French infinit “endless, boundless” and directly from Latin infinitus “unbounded, unlimited, countless, numberless,” from in- “not, opposite of” (see in- (1)) + finitus “defining, definite,” from finis “end” (see finish (v.)). The noun meaning “that which is infinite” is from 1580s.
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1848, from German Zeitgeist (Herder, 1769), “spirit of the age,” literally “time-spirit,” from Zeit “time” (from Proto-Germanic *tidiz “division of time,” from PIE root *da- “to divide”) + Geist “spirit” (see ghost (n.)). Carlyle has it as a German word in “Sartor Resartus” (1840) and translates it as “Time-Spirit.”
It is the hypothetical source of/evidence for its existence is provided by: Sanskrit dati “cuts, divides;” Greek dēmos “people, land,” perhaps literally “division of society,” daiesthai “to divide;” Old Irish dam “troop, company;” Old English tid “point or portion of time,” German Zeit “time.”ghost (n.)
Old English gast “breath; good or bad spirit, angel, demon; person, man, human being,” in Biblical use “soul, spirit, life,” from Proto-West Germanic *gaistaz (source also of Old Saxon gest, Old Frisian jest, Middle Dutch gheest, Dutch geest, German Geist “spirit, ghost”). This is conjectured to be from a PIE root *gheis-, used in forming words involving the notions of excitement, amazement, or fear (source also of Sanskrit hedah “wrath;” Avestan zaesha- “horrible, frightful;” Gothic usgaisjan, Old English gæstan “to frighten”).
Ghost is the English representative of the usual West Germanic word for “supernatural being.” In Christian writing in Old English it is used to render Latin spiritus (see spirit (n.)), a sense preserved in Holy Ghost. Sense of “disembodied spirit of a dead person,” especially imagined as wandering among the living or haunting them, is attested from late 14c. and returns the word toward its likely prehistoric sense.
Most Indo-European words for “soul, spirit” also double with reference to supernatural spirits. Many have a base sense of “appearance” (such as Greek phantasma; French spectre; Polish widmo, from Old Church Slavonic videti “to see;” Old English scin, Old High German giskin, originally “appearance, apparition,” related to Old English scinan, Old High German skinan “to shine”). Other concepts are in French revenant, literally “returning” (from the other world), Old Norse aptr-ganga, literally “back-comer.” Breton bugelnoz is literally “night-child.” Latin manes probably is a euphemism.
The gh- spelling appeared early 15c. in Caxton, influenced by Flemish and Middle Dutch gheest, but was rare in English before mid-16c. Sense of “slight suggestion, mere shadow or semblance” (in ghost image, ghost of a chance, etc.) is first recorded 1610s; sense of “one who secretly does work for another” is from 1884. Ghost town is from 1908. Ghost story is by 1811. Ghost-word “apparent word or false form in a manuscript due to a blunder” is from 1886 (Skeat). Ghost in the machine was British philosopher Gilbert Ryle’s term (1949) for “the mind viewed as separate from the body.” The American Indian ghost dance is from 1890. To give up the ghost “die” was in Old English.geist (n.)
1871, “intellectuality,” also, variously, after German, “spirit” of a place or time; “spirituality,” from German Geist (see ghost (n.), and compare zeitgeist). A German word for “enthusiasm, rapture; inspiration” is begeisterung.
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masc. proper name, from French, from Latin Isidorus, from Greek Isidoros, literally “gift of Isis,” from Isis (see Isis) + dōron “gift” (from PIE root *do- “to give”). St. Isidore, archbishop of Seville (600-636) wrote important historical, etymological, and ecclesiastical works and in 2001 was named patron saint of computers, computer users, and the internet. Related: Isidorian.
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Isis Egyptian goddess, from Greek Isis, from Egyptian Hes, female deity identified by the Greeks with Io. She is distinguished in visual representations by the solar disc and cow horns on her head.*do-
It is the hypothetical source of/evidence for its existence is provided by: Sanskrit dadati “gives,” danam “offering, present;” Old Persian dadatuv “let him give;” Greek didomi, didonai, “to give, offer,” dōron “gift;” Latin dare “to give, grant, offer,” donum “gift;” Armenian tam “to give;” Old Church Slavonic dati “give,” dani “tribute;” Lithuanian duoti “to give,” duonis “gift;” Old Irish dan “gift, endowment, talent,” Welsh dawn “gift.”
The use of -person to replace -man in compounds for the sake of gender neutrality or to avoid allegations of sexism is recorded by 1971 (in chairperson). In person “by bodily presence” is from 1560s. Person-to-person is attested by 1919, originally of telephone calls.
A mandala is a geometric configuration of symbols. In various spiritual traditions, mandalas may be employed for focusing attention of practitioners and adepts, as a spiritual guidance tool, for establishing a sacred space and as an aid to meditation and trance induction. In the Eastern religions of Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Shintoismit is used as a map representing deities, or especially in the case of Shintoism, paradis…Wikipedia
chakra (n.)
1888 in yoga sense “a spiritual center of power in the human body,” from Sanskrit cakra “circle, wheel,” from PIE root *kwel- (1) “revolve, move round.”
It is the hypothetical source of/evidence for its existence is provided by: Sanskrit cakram “circle, wheel,” carati “he moves, wanders;” Avestan caraiti “applies himself,” c’axra “chariot, wagon;” Greek kyklos “circle, wheel, any circular body, circular motion, cycle of events,”polos “a round axis” (PIE *kw- becomes Greek p- before some vowels), polein “move around;” Latin colere “to frequent, dwell in, to cultivate, move around,” cultus “tended, cultivated,” hence also “polished,” colonus “husbandman, tenant farmer, settler, colonist;” Lithuanian kelias “a road, a way;” Old Norse hvel, Old English hweol “wheel;” Old Church Slavonic kolo, Old Russian kolo, Polish koło, Russian koleso “a wheel.”
mandala (n.)
symbolic magic circle used by Buddhists in meditation, 1859, from Sanskrit mandala “disc, circle.” Adopted 20c. in Jungian psychology as a symbol of unity of the self and completeness.
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late 14c., from Old French zodiaque, from Latin zodiacus “zodiac,” from Greek zodiakos (kyklos) “zodiac (circle),” literally “circle of little animals,” from zodiaion, diminutive of zoion “animal” (from PIE root *gwei- “to live”).
Libra is not an animal, but it was not a zodiac constellation to the Greeks, who reckoned 11 but counted Scorpio and its claws (including what is now Libra) as a “double constellation.” Libra was figured back in by the Romans. In Old English the zodiac was twelf tacna “the twelve signs,” and in Middle English also Our Ladye’s Waye and the Girdle of the Sky.
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*gwei- also *gweie-, Proto-Indo-European root meaning “to live.”
It is the hypothetical source of/evidence for its existence is provided by: Sanskrit jivah “alive, living;” Old Persian *jivaka- “alive,” Middle Persian zhiwak “alive;” Greek bios “one’s life, course or way of living, lifetime,” zoe “animal life, organic life;” Old English cwic, cwicu “living, alive;” Latin vivus “living, alive,” vita “life;” Old Church Slavonic zivo “to live;” Lithuanian gyvas “living, alive,” gyvata “(eternal) life;” Old Irish bethu “life,” bith “age;” Welsh byd “world.”zodiacal (adj.)1570s, from zodiac + -al (1).
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