[1] adamās, -antis [3/m]: diamond
If you’re adamant
about something, you’re firm, unshakeable in your opinion. The origin of
that word is partly hidden in diamonds! Adamās, adamantis
– apart from translating as ‘diamond’ – can also refer to the hardest forms of
steel or iron, in fact anything that is inflexible and lasting.
adamantīnus, -a,
-um: hard as steel
[2]
carbunculus, -ī [2/m]: ruby
The word can refer
to any reddish-coloured stone e.g. ruby or garnet, or carbuncle.
However, ‘carbuncle’ is far more commonly used in English to any kind of
cluster of boils forming a connected area of infection. You have a choice:
search ‘carbuncle’ in Google images, or simply take my word for it!
It is also a term
for an ugly building i.e. an ‘eyesore’ and famously used by the Prince of Wales
(now Charles III) to describe the 1984 extension plan for the National Gallery
as “a monstrous carbuncle on the face of a much-loved and elegant friend"
[3]
ēlectrum, -ī [2/n]: amber
>
electric > electrical / electricity
How
did that happen?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity
“Ancient cultures
around the Mediterranean knew that certain objects, such as rods of amber,
could be rubbed with cat's fur to attract light objects like feathers. …
Electricity would remain little more than an intellectual curiosity for
millennia until 1600, when the English scientist William Gilbert wrote De
Magnete, in which he made a careful study of electricity and magnetism,
distinguishing the lodestone effect from static electricity produced by
rubbing amber. He coined the Neo-Latin word electricus
("of amber" or "like amber", from ἤλεκτρον, elektron, the Greek word for "amber") to
refer to the property of attracting small objects after being rubbed."
Now you know 😊
ēlectricitās,
-tātis [3/f]: (Neo-Latin) electricity
ēlectricus, -a,
-um: (Neo-Latin) electric
[4] The popularity
of first names can vary over time, some names becoming far less common than
they were, say, a century ago. However, some girls’ names have their origins in
Latin or Greek:
Beryl (La:
bēryllus, -ī; Gk. βήρυλλος / bḗrullos)
Gemma (La: gemma,
-ae)
Margaret (La:
margarīta, -ae; Gk. μαργαρίτης / margarítēs)
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