DICTATOR . where this word comes from ? In Italian it's Dettatore .?
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In Ancient Rome during the republic, there was a position called dictator rei gerendae causa who ruled in times of emergency. However, this person lacked control over finance and was term limited to 6 months. Cincinattus (after whom Cincinnati) was named was an example saving Rome from invasion. Julius Caesar and Lucius Sulla removed the restrictions. The origins of the English word dictator are from that word.
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The title of the film 'Grease' was described as 'brillantina' to me when I first watched it in italy at the age of 14 (!). Brillantina is the stuff men used to smear their hair with to flatten it (some still do). If this is the context you are translating into, I propose 'Brillantina dell'East Bay'.\nCiao
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WHO CROWNED YOU "DICTATOR" ???
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1. \nMade popular by the HBO Series "The Sopranos", stugots is from "(qu)esto cozzo" in Italian, meaning "this cock" or "this dick". Often used in reference to someone being an asshole.\n\nVito was forty minutes late to our meeting... stugots.\n\n \n2. \nthe testicles, balls\n\nstu cazzo or u' cazzu\n\n3.\nStugots: from stu cazzo or u' cazzu, the testicles. Tony Soprano's boat is The Stugots.\n\nYou got some stugots talkin' to me like that!\ntags stu cazzo u' cazzu balls testicles nuts\n\n4.\nChicago Italian slang.\nNothing, Got nothing. \n\nWhat's up? Stugots\nI got Stugots.\n\n5.\nstupid, Whats up, screw you.\nhey STUGOTS! Yo stugots!
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Defenestrate\nmeans: To throw out of a window\n\nBEST.  WORD.  EVER.
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This does not exist in an "english" dictionary.  Could the word derive from another language possiby and be translated/related to english?\n\nGreat source:    http://www.m-w.com/
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(U.S. & UK Commonwealth) an Italian (sometimes any Southern European), especially an immigrant; probably originated in the U.S., but later spread to other countries. Probably derives from the Neapolitan slang term guappo! (pretty/handsome one), often used by the first immigrants from Italy to address or call to each other. Popular etymology gives the origin as "WithOut Passport", although some believe the acronym derived from "WithOut Papers" or "Without Official Papers", suggesting illegal immigration. This folk etymology sometimes combines the term with "guinea" to form "Giny Wop," with Giny being an acronym for Going Into New York, hence "Going Into New York Without Official Papers".
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Sorry you've had such rubbish answers. \n\nI'm usually quite good at this sort of thing, but I'm afraid I can't find any info on the origins of this phrase.\n\nI hope someone more knowledgeable answers you soon!
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No such word in the English language. What language is it from?
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The word "decimate" comes from Latin.  It originally described a military disciplinary procedure.  If a Roman army ever deserted during battle, they would be punished by executing one tenth of the Army.\nThere is not a systematic nomenclature for "reduction by a fraction".\nNo quinquemate.\nNo quattuorimate.\nNo undevingitimate.
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I think it may be italian but have included my favorite site below for you to peruse. Domi has a reference to god in latin but "labae" and "mage" are not latin. If I were to guess, I'd say, eat the love of god.
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I have never heard of it before but didn't find it offencive.  Even after it was explained by someone else.\nMaybe it wasn't this word that got the response deleted but something you'd said........\nI like it.\nI think I'll use it.  lol
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Sinistra is the Latin word for left-handed. Since so few Romans were lefties, it was believed that there was something wrong or evil with them. Thus, we have the word sinister is our language, meaning evil or devilish.
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Actually, there WAS a word "gubernator".    The reason the modern terms in your two pairs differ is that they were borrorwed from Latin at different times, through different channels.\n\nSo for "governor" & "gubernatorial" --\n\nThe Latin . . . "gubernare," meaning "to rule" . . . gave us the English word "gubernator" around 1522, meaning "ruler." The adjective "gubernatorial," which appeared around 1734, at first meant "pertaining to a ruler or governor" in the generic sense of "governor," but today is almost always only used in reference to state officials bearing the formal title "Governor."\n\nTheLatin word "gubernare". . .  was also filtered through Old French to produce the word "governeur," meaning "ruler," which gave us the English word "governor" in the 14th century\nhttp://www.word-detective.com/061300.html\n\nSo it is not a matter of English having decided to change the root, and in fact the adjectival form is CLOSER to the Latin original.  \n\nIt is true that the forms of an English noun and its associated adjective can differ.   Three important ways this happens:\n\n1) each form is borrowed separately (as with governer, gubernatorial)... and so one English form is NOT based on the other\n\n2) a shift in accent can change vowel sounds in different forms, and so we end with "emperor" and its adjectival form "imperial"\n\n3) the MOST unusual cases are those where the noun and its adjective are original UN-related.   This happens mostly when the simple noun goes back to the Anglo-Saxon and the adjectival form was borrowed from Latin.  Thus we have "paternal" for the noun "father".\n\n"Many such Latinate words entered English via the Norman French spoken by the aristocracy in England following the Norman Conquest, or as scientific terms from the period when all scientific work was done in Latin."\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adjective#Adjectives_of_relation\n\nHere's a nice list of such adjectives and their associated nouns:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_non-standard_English_adjectives
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It means onyx. According to the universal dictionary:\n\nhttp://www.dicts.info/2/english-italian.php?w=%20onice
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Bona corrupta.\n\n(Word order is reversed from the English)
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Ok, I can't find a word spelled like that, but there are some that are similar:\n\nno bello (not beautiful)\nnobel (the prize)\nnoble (loyal)\n\nHave a nice day, any other doubt with Spanish e mail me (sejon_725@hotmail.com)