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Plebian - commoner

Zoomorphic comes from zôion, meaning 'animal,' and -morphic, an adjective combining form meaning 'having (such) a form' and from Greek morphē, 'form.'

The 17th-century adjective mettlesome (popularly used of spirited horses) sometimes appeared as the variant metalsome. That's not surprising. In the 16th century and for some time after, mettle was a

Mirage comes from the French verb mirer ('to look at'), which is related to mirror. Mirer, itself, is from Latin mīrārī ('to wonder at'), the ancestor of the commonly seen admire, miracle, and marvel.

It doesn't take time to understand the origin of timeless. Time comes from Old English tīd, which is tied to Middle English tide, meaning 'time' and in Modern English 'the regular upward and downward

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Anybody who has had basic Latin knows that alma mater, a fancy term for the school you attended, comes from a phrase that means 'fostering mother.' If mater is mother, then matriculate probably has

Layman is a closed compound of lay man. Lay is an adjective that means 'of or relating to the people of a religious faith (but not of its clergy.' The origins of lay and layman go back to Greek laikos