7. BULBITATE Derived via Latin from a Greek word meaning manure, to bulbitate is to mess your pants. (Hopefully not an everyday word.) 8. CACHINNATE To cachinnate is to laugh loudly or unrestrainedly.

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Citing Scripture, the state senator is ending her marriage to the attorney general and U.S. Senate hopeful. What does she ...

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Invitations to join the story of Jesus Christ are all throughout our world because his Spirit is all throughout our world.

At the recent Paris Haute Couture Week, van Herpen debuted her latest collection titled Sympoiesis, a Greek word meaning “making-with.” True to its name, the show transformed the runway into ...

Pornography is in the news because of a challenge to a Texas law that restricts access to adult websites. It is one of more than a dozen such laws in ...

Adam Aleksic, who posts as Etymology Nerd on social media, argues in a new book that algorithms are reshaping the English language.

Well, you can. It involves learning a little ancient Greek, and getting to know that society’s approach to time. As you do, ...

Scientists found a “large” creature running “rapidly” across rocks in Angola and discovered a new species, a study said. Photo from Lobón-Rovira, Heinicke, Bauer, Conradie and Pinto (2025) ...