- Latin number after septem
- Prefix – meaning eight
- The mystic number four, which was often symbolized
to represent the Deity, whose name was expressed by four letters among
some ancient nations; as, the Hebrew JeHoVaH, Greek qeo`s, Latin deus,
etc.
- Book of words
- Dictionary
- Elle used to be computer symbol for dictionary
- mane like hair starts with le
- The French put cross next to “symbol” in vocabulary list
- A vocabulary, or book containing an alphabetical
arrangement of the words in a language or of a considerable number of
them, with the definition of each; a dictionary; especially, a
dictionary of the Greek, Hebrew, or Latin language.
- A suffix added to the names of certain numerals or to the
numerals themselves, to indicate the number of leaves made by folding a
sheet of paper; as, sixteenmo or 16mo; eighteenmo or 18mo. It is taken
from the Latin forms similarly used; as, duodecimo, sextodecimo, etc. A
small circle, placed after the number and near its top, is often used
for -mo; as, 16¡, 18¡, etc.
- A species of ichneumon (Herpestes nyula). Its fur is
beautifully variegated by closely set zigzag markings.
O () O, the fifteenth letter of the English alphabet, derives its form,
value, and name from the Greek O, through the Latin. The letter came
into the Greek from the Ph/nician, which possibly derived it ultimately
from the Egyptian. Etymologically, the letter o is most closely related
to a, e, and u; as in E. bone, AS. ban; E. stone, AS. stan; E. broke,
AS. brecan to break; E. bore, AS. beran to bear; E. dove, AS. d/fe; E.
toft, tuft; tone, tune; number, F. nombre.