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Inquiries | 445890 | 3 |
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See synonym , antora . [Note: as a curious detail, 'antora' seems to come from Greek 945; 957; 964; 953; ( anti- "opposite" ) 966; 952; 959; 961; 945; ( phthora "destroy" ), which would be an "antidote"; just for his other name 'aconito' ( 128558; ) , which also takes from Greek 945; 954; 959; 957; ( akon "javelin" ), a weapon with a poisoned tip for hunting wolves. Both were Latinized by taxonomists. ]
It is one of the names for the plant Stevia rebaudiana, native to South America and used by guarani as a sweetener. Although known to Europeans since the 16th century, it was only during the second half of the twentieth century that it was marketed as a substitute for sugar. The name is a tribute to botanist Pedro Jaime Esteve. See svetia.
It is an expression used during the Vietnam War by the Americans as a euphemism for "civilian casualties or material losses resulting from military action that did not target them." He became popular during the Persian Gulf War, for his repetition in newspaper reports. Today it extends to any harm caused by an action that was directed to another end, especially if contempt for harm to innocents is obvious. It comes from the English collateral damage , and it is because collateral ( "next, next to" ) has for that language a meaning of "secondary, consequence of the main".
1o_ It is an expression used exclusively towards a woman, such as "stray sheep", by decay, disobedient, vicious. 2nd_ Surely by the above meaning, it is also "promiscuous, prostitute"; although there is an origin that tells about the herds, where the sheep seek even the coated males to be assembled and that gave them fame of libertines 128527; . See bad , pécora ( "sheep" ), pecorina .