GC: n S: BurkeMus – https://www.burkemuseum.org/collections-and-research/biology/arachnology-and-entomology/spider-myths/myth-daddy-longlegs-kind-spider (last access: 19 August 2024); UC Riverside – https://spiders.ucr.edu/daddy-long-legs (last access: 19 August 2024). N: 1. daddy (n). c. 1500, colloquial diminutive of dad, with -y (3). Slang daddy-o is attested by 1949, from bop talk. Daddy-long-legs is from 1814 in Britain as “crane-fly,”

GC: n S: MedicineNet.com – http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=7036 (last access: 29 November 2013); GDT; TERMIUM PLUS; DTMe. N: 1. Dalton: in reference to a system of school education designed by Helen Parkhurst, 1920, from Dalton, Massachusetts, U.S., where it was first adopted. For Daltonism see color blindness. color blindness (n.): 1844, replacing

GC: n S: PAHO – https://www3.paho.org/disasters/dmdocuments/edan-mh-including-annexes.pdf (last access: 4 July 2024); UN – https://palestine.un.org/en/265025-gaza-strip-interim-damage-assessment (last access: 4 July 2024). N: 1. – damage (n): c. 1300, “harm, injury; hurt or loss to person, character, or estate,” from Old French damage, domage  “loss caused by injury” (12c., Modern French dommage), from

GC: n S: WHO – https://bit.ly/2WhCgO3 (last access: 2 June 2019); MEDNT – https://bit.ly/2C4YW5h (last access: 2 June 2019). N: 1. “incapacity of distinguishing or perceiving sounds,” late 14c., defnesse, from deaf + -ness. 2. Deafness, partial or total inability to hear. The two principal types of deafness are conduction

GC: n S: HARVARD – https://www.gse.harvard.edu/about/dean  (last access: 7 Jun 2020); NCBI – https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/4013870 (last access: 7 Jun 2020). N: 1. “Head of a group of ten” (early 14c. as alcofol), from Old French deien, from Late Latin decanus “head of a group of 10 monks in a monastery”. Meaning

GC: n S: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/28/syria-death-toll_n_5626482.html (last access: 3 September 2014); http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1631069107003770 (last access: 3 may 2017). N: 1. death (n): Old English deað “death, dying, cause of death,” in plural, “ghosts,” from Proto-Germanic *dauthuz (source also of Old Saxon doth, Old Frisian dath, Dutch dood, Old High German tod, German Tod,

GC: n S: http://www.consilium.europa.eu/council/decision-making-process?lang=en (last access: 3 September 2014); http://europa.eu/legislation_summaries/institutional_affairs/treaties/amsterdam_treaty/a29000_en.htm (last access: 3 September 2014); http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=COM:2002:0247:FIN:EN:PDF (last access: 26 April 2013). N: A Union humanitarian aid operation can be initiated at the request of the Commission, NGOs, international organisations, Member States or beneficiary countries. The Commission has three separate decision-making

GC: n S: UN – http://www.un.org/en/decolonization/ (last access: 11 December 2014) N: 1. 1853 in political sense, American English, from de- + colonization. Earlier as a medical term. 2. It is the process by which colonies become independent of the colonizing country. 3. Décolonisation was used by a french writer

GC: n S: NCBI – https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMHT0023508/ (last access: 26 February 2018); https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/congenital-anomaly (last access: 26 February 2018). N: 1. Early 15c., from Middle French defect and directly from Latin defectus “failure, revolt, falling away,” noun use of past participle of deficere “to fail, desert,” from de “down, away” + combining

GC: n S: http://www.researchgate.net/publication/233605314_The_effect_of_defoliation_environment_on_primary_growth_allocation_and_secondary_tiller_recruitment_of_two_bunchgrasses (last access: 13 July 2015); http://aob.oxfordjournals.org/content/83/4/423 (last access: 13 July 2015). N: 1. 1650s, noun of action from past participle stem of Late Latin defoliare “shed leaves,” from de- (see de-) + folium “leaf” (see folio). 2. Normal or pathological loss of leaves.The term “defoliation” can

See SIERTERM: https://sierterm.es/content/deforestation

GC: n S: NIMH – http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/schizophrenia/index.shtml (last access: 21 November 2014); DORLAND p. 484. N: 1. “act of misleading someone,” early 15c.; as a form of mental derangement, 1550s, from Latin delusionem (nominative delusio) “a deceiving,” noun of action from past participle stem of deludere 2. The Online Etymology Dictionary

GC: n S: The Guardian – https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/oct/25/the-dementia-that-can-be-cured (last access: 1 November 2020);  HLN – https://www.healthline.com/health/dementia (last access: 5 November 2020). N: 1. It was first recorded in 1806, comes from the Latin word dementia which means “madness, insanity”, literally “a being out of one’s mind”. It existed an earlier Englished form

GC: n S: Alz.org – https://www.alz.org/alzheimers-dementia/what-is-dementia/types-of-dementia/dementia-with-lewy-bodies (last access: 22 July 2023); Camb Univ Press – https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/the-british-journal-of-psychiatry/article/dementia-with-lewy-bodies/0A3361403734F9E64715C2EE15038E01 (last access: 22 July 2023). N: 1. – dementia (n): “extremely low condition of mental function, mental incapacity,” 1806, from Latin dementia “madness, insanity,” literally “a being out of one’s mind,” from dement–, stem

GC: n S: UN – https://peacekeeping.un.org/sites/default/files/past/unmop_r.htm (last access: 7 June 2024); ICRC – https://casebook.icrc.org/a_to_z/glossary/demilitarized-zones (last access: 7 June 2024). N: 1. – demilitarized (adj): From the past participle of verb demilitarize also demilitarise; “remove military organization from,” 1869, see de- + militarize. Demilitarized zone attested by 1921 (the Versailles Treaty

GC: n S: http://water.me.vccs.edu/courses/ENV115/lesson11.htm (last access: 11 December 2013); http://www.rwlwater.com/demineralization/ (last access: 27 July 2015). N: 1. The reduction of the content of dissolved salts or inorganic substances in water by a physical, chemical or biological process. (Definition standardized by ISO). 2. demineralization: term standardized by ISO. 3. Ion exchange

GC: n S: WHO – https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/dengue-and-severe-dengue (last access: 22 September 2024); CDC – https://www.cdc.gov/dengue/es/index.html (last access: 22 September 2024). N: 1. 1828, from West Indian Spanish dengue, from an African source, perhaps Swahili dinga “seizure, cramp,” form influenced by Spanish dengue “prudery” (perhaps because sufferers walk stiffly and erect due

GC: n S: WHO – https://www.who.int/emergencies/disease-outbreak-news/item/2023-DON498 (last access: 22 September 2024); CDC – https://emergency.cdc.gov/han/2024/han00511.asp (last access: 22 September 2024). N: 1. – dengue (n). 1828, from West Indian Spanish dengue, from an African source, perhaps Swahili dinga “seizure, cramp,” form influenced by Spanish dengue “prudery” (perhaps because sufferers walk stiffly

GC: n S: ICRC – https://bit.ly/2AYpJ5z (last access: 11 November 2018); UCIS – https://bit.ly/2zcxeF1 (last access: 11 November 2018); CAIRN – https://bit.ly/2PZ4Tvv (last access: 11 November 2018). N: 1. Early 15c., denunciacioun, “act of declaring or stating something” (a sense now obsolete), from Latin denunciacionem / denuntiationem (nominative denuntiatio), noun

GC: n S: http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0010/001089/108933e.pdf (last access: 12 April 2013); http://citation.allacademic.com/meta/p_mla_apa_research_citation/3/1/4/1/7/p314179_index.html?phpsessid=9f10e6d0507ba440edcb659023928a84 (last access: 3 September 2014). N: science of moral duty, 1826, from Greek deont-, comb. form of deon “that which is binding, duty,” neuter present participle of dei “is binding;” + -ology. Said to have been coined by Bentham. Related:

See DNA

GC: n S: USAGov – https://bit.ly/1jvrprB (last access: 17 February 2017); FL – https://bit.ly/2EpaAsC (last access: 17 February 2017). N: 1. 1590s, from Middle French déportation, from Latin deporationem (nominative deportatio), noun of action from past participle stem of deportare. 2. The lawful removal from a country of a prohibited

See deportee

GC: n S: SAB – https://bit.ly/2C8ooIK (last access: 4 March 2017); N – https://bit.ly/2SGgNbI (last access: 4 March 2017). N: 1. – deportee (n): 1895; from “deport” (“banish,” 1640s, from French déporter, from Latin deportare “carry off, transport, banish, exile,” from de- in its sense of “off, away” + portare