imaginable

  • 131atom — [16] Etymologically, atom means ‘not cut, indivisible’. Greek átomos ‘that which cannot be divided up any further’ was formed from the negative prefix a ‘not’ and the base *tom ‘cut’ (source also of English anatomy and tome), and was applied in… …

    Word origins

  • 132GENIZAH, CAIRO — Introduction The term genizah is a word shortened from the rabbinical Hebrew phrase bet genizah (see also genizah ). Its counterpart in late biblical Hebrew is genez (pl. genazim, ginzei) which in Esther evidently means a treasury, as well as the …

    Encyclopedia of Judaism