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100
This not-at-all basic term comes from the Latin for to taste sour.
What is acid?
100
From the Latin for broken, this is the word used to describe a part of a whole number.
What is a fraction?
100
This form of government was invented by the Romans, literally meaning "the public thing"
What is republic (res publica)?
100
This broadly used term, ranging from technique to manners of expression, comes from the Latin word for pen.
What is style? (stilus)
100
This term, from the Latin for something given, can be measured in bytes. Though now it's usually in gigabytes or terabytes.
What is data?
200
In 1728, Isaac Newton wrote a treatise about this force, from the Latin for weight, and how it effects the motion of objects.
What is gravity?
200
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This Latin word literally means untouched, and gives us the original name for whole numbers.
200
This Roman term for a collection of old men gave us the term for the upper branch of the US congress.
What is the Senate? (senatus from senex, old)
200
This word, from the Latin verb to speak, is defined as the word choices made by a writer.
What is diction?
200
From the Latin word for finger, this term is used to describe any technology that electronics instead of physical forms of information.
What is digital? (digitus)
300
This term, from the Latin for tiny pile of stuff, is defined as the smallest particle of a substance made up of atoms that still retains all its properties.
What is a molecule?
300
In the set {1, 1, 1, 5, 10}, the answer to this, from the Latin for method or pattern, would be 1.
What is mode?
300
This form of government was named in the 20th century by Benito Mussolini after the symbols of power held by the top officials in Rome's republic.
What is fascism (fasces)?
300
This Latin word for like is used to describe metaphors that use the word like or as.
What is a simile?
300
From a Latin word, meaning understanding made by craft and skill, this tech has seen major advancements in 2024. This clue was not written by it.
What is artificial intelligence (AI)?
400
From the Latin for tree bark, this is the term for the outermost part of any organ, though it usually is referring to the brain.
What is a cortex?
400
If you carry something around an area, you can calculate this mathematical concept.
What is circumference?
400
This term is discussed extensively in US history to describe the south, and literally means before the war.
What is antebellum?
400
This term, which Latin borrowed from Greek, means to put in order, and is used in language to describe the order of words.
What is syntax?
400
In Latin, this brand new technology literally means calculating by some undefined number.
What is quantum computing?
500
Charles Linnaeus decided to use Latin for this system, and its why we are considered homo sapiens, or thinking people.
What is binomial nomenclature?
500
Depending on who you ask, Leibniz or Newton formalized this field of mathematics focused on studying change, named after the pebbles Romans used for counting.
What is calculus?
500
Julius Caesar tells us the name of this city, which eventually held a convention regarding how people should be treated during war time.
What is Geneva? (Caesar spells it Genava)
500
This term, named after the speech teachers in ancient Greece and Rome, is still the term used to describe intentional speaking or writing.
What is rhetoric?
500
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This major tech CEO studied Latin in high school, dropped out of Harvard, and has said that his favorite book is an ancient Latin poem titled the Aeneid.