Science
This not-at-all basic term comes from that Latin for to taste sour.
What is acid?
From the Latin for broken, this is the word for a part of a number.
What is a fraction?
This form of government was invented by the Romans, literally meaning "the public thing"
What is republic (res publica)?
This broadly used term, ranging from technique to manners of expression, comes from the Latin word for pen.
From Latin word, meaning understanding made by craft and skill, has seen massive growth in the 2020s. This clue was not written by it.
What is artificial intelligence (AI)?
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?
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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)
This word, from the Latin verb to speak, is defined as the word choices made by a writer.
What is diction?
From the Latin word for finger, this broad term is used to describe technology that counts 1s and 0s to access vast amounts of knowledge. Or create brain rot.
What is digital? (digitus)
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?
If you carry something around an area, you can calculate this mathematical concept.
What is circumference?
This form of government was named in the 20th century after the symbols of power held by the top officials in Rome's republic.
What is fascism (fasces)?
This Latin word for like is used to describe metaphors that use the word like or as.
What is a simile?
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This major tech CEO studied Latin in high school, and has said that his favorite book is an ancient Latin poem the Aeneid.
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?
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?
This term is discussed extensively in US history, and literally means before the war.
What is antebellum?
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?
In Latin, this cutting-edge technology literally means calculating by some undefined number.
What is quantum computing?
Charles Linnaeus decided to use Latin for this system, and its what scientists still use to name animals to this day.
What is a binomial?
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?
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)
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?
This scientific term is used to describe models made not in a lab or in the real world, but in a computer simulation, and is named after a common element in computer chips.
What is in silico?