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* '''malum:''' (''Latin'') apple → Garden of Eden | * '''malum:''' (''Latin'') apple → Garden of Eden | ||
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* '''St Michael''' → [[Shaun]] | * '''St Michael''' → [[Shaun]] | ||
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| + | * '''mickle:''' (''Dialect''') much | ||
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* '''ex malo bonum fit:''' (''Latin'') out of evil good is made → Joyce, ''Letters'' 13-05-1927 (to Harriet Shaw Weaver) | * '''ex malo bonum fit:''' (''Latin'') out of evil good is made → Joyce, ''Letters'' 13-05-1927 (to Harriet Shaw Weaver) | ||
Latest revision as of 00:34, 25 February 2020
- ex nihilo malo: (Latin) from nothing bad
- De nihilo nihilum: Persius, Satires 1.84: “Nothing can come out of nothing”
- ex nihilo nihil fit: (Latin) out of nothing comes nothing → Joyce, Letters 13-05-1927 (to Harriet Shaw Weaver)
- nullam rem e nihilo gigni divinitus umquam: "Nothing can ever be created by divine power out of nothing", Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 1:150 (see also lines 146-214)
- Old Nick → Shem
- nicky: (Czech) nulls, zeros, cyphers
- malum: (Latin) apple → Garden of Eden
- malo: (Russian) a little, few
- St Michael → Shaun
- mickle:' (Dialect) much
- amassed
- ex malo bonum fit: (Latin) out of evil good is made → Joyce, Letters 13-05-1927 (to Harriet Shaw Weaver)
- mickelmassed → “Mickelmassed (Michael his conqueror = much heaped up)”: Joyce, Letters 13-05-1927 (to Harriet Shaw Weaver) → FW 003.07
- Michaelmas: 29 September
- micelmas: (Old English) multitude, size, bulk
