The word is of military origin, deriving from the Greek word strategos, which roughly translates as general.

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Even the origin of the word is serendipitous!

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Consider the origin of the word.

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An etymologist can trace the origin and development of a word, but who can identify the moment when absolutely took off?

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According to the Oxford English Dictionary, barista is a word of Italian origin that refers to a "person who makes and serves coffee in a coffee bar".

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The name of the tournament derives from this alka or ring, a word whose Turkish origin reflects the historical co-existence and cultural exchange between two different civilizations.

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The goal was to give not only the definitions of a word but also, in effect, that word's biography, chronicling its various uses from its origin to the present.

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Ironically, says Rob Cunningham, Christian Aid's programme manager for South Africa, just as the word is taking off in Western society the values it embodies are in decline in the land of its origin.

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