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English plebeian, adjective and noun, ultimately derives from the Latin adjective and noun 辫濒脓产脓颈耻蝉 鈥減ertaining to the common people, a commoner.鈥� The adjective also meant 鈥渃ommon, ordinary, everyday鈥� and was usually disparaging. 笔濒脓产脓颈耻蝉 derives from the noun plebs (also 辫濒脓产脓蝉, stem 辫濒脓产-) 鈥渢he general citizenry (as opposed to the patricians).” Plebs (辫濒脓产脓蝉) is akin to Greek 辫濒锚迟丑辞蝉 鈥済reat number, multitude, the majority of people, the commons鈥�; the Latin and Greek nouns derive from a Proto-Indo-European 辫濒脓诲丑飞辞-, ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European root pele-, 辫濒脓– 鈥渢o fill.鈥� Plebeian entered English in the 16th century.

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Donnybrook is the English spelling of the English pronunciation of Irish Domhnach Broc 鈥淐hurch of (St.) Broc.鈥� Domhnach also means 鈥淪unday鈥� in Irish and comes from Latin (Di膿s) Dominica 鈥淟ord鈥檚 (Day).鈥� Little is known of St. Broc, who founded a church in the 8th century at the location of Donnybrook Cemetery in Dublin, Ireland.

In 1204 the English King John (鈥渇amous鈥� for the Magna Carta) granted a charter for an annual fair, at first like an American county fair, featuring livestock and produce, but later developing into a carnival, a medieval Irish Coney Island, beset with drunks and brawlers. During the 1790s campaigns against the fair began; prominent citizens purchased the royal charter, and they had the fair shut down in 1866. The Donnybrook Fair grounds are now the Donnybrook Rugby Ground.

Donnybrook entered English in the mid-19th century.

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Subitize is a useful word in psychology regardless of the awkwardness of its formation. The first part of the word, subit-, comes from the Late Latin verb 蝉耻产颈迟腻谤别 鈥渢o come suddenly and unexpectedly upon鈥� (a derivative of the adjective subitus 鈥渟udden, abrupt鈥�). The familiar, completely naturalized suffix –ize (“to render, make; convert into; subject to; etc.”) comes via Late Latin –颈锄腻谤别 from Greek –铆锄别颈苍.