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SCAEVOLA

Date "SCAEVOLA" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)


Specialty Definition: SCAEVOLA

DomainDefinition

Literature

Scaevola [left-handed ]. So Caius Mucius was called, because, when he entered the camp of Porsenna as a spy, and was taken before the king he deliberately held his hand over a lamp till it was burnt off, to show the Etruscan that he would not shrink from torture. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: SCAEVOLA

Specialty definitions using "SCAEVOLA": Muciana Cautio. (references)

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Photo Album: SCAEVOLA

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Title page of De arte supputandi, book four; with decorated border including men inside tent, Scaevola and Porsenna. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Usage Frequency: SCAEVOLA

"SCAEVOLA" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "SCAEVOLA" is used about 43 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)100%4352,181

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: SCAEVOLA

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

scaevola

49

aemula scaevola

13

scaevola sericea

6

plumieri scaevola

2

mucius scaevola

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: SCAEVOLA

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: coaevals.

Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-l-o-s-v"

-1 letter: alcoves, coaeval, coevals.

-2 letters: alcove, calesa, calves, claves, cloves, coalas, coeval, loaves, solace, vocals.

-3 letters: alecs, aloes, calos, calve, caves, clave, close, clove, coala, coals, colas, coles, coves, laces, laevo, lavas, laves, loves, oaves, ovals, salve, salvo, scale, selva, slave, soave, socle, solve, vales, valse, vasal, veals, vocal, voces, voles.

-4 letters: aals, aces, alae.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-c-e-l-o-s-v"
 

+1 letter: cavaleros.

 

+2 letters: autoclaves, calvadoses.

 

+4 letters: cadaverously, galvanoscope, overbalances, renovascular, slavocracies, vocabularies.

 

+5 letters: associatively, clairvoyances, galvanoscopes, valpolicellas.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: SCAEVOLA


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 43 41 45 56 4F 4C 41

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

...    -.-.    .-    .    ...-    ---    .-..    .-

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01000011 01000001 01000101 01010110 01001111 01001100 01000001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#67 &#65 &#69 &#86 &#79 &#76 &#65

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0043 0041 0045 0056 004F 004C 0041

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5337353956494635

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Images: Photo Album
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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