Uh... Homo or homosexual i think. The word "gay" used to mean something like "happy". Example: they were having fun, happy and gay.
It refers to services that occur on the day before the day which they are celebrating.
Prehistory is all that period before people started recording their history.
Ancient Egyptians used make-up, and people probably started using it before them. Make-up is a very wide term and it would be hard to identify but it might be the idians
A root is the common term for the word before it has any prefixes or suffixes added on to it.
Empirical probability.
It comes from a Latin word, "scientia" meaning "knowledge". It was there long before people started being scientific. No one has coined the term "science".
Grover Cleveland began his first term as U.S. President two weeks before his 48th birthday, and his first term ended two weeks before his 52nd birthday. His second term started two weeks before his 56th birthday and ended two weeks before his 60th birthday.
Its an abbriveation, if that's what you mean.
Its your name before you get married. It normally just applies for women. Hence the term "maiden"
it depends on how you use it. if you say, "He is my dad." its a term. If you say "Dad has the car." Its a title because you are using it in place of his name.
Anacrusis
Abraham Lincoln was reelected to a second term, which started the month before the end of the war.