"Where" is the hard part of the answer: The "when" is 1824: to describe "a person performing the lead part"; and the 1830s "starlet" to describe a "promising young female performer".
It comes from the latin equus meaning horse. :)
The term dozen means a grouping of 12 and comes from the French term douzaine. This grouping term is perceived to be one of the earliest primitive groupings.
"Hispanic" comes from the Latin name for the peninsula that includes Spain and Portugal, "Hispaniola."
Where did the term derby originate?
The term boolean comes from boolean algebra, which was invented by George Bool in 1854, and described in his work, "An Investigation of the Laws of Thought".
The word hammer comes from the Old English word hamor which in Germanic means "stone"
The term "love" in tennis comes from the French word "l'oeuf," which means "egg." It is used to represent a score of zero in a game.
The term Pogrom did not originate during the Holocaust.
Astronomers call these star patterns "asterisms." These patterns are not official constellations but are still commonly recognized and named based on their shape and brightness. The term "asterism" comes from the Greek word "aster," which means star.
The phrase "mug's game" means something that is a futile endeavor. It comes from the Scandinavian word mugge, which is slang for an idiot.
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It means "star traveler" / "star voyager" / "star sailor."The Latin root astron (from aster) means "star" and the root nautes means sailor, voyager.The equivalent term "cosmonaut" is from cosmos, which means space.The Chinese term "taikonaut" comes from the Chinese word for space (taikong).