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Reply #15 - Nov 7th, 2003 at 6:16pm
 
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Reply #16 - Dec 10th, 2003 at 9:08am
 
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... also does anyone know what the word glandes actually means???


To answer one of your original questions:

Glandes is Latin and it the plural of glans. This word litterally means acorn although I think it could mean other nuts too.

If you look glans up in an English dictionary you will find it has a more anotomical meaning.

Glans came to mean bullet.

Although we are used to seeing lead bullets in the form of a prolate spheriod from Greek and Roman times, some bullets were much more crudely formed in a thumb mold - made by forming a hole in clay simply by pushing in a thumb. These bullets more closely resemble an acorn.

I suppose it is also possible that it is a reference to the shape of an almond, but I am not sure whether the meaning of glans could extend to that.
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Reply #17 - Sep 27th, 2007 at 10:50pm
 
nemesis_3003 wrote on Sep 26th, 2003 at 12:41am:
. also does anyone know what the word glandes actually means???




leaden acorn.  Cheesy
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Reply #18 - Sep 27th, 2007 at 11:30pm
 
Sounds about right, as a few other languages call acorns "glande" such as french or portugese.
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Reply #19 - Sep 28th, 2007 at 12:26am
 
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Sounds about right, as a few other languages call acorns "glande" such as french or portugese.



I'll agree with you on the French point, but my mom who was an exchange student in Brazil for a year says acorn in portugese is bolota (though it took her a while...there aren't all that many acorns in Brazil)

A quick check with an online translator tells me the Latin word for acorn is balanus.

I Liked your theory, though  Grin

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Reply #20 - Sep 28th, 2007 at 8:29am
 
Oh I looked it up on the etymology section in dictionary.com
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Reply #21 - Sep 28th, 2007 at 8:30pm
 
I seem to recall that most of the "real" sling projectiles recovered by archy-ologists (I can't spell) were spindle shaped.  There must have been a reason for that. Our ancestors were not idiots.  A group of humanoids who can create the ballista, trebuchet, "wild ass" catapult, and Greek fire knew something about something. Maybe a lot about everything.

A recent History Channel episode recorded the discovery of an ancient text apparently written by Archimedes (I think; he was the mathematician in Syracuse) which, when translated, showed that he was working around the edges of calculus.  I don't think that, at that time, "zero" was part of the numbering system, so negative numbers were right out.  Also, why did the Sumerians use a "base 60" numbering system?

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Reply #22 - Sep 28th, 2007 at 8:35pm
 
OrangeDuck wrote on Sep 28th, 2007 at 12:26am:
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Sounds about right, as a few other languages call acorns "glande" such as french or portugese.



I'll agree with you on the French point, but my mom who was an exchange student in Brazil for a year says acorn in portugese is bolota (though it took her a while...there aren't all that many acorns in Brazil)

A quick check with an online translator tells me the Latin word for acorn is balanus.

I Liked your theory, though  Grin

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Reply #23 - Oct 7th, 2007 at 6:20pm
 
>>>also does anyone know what the word glandes actually means???

Yes.  [i]Glans[/i] is Latin for "nut, acorn, or bullet (for a sling)"  [i]Glandis[/i] is the correct plural.  So it's safe to say one glans, two or more glandis.  If it matters, it's a feminine noun.   ::)
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Reply #24 - Oct 8th, 2007 at 8:31pm
 
Yurek wrote on Nov 4th, 2003 at 3:41pm:
Yes he is, just with water. This is no Molotov coctail or nitroglycerin Wink

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