Another word for grovel or ‘bow and scrape’ is kowtow.
Chinese ke tou is the act of deep respect shown by bowing so low as to touch your head to the ground.
Ke means ‘bump’ and tou means ‘head’. A subject would kowtow to the Emperor or other superior.
Kowtow came into English in the early [more…]
In Ancient Rome an apt nickname used for the goddess Juno was Moneta which may have been derived from the Latin verb monere meaning ‘advise, warn’.
The name Moneta was also applied to her temple in Rome, which contained a mint. In due course, moneta came to mean mint, then ‘stamp for coining’ and finally [more…]
