See Sierterm: https://sierterm.es/content/soft-brown-coal

See Sierterm: https://sierterm.es/content/soil-pollution

GC: n S: http://www.cdc.gov/safewater/solardisinfection.html (last access: 12 April 2013); http://jmm.sgmjournals.org/content/48/9/785.full.pdf (last access: 2 September 2014). N: 1. Solar disinfection (SODIS) was developed in the 1980s to inexpensively disinfect water used for oral rehydration solutions. In 1991, the Swiss Federal Institute for Environmental Science and Technology began to investigate and implement

See SIERTERM: https://sierterm.es/content/solar-radiation

GC: n S: NSF – https://goo.gl/kgqv3P (last access: 17 November 2016); NCBI – https://goo.gl/6yn5eM (last access: 17 November 2016). N: 1. Borrowing from French somnambulisme. From Latin somnus which means “sleep”, and ambulare, which means “to walk”. 2. Somnambulism is a behavioral disorder of sleep in which a person sits

GC: n S: HU – https://goo.gl/4QVm2v (last access: 2 December 2016); VW – https://goo.gl/5SCr9r (last access: 2 December 2016). N: 1. Late 14th century, from Old French sompnolence, from latin somnolentia “sleepiness”, from somnolentus, from somnus “sleep”. 2. Difficulty in maintaining the wakeful state so that the individual falls asleep

GC: n S: NatGeo – https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/south-pole/ (last access: 20 July 2024); NOAA – https://gml.noaa.gov/grad/antuv/SouthPole.jsp (last access: 20 July 2024). N: 1. – south (adv): Old English suþ “southward, to or toward the south, southern, in the south,” from Proto-Germanic *sunthaz, perhaps literally “sun-side” (source also of Old Saxon, Old Frisian

GC: n S: EncBrit – http://global.britannica.com/event/influenza-pandemic-of-1918-1919 (last access: 2 October 2015); NCBI –  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2725954/ (last access: 30 July 2014). N: 1. influenza pandemic of 1918–19, also called Spanish influenza pandemic or Spanish flu, the most severe influenza outbreak of the 20th century and, in terms of total numbers of deaths,

GC: n S: Rspb – https://www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildlife/wildlife-guides/bird-a-z/sparrowhawk/ (last access: 3 January 2023); WildlifeT – https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/wildlife-explorer/birds/birds-prey/sparrowhawk (last access: 3 January 2023). N: 1. hawk that preys on small birds, c. 1400, replacing forms from Old English spearhafoc; see sparrow + hawk (n.). 2. sparrowhawk, any of various small birds of prey usually

GC: n S: UC Riverside – https://spiders.ucr.edu/ (last access: 19 August 2024); Penn – https://ento.psu.edu/outreach/extension/insect-image-gallery/spiders (last access: 19 August 2024). N: 1. late 14c., spydyr, spither, earlier spiþre, spiþur, spiþer (mid-14c.), from Old English spiðra, from Proto-Germanic *spin-thron- (cognate with Danish spinder), etymologically “spinner,” from PIE root *(s)pen- “to draw,

GC: n S: SciELO – http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0101-81752001000200026 (last access: 26 July 2016); BBC – http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/life/Majidae (last access: 26 July 2016). N: 1. – spider (n): late 14c., spydyr, from earlier spiþre, spiþur, spiþer (14c.), from Old English spiðra, from Proto-Germanic *spin-thron- (cognate with Danish spinder), literally “the spinner,” from *spen-wo- “to

GC: n S: GovbcCa – http://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/environment/air-land-water/spills-environmental-emergencies (last access: 22 July 2016); ITOPF – http://www.itopf.com/knowledge-resources/documents-guides/environmental-effects/ (last access: 22 July 2016). N: 1. 1845, originally “a throw or fall from a horse,” from spill (v.). Meaning “the spilling of a liquid, amount of spilled stuff” is from 1848. 2. Risks and Threats

GC: n S: MEDLP – http://vsearch.nlm.nih.gov/vivisimo/cgi-bin/query-meta?v%3Aproject=medlineplus&query=spinal+cord&x=0&y=0 (last access: 25 November 2014). WHO – http://www.who.int/disabilities/policies/spinal_cord_injury/report/en/ (last access: 25 November 2014). NIH – http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/sci/sci.htm (last access: 25 November 2014). N: 1. 1570s, from Late Latin spinalis (of or pertaining to a thorn or the spine), from Latin spina. Spinal tap recorded from

GC: n S: NORD (last access: 15 December 2025); MDA (last access: 15 December 2025); NCBI (last access: 15 December 2025). N: 1. – spinal (adj): “of or pertaining to the backbone,” 1570s, from Late Latin spinalis “of or pertaining to a thorn or the spine,” from Latin spina “backbone;

GC: n S: WildlifeT – https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/wildlife-explorer/marine/crustaceans/spiny-lobster (last access: 14 October 2024); MYFWC – https://myfwc.com/research/saltwater/crustaceans/lobster/facts/ (last access: 14 October 2024). N: 1. – spiny (adj): “having thorns or spines, thorny,” 1580s, from spine + -y (2). Related: Spininess. – lobster (n): large, long-tailed, stalk-eyed, 10-legged marine shellfish (Homarus vulgaris), early Middle

GC: n S: NIH – http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/spleendiseases.html (last access: 29 July 2015); NCBI – https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK537307/ (last access: 21 July 2024). N: 1. c.1300, from Old French esplen, from Latin splen, from Greek splen “the milt, spleen,” from PIE *spelgh- “spleen, milt” (cognates: Sanskrit plihan-, Avestan sperezan, Armenian p’aicaln, Latin lien, Old

GC: n S: ScDir – https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0976566220303155 (last access: 3 December 2020); HD – https://www.healthdirect.gov.au/spondylolisthesis (last access: 3 December 2020). N: 1. It comes from the medical Latin and from the Greek spondylos “a vertebra” (in plural “the backbone” variant of sphondylos, of uncertain origin) + oliothesis “dislocation, slipping”. 2. Forward displacement

GC: n S: http://www.disabled-world.com/medical/spore-bacteria.php (last access: 8 October 2015); https://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/002307.htm (last access: 8 October 2015). N: 1. “reproductive body in flowerless plants corresponding to the seeds of flowering ones,” 1836, from Modern Latin spora, from Greek spora “a seed, a sowing, seed-time,” related to sporas “scattered, dispersed,” sporos “a sowing,”

See chorea

GC: n S: http://completewellbeing.com/article/water-borne-diseases/ (last access: 23 September 2015); http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-tamilnadu/water-stagnation-a-perennial-problem/article5315861.ece (last access: 23 September 2015). N: 1. stagnation (n): 1660s, noun of action from stagnate (v.). stagnate (v): 1660s, from Latin stagnatum, stagnatus, past participle of stagnare “to stagnate,” from stagnatum “standing water, pond, swamp,” perhaps from a PIE root

GC: n S: WHO – http://apps.who.int/medicinedocs/en/d/Jh2918e/7.html#Jh2918e.7.1 (last access: 22 March 2018); Medscape – https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/788199-overview (last access: 23 March 2018). N: 1. – staphylococcal (adj): From the noun staphylococcus (New Latin, from Greek staphylē bunch of grapes + New Latin -coccus). First Known Use: 1900. of, relating to, caused by, or

GC: n S: Stategov – https://www.state.gov/ (last access: 12 March 2021); COE – https://www.coe.int/en/web/portal/belgianchairmanship-federalstate (last access: 12 March 2021). N: 1. “political organization of a country, supreme civil power, government,” c. 1300, from special use of state (from Old French estat “position, condition; status, stature, station,” and directly from Latin

GC: n S: UMN – http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/gencomm/hrc29.html (last access: 22 April 2013); ETHZ – https://www.files.ethz.ch/isn/14131/backgrounder_02_states_emergency.pdf (last access: 9 October 2021). N: 1. state of emergency, plural states of emergency (countable). When a government gives itself special powers in order to try to control an unusually difficult or dangerous situation, especially when this

GC: n S: UNHCR – http://bit.do/ezWu5 (last access: 8 November 2015); UNOHCHR – http://bit.do/ezWve (last access: 6 November 2015). N: 1. – stateless (adj): c. 1600, from state + -less. – person (n): early 13c., from Old French persone “human being, anyone, person” (12c., Modern French personne) and directly from