Concept, features and types of corruption by L. I. Kalienichenko, D. V. Slynko

“…The hermeneutic method was used during the analysis of the etymological meaning of the term corruption and certain provisions of international legal acts, the Law of Ukraine “On Prevention of Corruption”. …”
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La villégiature anglaise et l’invention de la Côte d’Azur by Alain Bottaro

“…First, it is an invention in the etymological sense of the term. Between 1760 and 1860, the coast of eastern Provence and of the region of Nice (like other areas outside Europe) was “discovered” by foreign travelers on the Grand Tour who gazed at the unsullied nature of the Mediterranean and perceived it as another Garden of Eden. …”
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Observations on old Serbian terminology for iron mining and processing: Želězo and gvozdje by Loma Aleksandar B.

“…In the medieval Serbia, ironsmiths used to be designated simply as ‘smiths’, kovačje, and the designation of both dug and wrought iron was gvozdje, with the adjective gvozděn. Etymologically, OSerb gvozdje n. ‘iron’ is the Common Slavic word *gvozdь, *gvozdьjь ‘nail, peg’, whose plural *gvozdьje was reshaped into a secondary collective in *-ьje, with a semantic switch usually explained by the development ‘wooden nails’ > ‘iron nails’ > ‘iron’. …”
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Dealing with Complexity – Knowledge, design, and management of the built environment by Cesare Sposito, Francesca Scalisi

“…In this view, ‘complex’ should be brought back to its etymological meaning of ‘woven’ or ‘held together’, connecting different forms of knowledge in the virtuous circle of a body of knowledge articulated in a systemic view of the real world based on the principle of ‘co-evolution’ of social and ecological systems (of culture and nature) and the awareness that it determines; on the one hand, the interweaving of multiple causal chains (e.g., although the pandemic crisis is a health crisis it has also become a biological, ecological, economic, social, cultural and spiritual crisis) with interdependent effects, and on the other hand, effects that also retroact on causes since causality is circular. …”
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