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This technique of showing what a painting might eventually look like had been used for centuries and because it used paper it had been called cartone in Italian from the Latin word charta which in turn came from Greek khartes originally meaning paper from papyrus.

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  1. preposition Used to indicate a specified place or time as a starting point: walked home from the station; from six o'clock on. See Usage Notes at escape, whence.
  2. preposition Used to indicate a specified point as the first of two limits: from grades four to six.
  3. preposition Used to indicate a source, cause, agent, or instrument: a note from the teacher; taking a book from the shelf.
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  • The word epiphany comes from a Greek word meaning to manifest or to show. —  AfterDowningStreet.org - Bush-Cheney Trials in '09
  • Mentoring [1] -- from the Greek word meaning enduring -- is defined as a sustained relationship between a youth and an adult. —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • Taking its name from the Korean word meaning "one," "wide and all - encompassing" and "sorrow," the troupe is dedicated to presenting rarely seen foreign plays and re-examining Western classics from a multi-cultural perspective.
  • These were so called from a Greek word meaning "assassins" because it refers to men carrying little knives, "sicae," under their robes. —  Charlottesville Blogs
  • LIGA: An acronym from the German words for lithography, electroplating and molding,
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  1. Middle English, from Old English fram, forward, from; see per1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English from, fram, from Anglo-Saxon from, fram= Old Saxon fram = Old High German fram, Middle High German vram, preposition forth from, adverb forth, = Icelandic fram, adverb, forward, frā, preposition from, adverb fro, = Swedish fram, adverb, forth, forward, från, preposition, from, = Danish frem, adverb, forth, onward, on, fra, preposition, from, = Gothic (Moesogothic) fram, preposition from, adverb further, forward, comparative framis, further; prob. ult. allied to fore, forth, for, for-, etc. Cf. Latin perendie, the day after, Greek πέραν, beyond, Sanskrit para, distant, high. See fro, a shorter (Scandinavian) form of from. Connected with Anglo-Saxon fram, from, forward, bold, strenuous, strong, fremian, fremman, promote, accomplish: see frame, frim.
 

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/frɑm, <ɪ>frəm/
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