par-, para-

A device, used in measuring gases, that absorbs a gas or some constituent from a mixture and estimates the quantity either from properties of the absorbed material or from the reduced residual volume remaining after absorption.

The numerous body organs and structures consisting of the organ of hearing; especially, the various parts of the ear.

1. The machines, tools, and equipment or machinery designed to serve a specific function for technical or scientific applications or that which is needed for a particular activity or purpose; for example, an X-ray apparatus.

A full collection or set of implements, or utensils, for a given duty, experimental or operative; any complex instrument or appliance, mechanical or chemical, for a specific action or operation; machinery; mechanism.

2. The complex structure of a particular organization or system or method by which an organization is operated or maintained; such as, an apparatus of government.
3. A group or system of body organs that collectively perform a specific function or process; such as, the respiratory apparatus, the digestive apparatus, or the vestibular apparatus (structures of the inner ear concerned with stimuli of equilibrium, including the semicircular canals, saccule, and utricle).
4. Etymology: from Latin apparatus, "tools, implements, equipment; preparation, a preparing" or "equipment which has been prepared for a particular use" or "purpose"; from the past participle stem of apparare "to prepare"; from ad-, "to" + parare, "to make ready".

The mouth, pharynx, and alimentary tract and their associated glands and organs; which are concerned with digestion, absorption, and excretion of food products.

An interconnected series of air passages, cavernous organs, and cells that permit the introduction of oxygen, the exchange of gases, and the removal of carbon dioxide from the body as well as, in humans, the production of seech.

The anatomical components involved include the external nose and nasal cavity, the oral cavity and pharynx, paranasal sinuses, larynx, trachea, bronchi, lungs, and thoracic cavity; as well as, the muscles related to their activities or functions.

1. Clothing; such as, shirts, dresses, coats, etc., especially, of a fine or decorative kind.

It includes external clothing, vesture, garments, dress, garb, and other external habiliments or array.

2. A sea vessel's gear and equipment; such as, the furniture of a ship, masts, sails, rigging, anchors, guns, etc..
3. To make o tor get (something) ready; to prepare.
4. Etymology: " to equip", from Old French apareillier, from Vulgar (Common) Latin appariculare, from Latin apparare "to prepare, to make ready".

This term comes either from Latin apparare, "to prepare, to make ready"; or from Common Latin, ad + particulare, "to put things together".

Hail, Caesar, they who are about to die salute you.

Spoken to Claudius by gladiators prior to entering the arena to fight. This may have been a sarcastic salutation.

Suetonius tells us in his Lives of the Caesars that Emperor Claudius (A.D. 41-A.D. 54) so enjoyed these spectacles, he ordered that even those who fell accidentally be put to death. He wanted to watch their faces as they died.

A natural parent.

Divide and rule.

1. A reference to the policy of stirring up dissension and rivalries within the ranks of one's enemies, as Caesar did in Gaul and elsewhere.

2. This ancient political maxim, adopted by Machiavelli, is also given as Divide ut regnes and as Divide ut imperes, all of which mean "divide [the opposition] in order to rule" or "divide and conquer".

I am the king of Rome and above grammar.

Words spoken by the Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund at the Council of Constance (1414-1418) when a cardinal corrected his Latin.

1. The male sovereign or supreme ruler of an empire; such as, the emperors of Rome.
2. Etymology: from Old French empereor, French empereur from Latin imperatorem,"ruler, commander, emperor", from imperatus, "to command", from im-, "in" and parare, "to prepare".

Etymology: from Old French empire, "imperial rule", from Latim imperium "rule, command", from imperare, "to command" from im-, "in" + parare, "to order, prepare".

Time irretrievably is flying.

Another version is, "We cannot stop time in its tracks." The shorter Tempus fugit is taken from the longer Fugit irreparabile tempus itself a slightly shortened form of a line from Virgil's Georgics.