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In Victorian America, car was quickly applied to railway carriages, whence boxcars and passenger-cars , and also to tramways, first to horsecars and then to electric-cars , otherwise known as trolley cars , or streetcars , or simply cars (whence carfare ).
But assume he had not; should he or anyone else be allowed to accumulate substantial wealth or should it be filtered back into the society from whence it came and from whence it might do more public good?
Copper is from ME coper , OE coper/copor , Proto-Germanic * kupar , and is called cuprum in Late Latin; both Proto-Germanic and Late Latin forms are from Latin Cyprium , the adjective for Cyprus , whence the best copper came in antiquity, which goes back to the Greeks, who called it kupros .
The adjacent Palatine Hill, which was eventually reserved for imperial structures (whence our words palace and palatial ), was derived from the name of Pallas , son of Evander, a Greek who according to epic tradition settled on the site of Rome centuries before its “real” founding.
(The undercarriage was also called the gear , whence landing gear .)