has been said that football in the modern world replaced the harsh responsibilities of the medieval knights.
This sport was born in England in the nineteenth century and quickly spread throughout the world, took its name from the words foot 'foot' and ball 'ball', two words whose origins can be traced very far.
Indeed, the roots from foot-and pod-ped, the prehistoric Indo-European languages, which also led to pous Greek word 'pie', from whom words like tripod, podium and antipode. Also come from those roots Sanskrit padas voice 'foot' and the Lithuanian peda 'step', but from the point of view of our language, its derivation has proved most important Latin pedes 'foot', which resulted in countless English words such as chiropody, laborer, pedal tricycle.
Ball, meanwhile, comes from the Greek ballein, which meant throwing.
The word soccer was rejected initially by the purists, who considered an anglicized, so they try to impose football, a replica semantics, in fact, the English word. Football
first appeared in the academic Dictionary in 1927, with a definition which is carefully avoided football:
similar to the ball game, which differs in that the ball or playing ball with his foot. However, in its later editions, the dictionary refers directly to football, recognizing it as preferable.
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