In 1884, Angelo Moriondo of Turin, Italy, demonstrated the first working example of an espresso machine.
INTERLINGUA
Interlingua
(noun) an artificial language proposed for use as an auxiliary international language; based on words common to English and the Romance languages
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Proper noun
Interlingua
An interlanguage based on Romance languages, English, German, Russian and Latin, developed by the International Auxiliary Language Association, and first published in 1951.
Latino sine flexione, a simplified version of Latin by Giuseppe Peano
Usage notes
Sometimes confused with Interlingue
Noun
interlingua (plural interlinguas)
an interlanguage
Source: Wiktionary
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ENDLESSLY
(adverb) (spatial sense) seeming to have no bounds; “the Nubian desert stretched out before them endlessly”
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