
Kind of like a one-sided palindrome, but not this side. Interestingly, palindrome has become the etymon of another word that is just beginning to be recognized, semordnilap, which means something that makes sense written backwards. Principal Translations Ingls, Espaol running back n, (American football player), corredor, corredora nm, nf (voz inglesa), running back loc nom mf running. He states that Gibbs could run a 4.2 40-yard dash, which would cause a massive rise on NFL draft boards. On NFL Total Access, Tomlinson discussed the speed and versatility of Gibbs. So a palindrome is a "running back". Respectively, the two parts come from the Proto-Indo-European root kwel (meaning "revolve") and the Proto-Indo-European root drem (meaning "run"). LaDainian Tomlinson, a 2017 inductee to the Pro Football Hall of Fame, had high praise and a hefty player comparison for former Alabama running back Jahmyr Gibbs. This is a portmanteau of two words: palin, which meant both "back" and "again", oddly enough, and drome, that same element in dromedary, hippodrome, and syndrome, which meant "race" or "running". Here it was palindromos, which literally meant "running back again", describing the quality of palindromes to read both ways, obviously. Like Shakespeare did with most of his"created" words, Johnson didn't just make it up rather, he "borrowed" a word from Ancient Greek.

But where does the word palindrome originate from? Well, in the 1600s, Ben Johnson coined it in one of his plays. A palindrome, as several of you may know, is something that reads the same backwards and forwards (such as Madam, I'm Adam).
