Hence, it is a daughter language of Dutch, and was previously referred to as Cape Dutch (a term also used to refer collectively to the early Cape settlers) or kitchen Dutch (a derogatory term used to refer to Afrikaans in its earlier days).
Ethereum is an open-source, public, blockchain-based distributed computing platform featuring smart contract (scripting) functionality. It provides a decentralized Turing-complete virtual machine, the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), which can execute scripts using an international network of public nodes.
In a technical sense, Ethereum is a world computer. Harking back to the days of the mainframe, and probably about as fast, Ethereum can be viewed as a single computer that the whole world can use. It notionally has only a single processor (no multi-threading or parallel execution), but as much memory as required.