Four Marks of the Church adjective ("katholikos"), meaning "general", "universal". It is associated with the Greek adverb ("katholou"), meaning "according to the whole", "entirely", or "in general", a combination of the preposition meaning "according to" and the adjective meaning "whole". Applied to the church, the adjective "catholic" means that in the church the wholeness of the Christian faith, full and complete, all-embracing, and with nothing lacking, is proclaimed to all people without excluding any part of the faith or any class or group of people. The adjective can be applied not only to the church as spread throughout the world but also to each local
Names for the human species to the Hebrew "Adam" (אָדָם) "man", derived from a word for "red, reddish-brown". Etymologically, it may be an ethnic or racial classification (after "reddish" skin colour contrasting with both "white" and "black"), but Genesis takes it to refer to the reddish colour of earth, as in the narrative the first man is formed from earth. Other Indo-European languages name man for his mortality, "*mr̥tós" meaning "mortal", so in Armenian "mard", Persian "mard", Sanskrit "marta" and Greek βροτός meaning "mortal; human". This is comparable to the Semitic word for "man", represented by Arabic "insan" (cognate with Hebrew "ʼenōš" ), from a