Classical element to use the term "element (στοιχεῖον, "stoicheion")" in reference to air, fire, earth, and water. The ancient Greek word for element, "stoicheion" (from "stoicheo", "to line up") meant "smallest division (of a sun-dial), a syllable", as the composing unit of an alphabet it could denote a letter and the smallest unit from which a word is formed. A similar alphabetic metaphor may be the origin of the equivalent Latin word "elementum" (from which the English word comes), possibly based on the names of the letters 'l', 'm', and 'n', though the validity of this idea is debated. In his "On
Blockquote element languages, the semantics and effect of HTML codice_6 is different from the use of an initial colon in a paragraph, which may be translated into an HTML codice_13 element enclosed within a codice_14 element. (That is a "data definition" within a "definition list", without there being any preceding "data term" or codice_15 element). Blockquote element In HTML and XHTML, the blockquote element defines "a section [within a document] that is quoted from another source". The syntax is codice_1. The codice_2 element is used to indicate the quotation of a large section of text from another source. Using the default HTML