notā, sg. imp. form of notō, “I mark”

The present team is being led by Dr. Ajay Dhar from the Indian Institute of Geomagnetism, a veteran Antarctician […]

Everyone else shifted uncomfortably as this guy continued his derisive laughter and proclaimed my quest the most idiotic thing he'd heard in his life.

[…]these days there is a long tradition of ships named Warspite, most famously the Queen Elizabeth-class battleship, but when you actually look at the etymology of the name, it is literally war's spite, the spite of war, which, again, is, um, a little bit on the nose for a ship full of nuclear death.