Drone Video Captures Killing of Ukrainian Civilian

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Arndt Ginzel and Christian Rohde, Drone Video Captures Killing of Civilian. ZDF, Mar 15, 2022 (under the heading "Suspected war crimes in Ukraine"/ a video of a minute)
https://www.zdf.de/nachrichten/p ... one-videos-100.html
("ZDF Frontal obtained drone footage from an anonymous source in Ukraine. * * * it is March 7 2022, early in the afternoon. A Ukrainian surveillance drone is filming the E40 expressway a few kilometers west of Kiev. * * * 16 minutes past 2 pm")

Note:
(a) ZDF
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZDF
(short for Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen "Second German Television")
(b) German-English dictionary:
* zweite (ordinal numeral; from cardinal numeral zwei two + -ter (all German ordinals end with the suffix) ): "second"
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/zweite

In this Web page, underneath the definition please click "Declension" and one will learn "zweites" is the nominative neuter singular.

In the third definition below: Fernsehen is noun neuter, so modifiers zweite and deutsch have to be neuter also.
* deutsch (adjective): "German"
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/deutsch

In this Web page, underneath the definition please click "Declension" and one will learn "deutsches" is the nominative neuter singular.
* Fernsehen (noun neuter; from "[adjective] fern [remote, far away] +‎ [verb] sehen [to see] ('far-see'), a calque of French télévision"): "television"
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Fernsehen

English noun television came into being in 1900, from French noun feminine télévision.

(c) ordinal numeral
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinal_numeral

Ordinal's corresponding noun is order (whose other adjective is "orderly"), derived from Latin noun masculine ordo order.

(d)
(i) declension (n; The Evolution of Declension)
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/declensiom

The Evolution of Declension: "Declension came into English (via Middle French) in the first half of the 15th century, originating in the Latin verb declinare, meaning 'to inflect' or 'to turn aside.' The word seems to have whiled away its time in the narrow field of grammar until Shakespeare put a new sense of the word in his play Richard III in 1593: 'A beauty-waning and distressed widow / … Seduc'd the pitch and height of his degree / To [the preposition 'to' (verb: seduced) means toward] base declension and loath'd bigamy.' This 'deterioration' sense

(A) Latin-English dictionary:
*  declinare (v):
"1:  bend, deviate, turn aside/away, deflect
2: (grammar) inflect, decline"
from Wiktionary.

The English verb decline, ultimately derived from Latin verb declinare, has two nouns: decline and declension.

(B) Richard III  of England (the person, as opposed to Richard III the play)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_III_of_England
(reign 1483-1485; killed at Battle of Bosworth Field)

His elder brother, King Edward IV, died in 1483, cause uncertain. Edward IV's twelve-year-old son, Edward V, was never crowned but reigned 78 days; together with the 10-year-old Richard, second son of Edward IV, both children were dispatched to Tower of London by the uncle Richard III and were never seen again. In Wars of the Roses (1455 – 1487). Edward IV, V and Richard III were from House of York, whose symbol was white rose. Henry Tudor of House of Lancaster (symbol: red rose) defeated Richard III at Battle of Bosworth Field and became Henry VII. York and Lancaster were two branches of House of Plantagenet.
(C) Act 3 Scene 7. In Richard III. sparksnotes, undated.
https://www.sparknotes.com/nofea ... diii/act-3-scene-7/

Please read the first several lines of Scene 7, that says Londoners were not receptive to rumors spread by Buckingham against Edward IV and V, Then on to the quotation displayed by Merriam-Webster. "Buckingham" refers to
Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Stafford,_2nd_Duke_of_Buckingham
(D) The "widow" in the play alluded to Elizabeth Woodville
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Woodville
(c 1437 – 1492)

Quote:

"In about 1452, Elizabeth Woodville married Sir John Grey of Groby, the heir to the Barony Ferrers of Groby. He was killed at the Second Battle of St Albans in 1461, fighting for the Lancastrian cause. This would become a source of irony, since Elizabeth's future husband Edward IV was the Yorkist claimant to the throne. Elizabeth Woodville's two sons from this first marriage * * * Elizabeth Woodville was called 'the most beautiful woman in the Island of Britain' with 'heavy-lidded eyes like those of a dragon.'

"Her second marriage to Edward IV became a cause célèbre. Elizabeth was known for her beauty but came from minor nobility with no great estates, and the marriage took place in secret. Edward was the first king of England since the Norman Conquest to marry one of his subjects, and Elizabeth was the first such consort to be crowned queen.


(e)
(i) calque (n): "LOAN TRANSLATION"
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/calque
(ii) For its etymology, see
French-English dictionary:
* calque (noun masculine; from Latin verb calcāre to tread): "1: tracing (the reproduction of an image made by copying it through translucent paper)"
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/calque