Whereas the word spice is related to the words specialty and specific (because spices were sold by merchants who specialized in specific items), the word grocery is related to gross. Many centuries ago, the Late Latin word grossus, meaning large or bulky, gave rise to the Medieval Latin grossarius, the job name of someone who sold merchandise in large quantities. Grossarius then became the French grassier, which in the early fourteenth century became the English grocer, from which grocery developed in the fifteenth century. Also in the fifteenth century, grossus itself was borrowed from Latin as gross, meaning huge, but more recently used to mean repellant. The gross that means 144 derives from the same source: the French called twelve dozen of something a grosse douzaine, meaning a large dozen; this term was shortened to gross when it entered English in the fifteenth century. In the last book of the Bible, 144,000 saints (one thousand gross) are allowed to enter the New Jerusalem; in jewellery, 144 carats equal one ounce; in five-pin bowling, 144 is a decent score.