Search results for "Latin language" - New World Encyclopedia
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- Obscenity (in Latin obscenus, meaning "foul, repulsive, detestable ... matters such as spoken and written language that can be publicly transmitted ...14 KB (2,133 words) - 19:55, 17 November 2022
- to form a scroll. Tree bark such as lime (Latin liber, from there also library ... Monasteries carried on the Latin writing tradition in the Western ...32 KB (5,045 words) - 07:24, 17 November 2023
- The botanic name Lilium is the Latin form and is a Linnaean name. The Latin name is derived from the Greek leirion, which is generally assumed ...20 KB (2,868 words) - 08:42, 8 March 2023
- Its name derives from the Latin argentum, meaning silver, and was ... #039;s Jewish community, the largest in Latin America and fifth-largest ...44 KB (6,290 words) - 17:44, 4 January 2024
- His first well-known work bore the Latin title Religio Medici (The ... examples of essay-writing in the English language. The work begins innocuously ...13 KB (2,017 words) - 22:34, 29 January 2023
- known as the Egyptian Cross, or as crux ansata, Latin for "cross with a handle." The ankh appears frequently in Egyptian tomb paintings ...10 KB (1,631 words) - 06:39, 28 July 2023
- eog and Irish Gaelic iasc (fish). Pliny uses the Latin form esox in reference to a large fish in the Rhine normally identified with lax (salmon). It ...24 KB (3,763 words) - 18:12, 26 February 2022
- English aspalt, which can be traced to the Late Latin asphaltum, and Greek ásphaltos (άσφαλτος), meaning "flawless." ...10 KB (1,437 words) - 04:53, 18 August 2023
- Mosquito Coast. There is a native Miskito language, but large groups speak ... for their sovereign. They learn our language, and take the governor of ...25 KB (3,718 words) - 11:09, 10 March 2023
- Zenobia. Her full name in the Arabic language is al-Zabba' bint Amr ... and knew Greek, Aramaic, Egyptian, and Latin. Some sources report that ...10 KB (1,554 words) - 05:50, 13 June 2023
- the islands, including works in Greek, Latin, Syriac, Portuguese, Dutch ... They speak Soqotri, an unwritten Semitic language related to other Modern ...22 KB (3,173 words) - 21:53, 30 January 2023
- Republic. He translated Greek works into Latin, and wrote Latin summaries ... quot; is derived from cicer, the Latin word for "chickpea. ...34 KB (5,558 words) - 22:01, 10 December 2023
- absorbed by Christ Church, where he studied Latin and logic. He also studied ... More wrote poetry in Latin and English, and published a translation ...28 KB (4,440 words) - 21:23, 30 April 2023
- to the bishop, who began to study the language at the age of eighty-three ... laid down in the Rev. Dr Cumberland's Latin Treatise. London, 1692. ...13 KB (2,116 words) - 20:13, 8 December 2022
- to read and write, or the ability to use language to read, write, listen, ... speak." L.C. Moats, Speech to Print: Language Essentials for Teachers ...24 KB (3,587 words) - 04:28, 29 October 2022
- the scholar Otto von Gebhardt identified a Latin manuscript in the Abbey of ... The section Two Ways shares the same language with the Epistle of Barnabas ...25 KB (3,964 words) - 14:24, 29 January 2024
- see below for derivation) is a Bantu language of the Sabaki subgroup of ... Although only 5-10 million people speak it as their native language ...43 KB (6,328 words) - 15:52, 12 January 2024
- * "Communion" (from Latin communio, "sharing in common") is a term used, with different meanings, by Catholics, Orthodox ...18 KB (2,814 words) - 04:40, 22 March 2024
- This parallel course focused less on Greek and Latin, instead focusing on English, French, Spanish, chemistry, economics, and so forth. The parallel ...16 KB (2,313 words) - 06:57, 25 July 2023
- The Society of Jesus (Latin: Societas Iesu, "S.J.," "S ... "company" comes ultimately from Latin, cum + pane = "bread ...45 KB (6,894 words) - 21:50, 30 January 2023
