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- INRI is an acronym of the Latin phrase IESVS·NAZARENVS·REX·IVDÆORVM ... ). During Jesus' crucifixion, a Titulus Crucis (Latin for "Title ...11 KB (1,534 words) - 20:14, 29 March 2024
- he feared it would adversely influence his Latin style. He was a popular teacher ... modern life. Its members adopted Greek and Latin names, met on the Quirinal ...9 KB (1,365 words) - 21:15, 4 October 2022
- was a linguistic prodigy, learning Greek, Latin, Persian, Arabic, and the ... certain resemblance to classical Greek and Latin. In The Sanscrit Language ...9 KB (1,304 words) - 11:08, 10 May 2023
- the translation of the Old Persian language. Grotefend succeeded in ... He continued his career mostly working on Latin and Italian language ...9 KB (1,297 words) - 06:55, 18 April 2024
- The original version is in rhyming Latin verse, and contains a series ... in illuminated manuscript form, and in Latin. Many copies were made, and ...10 KB (1,439 words) - 19:13, 7 February 2023
- for the humanist desire to reform language and education. His extensive ... and endangered his life several times. His Latin scholarship eventually gained ...13 KB (2,004 words) - 02:43, 4 November 2022
- Saint John Cassian (ca. 360 – 433 C.E.) (Latin: Jo(h)annes Eremita ... Chrysostom ran into theological trouble, Latin-speaking Cassian was sent ...9 KB (1,360 words) - 19:50, 22 December 2022
- that have survived—in Arabic and Latin—both relied on texts that ... There has even been disagreement about what language Tatian used for ...13 KB (1,861 words) - 11:57, 29 January 2024
- Marsilio Ficino (also known by his Latin name, Marsilius Ficinus) ... at Florence University, where he mastered Latin and literature, and continued ...12 KB (1,803 words) - 16:15, 6 November 2022
- from poor families and instructed them in Latin and Greek, wrote psalms and ... of the "Greek" (Orthodox) and Latin churches. ...11 KB (1,769 words) - 14:51, 15 December 2022
- as different. It derives from the Latin words ad and iacere (Latin ... semantic function. For example, such a language might have a verb that means ...13 KB (1,956 words) - 06:00, 15 June 2023
- the basis for a common chemical "language" essential in this ... on a sort of international English language. That organization has recently ...10 KB (1,624 words) - 14:39, 5 December 2023
- The Augsburg Confession (known in Latin as Confessio Augustana), is ... invitation was couched in very peaceful language, it was received with suspicion ...11 KB (1,732 words) - 18:28, 21 August 2023
- but also Classical Nahuatl (in the Latin alphabet), Spanish, and occasionally ... The Codex was originally solely pictorial in nature. Nahuatl language ...11 KB (1,730 words) - 05:19, 26 August 2023
- Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition [http://dictionary ... *humanities education (specializing in Classical languages, such as ...14 KB (2,013 words) - 07:46, 10 January 2024
- In mathematics, proofs are often expressed in natural language with ... Although proofs can be written completely in a formal language, for ...9 KB (1,489 words) - 23:56, 1 December 2022
- author to write theological works in Latin. Before Victor's time ... Jerome calls Pope Victor the first Latin writer in the Church (Chronicon ...14 KB (2,181 words) - 04:06, 26 November 2022
- an exception to this pattern. The French language did not make use of the ... that may be required by a specific language English braille codes the ...14 KB (2,290 words) - 22:35, 20 November 2023
- Aristotle in the twelfth century, through Latin translations of the Arabic ... During the thirteenth century, Latin translations of the works of ...13 KB (1,953 words) - 07:15, 23 August 2023
- Salsa music is a diverse musical genre that is popular across Latin ... The word salsa means sauce in the Spanish language and carries connotations ...13 KB (2,004 words) - 01:54, 23 December 2022
- despite his advocacy of classical Latin as the language of high art ... his time studying, particularly classical Latin, and in particular the works ...11 KB (1,750 words) - 01:38, 24 November 2022
- known as (Quicumque vult) from its opening Latin words, is a statement of ... universally rejected. From its internal language, scholars believe it was ...10 KB (1,699 words) - 18:41, 19 August 2023
- a reputation as a professor of Greek and Latin literature in Florence, and ... He studied grammar, rhetoric and the Latin language at the University of ...15 KB (2,444 words) - 04:47, 9 April 2024
- Modus Ponens (Latin: mode that affirms; often abbreviated as MP) is ... Modus Tollens (Latin for "mode that denies" abbreviated ...6 KB (1,057 words) - 19:28, 9 November 2022
- became visible. Lester taught himself Latin, Greek, German, Russian, Japanese, and Hebrew. After his family moved to Myersburg, Pennsylvania ...9 KB (1,301 words) - 22:02, 25 October 2022
- classical Greek logic to medieval Latin scholars. Born into a high ... to transmit classical Greek knowledge to Latin audiences. Several of his ...11 KB (1,637 words) - 06:07, 28 July 2023
- typeset) and both in (modern scientific) Latin. For example, the lion is ... are popularly known as the "Latin name" of the species ...15 KB (2,296 words) - 23:46, 11 January 2023
- a number of critics; he was barred from the Latin canon of poets, and was almost ... became one of the "canonical" Latin poets taught to all Roman ...12 KB (1,947 words) - 16:18, 3 December 2023
- actively engaged with leftist causes in Latin America, openly supporting ... to the development of the genre in Latin America, emancipating it ...9 KB (1,243 words) - 21:13, 4 October 2022
- known in English as Virgil or Vergil, is a Latin poet, the author of the Eclogues ... of Tours who read Virgil and some other Latin poets, nevertheless cautioned ...15 KB (2,361 words) - 20:33, 3 May 2023
- on." The word came into the English language as epigraph, which was used ... during the Rennisance took an interest in Latin and Greek inscriptions, and ...14 KB (2,129 words) - 19:07, 13 February 2024
- book was first published anonymously, in Latin, ca. 1418; several other ... the time, 400 different editions. Some 545 Latin and about 900 French editions ...10 KB (1,599 words) - 22:58, 30 April 2023
- as one of the three canonical poets of Latin literature. Ovid is generally ... to demonstrate that the somewhat rigid Latin language could be adapted to dactylic ...14 KB (2,130 words) - 06:01, 18 November 2022
- considered shocking, the playful use of language belies an almost modern ... He not only practiced medicine, but edited Latin works for the printer Sebastian ...11 KB (1,822 words) - 09:39, 11 April 2024
- the day”), is an expression found in a Latin poem by Horace (Odes 1.11). ... which occurs many times in modern English-language popular culture. ...8 KB (1,256 words) - 00:38, 29 November 2023
- and poet. His proficiency in the Greek language (which was rare at the time ... Pseudo-Dionysius and translated them into Latin while adding his own commentary ...10 KB (1,486 words) - 15:09, 1 August 2022
- Adelard of Bath (Latin: Adelardus Bathensis) (1116? - 1142?) was a ... Adelard became an expert in the Arabic language, which he might have ...13 KB (1,951 words) - 05:50, 15 June 2023
- Mundus Novus ("New World") was a Latin translation of a lost Italian ... made by Vespucci between 1497 and 1504. A Latin translation was published ...12 KB (1,880 words) - 06:51, 25 July 2023
- ), also Saint Bede, the Venerable Bede, or (from Latin) Beda (IPA: ... of the earliest preserved works written in the language. ...12 KB (1,884 words) - 10:20, 26 September 2023
- student of literature, and his knowledge of Latin poetry in particular was ... in 1892 he was offered the professorship of Latin at University College London ...10 KB (1,687 words) - 06:50, 13 June 2023
- Wulfila (Gothic: "Little wolf" or Latin: Ulfilas/Ulphilas ... the Bible from Greek into the Gothic language after devising the first ...12 KB (1,877 words) - 14:10, 20 May 2023
- The Hail Mary or Ave Maria (Latin) is a traditional Christian prayer ... This was a normal greeting in the Greek language in which Luke's Gospel ...12 KB (1,964 words) - 16:45, 21 January 2024
- music, sings in a variety of languages, including Latin and her native Irish, in many of her works. Medwyn Goodall, who is becoming more widely known ...8 KB (1,225 words) - 16:29, 11 November 2022
- ball, which in turn originates from the Latin word ballare which means ... were instructed to not use coarse language and to lay aside their swords ...17 KB (2,435 words) - 05:57, 26 August 2023
- he extensively researched American Sign Language (ASL). to that of a complex and thriving natural language in its own right, with an ...13 KB (1,991 words) - 10:52, 12 May 2023
- found at Qumran. Apparently the Old Latin manuscripts are also translated ... Tobit: The Text in Aramaic, Hebrew, and Old Latin with English Translations ...8 KB (1,317 words) - 15:33, 30 January 2024
- end to the tradition of teaching reading in Latin, using the vernacular language ... ones, were taught almost entirely in Latin. In making the vernacular ...12 KB (1,857 words) - 19:49, 22 December 2022
- that its early chapters—found only in Latin manuscripts but in not Greek ... and numbering of this book. Some early Latin manuscripts call it "3 ...13 KB (2,222 words) - 06:43, 13 June 2023
- and transcription) for the Mandarin language used in Beijing. It developed ... are still used interchangeably in English-language texts in both countries. ...13 KB (1,871 words) - 22:05, 3 May 2023
- The name malachite derives (via Latin and French) from the Greek word molochitis, meaning "mallow-green stone." That, in turn, may ...5 KB (681 words) - 06:33, 5 November 2022
- Grammy, produced four number-one Spanish-language hits. ... José Behar, the former head of the Sony Latin Music division, signed Selena ...16 KB (2,443 words) - 17:47, 25 January 2023
- The Apostles' Creed (Latin: Symbolum Apostolorum) is an early ... The earliest appearance of the present Latin text was in the De singulis ...15 KB (2,172 words) - 15:52, 11 August 2023
- A villanelle is a poetic form which entered English language poetry ... word villanella, which derives from the Latin villa (farm) and villano ...7 KB (1,084 words) - 20:22, 3 May 2023
- forgotten in the West. The few existing Latin translations of Aristotle’s ... e form separate syllables. In Arabic (the language in which he wrote), his ...19 KB (2,761 words) - 07:15, 23 August 2023
- his knowledge of Greek to create the first Latin treatises explaining the ... in 359 and 360, he attempted to express in Latin the theological subtleties ...12 KB (1,797 words) - 13:14, 22 January 2024
- He became versed in the Greek, Hebrew, and Latin languages. After ordination ... for him and invitations to preach in Latin and German in the University ...11 KB (1,597 words) - 21:24, 30 April 2023
- Agostino Nifo (c. 1473 - 1538 or 1545) Latin Augustinus Niphus, or ... on Aristotle, including the medieval Latin commentators, especially ...8 KB (1,200 words) - 06:47, 16 June 2023
- For over a half-millennium, the colloquial language for Palestinian ... The Aramaic term abba has passed via Greek and Latin into European ...7 KB (1,044 words) - 07:15, 13 June 2023
- poets. His thorough knowledge of Classical Latin literature, as well as his ... particularly noted for his facility with Latin) Gray never received a degree ...10 KB (1,574 words) - 21:15, 30 April 2023
- Reductio ad absurdum, Latin for "reduction to the absurd," traceable back to the Greek ἡ εις άτοπον απαγωγη (hê ...7 KB (1,079 words) - 02:58, 8 December 2022
- In linguistics, the grammar of a natural language is its set of structural ... to the grammar of all the speakers of the language), in which case the term ...25 KB (3,469 words) - 22:17, 30 March 2023
- in Spain. During the twelfth century, new Latin translations from Greek and ... Aristotelianism has made an indelible contribution to the language ...18 KB (2,450 words) - 06:29, 12 August 2023
- The first extensive translation of Aesop into Latin was done by Phaedrus ... has selections from all the major Greek and Latin sources. ...14 KB (2,215 words) - 05:51, 16 June 2023
- Juan Rulfo (May 16, 1918 – January 7, 1986) was one of Latin America ... by the complexity of the colloquial language found in his works. Many ...12 KB (1,960 words) - 06:06, 10 May 2024
- Literature in Sanskrit, the classical language of India, represents ... or strongly influenced by Sanskrit, the language and its literature are of ...19 KB (2,849 words) - 03:17, 23 December 2022
- [[Image:Latin dictionary.jpg|thumb|250px|right|A multi-volume Latin ... A dictionary is basically a list words in a specific language, with ...22 KB (3,268 words) - 14:12, 29 January 2024
- taken up by Malory in his famous English-language version. Here, Arthur receives ... Caliburn, used in Geoffrey of Monmouth (Latin Caliburnus). "Caliburnus ...13 KB (2,142 words) - 23:53, 24 March 2024
- Those fathers who wrote in Latin are called the Latin (Church) Fathers ... He is believed to have introduced the Latin term "trinitas" ...21 KB (3,112 words) - 21:58, 10 December 2023
- of the priests. By keeping the Bible in Latin, which few other than priests ... in French, Greek, Hebrew, German, Italian, Latin, Spanish and of course his ...14 KB (2,095 words) - 20:44, 13 May 2023
- of the skull") is the English-language name given to the hill on ... 'Hebrew', indicating the 'language of the Hebrews', which ...7 KB (1,139 words) - 18:36, 25 November 2023
- redesign and launched its first foreign-language edition, in Japanese. The ... and Arabic, as well as an English-language Newsweek International. ...10 KB (1,451 words) - 23:24, 14 November 2022
- various languages|Alphabets derived from the Latin A collation system ... The order of the Latin alphabet is: A-B-C-D-E-F-G-H-I-J-K-L-M-N-O-P ...17 KB (2,611 words) - 22:32, 7 January 2024
- The English word "asparagus" derives from classical Latin ... grass," thus showing convergent language evolution. ...14 KB (2,081 words) - 04:48, 18 August 2023
- The word sect comes from the Latin sects (from sequire "to follow ... In Latin America, the term "sect" is often applied by Roman ...9 KB (1,258 words) - 02:46, 21 April 2023
- quot; is derived from sixteenth-century New Latin, in turn from Latin thesaurus ... such as medical help book, foreign language phrase handbook, and others ...11 KB (1,593 words) - 18:31, 30 April 2023
- (basic significant sounds) of the spoken language. This is in contrast to ... A true alphabet has letters for the vowels of a language as well as ...44 KB (6,641 words) - 08:32, 23 July 2023
- to be defined is known as the definiendum (Latin: that which is to be defined ... Given that a natural language such as English contains, at any given ...17 KB (2,616 words) - 09:12, 28 January 2024
- of azure." The first part of the name is the Latin lapis, meaning stone. The second part, lazuli, is the genitive form of the medieval Latin lazulum ...11 KB (1,631 words) - 22:35, 22 October 2022
- ) is a genre of Latin American literature that challenges the role ... Although mostly associated with the Latin American Boom of the 1960s ...35 KB (5,274 words) - 15:31, 5 July 2023
- (The word "rodent" comes from the Latin word for "gnawing." ... the groundhog (M. monax) is assigned the Latin name monax, for "solitary ...12 KB (1,722 words) - 16:05, 6 November 2022
- according to their regional origin and language). The papal legate decided ... == Latin Averroism: Siger de Brabant == Ibn Rushd or Averroes (1126 ...10 KB (1,606 words) - 14:38, 27 January 2023
- shtml Prologues of St. Jerome, Latin text] Retrieved February 15, 2008. ... and as they are contained in the old Latin vulgate edition". ...14 KB (2,086 words) - 10:09, 29 January 2024
- a form of communication that is free of language-specific elements and thus ... Both pictogram and pictography share the same Latin root, pict(us ...12 KB (1,772 words) - 05:12, 24 November 2022
- created through Jerome the standard Latin translation of the Bible ... promulgated the use of a standardized Latin language format for the mass, ...13 KB (2,066 words) - 18:08, 24 January 2024
- the revision of the Russian literary language, and several important scientific ... he obtained admission into the Slavic Greek Latin Academy. There his progress ...9 KB (1,383 words) - 17:53, 9 November 2022
- The book was originally written in Rome, in the Greek language, but ... slave. The text makes use of allegorical language to present its religious ...12 KB (1,907 words) - 14:09, 27 January 2023
- a common factor: This may be a topic, a language, a period, or some other ... are takes from HLAS Online (Handbook of Latin American Studies Online) ...16 KB (2,316 words) - 03:44, 1 October 2023
- which means "hidden," and then to the Latin crypta, which described a "grotto, or hidden vault," attesting to the will of Church ...11 KB (1,624 words) - 02:11, 15 January 2023
- birds. The name ratite comes from the Latin word for raft (ratis), because their breastbone looks like a raft. Among ratites are included ostriches ...7 KB (1,107 words) - 06:45, 17 July 2022
- to discuss a union between the Greek and Latin Churches, and made several ... about a union between the Greek and Latin Churches and was at that ...17 KB (2,731 words) - 06:49, 18 April 2024
- in Italy is the lyceum, where students study Latin and English for five years between the ages of fourteen and eighteen. There are several types ...14 KB (2,070 words) - 03:09, 5 November 2022
- that, based on the style of the language, and the fact that the author ... Old Slavonic, Armenian, Arabic, Irish and Latin. Though no early Latin versions ...10 KB (1,588 words) - 12:08, 24 January 2023
- It is in principle the representation of language, rather than images of thought ... beyond those carried out by spoken language. First invented by the early ...22 KB (3,308 words) - 14:05, 20 May 2023
- The English word spirit comes from the Latin "spiritus" ... The English word "spirit" comes from the Latin spiritus ...17 KB (2,627 words) - 21:55, 28 October 2020
- Neptune (Latin: Neptūnus) was the god of the sea in Roman mythology ... quot;, which forms the base for the Latin nebula, referring to "fog ...9 KB (1,493 words) - 16:21, 11 November 2022
- on metaphysics which was translated into Latin in 1150. His concept of the ... townsmen with their neglect of the Hebrew language. Sometime after his mother’s ...24 KB (3,826 words) - 01:00, 4 February 2023
- name when in liturgical use. In everyday language, the word Hashem ("The ... In English language bibles, YHWH is traditionally translated as "The ...18 KB (2,791 words) - 01:12, 11 November 2022
- theologian, the last of the Western Latin Fathers, and an encyclopaedist ... a remarkably short time, Isidore mastered Latin, Greek, and Hebrew. It is ...18 KB (2,717 words) - 06:05, 8 March 2024
- life face complete loss of tradition and language. Those who continue their ... The Nenets language is called n'enytsia vada, and belongs to ...10 KB (1,457 words) - 22:04, 23 November 2023
- has been immensely influential on the language, politics, educational systems ... war, art, literature, architecture, and language in the Western world, and ...12 KB (1,801 words) - 12:38, 5 May 2024
