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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
- 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
- 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) - 15:21, 28 February 2025
- 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
- coterminous with present territory of the Latin Rite. In the past, popes ... *The Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem *The Patriarch of Lisbon ...11 KB (1,663 words) - 03:50, 29 April 2025
- 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) - 18:13, 13 March 2025
- 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
- Anglo-French jaspre, from Old French jaspe, from Latin iaspidem (the accusative of iaspis), from Greek iaspis, via a Semitic language (cf. Hebrew yashepheh ...4 KB (559 words) - 08:50, 23 December 2024
- 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
- ability to create beautiful poetry in Latin, using difficult forms that ... to translate and, following the decline of Latin as a scholarly language, ...11 KB (1,706 words) - 07:50, 19 July 2024
- The name comes either from the Latin movere, ("to move" ... represented a strophic poetic sequence in Latin which was sung as a discant ...13 KB (1,883 words) - 17:45, 2 December 2025
- 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) - 08:18, 29 April 2025
- 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) - 14:25, 22 May 2024
- of his medical works were translated into Latin in 1087 by the Christian ... Israeli was known in Latin Europe primarily as a physician. At the ...11 KB (1,666 words) - 10:37, 30 November 2024
- 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 (1,622 words) - 17:03, 12 April 2025
- The Augsburg Confession (known in Latin as Confessio Augustana), is ... invitation was couched in very peaceful language, it was received with suspicion ...11 KB (1,725 words) - 00:05, 14 June 2024
- 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
