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  • Juvenal, an Anglicized form derived from the Latin (Decimus Iunius) Iuvenalis, was a Roman poet active in the late first century and early second ...
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  • The English word spirit comes from the Latin "spiritus" ("breath") and has several interrelated meanings: Metaphysically ...
    17 KB (2,627 words) - 21:55, 28 October 2020
  • Emanationism is the doctrine that describes all existence as emanating (Latin emanare, "to flow from") from God, the First Reality ...
    12 KB (1,737 words) - 17:51, 13 February 2024
  • and all probably derive, through Vulgar Latin *crosus (not attested), from ... of the Old French adjective magne, from Latin magnus, meaning "large ...
    8 KB (1,081 words) - 00:21, 15 January 2023
  • The first extensive translation of Aesop into Latin was done by Phaedrus ... has selections from all the major Greek and Latin sources. ...
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  • The document is a seventh or eighth century Latin manuscript that ... dated it as late as the fourth century. The Latin copy of the text is thought ...
    13 KB (2,046 words) - 18:59, 10 November 2022
  • The Apostles' Creed (Latin: Symbolum Apostolorum) is an early statement of Christian belief, that is widely accepted in western Christianity ...
    15 KB (2,172 words) - 15:52, 11 August 2023
  • José Behar, the former head of the Sony Latin Music division, signed Selena ... appearances alongside Erik Estrada in a Latin soap opera titled Dos Mujeres ...
    16 KB (2,443 words) - 17:47, 25 January 2023
  • research, though much of his work was in Latin for the sake of reaching ... continued to write prolifically (largely in Latin now, with an eye towards ...
    17 KB (2,487 words) - 21:08, 10 December 2023
  • and composed original verses and dialogues in Latin. [[Image:Arthur ... by making them learn a hundred lines of Latin verse by heart and if they ...
    12 KB (1,837 words) - 17:37, 16 August 2023
  • In Roman mythology, Saturn (Latin: Saturnus) was a major Roman deity holding jurisdiction over agriculture and the harvest. Like many of the ...
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  • assured him a place of distinction in the Latin literature of the Middle Ages. ... earned Alain a place of distinction in the Latin literature of the Middle ...
    11 KB (1,642 words) - 04:25, 17 June 2023
  • of Constantinople (381), to the later Latin version that includes the ... of Constantinople (381) or to the later Latin and Armenian versions. ...
    31 KB (3,964 words) - 09:44, 11 March 2023
  • 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 ...
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  • Carpe diem, usually translated as "seize the day" (literally, “pluck the day”), is an expression found in a Latin poem by Horace ...
    8 KB (1,256 words) - 00:38, 29 November 2023
  • as Día de la Raza in many countries in Latin America, as Discovery Day ... ==Latin America== ===Día de la Raza=== The date Columbus arrived in ...
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  • The terms a priori (Latin; “from former”) and a posteriori (Latin; “from later”) refer primarily to species of propositional knowledge ...
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  • Wulfila (Gothic: "Little wolf" or Latin: Ulfilas/Ulphilas) (c. 311 - 380 C.E.) was the apostle of the Goths, missionary, translator ...
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  • nearby is the grotto where Saint Jerome the Latin father and Doctor of the ... removed from their Sees and replaced with Latin clerics. The town prospered ...
    17 KB (2,657 words) - 12:00, 9 May 2024
  • philology in Tübingen in 1877, with a Latin thesis on the ancient Siwa Oasis. Four years later he became a private lecturer at the University ...
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