Search results for "Latin" - New World Encyclopedia
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- the word "census" coming from Latin "censere," meaning ... from ancient Rome, coming from the Latin word 'censere' ...12 KB (1,796 words) - 23:49, 3 December 2023
- Alluvium (from the Latin alluvius, from alluere, meaning "to wash against") is soil or sediment deposited by a river or other running ...5 KB (763 words) - 08:15, 23 July 2023
- The name "garnet" comes from the Latin granatus ("grain" ... "carbuncle" is derived from the Latin meaning "little spark ...18 KB (2,682 words) - 04:33, 18 April 2024
- its authors. It formed the basis of the Old Latin versions and is still used ... The Septuagint derives its name from the Latin phrase septuaginta ...32 KB (4,408 words) - 19:48, 21 April 2023
- literary figures of the postwar period in Latin America. He founded and edited ... This brought to him much animosity from the Latin American left and some university ...11 KB (1,620 words) - 23:51, 17 November 2022
- poems, one written in Greek, the other in Latin in a volume titled Musa Cantabrigiensis ... be appointed to the post of Assistant Latin Secretary to Cromwell's ...11 KB (1,742 words) - 17:58, 27 July 2023
- The name of the family comes from the Latin Solanum "the nightshade plant," but the further etymology of that word is unclear; it has ...13 KB (1,852 words) - 15:08, 27 April 2023
- Miscegenation (Latin miscere "to mix" + genus "kind ... "Miscegenation" comes from the Latin miscere, "to mix ...21 KB (3,025 words) - 11:09, 10 March 2023
- addresses this issue by employing the Latin letters customarily used ... the multiple sounds of a single Latin symbol, Wade-Giles uses hyphens ...13 KB (1,871 words) - 22:05, 3 May 2023
- 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
- A brief or factum (Latin for "act" or "deed") ... Amicus curiae (plural amici curiae) is a legal Latin phrase, literally ...13 KB (2,127 words) - 23:07, 20 November 2023
- unable to retrieve. --> The Latin name of the college motto, Gloriam Sapientes Possidebunt, derives from chapter 3, verse 35 of the Latin ...14 KB (1,875 words) - 09:54, 26 January 2023
- [[Image:BookOfDurrowBeginMarkGospel.jpg|thumb|right|Beginning of a ... Galilee or the surrounding area. Mark uses Latin versions of Greek words in ...15 KB (2,392 words) - 20:38, 17 May 2023
- The ruby (from the Latin word ruber, meaning "red," or rubeus, meaning "reddish") is a well-known red gemstone. It is considered ...12 KB (1,706 words) - 21:48, 16 April 2023
- The word falcon comes from its Latin name falco, related to Latin ... or tiercel (American English), from Latin tertius, meaning "third ...17 KB (2,440 words) - 01:46, 29 June 2022
- | Latin = | GraySubject = 253 | GrayPage = 1221 ... | Latin = tubulus renalis | GraySubject = 253 | GrayPage = 1223 ...14 KB (2,036 words) - 16:20, 11 November 2022
- three long poems written in French, Latin, and English respectively ... influence on his poetry; and like the Latin master, Gower's poetry ...27 KB (4,375 words) - 05:14, 3 August 2022
- for his single-handed composition of a new Latin translation of the Bible ... himself with the best examples of Latin and Greek literature, all ...33 KB (5,192 words) - 19:50, 22 December 2022
- Both pictogram and pictography share the same Latin root, pict(us), which roughly translates as "painting." It can be combined with ...12 KB (1,772 words) - 05:12, 24 November 2022
- The English term “substance” comes from the Latin terms sub (“under”) and stare (“to stand”). This is a translation of the Greek term ...12 KB (1,836 words) - 21:25, 26 February 2023
