Search results for "Latin language" - New World Encyclopedia
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- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- ), 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
- for the technical terms used in the Latin text. It long remained a standard work, and marks its author as one of the most accomplished chemists ...7 KB (1,117 words) - 16:42, 21 May 2024
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
