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- Saint Ambrose (c.339 - April 4, 397 C.E.), known in Latin as Ambrosius, was successful bishop of Milan, who was later recognized as one of the ...27 KB (4,266 words) - 02:47, 24 July 2023
- multiplied by this factor. If the prefix is Latin-derived, it is divided. The Greek prefix kilo~ and the Latin prefixes centi~ and milli~ are ...26 KB (4,128 words) - 16:28, 9 November 2022
- in New England. After graduating from Boston Latin School, he attended Harvard University and received a business degree in 1754, when he was 17 ...9 KB (1,251 words) - 05:15, 3 August 2022
- language which had been modified by exposure to Latin. ==Notes== == References == *Bydén, Börje. 2003. Theodore Metochites’ Stoicheiosis astronomike ...8 KB (1,270 words) - 17:58, 30 April 2023
- he even graduated. He did, however, know Latin well, and was familiar with ... were replaced by ministers (from the Latin for servants), with each ...27 KB (4,483 words) - 14:37, 18 August 2023
- and genres, including many Caribbean and Latin American music genres like ... sphere, the importation of music from Latin America, like the rumba, ...35 KB (5,601 words) - 21:41, 27 November 2021
- when a Middle English work borrowed the word from Latin to describe a sandboard abacus. The Latin word came from abakos, the Greek genitive form of ...17 KB (2,684 words) - 07:14, 13 June 2023
- language was French, and he also read Greek, Latin, English, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and, with some difficulty, German. His writings indicate that ...18 KB (2,651 words) - 05:02, 7 May 2024
- boys of his time, studying grammar, arithmetic, and Latin, and was destined to become a Presbyterian minister. However, in 1672 he was forced to leave ...10 KB (1,463 words) - 10:38, 11 May 2023
- In contemporary Latin American narrative, there are Manuel Rojas& ... * MacAdam, Alfred J. Textual Confrontations: Comparative readings ...30 KB (4,326 words) - 20:12, 13 April 2024
- "igneous" is derived from the Latin ignis, meaning "fire ... foliation. The term is derived from the Latin word folia, meaning "leaves ...20 KB (3,012 words) - 02:25, 16 December 2022
- pages of European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages (1953 English ... |E R Curtius|European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages, 1953 ...29 KB (4,250 words) - 03:54, 15 August 2023
- for independence from Spain was made in Latin America, under the leadership ... pressure by the United States and several Latin American nations, all fighting ...30 KB (4,366 words) - 18:03, 12 February 2024
- The name arborvitae comes from the Latin for "tree of life." ==Overview== Arborvitae (Thuja) is a type of conifer. The conifers comprise ...9 KB (1,376 words) - 06:13, 12 August 2023
- :"Remember that you are dust, and unto dust you shall return. (Latin: Memento homo, quia pulvis es, et in pulverem reverteris.)"] ...9 KB (1,392 words) - 04:01, 18 August 2023
- for instance, in 1 John 5:5, and in earlier Latin translations, as shown by ... Greek did not have a distinction corresponding to that in Latin between ...22 KB (3,158 words) - 15:11, 27 April 2023
- School, where he studied Greek and Latin literature. He matriculated at Exeter College, Oxford, studying the Scholastics and ancient authors ...10 KB (1,437 words) - 07:01, 3 August 2022
- Latin = hypophysis, glandula pituitaria | GraySubject = 275 | GrayPage = 1275 | Image = Gray1180.png | Caption = Located at the base of the skull ...11 KB (1,456 words) - 06:20, 24 November 2022
- being one of the most dangerous cities in Latin America. ... had its own university since 1721, teaching Latin, medicine, engineering, and ...33 KB (4,619 words) - 22:11, 25 November 2023
- potato and cassava. The word tuber comes from the Latin verb tumere, meaning "to swell" (Katz and Weaver 2003). Tubers are used by plants ...10 KB (1,640 words) - 18:40, 2 May 2023
