Search results for "Latin" - New World Encyclopedia
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- journey through the northern seas to Russia with Latin quotations, referring to the classical Mediterranean world. However, the allusions to ancient ...8 KB (1,181 words) - 06:43, 1 April 2024
- the conflict be resolved by consent of the Latin American countries involved ... beginnings of a friendlier policy toward Latin America. Ironically Garfield ...23 KB (3,377 words) - 21:14, 20 March 2024
- of Livy was the most important literary find in Latin. The classical author who has most benefited from the finds at Oxyrhynchus is the Athenian ...19 KB (2,886 words) - 06:03, 18 November 2022
- 238. They gave the new element the name brevium (Latin brevis, meaning brief or short). The name was changed to protoactinium in 1918, when two groups ...9 KB (1,150 words) - 08:16, 2 December 2022
- dramatist, and writer of the Silver Age of Latin literature. During the times ... which are the only surviving examples of Latin tragic drama. There is no ...18 KB (2,996 words) - 09:45, 26 January 2023
- century, originally a French word that combined the Latin cuneus, which translates as "a wedge" with the French forme, to create cunéiforme ...19 KB (2,782 words) - 06:45, 12 January 2024
- at the 19th International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association ... at the 19th International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association ...17 KB (2,657 words) - 09:15, 27 September 2023
- *Persius. Satiers of Persius Flaccus (Latin texts and commentaries). Ayer Co Pub, 1979. *Ramsey, G. G. (trans.). Juvenal and Persius. Loeb Classical ...9 KB (1,391 words) - 00:44, 24 November 2022
- was an avid reader, and began his study of Latin when he was three. At Westminster School he won a reputation for writing Latin and Greek ...18 KB (2,665 words) - 07:56, 3 April 2024
- most influential figures in the history of Latin American literature. Neruda ... century, especially associated with Latin American authors, that introduced ...16 KB (2,513 words) - 06:10, 18 November 2022
- A number of versions, especially those in Latin, seem to have been edited ... Acts of John]: abbreviated translation of the Latin version ...18 KB (3,042 words) - 05:43, 15 June 2023
- that of microwave radiation. The name (from the Latin word infra, meaning "below") means "below red." In numerical terms, IR radiation ...10 KB (1,429 words) - 19:21, 5 March 2024
- The word cheese comes from Latin la|caseus , D.P. Simpson, Cassell ... which in turn is an early borrowing from Latin.[https://www.etymonline.com/word/cheese ...37 KB (5,561 words) - 17:22, 24 November 2023
- sive de contemptu linguae Teutonicae in Latin, in 1617. This urged Germans ... *Terpsichore (1795-6)(translations & commentary of the Latin poet ...18 KB (2,775 words) - 14:41, 1 August 2022
- The papacy is the office of the pope (from Latin: "papa" or "father"), the bishop of Rome, who is the leader of the Roman ...30 KB (4,691 words) - 14:08, 7 May 2024
- traveled "rough" throughout Latin America to study and spread ... While a student, Guevara spent long periods traveling around Latin ...45 KB (6,974 words) - 17:59, 7 March 2024
- The word Harpy in English comes from Old French harpie from the Latin Harpyia, which in turn derives from the Greek Άρπυια, or Harpuia ...9 KB (1,453 words) - 22:03, 14 December 2022
- Ars moriendi ("The Art of Dying") is the name of two related Latin texts dating from about 1415 and 1450 C.E. which offer advice on ...9 KB (1,473 words) - 03:59, 15 August 2023
- in the Christianization of the peoples of Latin America and the use of Spanish ... on their tomb renders their names in Latin as "Helizabeth" ...18 KB (2,888 words) - 19:02, 7 March 2024
- In nature, calcium (Latin calcis, meaning "lime") is not ... water for beverages. In Native American and Latin American cooking, corn cooked ...18 KB (2,626 words) - 18:21, 25 November 2023
