Search results for "Latin" - New World Encyclopedia
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- of some works, particularly those in Latin with no Arabic originals ... the acquisition of copies of Greek and Latin authors for translation into ...16 KB (2,525 words) - 08:37, 13 March 2024
- poets. His thorough knowledge of Classical Latin literature, as well as his ... particularly noted for his facility with Latin) Gray never received a degree ...10 KB (1,574 words) - 21:15, 30 April 2023
- it from Syriac into both Greek and Latin. As late as the ninth century ... he translated the work into both Greek and Latin is cited as evidence for ...11 KB (1,737 words) - 14:45, 30 December 2022
- in his Introduction to Categories. A Latin translation of the Introduction ... (usually called the Sententiae; in Latin, Sententiae ad intelligibilia ...10 KB (1,415 words) - 05:40, 30 November 2022
- Pseudo-Dionysius and translated them into Latin while adding his own commentary ... Eriugena's next work was a Latin translation of Dionysius the ...10 KB (1,486 words) - 15:09, 1 August 2022
- Neptune (Latin: Neptūnus) was the god of the sea in Roman mythology. He is most identifiable as a tall, white-bearded figure carrying a trident ...9 KB (1,493 words) - 16:21, 11 November 2022
- forgotten in the West. The few existing Latin translations of Aristotle’s ... Cordova in 1195, many of them exist only as Latin or Hebrew translations. His ...19 KB (2,761 words) - 07:15, 23 August 2023
- The term natural philosophy, or the philosophy of nature (Latin, philosophia naturalis), has several applications, according to its historical ...13 KB (1,838 words) - 22:42, 28 March 2023
- Europe and Latin America constituted minor destinations for post-war ... Brazil has Latin America's largest Koreatown while Koreatowns ...13 KB (1,907 words) - 15:38, 14 April 2023
- Juan Rulfo (May 16, 1918 – January 7, 1986) was one of Latin America's most admired novelists and short story writers. His most commendable ...12 KB (1,960 words) - 06:06, 10 May 2024
- of later ancient lyric poetry, well into the Latin era, is tremendous. It is a testament to his triumphant skill as a poet that, although only ...7 KB (1,079 words) - 06:16, 24 November 2022
- In proof by contradiction (also known as reductio ad absurdum, Latin ... Erat Demonstrandum", which is Latin for "that which was ...9 KB (1,489 words) - 23:56, 1 December 2022
- and classical scholar. Educated at the famous Latin school in Schlettstadt, which produced a number of prominent scholars, and at the University ...12 KB (1,792 words) - 10:18, 26 September 2023
- birds. The name ratite comes from the Latin word for raft (ratis), because their breastbone looks like a raft. Among ratites are included ostriches ...7 KB (1,107 words) - 06:45, 17 July 2022
- during the Rennisance took an interest in Latin and Greek inscriptions, and ... The Duenos Inscription is one of the earliest known Old Latin texts ...14 KB (2,129 words) - 19:07, 13 February 2024
- Liberation theology is a Christian school of theology that developed in Latin America in the 1960s and 1970s, focusing on liberation of the oppressed ...31 KB (4,535 words) - 22:27, 25 October 2022
- ) is a genre of Latin American literature that challenges the role ... Although mostly associated with the Latin American Boom of the 1960s ...35 KB (5,274 words) - 15:31, 5 July 2023
- Bridge of Asses or Pons Asinorum (Latin for "Bridge of Asses") is a term used to refer to a problem that severely tests the ability ...8 KB (1,319 words) - 23:03, 20 November 2023
- ==Latin Fathers== Those fathers who wrote in Latin are called the Latin (Church) Fathers ...21 KB (3,112 words) - 21:58, 10 December 2023
- created through Jerome the standard Latin translation of the Bible ... He promulgated the use of a standardized Latin language format for the mass ...13 KB (2,066 words) - 18:08, 24 January 2024
