Search results for "Latin" - New World Encyclopedia
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- 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
- original was in English; elsewhere he says it was in Latin. To his translation (1530) of a Latin Chronicle and Description of ...10 KB (1,495 words) - 17:39, 25 January 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
- The Great Schism, also called the East-West Schism, divided Christendom into Western (Latin) and Eastern (Greek) branches, which then became ...19 KB (2,956 words) - 19:43, 24 May 2024
- Johannes de Grocheio (Grocheo) (ca. 1255 – ca.1320) was a Parisian musical theorist of the early fourteenth century. His French name was Jean ...3 KB (494 words) - 15:13, 1 August 2022
- In Greek mythology, a nymph, from the Latin word nympha, is any member ... claims that the word nymph comes from the Latin nympha, which is the Latinized ...13 KB (2,065 words) - 19:37, 17 November 2022
- as different. It derives from the Latin words ad and iacere (Latin ... adjectives and adjectives from French, Latin, Greek, and other languages ...13 KB (1,956 words) - 06:00, 15 June 2023
- a title he shares with Diophantus. Latin translations of his Arithmetic ... Sicily. Later, they were translated into Latin and passed on to universities ...22 KB (3,234 words) - 17:58, 10 November 2022
- ), also Saint Bede, the Venerable Bede, or (from Latin) Beda (IPA: ... He knew some Greek, but no Hebrew. His Latin is generally clear and without ...12 KB (1,884 words) - 10:20, 26 September 2023
- in the affairs of the newly independent Latin American states or potential ... justify unilateral United States influence in Latin America. ...24 KB (3,682 words) - 21:11, 9 November 2022
- 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
