Search results for "Latin language" - New World Encyclopedia
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- of the skull") is the English-language name given to the hill on ... 'Hebrew', indicating the 'language of the Hebrews', which ...7 KB (1,139 words) - 18:36, 25 November 2023
- redesign and launched its first foreign-language edition, in Japanese. The ... and Arabic, as well as an English-language Newsweek International. ...10 KB (1,451 words) - 23:24, 14 November 2022
- various languages|Alphabets derived from the Latin A collation system ... The order of the Latin alphabet is: A-B-C-D-E-F-G-H-I-J-K-L-M-N-O-P ...17 KB (2,611 words) - 22:32, 7 January 2024
- The English word "asparagus" derives from classical Latin ... grass," thus showing convergent language evolution. ...14 KB (2,081 words) - 04:48, 18 August 2023
- The word sect comes from the Latin sects (from sequire "to follow ... In Latin America, the term "sect" is often applied by Roman ...9 KB (1,258 words) - 02:46, 21 April 2023
- quot; is derived from sixteenth-century New Latin, in turn from Latin thesaurus ... such as medical help book, foreign language phrase handbook, and others ...11 KB (1,593 words) - 18:31, 30 April 2023
- to be defined is known as the definiendum (Latin: that which is to be defined ... Given that a natural language such as English contains, at any given ...17 KB (2,616 words) - 09:12, 28 January 2024
- (basic significant sounds) of the spoken language. This is in contrast to ... A true alphabet has letters for the vowels of a language as well as ...44 KB (6,641 words) - 08:32, 23 July 2023
- of azure." The first part of the name is the Latin lapis, meaning stone. The second part, lazuli, is the genitive form of the medieval Latin lazulum ...11 KB (1,631 words) - 22:35, 22 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
- shtml Prologues of St. Jerome, Latin text] Retrieved February 15, 2008. ... and as they are contained in the old Latin vulgate edition". ...14 KB (2,086 words) - 10:09, 29 January 2024
- (The word "rodent" comes from the Latin word for "gnawing." ... the groundhog (M. monax) is assigned the Latin name monax, for "solitary ...12 KB (1,722 words) - 16:05, 6 November 2022
- in manuscript form, was translated into Latin in 1342 at the request of ... some of these are printed in the early Latin editions of Aristotle’s ...18 KB (2,668 words) - 18:28, 21 May 2024
- according to their regional origin and language). The papal legate decided ... == Latin Averroism: Siger de Brabant == Ibn Rushd or Averroes (1126 ...10 KB (1,606 words) - 14:38, 27 January 2023
- a form of communication that is free of language-specific elements and thus ... Both pictogram and pictography share the same Latin root, pict(us ...12 KB (1,772 words) - 05:12, 24 November 2022
- created through Jerome the standard Latin translation of the Bible ... promulgated the use of a standardized Latin language format for the mass, ...13 KB (2,066 words) - 18:08, 24 January 2024
- the revision of the Russian literary language, and several important scientific ... he obtained admission into the Slavic Greek Latin Academy. There his progress ...9 KB (1,383 words) - 17:53, 9 November 2022
- The book was originally written in Rome, in the Greek language, but ... slave. The text makes use of allegorical language to present its religious ...12 KB (1,907 words) - 14:09, 27 January 2023
- which means "hidden," and then to the Latin crypta, which described a "grotto, or hidden vault," attesting to the will of Church ...11 KB (1,624 words) - 02:11, 15 January 2023
- a common factor: This may be a topic, a language, a period, or some other ... are takes from HLAS Online (Handbook of Latin American Studies Online) ...16 KB (2,316 words) - 03:44, 1 October 2023
