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- 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
- was just beginning to take hold in the Latin West, to theological studies ... of philosophy and theology and his Latin style attracted many students ...12 KB (1,817 words) - 14:26, 18 July 2023
- the Nature of Things”), a masterpiece of Latin verse which sets out in careful ... Lucretius' writing is unparalleled in Latin literature, with the possible ...13 KB (2,021 words) - 02:28, 5 November 2022
- the classics and most likely was fluent in Latin and Greek. For centuries ... #039;s progressive ideas. Apart from Latin and Greek, the curriculum ...12 KB (1,976 words) - 21:20, 30 April 2023
- in Havana in 1943. Since then, other Latin-American band leaders such ... dance pro known as the "Mambo King of Latin Dance." Steadily building ...10 KB (1,553 words) - 06:41, 5 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
- Caliburn, used in Geoffrey of Monmouth (Latin Caliburnus). "Caliburnus ... Excalibur was originally derived from the Latin phrase Ex calce liberatus ...13 KB (2,142 words) - 23:53, 24 March 2024
- between Catholic and Orthodox traditions. The Latin term filioque means "and [from] the son," referring to whether the Holy Spirit "proceeds ...16 KB (2,507 words) - 19:46, 26 March 2024
- Scholasticism, from the Latin word scholasticus ("that [which] belongs to the school) was a method of learning taught by the academics ...14 KB (1,990 words) - 17:20, 25 January 2023
- book was first published anonymously, in Latin, ca. 1418; several other ... the time, 400 different editions. Some 545 Latin and about 900 French editions ...10 KB (1,599 words) - 22:58, 30 April 2023
