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- Boogaloo (shing-a-ling, popcorn music) is a musical genre of Latin music and dance that was very popular in the United States in the late 1960s ...5 KB (835 words) - 16:13, 15 March 2023
- INRI is an acronym of the Latin phrase IESVS·NAZARENVS·REX·IVDÆORVM (Jesus Nazarenus, rex Judæorum), which translates into English as "Jesus ...11 KB (1,534 words) - 20:14, 29 March 2024
- he feared it would adversely influence his Latin style. He was a popular teacher ... modern life. Its members adopted Greek and Latin names, met on the Quirinal ...9 KB (1,365 words) - 21:15, 4 October 2022
- and education. His extensive knowledge of Latin and Greek equipped him to ... and endangered his life several times. His Latin scholarship eventually gained ...13 KB (2,004 words) - 02:43, 4 November 2022
- Salsa music is a diverse musical genre that is popular across Latin America and among Latinos abroad. Incorporating multiple styles and variations ...13 KB (2,004 words) - 01:54, 23 December 2022
- The original version is in rhyming Latin verse, and contains a series ... in illuminated manuscript form, and in Latin. Many copies were made, and ...10 KB (1,439 words) - 19:13, 7 February 2023
- Marsilio Ficino (also known by his Latin name, Marsilius Ficinus) (October 19, 1433 – October 1, 1499) was one of the most influential humanist ...12 KB (1,803 words) - 16:15, 6 November 2022
- Saint John Cassian (ca. 360 – 433 C.E.) (Latin: Jo(h)annes Eremita Cassianus, Joannus Cassianus, or Joannes Massiliensis) is a Christian theologian ...9 KB (1,360 words) - 19:50, 22 December 2022
- of the outstanding figures of the Silver Latin period, and he is often ranked ... Lucan's place in the history of Latin literature is somewhat ...9 KB (1,450 words) - 04:18, 4 November 2022
- *Latin equivalent of simple 4/4: [[Image:Latin transformation.PNG|550px ... rhythmic elements of Caribbean and Latin folk music into his compositions ...8 KB (1,228 words) - 18:11, 24 October 2022
- Marcus Valerius Martialis, known in English as Martial, was a Latin poet from present-day Spain, best known for his twelve books of Epigrams ...9 KB (1,468 words) - 16:29, 6 November 2022
- that cut a person off from God's grace. In Latin and English, the Seven Deadly Sins are: superbia (pride), avaritia (greed), luxuria (extravagance ...16 KB (2,583 words) - 10:07, 26 January 2023
- anthems set to English words, although Latin continued to be used. Following ... anthems, although the practice of setting Latin texts continued, growing ...6 KB (933 words) - 22:55, 30 April 2023
- in his orchard. After attending the Roxbury Latin School, he studied medicine ... and the other on the grounds of the Roxbury Latin School; the third is in the ...8 KB (1,148 words) - 02:10, 11 August 2022
- Aristotle in the twelfth century, through Latin translations of the Arabic ... During the thirteenth century, Latin translations of the works of ...13 KB (1,953 words) - 07:15, 23 August 2023
- Adelard of Bath (Latin: Adelardus Bathensis) (1116? - 1142?) was a twelfth century English scholar, best known for translating many important ...13 KB (1,951 words) - 05:50, 15 June 2023
- author to write theological works in Latin. Before Victor's time ... ===Promoter of Latin=== Jerome calls Pope Victor the first Latin writer ...14 KB (2,181 words) - 04:06, 26 November 2022
- despite his advocacy of classical Latin as the language of high art ... his time studying, particularly classical Latin, and in particular the works ...11 KB (1,750 words) - 01:38, 24 November 2022
- typeset) and both in (modern scientific) Latin. For example, the lion is ... are popularly known as the "Latin name" of the species ...15 KB (2,296 words) - 23:46, 11 January 2023
- student of literature, and his knowledge of Latin poetry in particular was ... in 1892 he was offered the professorship of Latin at University College London ...10 KB (1,687 words) - 06:50, 13 June 2023
- Modus Ponens (Latin: mode that affirms; often abbreviated as MP) is ... Modus Tollens (Latin for "mode that denies" abbreviated ...6 KB (1,057 words) - 19:28, 9 November 2022
- a number of critics; he was barred from the Latin canon of poets, and was almost ... became one of the "canonical" Latin poets taught to all Roman ...12 KB (1,947 words) - 16:18, 3 December 2023
- that its early chapters—found only in Latin manuscripts but in not Greek ... and numbering of this book. Some early Latin manuscripts call it "3 ...13 KB (2,222 words) - 06:43, 13 June 2023
- that have survived—in Arabic and Latin—both relied on texts that ... An Old Latin version of Tatian's Syriac text appears to have ...13 KB (1,861 words) - 11:57, 29 January 2024
- The Augsburg Confession (known in Latin as Confessio Augustana), is the primary confession of faith used in the Lutheran Church and one of the ...11 KB (1,732 words) - 18:28, 21 August 2023
- classical Greek logic to medieval Latin scholars. Born into a high ... to transmit classical Greek knowledge to Latin audiences. Several of his ...11 KB (1,637 words) - 06:07, 28 July 2023
- poet, educator and diplomat who was the first Latin American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 1945. Though her personal life was often struck ...12 KB (1,797 words) - 07:38, 15 April 2024
- When braille is adapted to languages which do not use the Latin alphabet ... which is based on Zhuyin rather than the Latin Pinyin alphabet, the traditional ...14 KB (2,290 words) - 22:35, 20 November 2023
- his knowledge of Greek to create the first Latin treatises explaining the ... in 359 and 360, he attempted to express in Latin the theological subtleties ...12 KB (1,797 words) - 13:14, 22 January 2024
- was a linguistic prodigy, learning Greek, Latin, Persian, Arabic, and the ... certain resemblance to classical Greek and Latin. In The Sanscrit Language ...9 KB (1,304 words) - 11:08, 10 May 2023
- He continued his career mostly working on Latin and Italian language ... From 1823 to 1824, his revised edition of Wenck's Latin Grammar ...9 KB (1,297 words) - 06:55, 18 April 2024
- from poor families and instructed them in Latin and Greek, wrote psalms and ... of the "Greek" (Orthodox) and Latin churches. ...11 KB (1,769 words) - 14:51, 15 December 2022
- names, and those which do not use the Latin alphabet cannot be expected ... though each consists letters of the Latin alphabet - they are symbols ...10 KB (1,624 words) - 14:39, 5 December 2023
- ball, which in turn originates from the Latin word ballare which means ... categories: International Style Standard, Latin American, American Style ...17 KB (2,435 words) - 05:57, 26 August 2023
- Advent (from the Latin Adventus, "coming," sc. Redemptoris, " the coming of the Savior"), a term used in Christian tradition ...6 KB (941 words) - 06:21, 15 June 2023
- actively engaged with leftist causes in Latin America, openly supporting ... to the development of the genre in Latin America, emancipating it ...9 KB (1,243 words) - 21:13, 4 October 2022
- and spinal cord. Indeed, the term mater is Latin for "mother," and ... thin and delicate membrane. The word pia in Latin means "soft" or ...12 KB (1,800 words) - 10:31, 10 March 2023
- a reputation as a professor of Greek and Latin literature in Florence, and ... Plutarch, Xenophon, and Lysias into Latin, and carried out the duties ...15 KB (2,444 words) - 04:47, 9 April 2024
- Agostino Nifo (c. 1473 - 1538 or 1545) Latin Augustinus Niphus, or Niphus Suessanus, Niphus also spelled Nyphus, was an Italian philosopher and ...8 KB (1,200 words) - 06:47, 16 June 2023
- Elman Service researched Latin American Indian ethnology, cultural ... European Relations in Colonial and Latin America" (1955), "Kinship ...10 KB (1,368 words) - 17:15, 13 February 2024
- *humanities education (specializing in Classical languages, such as ... usual combination is English, French, and Latin, although sometimes French ...14 KB (2,013 words) - 07:46, 10 January 2024
- As a renowned composer of Mass settings and Latin motets as well as ... Vespers, and sacred motets based on a Latin text. On the other hand, ...6 KB (899 words) - 02:39, 5 November 2022
- Publius Vergilius Maro (October 15, 70 B.C.E. – 19 B.C.E.), known in English as Virgil or Vergil, is a Latin poet, the author of the Eclogues ...15 KB (2,361 words) - 20:33, 3 May 2023
- but also Classical Nahuatl (in the Latin alphabet), Spanish, and occasionally ... The Libellus de Medicinalibus Indorum Herbis (Latin for "Little ...11 KB (1,730 words) - 05:19, 26 August 2023
- to discuss a union between the Greek and Latin Churches, and made several ... about a union between the Greek and Latin Churches and was at that ...17 KB (2,731 words) - 06:49, 18 April 2024
- The Hail Mary or Ave Maria (Latin) is a traditional Christian prayer asking for the intercession of the Virgin Mary, the mother of Jesus. In ...12 KB (1,964 words) - 16:45, 21 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
- end to the tradition of teaching reading in Latin, using the vernacular language ... ones, were taught almost entirely in Latin. In making the vernacular ...12 KB (1,857 words) - 19:49, 22 December 2022
- Reductio ad absurdum, Latin for "reduction to the absurd," traceable back to the Greek ἡ εις άτοπον απαγωγη (hê ...7 KB (1,079 words) - 02:58, 8 December 2022
- 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
- The Athanasian Creed, also known as (Quicumque vult) from its opening Latin words, is a statement of Christian trinitarian doctrine traditionally ...10 KB (1,699 words) - 18:41, 19 August 2023
- == Latin Averroism: Siger de Brabant == Ibn Rushd or Averroes (1126 ... *Mandonnet, P. Siger de Brabant et l’ averroïsme latin au XIIIe ...10 KB (1,606 words) - 14:38, 27 January 2023
- techniques of meter and rhyme, derived from Latin poetry, that are utilized ... years (ninth–eleventh century), in both Latin and the vernacular. Old English ...17 KB (2,716 words) - 06:00, 28 July 2023
- as one of the three canonical poets of Latin literature. Ovid is generally ... bear on the epic legends of the Greek and Latin literature he had assimilated ...14 KB (2,130 words) - 06:01, 18 November 2022
- Mundus Novus ("New World") was a Latin translation of a lost Italian ... made by Vespucci between 1497 and 1504. A Latin translation was published ...12 KB (1,880 words) - 06:51, 25 July 2023
- aspects of this was her taste for elaborate Latin church music. Byrd seems ... He published three collections of Latin motets or Cantiones Sacrae ...10 KB (1,651 words) - 15:42, 6 May 2023
- He was known as the Liberator (Greek: Eleutherios/ Latin: Liber), ... html Senatus consultum de Bacchanalibus in Latin] at The Latin Library. ...10 KB (1,570 words) - 05:25, 26 August 2023
- in Spain. During the twelfth century, new Latin translations from Greek and ... Greek forms, others are derived from Latin equivalents of Aristotle’s ...18 KB (2,450 words) - 06:29, 12 August 2023
- structures such as eparchies, alongside the Latin dioceses. One country, Eritrea ... between the Greek-speaking East and the Latin-speaking West and of rivalry ...27 KB (4,042 words) - 02:32, 1 October 2020
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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) - 07:37, 4 January 2024
- 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
- 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
- A crucifix (from Latin cruci fixus, meaning "one fixed to a cross") is a cross with a representation of Jesus' body, or corpus ...15 KB (2,416 words) - 06:30, 11 January 2024
- Juvenal, an Anglicized form derived from the Latin (Decimus Iunius) Iuvenalis, was a Roman poet active in the late first century and early second ...19 KB (2,900 words) - 21:25, 4 October 2022
- The English word spirit comes from the Latin "spiritus" ("breath") and has several interrelated meanings: Metaphysically ...17 KB (2,627 words) - 21:55, 28 October 2020
- Emanationism is the doctrine that describes all existence as emanating (Latin emanare, "to flow from") from God, the First Reality ...12 KB (1,737 words) - 17:51, 13 February 2024
- and all probably derive, through Vulgar Latin *crosus (not attested), from ... of the Old French adjective magne, from Latin magnus, meaning "large ...8 KB (1,081 words) - 00:21, 15 January 2023
