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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
- Old English torr is from Latin turris via Old French tor. The Latin ... with Tusci (from *Turs-ci), the Greek and Latin names for the Etruscans ...12 KB (1,664 words) - 13:44, 28 April 2024
- 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
- The first extensive translation of Aesop into Latin was done by Phaedrus ... has selections from all the major Greek and Latin sources. ...14 KB (2,215 words) - 05:51, 16 June 2023
- The document is a seventh or eighth century Latin manuscript that ... dated it as late as the fourth century. The Latin copy of the text is thought ...13 KB (2,046 words) - 18:59, 10 November 2022
- The Apostles' Creed (Latin: Symbolum Apostolorum) is an early statement of Christian belief, that is widely accepted in western Christianity ...15 KB (2,172 words) - 15:52, 11 August 2023
- José Behar, the former head of the Sony Latin Music division, signed Selena ... appearances alongside Erik Estrada in a Latin soap opera titled Dos Mujeres ...16 KB (2,443 words) - 17:47, 25 January 2023
- research, though much of his work was in Latin for the sake of reaching ... continued to write prolifically (largely in Latin now, with an eye towards ...17 KB (2,487 words) - 21:08, 10 December 2023
- and composed original verses and dialogues in Latin. [[Image:Arthur ... by making them learn a hundred lines of Latin verse by heart and if they ...12 KB (1,837 words) - 17:37, 16 August 2023
- In Roman mythology, Saturn (Latin: Saturnus) was a major Roman deity holding jurisdiction over agriculture and the harvest. Like many of the ...11 KB (1,785 words) - 17:00, 23 December 2022
- assured him a place of distinction in the Latin literature of the Middle Ages. ... earned Alain a place of distinction in the Latin literature of the Middle ...11 KB (1,642 words) - 04:25, 17 June 2023
- of Constantinople (381), to the later Latin version that includes the ... of Constantinople (381) or to the later Latin and Armenian versions. ...31 KB (3,964 words) - 09:44, 11 March 2023
- He became versed in the Greek, Hebrew, and Latin languages. After ordination ... for him and invitations to preach in Latin and German in the University ...11 KB (1,597 words) - 21:24, 30 April 2023
- Carpe diem, usually translated as "seize the day" (literally, “pluck the day”), is an expression found in a Latin poem by Horace ...8 KB (1,256 words) - 00:38, 29 November 2023
- as Día de la Raza in many countries in Latin America, as Discovery Day ... ==Latin America== ===Día de la Raza=== The date Columbus arrived in ...20 KB (2,984 words) - 22:45, 7 January 2024
- The terms a priori (Latin; “from former”) and a posteriori (Latin; “from later”) refer primarily to species of propositional knowledge ...11 KB (1,601 words) - 07:08, 13 June 2023
- Wulfila (Gothic: "Little wolf" or Latin: Ulfilas/Ulphilas) (c. 311 - 380 C.E.) was the apostle of the Goths, missionary, translator ...12 KB (1,877 words) - 14:10, 20 May 2023
- nearby is the grotto where Saint Jerome the Latin father and Doctor of the ... removed from their Sees and replaced with Latin clerics. The town prospered ...17 KB (2,648 words) - 17:59, 29 September 2023
- philology in Tübingen in 1877, with a Latin thesis on the ancient Siwa Oasis. Four years later he became a private lecturer at the University ...9 KB (1,356 words) - 17:20, 26 March 2024
- found at Qumran. Apparently the Old Latin manuscripts are also translated ... Tobit: The Text in Aramaic, Hebrew, and Old Latin with English Translations ...8 KB (1,317 words) - 15:33, 30 January 2024
- The English word "asparagus" derives from classical Latin, but the plant was once known in English (prior to 1400) as "asperages ...14 KB (2,081 words) - 04:48, 18 August 2023
- different stories about his death. The Latin writer Gaius Julius Hyginus ... Latin sources add that Oenopion was the son of Dionysus, and Dionysus ...11 KB (1,784 words) - 02:16, 18 November 2022
- theologian, the last of the Western Latin Fathers, and an encyclopaedist ... a remarkably short time, Isidore mastered Latin, Greek, and Hebrew. It is ...18 KB (2,717 words) - 06:05, 8 March 2024
- three versions, two in Greek and one in Latin. It may be summarized as follows: ... due to the fact that her name resembles the Latin word agnus, which means ...11 KB (1,796 words) - 06:46, 16 June 2023
- criticism of the character of Vulgar Latin (Late Latin) literature. ... rediscovering and republishing the classic Latin and Greek texts. He wanted ...17 KB (2,782 words) - 22:19, 25 January 2024
- became visible. Lester taught himself Latin, Greek, German, Russian, Japanese, and Hebrew. After his family moved to Myersburg, Pennsylvania ...9 KB (1,301 words) - 22:02, 25 October 2022
- debate. Some suggest it is derived from the Latin family name Artorius, meaning ... Major, or the Great Bear. The Classical Latin Arcturus would have become ...21 KB (3,215 words) - 11:02, 16 August 2023
- sensualism. He wrote in Italian rather than Latin, to make his ideas more accessible ... in Italian rather than the traditional Latin, and was always concerned ...9 KB (1,233 words) - 05:40, 11 August 2023
- He not only practiced medicine, but edited Latin works for the printer Sebastian ... creative. He introduced dozens of Greek, Latin, and Italian loan-words and ...11 KB (1,822 words) - 09:39, 11 April 2024
- Movement throughout Europe and Latin America. The Constructivist Movement had an enormous impact on the modern masters of Latin America, such ...9 KB (1,167 words) - 18:57, 19 May 2020
- The word "porphyry" is derived from a Latin term that means "purple." Purple was the color of royalty, and the "Imperial ...8 KB (1,217 words) - 05:39, 30 November 2022
- crowns. Others think the name stems from the Latin "carnis" (flesh), which refers to the original color of the flower, or incarnacyon (incarnation ...10 KB (1,415 words) - 00:27, 29 November 2023
- The word, "percussion," has evolved from the Latin terms: ... *Latin percussion *Tabla *Dhol *Dholak *Berimbau *Timbal ...13 KB (1,907 words) - 00:31, 24 November 2022
- roles in church governance. Derived from the Latin term cardo (meaning "hinge"), their title and position is indicative of the pivotal role ...9 KB (1,483 words) - 19:13, 26 November 2023
- university. In the past, subjects such as Latin and Greek were emphasized ... In medieval times, the importance of Latin in government and religion ...25 KB (3,841 words) - 12:15, 24 January 2023
- rhythmic elements of Caribbean and Latin folk music into his own. As Frederick Starr pointed out, these rhythmic elements "anticipate ragtime ...9 KB (1,339 words) - 07:55, 9 March 2023
- friends he obtained admission into the Slavic Greek Latin Academy. There his progress was very rapid, especially in Latin, and in 1734 he was sent from ...9 KB (1,383 words) - 17:53, 9 November 2022
- are takes from HLAS Online (Handbook of Latin American Studies Online) ... Austin, Tex., Univ. of Texas, Institute of Latin American Studies, 1970. 268 ...16 KB (2,316 words) - 03:44, 1 October 2023
- Authority (Latin auctoritas, used in Roman law as opposed to potestas and imperium) is a key concept in political philosophy. Authority is a ...10 KB (1,553 words) - 19:17, 22 August 2023
- one has yet translated from the Greek into Latin the thirteen Books of Diophantus ... The first Latin translation of Arithmetica was by Bombelli who translated ...16 KB (2,463 words) - 15:25, 29 January 2024
- Georgian, Old Slavonic, Armenian, Arabic, Irish and Latin. Though no early Latin versions are known, it was relegated to the apocrypha in the Gelasian ...10 KB (1,588 words) - 12:08, 24 January 2023
- in use today, the most popular being the Latin alphabet (which was derived ... The English word alphabet came into Middle English from the Late Latin ...44 KB (6,641 words) - 08:32, 23 July 2023
- , and Metanoia (Afterthought, the female Latin Paenitentia) is in the cathedral ... such as Disticha Catonis, refer to the Latin concept of Occasio (a female ...9 KB (1,381 words) - 22:33, 4 October 2022
- html Benjamin Wade, 1800 - 1878], The Latin Library at Ad Fontes Academy ... html Benjamin Wade, 1800 - 1878] The Latin Library at Ad Fontes Academy ...13 KB (2,015 words) - 09:47, 28 September 2023
- of early psychosomatic medicine. The id (Latin, "it" in English ... called libido, "I desire" in Latin. Libido came to mean the ...17 KB (2,701 words) - 23:59, 12 February 2024
- These early performances were given in Latin, and were preceded by a vernacular ... Vernacular performances quickly usurped Latin, and great pains were taken ...17 KB (2,612 words) - 02:40, 11 March 2023
- a great advance for the West, because the Latin alphabet requires precise ... of knowledge was the decline of Latin as the language of most published ...16 KB (2,311 words) - 18:44, 29 April 2023
- In the Roman Catholic Church, a Doctor of the Church (Latin doctor, teacher, from Latin docere, to teach) is a saint from whose writings the ...14 KB (1,860 words) - 16:32, 29 January 2024
- Eckhart expressed himself both in learned Latin for the clergy in ... in the vernacular, and those written in Latin. The works written in the ...18 KB (2,801 words) - 04:17, 9 November 2022
- Latin for "guilty act," in assault, this occurs when one ... The mens rea (Latin for "guilty mind") is that this fear ...11 KB (1,639 words) - 05:00, 18 August 2023
- quot; Italian, instead of the traditional Latin, making him a key participant ... a teacher, and they both studied under the Latin scholar Brunetto Latini as ...14 KB (2,323 words) - 08:01, 8 January 2024
- Johannes Müller von Königsberg (June 6, 1436 – July 6, 1476), known by his Latin pseudonym Regiomontanus, was an important German mathematician ...15 KB (2,318 words) - 03:03, 8 December 2022
- on metaphysics which was translated into Latin in 1150. His concept of the ... in Arabic around 1049. Translated into Latin as Fons Vitae, it was widely ...24 KB (3,826 words) - 01:00, 4 February 2023
- the stricter sense, we speak of ballroom or Latin American dances as two different ... and feet three eighths, ending in the "Latin Cross" foot position ...13 KB (2,099 words) - 20:44, 20 August 2022
- few students and since he wrote in Latin his approach did not impact ... by the annals of Eutychius in Arabic and Latin. He also gave active assistance ...17 KB (2,663 words) - 15:59, 21 December 2021
- Although a fragment has been found of a thirteenth century Latin translation from the Arabic, it was not until 1661, that Giovanni Alfonso Borelli ...10 KB (1,574 words) - 15:46, 11 August 2023
- all the Jews of the capital city of Susa (Latin Seleucia, modern Shush in ... Additions to Esther account for six appended chapters in the Latin ...13 KB (2,127 words) - 07:27, 17 November 2023
- The word cymbal is derived from the Latin cymbalum, "Cymbalum ... *Lewis, Charlton T., and Charles Short. A Latin Dictionary : Based ...15 KB (2,396 words) - 20:32, 28 December 2023
- The word "thesaurus" is derived from sixteenth-century New Latin, in turn from Latin thesaurus, from ancient Greek θησαυρός ...11 KB (1,593 words) - 18:31, 30 April 2023
- foundation, adapted from caelum, the Latin word for "sky." Robert Graves, among others, has suggested that the name Ouranos may be ...9 KB (1,482 words) - 13:41, 3 May 2023
- The term apsis is derived from the Latin word apsis, meaning "arch ... perinigricon and aponigricon (from the Latin) appeared in the scientific ...10 KB (1,484 words) - 15:57, 11 August 2023
- In Latin America in the 1970s, base communities, a form of a cell church, were organized among the poorest groups of people by priests desiring ...10 KB (1,587 words) - 23:45, 3 December 2023
- they are being replaced by standard Latin numerals although they are ... still use proprietary fonts that convert Latin ASCII codes to Gurmukhi glyphs. ...20 KB (2,621 words) - 06:17, 10 January 2024
- Scotus Eriugena's ninth century Latin translation of the writing ... * Gersh, S. 1986. Middle Platonism and Neo-platonism: The Latin Tradition ...11 KB (1,605 words) - 16:18, 11 November 2022
- revelations, which were translated into Latin and became popular throughout ... revelations, which were translated into Latin by Matthias, the canon of ...16 KB (2,415 words) - 23:04, 20 November 2023
- Sede vacante (Latin for "the seat being vacant"), refers to the vacancy of the episcopal see of a particular church in the Canon law ...11 KB (1,583 words) - 20:19, 26 December 2023
- on the laws of Spain, France, the larger Latin American countries, Eastern ... Law library began keeping a card index to Latin American laws sometime during ...19 KB (2,884 words) - 06:58, 4 March 2023
- Both the Latin word cedrus and the generic name Cedrus are derived from the Greek kedros. Ancient Greek and Latin used the same word, kedros ...10 KB (1,494 words) - 23:43, 3 December 2023
- A definition is a statement of the meaning of a term, word or phrase. The term to be defined is known as the definiendum (Latin: that which is ...17 KB (2,616 words) - 09:12, 28 January 2024
- Pietro Pomponazzi (also known by his Latin name, Petrus Pomionatius) (September 16, 1462 – May 18, 1525) was an Italian philosopher. He was ...11 KB (1,608 words) - 05:29, 24 November 2022
- Utrecht, 1713, printed in English, Spanish and Latin.]] ... (text in English, Spanish, and the original Latin). Category:History ...11 KB (1,634 words) - 15:00, 2 May 2023
- Εσδρας Β′ (2 Esdras). However, the Latin Vulgate version of the Bible ... thus had to be reconstructed from an early Latin translation. It is generally ...11 KB (1,713 words) - 06:31, 13 June 2023
- , ("katelthonta eis ta katôtata"); Latin, descendit ad ... ("the lowest") and the Latin inferos ("those below ...14 KB (2,171 words) - 13:30, 24 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
- "Cogito, ergo sum" (Latin: "I am thinking, therefore I exist," or traditionally "I think, therefore I am") is a ...12 KB (1,920 words) - 22:26, 7 January 2024
- The origin of the name is traceable to the Medieval Latin borax, which comes from the Arabic buraq, which comes from either the Persian burah ...10 KB (1,388 words) - 19:37, 20 November 2023
- by European scholars of classical Latin and Greek texts. As a reaction ... literary presentation and by introducing Latin translations of Greek classical ...16 KB (2,260 words) - 19:10, 19 August 2023
- on the Song of Songs, of which only the Latin translation survives. ... are found in the ancient editions of the Latin Vulgate, as sacred and canonical ...29 KB (4,388 words) - 06:03, 11 August 2023
- |patronage=embroiderers; gardeners; India; Latin America; people ridiculed ... on August 23, although in Peru and other Latin American countries her feast ...10 KB (1,614 words) - 00:52, 23 December 2022
- and a young Jewish physician was his tutor in Latin, but he was mainly self-educated. With his scanty earnings he bought a Latin copy of John Locke ...14 KB (2,061 words) - 16:58, 10 November 2022
- in Italy is the lyceum, where students study Latin and English for five years between the ages of fourteen and eighteen. There are several types ...14 KB (2,070 words) - 03:09, 5 November 2022
- *The motto of the Church of Scotland is Nec tamen consumebatur, Latin ... Church in Ireland, which uses the Latin motto Ardens sed virens, ...11 KB (1,770 words) - 06:58, 21 April 2023
- extant record of the word itself is the Latin form ontologia, which appeared ... It is likely the word was first used in its Latin form by philosophers based ...15 KB (2,218 words) - 00:43, 18 November 2022
- beside the Epistle of James in several Latin manuscripts of the New Testament ... #There is also an old Latin version of the first 17 chapters which ...15 KB (2,310 words) - 19:10, 13 February 2024
- with a translation of each annal into Latin. One (the Peterborough Chronicle ... *Æthelweard wrote a translation of the Chronicle into Latin in the ...32 KB (4,981 words) - 06:00, 28 July 2023
- Annulment is the dissolution of a marriage. The word comes from the ... impediments (which no longer exist in the Latin Code, CIC83) make entering ...12 KB (1,862 words) - 05:11, 31 July 2023
- the Crusaders, causing the rulers of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem into ... leaving Jerusalem in Muslim hands and the Latin Kingdom in possession of ...16 KB (2,458 words) - 00:59, 23 December 2022
- The Vatican Library (Latin: Bibliotheca Apostolica Vaticana) is the library of the Holy See, currently located in Vatican City. It is one of ...18 KB (2,595 words) - 14:42, 3 May 2023
- ===Latin Grammy Awards=== Latin Grammy Awards The concept of a separate Grammy Awards for Latin music recorded in ...32 KB (4,552 words) - 19:47, 20 February 2023
- The name has existed since antiquity; in the Latin of the Romans (Ancient Latin) it was Mare Superum; in medieval Latin it was Mare Hadriaticum ...13 KB (2,044 words) - 06:18, 15 June 2023
- famous "Gutenberg Bible" was the Latin Vulgate but it was not long ... de Altavilla in 1418—Altavilla is the Latin form of Eltville am Rhein. ...16 KB (2,461 words) - 15:05, 1 August 2022
- The name malachite derives (via Latin and French) from the Greek word molochitis, meaning "mallow-green stone." That, in turn, may ...5 KB (681 words) - 06:33, 5 November 2022
- the domesticated silkworm, Bombyx mori (Latin: "Silkworm of the mulberry ... of the domesticated silkworm, Bombyx mori (Latin: "silkworm of the mulberry ...11 KB (1,544 words) - 16:13, 10 November 2022
- Persian: زكريای رازی Zakaria ye Razi; Latin: Rhazes or Rasis). According to al-Biruni he was born in Rayy, Iran in the year 865 C.E. (251 a ...24 KB (3,833 words) - 01:39, 8 December 2022
- English periurie, which in turn comes from the Latin peririum.[http://www.yourdictionary.com/ahd/p/p0198200.html Perjury] YourDictionary.com. Retrieved ...11 KB (1,741 words) - 17:57, 26 March 2023
- , 45. Retrieved February 18, 2023. Latin grammar developed by following ... Latinas contrapuesto el romance al Latin, and the first Spanish grammar ...25 KB (3,469 words) - 22:17, 30 March 2023
- extreme. The name is derived from the Latin sol (sun) and sistere (to ... This modern scientific word descends from a Latin scientific word in use in ...25 KB (3,968 words) - 19:48, 28 August 2023
- quot; are both derived from the Vulgar Latin locusta, which was originally ... English translations of Ancient Greek and Latin natural histories, as well ...14 KB (2,045 words) - 07:50, 9 March 2023
- Confucian texts into a European language, Latin. In 1601, Ricci became the ... as several Chinese Confucian texts into Latin. Xu Guang-qi became the first ...16 KB (2,411 words) - 14:32, 20 May 2023
- 5, 1099, by Arnulf Malecorne, the first Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, conveniently ... wear upon their persons." Even two Latin inscriptions around 350 C ...22 KB (3,738 words) - 18:26, 2 May 2023
- The word 'polygon' comes from Late Latin polygōnum (a noun ... | heptagon (avoid "septagon" = Latin [sept-] + Greek) || 7 ...23 KB (3,520 words) - 08:42, 24 November 2022
- originated as an anglicized version of the Latin gentilis, meaning belonging ... The Latin term gentilis relates to gens, from which also derive gene ...20 KB (3,103 words) - 06:50, 18 April 2024
- Vellian 2001. The Portuguese started a Latin diocese in Goa (1534) and ... In the ancient times it was called "Muziris" in Latin and ...27 KB (3,937 words) - 22:35, 11 January 2024
- works influenced later Christian (Greek and Latin), Islamic, and Jewish thought ... the Existence of Evils are extant only in Latin translation. ...21 KB (3,257 words) - 23:05, 30 November 2022
- The word vaccination is variously attributed to the Latin root vacca, meaning "cow," or from Latin root vaccinia. The vaccinia virus ...11 KB (1,623 words) - 00:16, 15 January 2023
- in his life. Only after he had mastered Latin did he begin to express himself ... Testament to prepare for a new edition and Latin translation. This edition ...25 KB (3,912 words) - 19:18, 13 February 2024
- * 1721, (Principles of Chemistry) Latin: Prodromus principiorum rerum ... * 1722, (Miscellaneous Observations) Latin: Miscellanea de Rebus Naturalibu ...37 KB (5,627 words) - 17:59, 13 February 2024
- Mill had a thorough acquaintance with Greek and Latin literature, ... better, was the second. I learnt no Latin until my eighth year. At ...11 KB (1,705 words) - 08:37, 1 April 2024
- The word "Incubus" is derived from the Latin preposition in, which in this case means "on top of," and cubo, which is Latin ...10 KB (1,633 words) - 19:43, 28 February 2018
- leaves of folio size. In addition to the Latin texts it contained 344 illustrations ... would hardly pass muster in a school of Latin poetry at the present time ...14 KB (2,145 words) - 22:37, 12 February 2022
- culture, similar to the importance of Latin in European culture. There ... languages, closely related to Greek and Latin and most distantly to English ...19 KB (2,849 words) - 03:17, 23 December 2022
- animals. The name rotifer is derived from the Latin word for "wheel-bearer," referring to a characteristic crown of cilia surrounding the mouth ...11 KB (1,517 words) - 21:46, 16 April 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
- instrumentation and initially drew upon Latin American music styles more ... of the group, which blended the earlier Latin music elements with rock ...29 KB (4,117 words) - 21:00, 9 December 2023
- John Charles Chasteen, Born in Blood and Fire: A Concise History of ... in Blood and Fire: A Concise History of Latin America. New York, NY: W ...15 KB (2,102 words) - 16:30, 9 November 2022
- Gediminas' normal Latin style is as follows: * Gedeminne Dei gratia ... simply Koningh van Lettowen, mirroring the Latin Rex Lethowye (both "King ...17 KB (2,688 words) - 06:32, 18 April 2024
- | Latin name = Adrianus VI | image = [[Image:Hadrian VI.jpg|200px]] ... or Deventer. He was also a student of the Latin school in Zwolle. In June ...11 KB (1,609 words) - 09:24, 24 November 2022
- products and services in North America and Latin America. In the United States ... Switzerland and various countries in Asia, Latin America and Central and Eastern ...15 KB (2,077 words) - 16:53, 10 February 2024
- except for Metaphysics, all available by then in Latin translation, as well as with the Islamic philosophers, including Averroes and Avicenna. William ...11 KB (1,755 words) - 15:20, 14 May 2023
- A short autobiography written by Alberti c. 1438, in Latin, and transcribed ... also a scholar and writer. He also wrote a Latin comedy, Philodoxeos, intended ...24 KB (3,831 words) - 20:08, 25 October 2022
- written in Rome, in the Greek language, but a Latin translation was made very shortly afterwards. Some say this was done by the original author as a ...12 KB (1,907 words) - 14:09, 27 January 2023
- various church traditions. In Hispanic and Latin culture, as well as some ... Christian cultures, especially those of Latin America and some in Europe ...16 KB (2,587 words) - 19:09, 13 February 2024
- tongues derive. His father began to teach him Latin, but ceased on discovering the boy's greater inclination and aptitude for mathematical studies ...10 KB (1,522 words) - 17:59, 27 July 2023
- periods. Though there is now no known text in Latin or Greek, similarities between the Ethiopian book and references in other extant European texts suggest ...11 KB (1,772 words) - 11:37, 5 February 2022
- An aqueduct is an artificial channel that is constructed to convey water from one location to another. The word is derived from the Latin aqua ...12 KB (1,676 words) - 15:59, 11 August 2023
- Paganism (from Latin paganus, meaning "a country dweller or rustic") is a term that has been used from antiquity to derogatorily denote ...24 KB (3,484 words) - 10:58, 11 March 2023
- *krno- which would later develop into the Latin cornu and the Germanic *hurnaz ... Judaeo-Christian week was also called in Latin Dies Saturni ("Day of ...12 KB (1,860 words) - 20:30, 3 June 2020
- of the Church and one of the four great Latin Fathers of the Church (the ... even in English-language histories by its Latin title, Magna Moralia. ...18 KB (2,721 words) - 14:47, 31 January 2023
- [[Image:Latin dictionary.jpg|thumb|250px|right|A multi-volume Latin ... were glossaries of French, Italian, or Latin words, along with definitions ...22 KB (3,268 words) - 14:12, 29 January 2024
- * Crow, John Armstrong. The Epic of Latin America. Berkeley, CA: University ... * Harvey, Robert. Liberators: Latin America's Struggle for Independence ...15 KB (2,196 words) - 17:13, 29 September 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
- In Greek mythology, Daedalus (Latin, also Hellenized Latin Daedalos, Greek Daidalos (Δαίδαλος) meaning "cunning worker," and ...11 KB (1,708 words) - 07:41, 12 January 2024
- After this, Anne became very popular in the Latin church as well, even spawning ... Saint Anne was not venerated much by the Latin Church before the thirteenth ...16 KB (2,499 words) - 20:47, 17 April 2023
- Roger Bacon. Grosseteste introduced Latin translations of Greek and ... Grosseteste wrote a number of early works in Latin and French while ...16 KB (2,394 words) - 05:05, 15 December 2022
- roughly translates as "terrible." The Latin form, Gorgonem, is the origin of the English word. From Latin also comes the words Gorgoneion, ...11 KB (1,834 words) - 04:53, 26 December 2022
- such as Thomas Aquinas used the Latin word "existere" ... It was only in the Middle Ages that the Latin word "exsistere" ...25 KB (3,698 words) - 10:29, 26 September 2023
- # The Latin lolium, tares (mingled with the Catholic wheat); ... decades of the fourteenth century; but the Latin lolium (tares) an interesting ...12 KB (1,874 words) - 21:01, 3 November 2022
- some other parts of Europe, and much of Latin America. ... combined-America model is taught in Latin America, the Iberian Peninsula ...22 KB (3,308 words) - 19:07, 19 May 2020
- Shakespeare of having learned "Little Latin and less Greek," and ... In general outline, this play follows Latin models quite closely. ...17 KB (2,769 words) - 09:06, 27 September 2023
- qanun fil-tibb), which was translated into Latin in the twelfth century, and ... was modeled on the works of Aristotle. Its Latin translation was widely read ...23 KB (3,644 words) - 07:16, 23 August 2023
- July 15, 2008.), found in several older Latin codices, are now widely believed to have been written by Marcion or one of his followers. Harnack ...17 KB (2,698 words) - 11:11, 9 March 2023
- Epic poetry in Latin continued to be written and circulated well into the nineteenth century. John Milton and even Arthur Rimbaud got their first ...12 KB (1,804 words) - 10:51, 19 December 2023
- verisimilitude.” As Royal Professor of Latin Eloquence, it was Vico’s ... second Scienza Nuova. Through an elaborate Latin etymology, Vico establishes ...17 KB (2,637 words) - 20:24, 14 December 2023
- the figure (the "corpus" - Latin for "body") of Christ. ... The term "crucifixion" derives from the Late Latin crucifixionem ...29 KB (4,573 words) - 06:30, 11 January 2024
- Laterite (from the Latin word later, meaning "brick" or "tile") is a surface formation that is enriched in iron and aluminum ...6 KB (789 words) - 17:48, 25 October 2022
- College, where he studied the classics in Greek and Latin. Moore enrolled in Cambridge University at the age of 18, and, having already mastered Greek ...13 KB (2,040 words) - 07:29, 15 April 2024
- was described as either cis (Latin, "on this side") or trans (Latin, "across"). (The terms cis and trans are also used to ...14 KB (2,096 words) - 05:56, 11 March 2024
- the word "census" coming from Latin "censere," meaning ... from ancient Rome, coming from the Latin word 'censere' ...12 KB (1,796 words) - 23:49, 3 December 2023
- Alluvium (from the Latin alluvius, from alluere, meaning "to wash against") is soil or sediment deposited by a river or other running ...5 KB (763 words) - 08:15, 23 July 2023
- The name "garnet" comes from the Latin granatus ("grain" ... "carbuncle" is derived from the Latin meaning "little spark ...18 KB (2,682 words) - 04:33, 18 April 2024
- its authors. It formed the basis of the Old Latin versions and is still used ... The Septuagint derives its name from the Latin phrase septuaginta ...32 KB (4,408 words) - 19:48, 21 April 2023
- literary figures of the postwar period in Latin America. He founded and edited ... This brought to him much animosity from the Latin American left and some university ...11 KB (1,620 words) - 23:51, 17 November 2022
