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- INRI is an acronym of the Latin phrase IESVS·NAZARENVS·REX·IVDÆORVM ... ). During Jesus' crucifixion, a Titulus Crucis (Latin for "Title ...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
- 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
- the translation of the Old Persian language. Grotefend succeeded in ... He continued his career mostly working on Latin and Italian language ...9 KB (1,297 words) - 06:55, 18 April 2024
- 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
- for the humanist desire to reform language and education. His extensive ... and endangered his life several times. His Latin scholarship eventually gained ...13 KB (2,004 words) - 02:43, 4 November 2022
- Saint John Cassian (ca. 360 – 433 C.E.) (Latin: Jo(h)annes Eremita ... Chrysostom ran into theological trouble, Latin-speaking Cassian was sent ...9 KB (1,360 words) - 19:50, 22 December 2022
- that have survived—in Arabic and Latin—both relied on texts that ... There has even been disagreement about what language Tatian used for ...13 KB (1,861 words) - 11:57, 29 January 2024
- Marsilio Ficino (also known by his Latin name, Marsilius Ficinus) ... at Florence University, where he mastered Latin and literature, and continued ...12 KB (1,803 words) - 16:15, 6 November 2022
- 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
- as different. It derives from the Latin words ad and iacere (Latin ... semantic function. For example, such a language might have a verb that means ...13 KB (1,956 words) - 06:00, 15 June 2023
- the basis for a common chemical "language" essential in this ... on a sort of international English language. That organization has recently ...10 KB (1,624 words) - 14:39, 5 December 2023
- The Augsburg Confession (known in Latin as Confessio Augustana), is ... invitation was couched in very peaceful language, it was received with suspicion ...11 KB (1,732 words) - 18:28, 21 August 2023
- but also Classical Nahuatl (in the Latin alphabet), Spanish, and occasionally ... The Codex was originally solely pictorial in nature. Nahuatl language ...11 KB (1,730 words) - 05:19, 26 August 2023
- Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition [http://dictionary ... *humanities education (specializing in Classical languages, such as ...14 KB (2,013 words) - 07:46, 10 January 2024
- author to write theological works in Latin. Before Victor's time ... Jerome calls Pope Victor the first Latin writer in the Church (Chronicon ...14 KB (2,181 words) - 04:06, 26 November 2022
- In mathematics, proofs are often expressed in natural language with ... Although proofs can be written completely in a formal language, for ...9 KB (1,489 words) - 23:56, 1 December 2022
- an exception to this pattern. The French language did not make use of the ... that may be required by a specific language English braille codes the ...14 KB (2,290 words) - 22:35, 20 November 2023
- 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
- Salsa music is a diverse musical genre that is popular across Latin ... The word salsa means sauce in the Spanish language and carries connotations ...13 KB (2,004 words) - 01:54, 23 December 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
- known as (Quicumque vult) from its opening Latin words, is a statement of ... universally rejected. From its internal language, scholars believe it was ...10 KB (1,699 words) - 18:41, 19 August 2023
- a reputation as a professor of Greek and Latin literature in Florence, and ... He studied grammar, rhetoric and the Latin language at the University of ...15 KB (2,444 words) - 04:47, 9 April 2024
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- known in English as Virgil or Vergil, is a Latin poet, the author of the Eclogues ... of Tours who read Virgil and some other Latin poets, nevertheless cautioned ...15 KB (2,361 words) - 20:33, 3 May 2023
- on." The word came into the English language as epigraph, which was used ... during the Rennisance took an interest in Latin and Greek inscriptions, and ...14 KB (2,129 words) - 19:07, 13 February 2024
- 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
- as one of the three canonical poets of Latin literature. Ovid is generally ... to demonstrate that the somewhat rigid Latin language could be adapted to dactylic ...14 KB (2,130 words) - 06:01, 18 November 2022
- considered shocking, the playful use of language belies an almost modern ... He not only practiced medicine, but edited Latin works for the printer Sebastian ...11 KB (1,822 words) - 09:39, 11 April 2024
- the day”), is an expression found in a Latin poem by Horace (Odes 1.11). ... which occurs many times in modern English-language popular culture. ...8 KB (1,256 words) - 00:38, 29 November 2023
- and poet. His proficiency in the Greek language (which was rare at the time ... Pseudo-Dionysius and translated them into Latin while adding his own commentary ...10 KB (1,486 words) - 15:09, 1 August 2022
- Adelard of Bath (Latin: Adelardus Bathensis) (1116? - 1142?) was a ... Adelard became an expert in the Arabic language, which he might have ...13 KB (1,951 words) - 05:50, 15 June 2023
- 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
- ), also Saint Bede, the Venerable Bede, or (from Latin) Beda (IPA: ... of the earliest preserved works written in the language. ...12 KB (1,884 words) - 10:20, 26 September 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
- Wulfila (Gothic: "Little wolf" or Latin: Ulfilas/Ulphilas ... the Bible from Greek into the Gothic language after devising the first ...12 KB (1,877 words) - 14:10, 20 May 2023
- The Hail Mary or Ave Maria (Latin) is a traditional Christian prayer ... This was a normal greeting in the Greek language in which Luke's Gospel ...12 KB (1,964 words) - 16:45, 21 January 2024
- 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
- ball, which in turn originates from the Latin word ballare which means ... were instructed to not use coarse language and to lay aside their swords ...17 KB (2,435 words) - 05:57, 26 August 2023
- he extensively researched American Sign Language (ASL). to that of a complex and thriving natural language in its own right, with an ...13 KB (1,991 words) - 10:52, 12 May 2023
- 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
- 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
- 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
- and transcription) for the Mandarin language used in Beijing. It developed ... are still used interchangeably in English-language texts in both countries. ...13 KB (1,871 words) - 22:05, 3 May 2023
- 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
- Grammy, produced four number-one Spanish-language hits. ... José Behar, the former head of the Sony Latin Music division, signed Selena ...16 KB (2,443 words) - 17:47, 25 January 2023
- The Apostles' Creed (Latin: Symbolum Apostolorum) is an early ... The earliest appearance of the present Latin text was in the De singulis ...15 KB (2,172 words) - 15:52, 11 August 2023
- A villanelle is a poetic form which entered English language poetry ... word villanella, which derives from the Latin villa (farm) and villano ...7 KB (1,084 words) - 20:22, 3 May 2023
- forgotten in the West. The few existing Latin translations of Aristotle’s ... e form separate syllables. In Arabic (the language in which he wrote), his ...19 KB (2,761 words) - 07:15, 23 August 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
- 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
- Agostino Nifo (c. 1473 - 1538 or 1545) Latin Augustinus Niphus, or ... on Aristotle, including the medieval Latin commentators, especially ...8 KB (1,200 words) - 06:47, 16 June 2023
- For over a half-millennium, the colloquial language for Palestinian ... The Aramaic term abba has passed via Greek and Latin into European ...7 KB (1,044 words) - 07:15, 13 June 2023
- 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
- 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
- In linguistics, the grammar of a natural language is its set of structural ... to the grammar of all the speakers of the language), in which case the term ...25 KB (3,469 words) - 22:17, 30 March 2023
- in Spain. During the twelfth century, new Latin translations from Greek and ... Aristotelianism has made an indelible contribution to the language ...18 KB (2,450 words) - 06:29, 12 August 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
- Juan Rulfo (May 16, 1918 – January 7, 1986) was one of Latin America ... by the complexity of the colloquial language found in his works. Many ...12 KB (1,960 words) - 06:06, 10 May 2024
- Literature in Sanskrit, the classical language of India, represents ... or strongly influenced by Sanskrit, the language and its literature are of ...19 KB (2,849 words) - 03:17, 23 December 2022
- [[Image:Latin dictionary.jpg|thumb|250px|right|A multi-volume Latin ... A dictionary is basically a list words in a specific language, with ...22 KB (3,268 words) - 14:12, 29 January 2024
- taken up by Malory in his famous English-language version. Here, Arthur receives ... Caliburn, used in Geoffrey of Monmouth (Latin Caliburnus). "Caliburnus ...13 KB (2,142 words) - 23:53, 24 March 2024
- Those fathers who wrote in Latin are called the Latin (Church) Fathers ... He is believed to have introduced the Latin term "trinitas" ...21 KB (3,112 words) - 21:58, 10 December 2023
- of the priests. By keeping the Bible in Latin, which few other than priests ... in French, Greek, Hebrew, German, Italian, Latin, Spanish and of course his ...14 KB (2,095 words) - 20:44, 13 May 2023
- 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
- (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
- 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
- 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
- (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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- that, based on the style of the language, and the fact that the author ... Old Slavonic, Armenian, Arabic, Irish and Latin. Though no early Latin versions ...10 KB (1,588 words) - 12:08, 24 January 2023
- It is in principle the representation of language, rather than images of thought ... beyond those carried out by spoken language. First invented by the early ...22 KB (3,308 words) - 14:05, 20 May 2023
- The English word spirit comes from the Latin "spiritus" ... The English word "spirit" comes from the Latin spiritus ...17 KB (2,627 words) - 21:55, 28 October 2020
- Neptune (Latin: Neptūnus) was the god of the sea in Roman mythology ... quot;, which forms the base for the Latin nebula, referring to "fog ...9 KB (1,493 words) - 16:21, 11 November 2022
- on metaphysics which was translated into Latin in 1150. His concept of the ... townsmen with their neglect of the Hebrew language. Sometime after his mother’s ...24 KB (3,826 words) - 01:00, 4 February 2023
- name when in liturgical use. In everyday language, the word Hashem ("The ... In English language bibles, YHWH is traditionally translated as "The ...18 KB (2,791 words) - 01:12, 11 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
- life face complete loss of tradition and language. Those who continue their ... The Nenets language is called n'enytsia vada, and belongs to ...10 KB (1,457 words) - 22:04, 23 November 2023
- has been immensely influential on the language, politics, educational systems ... war, art, literature, architecture, and language in the Western world, and ...12 KB (1,801 words) - 12:38, 5 May 2024
- 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
- Old English torr is from Latin turris ("a tower, citadel, high ... The Latin term together with Greek τύρσις was loaned from a ...15 KB (2,136 words) - 16:19, 29 April 2024
- a title he shares with Diophantus. Latin translations of his Arithmetic ... a great impact on mathematics, but on language as well. The word algebra ...22 KB (3,234 words) - 17:58, 10 November 2022
- Schism, divided Christendom into Western (Latin) and Eastern (Greek) branches ... West to drift further apart. The dominant language of the West was Latin, while ...19 KB (2,956 words) - 07:37, 4 January 2024
- techniques of meter and rhyme, derived from Latin poetry, that are utilized ... to us, it was clearly a thriving literary language, and there are extant works ...17 KB (2,716 words) - 06:00, 28 July 2023
- him to be one of the greatest Spanish-language poets in history. He experimented ... vigor to the stale, monotonous Spanish-language poetry of the time. He is ...13 KB (2,077 words) - 19:46, 20 August 2022
- as Día de la Raza in many countries in Latin America, as Discovery Day ... Americas is celebrated in many countries in Latin America. The most common ...20 KB (2,984 words) - 22:45, 7 January 2024
- A word is a basic element of language that carries an objective or ... a morpheme, which is the smallest unit of language that has a meaning, even ...33 KB (4,842 words) - 20:11, 25 February 2023
- if there is no common theoretical language that can be used to compare ... questions regarding translation. Each language is configured and structured ...17 KB (2,394 words) - 00:08, 8 January 2024
- 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
- 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
- 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
- classical scholar. Educated at the famous Latin school in Schlettstadt, which ... excellent education. He attended the famous Latin school of Schlettstadt, which ...12 KB (1,792 words) - 10:18, 26 September 2023
- His prose works, written in the Hebrew language, made accessible to the ... Europe, and some were later translated into Latin, Spanish, French, English ...14 KB (2,169 words) - 06:29, 14 June 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
- Josephus were printed only in an imperfect Latin translation. It was only ... (War I.3), arguably the Western Aramaic language. He then wrote a seven-volume ...15 KB (2,242 words) - 17:37, 28 March 2024
- in Haitian Voodoo, derived from the language of the African slaves who ... in Havana in 1943. Since then, other Latin-American band leaders such ...10 KB (1,553 words) - 06:41, 5 November 2022
- "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
- suppressed that no complete Greek or Latin version has survived. It ... (in a work by Epiphanius), fragmentary Latin translations of the Greek ...13 KB (2,033 words) - 20:40, 4 October 2022
- originally a French word that combined the Latin cuneus, which translates ... of c. 1800 B.C.E. to the Hittite language. When the cuneiform script ...19 KB (2,782 words) - 06:45, 12 January 2024
- before January 1, 1959, were often given a Latin form and can be readily confused ... 'Aureomarginata' (pre-1959 name, Latin in form) ...14 KB (2,107 words) - 06:46, 11 January 2024
- Questions of being are also closely tied to those of language, logic ... extant record of the word itself is the Latin form ontologia, which appeared ...15 KB (2,218 words) - 00:43, 18 November 2022
- key figure in establishing German as the language of scholarly instruction ... continued to write prolifically (largely in Latin now, with an eye towards ...17 KB (2,487 words) - 21:08, 10 December 2023
- the most gifted love-poet in the English language, alongside W.B. Yeats. ... another four years of his life studying Latin and Greek did not appeal ...16 KB (2,484 words) - 05:05, 15 December 2022
- sixteenth century for writing the Punjabi language. The whole of the Guru Granth ... * Punjabi is a tonal language with three tones. These are indicated ...20 KB (2,621 words) - 06:17, 10 January 2024
- sources for the history of the English language; in particular, the later ... the use of English as a written language. The Chronicle itself, as ...32 KB (4,981 words) - 06:00, 28 July 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
- 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 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
- Miscegenation (Latin miscere "to mix" + genus "kind ... "Miscegenation" comes from the Latin miscere, "to mix ...21 KB (3,025 words) - 11:09, 10 March 2023
- a great intellectual ability, and learned Latin, Greek, and Hebrew languages ... his next Britannica article, Hebrew Language and Literature, in which ...12 KB (1,721 words) - 10:46, 12 May 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
- 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
- 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 (2,657 words) - 12:00, 9 May 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 English term “substance” comes from the Latin terms sub (“under”) and stare (“to stand”). This is a translation of the Greek term ...12 KB (1,836 words) - 21:25, 26 February 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
- French fr|administration, itself derived from the Latin la|administratio—a compounding of la|ad ("to") and la|ministratio ("give service ...13 KB (1,727 words) - 06:01, 15 June 2023
- The major acquisition of foreign language material came after the ... on the laws of Spain, France, the larger Latin American countries, Eastern ...19 KB (2,884 words) - 06:58, 4 March 2023
- Galen (Greek: Γαληνός, Latin: Claudius Galenus of Pergamum; ... were first translated to the Syriac language by Nestorian monks in the ...12 KB (1,806 words) - 03:50, 18 April 2024
- 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
- and Anglo-Norman became the official language, the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles ... about the early Middle English language itself. The first continuation ...16 KB (2,619 words) - 01:36, 24 November 2022
- 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
- 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
- In Roman mythology, Saturn (Latin: Saturnus) was a major Roman deity ... fact that it parallels the origin of other Latin names that end in -urnus ...11 KB (1,785 words) - 17:00, 23 December 2022
- 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
- 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
- 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
- of the American sweet sixteen party, the Latin American Quinceañera, or the Catholic Confirmation. ==Notes== ==References== * Cutter, William ...10 KB (1,502 words) - 07:59, 20 September 2023
- 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 term Latin America is used when referring to those territories ... is no evidence that they utilized written language, although they did use the ...34 KB (4,744 words) - 15:36, 4 February 2023
- A crucifix (from Latin cruci fixus, meaning "one fixed to a cross ... INRI, an acronym for (translated from Latin), "Jesus of Nazareth ...15 KB (2,416 words) - 06:30, 11 January 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
- Prague, they were composed in the Czech language in order to resurrect the ... “The nation which, aware of the importance of a natural language ...26 KB (4,082 words) - 01:44, 23 November 2022
- of Confucian texts into a European language, Latin. In 1601, Ricci became ... as several Chinese Confucian texts into Latin. Xu Guang-qi became the first ...16 KB (2,411 words) - 14:32, 20 May 2023
- 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
- 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 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
- In musical terminology, tempo (Italian for "time," from ... nova," "ballad," and "Latin rock," in much the same way. ...18 KB (2,794 words) - 05:39, 27 February 2023
- 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
- from the word's literal meaning (from Latin) of climbing or going beyond ... ==Introduction: concept, language, and transcendence== Transcendence ...11 KB (1,539 words) - 00:39, 2 May 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
- # 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
- several other related concepts such as: language, logic, consciousness, knowledge ... derived from the French word raison, from Latin rationem (ratio) "reckoning ...15 KB (2,212 words) - 01:41, 8 December 2022
- verisimilitude.” As Royal Professor of Latin Eloquence, it was Vico’s ... Unearthed from the Origins of the Latin Language). 1710. Ithaca: Cornell ...17 KB (2,637 words) - 20:24, 14 December 2023
- زكريای رازی Zakaria ye Razi; Latin: Rhazes or Rasis). According ... RAY, REY, or RAI, old Persian RAGHA, Latin RHAGAE), an ancient town ...24 KB (3,833 words) - 01:39, 8 December 2022
- 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
- English, yak is usually used for both sexes. The latin name Bos grunniens comes from Latin bos, meaning "ox," and grunnio, meaning "I ...13 KB (1,988 words) - 10:03, 22 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
- human history, the beginnings of written language. While spoken language allows ... “hieroglyphic” to refer to both the language as a whole and the individual ...20 KB (3,009 words) - 15:47, 25 January 2023
- 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
- three long poems written in French, Latin, and English respectively ... influence on his poetry; and like the Latin master, Gower's poetry ...27 KB (4,375 words) - 05:14, 3 August 2022
- 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
- [[Image:Interp.jpg|thumb|right|400 px|Two sign language Interpreters ... A sign language (also signed language) is a language which uses manual ...22 KB (3,412 words) - 20:10, 21 April 2023
- French word camphre, itself from Medieval Latin camfora, from Arabic kafur ... would call to buy camphor. In the Indian language Sanskrit, the word karpoor ...11 KB (1,519 words) - 18:58, 25 November 2023
- nous poi騁ikos in Greek, dator formarum in Latin and aql al-fa' 'al ... different “sciences;” the science of language, logic, mathematics (arithmetic ...18 KB (2,709 words) - 07:20, 16 June 2023
- to transcribe the Old Church Slavonic language. The Cyrillic alphabet, ... excelled. Besides his native Greek language, he was fluent in Latin ...33 KB (4,701 words) - 20:51, 17 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
- one of the first Jewish works in a modern language to gain an interest among ... and he printed works in five—Hebrew, Latin, Portuguese, English, and ...12 KB (1,865 words) - 06:43, 5 November 2022
- criticism of the character of Vulgar Latin (Late Latin) literature. ... He wanted to restore the classical Latin language to its former purity ...17 KB (2,782 words) - 22:19, 25 January 2024
- toes. In English, the term decimal (from Latin decimus) means "tenth ... Some psychologists suggest irregularities of numerals in a language ...18 KB (2,501 words) - 09:02, 28 January 2024
- Vatican City, officially State of the Vatican City (Latin: Status ... and predates Christianity, coming from the Latin Mons Vaticanus, Vatican Hill ...21 KB (3,351 words) - 22:10, 21 December 2023
- studying philosophy and the psychology of language. Following his entrance ... in the third world countries, especially Latin America, and is considered ...18 KB (2,693 words) - 01:43, 23 November 2022
- lack of understanding about the role of language in human thought. Herder ... and went further in this promotion of language than his earlier injunction ...18 KB (2,775 words) - 14:41, 1 August 2022
- English poetry by adapting the English language to ancient Greek and Latin ... is almost always clear, writing in language that is at times almost ...8 KB (1,326 words) - 05:06, 15 December 2022
- . They can influence the rhythm of a language, its prosody, its poetic ... Syllable is an Anglo-Norman variation of Old French sillabe, from ...43 KB (6,361 words) - 16:51, 25 February 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
- Sede vacante (Latin for "the seat being vacant"), refers ... The term "sedevacantism" is derived from the Latin phrase ...11 KB (1,583 words) - 20:19, 26 December 2023
- at Sinai comes from the travel journal written in Latin by a woman named Egeria about 381-384 C.E. She visited many places around the Holy Land and Mount ...14 KB (2,007 words) - 19:14, 22 December 2022
- that all parties understand a common language that is exchanged with each ... nonverbal, physical means, such as body language, sign language, paralanguage ...17 KB (2,393 words) - 17:12, 9 January 2024
- line of the comedy has become part of the language, and proverbs from Griboyedov ... Famusov's name actually comes from the Latin root fama, meaning talk or ...11 KB (1,699 words) - 13:49, 18 July 2023
- " which refers to the local Latin script and is composed of ... Cyrillic and Glagolitic were used for the Church Slavonic language ...61 KB (8,412 words) - 07:27, 12 January 2024
- hence Sanskrit hamsa (feminine hamsii), Latin anser, Greek khén, and so forth. ... * Crystal, D. 1998. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language. Cambridge ...10 KB (1,554 words) - 01:17, 5 March 2021
- 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
- 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
- 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 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
- quot;). Eventually, the word was incorporated into Latin as catacumbæ, which roughly translates as "among the tombs," and then into variations ...16 KB (2,439 words) - 14:27, 29 November 2023
- a mystical nature, employing Neoplatonic language to elucidate Christian theological ... Dionysius the Areopagite in Eriugena's Latin Translation. Leuven, Belgium: ...7 KB (1,028 words) - 08:24, 2 December 2022
- However, Syriac remains the liturgical language of the Maronite Church. ... Antiochene Rite. Syriac is the liturgical language, instead of Latin which ...14 KB (2,092 words) - 16:35, 27 January 2022
- practices of the region. The Akkadian language became the lingua franca ... The Akkadian language became the lingua franca of commerce and diplomacy ...13 KB (2,078 words) - 07:18, 16 June 2023
- but also, often of the English language itself. Chaucer's writings ... the literary use of the vernacular language, English, as opposed to ...20 KB (3,137 words) - 06:52, 18 April 2024
- book was first made available to Western scholars in Latin with the publication of an adaptation by Walter de Burleigh (1275-1337), De vita et moribus ...7 KB (941 words) - 15:25, 29 January 2024
- extreme. The name is derived from the Latin sol (sun) and sistere (to ... use in other authors. It contains two Latin-language segments, sol, "sun ...25 KB (3,968 words) - 19:48, 28 August 2023
- many other Arabic words in the English language, cumin was acquired through ... quot; has the same meaning as the English language phrase "carrying coals ...12 KB (1,736 words) - 19:46, 11 May 2020
- 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
- area was at its height. The Provençal language, (see langue d'oc and ... as being the name of the local Occitan language under its regional variety ...13 KB (1,926 words) - 08:21, 2 December 2022
- 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
- themselves as Berber. However the Berber language is spoken by an estimated ... period for the spread of an Afro-Asiatic language (ancestral to the modern ...26 KB (3,865 words) - 10:59, 28 September 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
- 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
- of the Church and one of the four great Latin Fathers of the Church (the ... *Commentary on Job, frequently known even in English-language histories ...18 KB (2,721 words) - 14:47, 31 January 2023
- The Latin Library, [http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/ein.html#9 Einhardi ... A Latin poem, Carmen de Prodicione Guenonis, was composed around 1120 ...19 KB (2,962 words) - 17:33, 30 April 2023
- He also compiled a Grammar of the Chinese Language (1815) and a Dictionary ... missionary and in 1801, he started learning Latin, Greek, and Hebrew in private ...15 KB (2,249 words) - 01:44, 16 December 2022
- The term New Testament is a translation from the Latin Novum Testamentum ... author wrote in his early-fourth-century Latin Institutiones Divinae (Divine ...25 KB (3,826 words) - 16:33, 11 November 2022
- system. The conquest changed the English language and culture, and set the ... and added features from their own Norse language, transforming it into the ...20 KB (3,151 words) - 02:47, 16 November 2022
- 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
- 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
- era Middle French. This, in turn, came from Latin genus. Both words mean "kind ... example, both men and women learn and use language; however, bio-chemically ...24 KB (3,629 words) - 06:41, 18 April 2024
- The word angle comes from the Latin word angulus, meaning "a corner." The word angulus is a diminutive, of which the primitive form ...20 KB (3,182 words) - 18:07, 27 July 2023
- to restore Attic purity to the Greek language. He was a devoted student ... to restore Attic purity to the Greek language which had been modified ...8 KB (1,270 words) - 17:58, 30 April 2023
- of the most widely influential in any language—writers ranging from Chaucer ... of the most lyrical poetry in the Italian language. During the course of the ...15 KB (2,382 words) - 05:18, 17 November 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
- 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
- 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
- Scalieri to Mozart. Metastasio's language is beautiful and effortless; ... into virtually every major European language—and his influence on 18th ...15 KB (2,423 words) - 05:29, 24 November 2022
- and made rapid progress especially in Latin and music. He received advanced ... the Church Fathers in their original language. Zwingli preached regularly ...22 KB (3,346 words) - 16:31, 11 November 2022
- in 1582, Ricci began learning the Chinese language and customs, and eventually ... with instructions to study the Mandarin language. In 1582, Ricci arrived ...19 KB (2,924 words) - 16:54, 7 November 2022
- as "a kinglet, a kind of serpent." In Latin, the creature is basiliscus, and in French, it is basilique, both of which influenced the eventual ...12 KB (1,904 words) - 11:07, 20 September 2023
- Anglican Communion. It replaced the four Latin liturgical books with a single ... significantly contributed to the English language. It has been a source of ...28 KB (4,558 words) - 07:25, 17 November 2023
- a young Jewish physician was his tutor in Latin, but he was mainly self-educated ... called Haskalah; Jews learned the German language and culture and developed ...14 KB (2,061 words) - 16:58, 10 November 2022
- and achieved a command of Greek and Latin and was acquainted with French ... detriment of the patient's health. The Latin initials with which he disguised ...22 KB (3,415 words) - 22:58, 30 April 2023
- in 1828 as An American Dictionary of the English Language. ... A Grammatical Institute of the English Language. The work consisted of a ...15 KB (2,342 words) - 02:32, 16 November 2022
- adapted the Arabic alphabet to Farsi language and developed the contemporary ... the religion of Islam and the Arabic language. Arabic and Persian calligraphy ...19 KB (2,750 words) - 18:29, 25 November 2023
- The Phoenician language is counted among the Canaanite languages in ... In terms of archeology, language, and religion, there is little to ...30 KB (4,504 words) - 04:20, 24 November 2022
- of Babel, he also attempted to establish the proto-language from which all human tongues derive. His father began to teach him Latin, but ceased on discovering ...10 KB (1,522 words) - 17:59, 27 July 2023
- 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
- An amulet (from Latin amuletum; earliest extant use in Natural History ... of amulet. For example: vade retro satana (Latin, "go back, Satan" ...13 KB (2,101 words) - 17:26, 26 July 2023
- of religious poetry in the English language. Cowper himself suffered ... and turned some of the Fables of John Gay into Latin. Cowper was seized ...9 KB (1,493 words) - 15:56, 7 May 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
- location to another. The word is derived from the Latin aqua, "water" and ducere, "to lead." Many aqueducts are raised above the landscape ...12 KB (1,676 words) - 15:59, 11 August 2023
- faith, St. Thomas Christian, and their language, Malayalam. According to ... and sought to introduce them to the Roman (Latin) Rite. Since the Eastern ...24 KB (3,424 words) - 21:10, 10 December 2023
- culture, an initiator who enriched his language with the vast power, beauty ... Gongora’s contribution to the Spanish language should not be underestimated ...19 KB (2,991 words) - 10:37, 9 March 2023
- 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
- themes and a series of treatises on language (Sopra la necessità di ... themes and a series of treatises on language (Sopra la necessità di ...8 KB (1,181 words) - 06:43, 1 April 2024
- *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
- 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
- esteem, having sacked it in 1203-4 when the Latin Kingdom was established ... emperors had been received in the Latin Church since. Emperor John ...20 KB (3,140 words) - 17:55, 16 May 2020
- children of the nobility. Here he was taught Latin, English, and Persian, studied mathematics and zoology, and was able to considerably widen his musical ...12 KB (1,827 words) - 17:51, 9 November 2022
