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- 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
- 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 ...7 KB (1,126 words) - 05:02, 7 May 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 (939 words) - 14:01, 7 May 2024
- 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
- who pushed for the full independence of Latin American nations from the ... conflict with the Lautaro Lodge, whose more Latin-Americanist centered objective ...13 KB (1,978 words) - 19:38, 9 May 2024
- 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
- Juan Rulfo (May 16, 1918 – January 7, 1986) was one of Latin America's most admired novelists and short story writers. His most commendable ...12 KB (1,960 words) - 06:06, 10 May 2024
