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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 ...
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  • INRI is an acronym of the Latin phrase IESVS·NAZARENVS·REX·IVDÆORVM (Jesus Nazarenus, rex Judæorum), which translates into English as "Jesus ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • and education. His extensive knowledge of Latin and Greek equipped him to ... and endangered his life several times. His Latin scholarship eventually gained ...
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  • Salsa music is a diverse musical genre that is popular across Latin America and among Latinos abroad. Incorporating multiple styles and variations ...
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  • The original version is in rhyming Latin verse, and contains a series ... in illuminated manuscript form, and in Latin. Many copies were made, and ...
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  • Marsilio Ficino (also known by his Latin name, Marsilius Ficinus) (October 19, 1433 – October 1, 1499) was one of the most influential humanist ...
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  • Saint John Cassian (ca. 360 – 433 C.E.) (Latin: Jo(h)annes Eremita Cassianus, Joannus Cassianus, or Joannes Massiliensis) is a Christian theologian ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • *Latin equivalent of simple 4/4: [[Image:Latin transformation.PNG|550px ... rhythmic elements of Caribbean and Latin folk music into his compositions ...
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  • Marcus Valerius Martialis, known in English as Martial, was a Latin poet from present-day Spain, best known for his twelve books of Epigrams ...
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  • that cut a person off from God's grace. In Latin and English, the Seven Deadly Sins are: superbia (pride), avaritia (greed), luxuria (extravagance ...
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  • anthems set to English words, although Latin continued to be used. Following ... anthems, although the practice of setting Latin texts continued, growing ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Aristotle in the twelfth century, through Latin translations of the Arabic ... During the thirteenth century, Latin translations of the works of ...
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  • Adelard of Bath (Latin: Adelardus Bathensis) (1116? - 1142?) was a twelfth century English scholar, best known for translating many important ...
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  • author to write theological works in Latin. Before Victor's time ... ===Promoter of Latin=== Jerome calls Pope Victor the first Latin writer ...
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  • despite his advocacy of classical Latin as the language of high art ... his time studying, particularly classical Latin, and in particular the works ...
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  • typeset) and both in (modern scientific) Latin. For example, the lion is ... are popularly known as the "Latin name" of the species ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Modus Ponens (Latin: mode that affirms; often abbreviated as MP) is ... Modus Tollens (Latin for "mode that denies" abbreviated ...
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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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • that have survived—in Arabic and Latin—both relied on texts that ... An Old Latin version of Tatian's Syriac text appears to have ...
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  • The Augsburg Confession (known in Latin as Confessio Augustana), is the primary confession of faith used in the Lutheran Church and one of the ...
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  • classical Greek logic to medieval Latin scholars. Born into a high ... to transmit classical Greek knowledge to Latin audiences. Several of his ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • was a linguistic prodigy, learning Greek, Latin, Persian, Arabic, and the ... certain resemblance to classical Greek and Latin. In The Sanscrit Language ...
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  • He continued his career mostly working on Latin and Italian language ... From 1823 to 1824, his revised edition of Wenck's Latin Grammar ...
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  • from poor families and instructed them in Latin and Greek, wrote psalms and ... of the "Greek" (Orthodox) and Latin churches. ...
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  • names, and those which do not use the Latin alphabet cannot be expected ... though each consists letters of the Latin alphabet - they are symbols ...
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  • ball, which in turn originates from the Latin word ballare which means ... categories: International Style Standard, Latin American, American Style ...
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  • Advent (from the Latin Adventus, "coming," sc. Redemptoris, " the coming of the Savior"), a term used in Christian tradition ...
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  • actively engaged with leftist causes in Latin America, openly supporting ... to the development of the genre in Latin America, emancipating it ...
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  • and spinal cord. Indeed, the term mater is Latin for "mother," and ... thin and delicate membrane. The word pia in Latin means "soft" or ...
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  • a reputation as a professor of Greek and Latin literature in Florence, and ... Plutarch, Xenophon, and Lysias into Latin, and carried out the duties ...
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  • Agostino Nifo (c. 1473 - 1538 or 1545) Latin Augustinus Niphus, or Niphus Suessanus, Niphus also spelled Nyphus, was an Italian philosopher and ...
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  • Elman Service researched Latin American Indian ethnology, cultural ... European Relations in Colonial and Latin America" (1955), "Kinship ...
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  • *humanities education (specializing in Classical languages, such as ... usual combination is English, French, and Latin, although sometimes French ...
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  • 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, ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • but also Classical Nahuatl (in the Latin alphabet), Spanish, and occasionally ... The Libellus de Medicinalibus Indorum Herbis (Latin for "Little ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • (The word "rodent" comes from the Latin word for "gnawing." ... the groundhog (M. monax) is assigned the Latin name monax, for "solitary ...
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  • end to the tradition of teaching reading in Latin, using the vernacular language ... ones, were taught almost entirely in Latin. In making the vernacular ...
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  • Reductio ad absurdum, Latin for "reduction to the absurd," traceable back to the Greek ἡ εις άτοπον απαγωγη (hê ...
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  • The word sect comes from the Latin sects (from sequire "to follow ... In Latin America, the term "sect" is often applied by Roman ...
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  • The Athanasian Creed, also known as (Quicumque vult) from its opening Latin words, is a statement of Christian trinitarian doctrine traditionally ...
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  • == Latin Averroism: Siger de Brabant == Ibn Rushd or Averroes (1126 ... *Mandonnet, P. Siger de Brabant et l’ averroïsme latin au XIIIe ...
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  • techniques of meter and rhyme, derived from Latin poetry, that are utilized ... years (ninth–eleventh century), in both Latin and the vernacular. Old English ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Mundus Novus ("New World") was a Latin translation of a lost Italian ... made by Vespucci between 1497 and 1504. A Latin translation was published ...
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  • aspects of this was her taste for elaborate Latin church music. Byrd seems ... He published three collections of Latin motets or Cantiones Sacrae ...
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  • He was known as the Liberator (Greek: Eleutherios/ Latin: Liber), ... html Senatus consultum de Bacchanalibus in Latin] at The Latin Library. ...
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  • in Spain. During the twelfth century, new Latin translations from Greek and ... Greek forms, others are derived from Latin equivalents of Aristotle’s ...
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  • structures such as eparchies, alongside the Latin dioceses. One country, Eritrea ... between the Greek-speaking East and the Latin-speaking West and of rivalry ...
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  • of some works, particularly those in Latin with no Arabic originals ... the acquisition of copies of Greek and Latin authors for translation into ...
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  • poets. His thorough knowledge of Classical Latin literature, as well as his ... particularly noted for his facility with Latin) Gray never received a degree ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • in his Introduction to Categories. A Latin translation of the Introduction ... (usually called the Sententiae; in Latin, Sententiae ad intelligibilia ...
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  • Pseudo-Dionysius and translated them into Latin while adding his own commentary ... Eriugena's next work was a Latin translation of Dionysius the ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • The term natural philosophy, or the philosophy of nature (Latin, philosophia naturalis), has several applications, according to its historical ...
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  • Europe and Latin America constituted minor destinations for post-war ... Brazil has Latin America's largest Koreatown while Koreatowns ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • In proof by contradiction (also known as reductio ad absurdum, Latin ... Erat Demonstrandum", which is Latin for "that which was ...
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  • and classical scholar. Educated at the famous Latin school in Schlettstadt, which produced a number of prominent scholars, and at the University ...
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  • birds. The name ratite comes from the Latin word for raft (ratis), because their breastbone looks like a raft. Among ratites are included ostriches ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • during the Rennisance took an interest in Latin and Greek inscriptions, and ... The Duenos Inscription is one of the earliest known Old Latin texts ...
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  • Liberation theology is a Christian school of theology that developed in Latin America in the 1960s and 1970s, focusing on liberation of the oppressed ...
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  • ) is a genre of Latin American literature that challenges the role ... Although mostly associated with the Latin American Boom of the 1960s ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • ==Latin Fathers== Those fathers who wrote in Latin are called the Latin (Church) Fathers ...
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  • created through Jerome the standard Latin translation of the Bible ... He promulgated the use of a standardized Latin language format for the mass ...
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  • original was in English; elsewhere he says it was in Latin. To his translation (1530) of a Latin Chronicle and Description of ...
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  • Johannes de Grocheio (Grocheo) (ca. 1255 – ca.1320) was a Parisian musical theorist of the early fourteenth century. His French name was Jean ...
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  • The Great Schism, also called the East-West Schism, divided Christendom into Western (Latin) and Eastern (Greek) branches, which then became ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • as different. It derives from the Latin words ad and iacere (Latin ... adjectives and adjectives from French, Latin, Greek, and other languages ...
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  • a title he shares with Diophantus. Latin translations of his Arithmetic ... Sicily. Later, they were translated into Latin and passed on to universities ...
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  • ), 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 ...
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  • in the affairs of the newly independent Latin American states or potential ... justify unilateral United States influence in Latin America. ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • was just beginning to take hold in the Latin West, to theological studies ... of philosophy and theology and his Latin style attracted many students ...
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  • the Nature of Things”), a masterpiece of Latin verse which sets out in careful ... Lucretius' writing is unparalleled in Latin literature, with the possible ...
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  • the classics and most likely was fluent in Latin and Greek. For centuries ... #039;s progressive ideas. Apart from Latin and Greek, the curriculum ...
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  • in Havana in 1943. Since then, other Latin-American band leaders such ... dance pro known as the "Mambo King of Latin Dance." Steadily building ...
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  • Caliburn, used in Geoffrey of Monmouth (Latin Caliburnus). "Caliburnus ... Excalibur was originally derived from the Latin phrase Ex calce liberatus ...
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  • between Catholic and Orthodox traditions. The Latin term filioque means "and [from] the son," referring to whether the Holy Spirit "proceeds ...
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  • Scholasticism, from the Latin word scholasticus ("that [which] belongs to the school) was a method of learning taught by the academics ...
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  • book was first published anonymously, in Latin, ca. 1418; several other ... the time, 400 different editions. Some 545 Latin and about 900 French editions ...
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  • A crucifix (from Latin cruci fixus, meaning "one fixed to a cross") is a cross with a representation of Jesus' body, or corpus ...
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  • Juvenal, an Anglicized form derived from the Latin (Decimus Iunius) Iuvenalis, was a Roman poet active in the late first century and early second ...
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  • The English word spirit comes from the Latin "spiritus" ("breath") and has several interrelated meanings: Metaphysically ...
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  • Emanationism is the doctrine that describes all existence as emanating (Latin emanare, "to flow from") from God, the First Reality ...
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  • and all probably derive, through Vulgar Latin *crosus (not attested), from ... of the Old French adjective magne, from Latin magnus, meaning "large ...
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  • The first extensive translation of Aesop into Latin was done by Phaedrus ... has selections from all the major Greek and Latin sources. ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • The Apostles' Creed (Latin: Symbolum Apostolorum) is an early statement of Christian belief, that is widely accepted in western Christianity ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • In Roman mythology, Saturn (Latin: Saturnus) was a major Roman deity holding jurisdiction over agriculture and the harvest. Like many of the ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • of Constantinople (381), to the later Latin version that includes the ... of Constantinople (381) or to the later Latin and Armenian versions. ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Carpe diem, usually translated as "seize the day" (literally, “pluck the day”), is an expression found in a Latin poem by Horace ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • The terms a priori (Latin; “from former”) and a posteriori (Latin; “from later”) refer primarily to species of propositional knowledge ...
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  • Wulfila (Gothic: "Little wolf" or Latin: Ulfilas/Ulphilas) (c. 311 - 380 C.E.) was the apostle of the Goths, missionary, translator ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • found at Qumran. Apparently the Old Latin manuscripts are also translated ... Tobit: The Text in Aramaic, Hebrew, and Old Latin with English Translations ...
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  • The English word "asparagus" derives from classical Latin, but the plant was once known in English (prior to 1400) as "asperages ...
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  • different stories about his death. The Latin writer Gaius Julius Hyginus ... Latin sources add that Oenopion was the son of Dionysus, and Dionysus ...
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  • theologian, the last of the Western Latin Fathers, and an encyclopaedist ... a remarkably short time, Isidore mastered Latin, Greek, and Hebrew. It is ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • criticism of the character of Vulgar Latin (Late Latin) literature. ... rediscovering and republishing the classic Latin and Greek texts. He wanted ...
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  • became visible. Lester taught himself Latin, Greek, German, Russian, Japanese, and Hebrew. After his family moved to Myersburg, Pennsylvania ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Movement throughout Europe and Latin America. The Constructivist Movement had an enormous impact on the modern masters of Latin America, such ...
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  • The word "porphyry" is derived from a Latin term that means "purple." Purple was the color of royalty, and the "Imperial ...
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  • crowns. Others think the name stems from the Latin "carnis" (flesh), which refers to the original color of the flower, or incarnacyon (incarnation ...
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  • The word, "percussion," has evolved from the Latin terms: ... *Latin percussion *Tabla *Dhol *Dholak *Berimbau *Timbal ...
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  • roles in church governance. Derived from the Latin term cardo (meaning "hinge"), their title and position is indicative of the pivotal role ...
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  • university. In the past, subjects such as Latin and Greek were emphasized ... In medieval times, the importance of Latin in government and religion ...
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  • rhythmic elements of Caribbean and Latin folk music into his own. As Frederick Starr pointed out, these rhythmic elements "anticipate ragtime ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • are takes from HLAS Online (Handbook of Latin American Studies Online) ... Austin, Tex., Univ. of Texas, Institute of Latin American Studies, 1970. 268 ...
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  • Authority (Latin auctoritas, used in Roman law as opposed to potestas and imperium) is a key concept in political philosophy. Authority is a ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Georgian, Old Slavonic, Armenian, Arabic, Irish and Latin. Though no early Latin versions are known, it was relegated to the apocrypha in the Gelasian ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • , and Metanoia (Afterthought, the female Latin Paenitentia) is in the cathedral ... such as Disticha Catonis, refer to the Latin concept of Occasio (a female ...
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  • html Benjamin Wade, 1800 - 1878], The Latin Library at Ad Fontes Academy ... html Benjamin Wade, 1800 - 1878] The Latin Library at Ad Fontes Academy ...
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  • These early performances were given in Latin, and were preceded by a vernacular ... Vernacular performances quickly usurped Latin, and great pains were taken ...
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  • Latin for "guilty act," in assault, this occurs when one ... The mens rea (Latin for "guilty mind") is that this fear ...
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  • Johannes Müller von Königsberg (June 6, 1436 – July 6, 1476), known by his Latin pseudonym Regiomontanus, was an important German mathematician ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Although a fragment has been found of a thirteenth century Latin translation from the Arabic, it was not until 1661, that Giovanni Alfonso Borelli ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • The word cymbal is derived from the Latin cymbalum, "Cymbalum ... *Lewis, Charlton T., and Charles Short. A Latin Dictionary : Based ...
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  • The word "thesaurus" is derived from sixteenth-century New Latin, in turn from Latin thesaurus, from ancient Greek θησαυρός ...
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  • foundation, adapted from caelum, the Latin word for "sky." Robert Graves, among others, has suggested that the name Ouranos may be ...
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  • The term apsis is derived from the Latin word apsis, meaning "arch ... perinigricon and aponigricon (from the Latin) appeared in the scientific ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • they are being replaced by standard Latin numerals although they are ... still use proprietary fonts that convert Latin ASCII codes to Gurmukhi glyphs. ...
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  • Scotus Eriugena's ninth century Latin translation of the writing ... * Gersh, S. 1986. Middle Platonism and Neo-platonism: The Latin Tradition ...
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  • revelations, which were translated into Latin and became popular throughout ... revelations, which were translated into Latin by Matthias, the canon of ...
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  • Sede vacante (Latin for "the seat being vacant"), refers to the vacancy of the episcopal see of a particular church in the Canon law ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Pietro Pomponazzi (also known by his Latin name, Petrus Pomionatius) (September 16, 1462 – May 18, 1525) was an Italian philosopher. He was ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • , ("katelthonta eis ta katôtata"); Latin, descendit ad ... ("the lowest") and the Latin inferos ("those below ...
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  • which means "hidden," and then to the Latin crypta, which described a "grotto, or hidden vault," attesting to the will of Church ...
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  • "Cogito, ergo sum" (Latin: "I am thinking, therefore I exist," or traditionally "I think, therefore I am") is a ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • by European scholars of classical Latin and Greek texts. As a reaction ... literary presentation and by introducing Latin translations of Greek classical ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • |patronage=embroiderers; gardeners; India; Latin America; people ridiculed ... on August 23, although in Peru and other Latin American countries her feast ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • *The motto of the Church of Scotland is Nec tamen consumebatur, Latin ... Church in Ireland, which uses the Latin motto Ardens sed virens, ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • with a translation of each annal into Latin. One (the Peterborough Chronicle ... *Æthelweard wrote a translation of the Chronicle into Latin in the ...
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  • Annulment is the dissolution of a marriage. The word comes from the ... impediments (which no longer exist in the Latin Code, CIC83) make entering ...
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  • the Crusaders, causing the rulers of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem into ... leaving Jerusalem in Muslim hands and the Latin Kingdom in possession of ...
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  • The Vatican Library (Latin: Bibliotheca Apostolica Vaticana) is the library of the Holy See, currently located in Vatican City. It is one of ...
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  • ===Latin Grammy Awards=== Latin Grammy Awards The concept of a separate Grammy Awards for Latin music recorded in ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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. ...
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  • The name malachite derives (via Latin and French) from the Greek word molochitis, meaning "mallow-green stone." That, in turn, may ...
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  • the domesticated silkworm, Bombyx mori (Latin: "Silkworm of the mulberry ... of the domesticated silkworm, Bombyx mori (Latin: "silkworm of the mulberry ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • English periurie, which in turn comes from the Latin peririum.[http://www.yourdictionary.com/ahd/p/p0198200.html Perjury] YourDictionary.com. Retrieved ...
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  • , 45. Retrieved February 18, 2023. Latin grammar developed by following ... Latinas contrapuesto el romance al Latin, and the first Spanish grammar ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • quot; are both derived from the Vulgar Latin locusta, which was originally ... English translations of Ancient Greek and Latin natural histories, as well ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 5, 1099, by Arnulf Malecorne, the first Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, conveniently ... wear upon their persons." Even two Latin inscriptions around 350 C ...
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  • The word 'polygon' comes from Late Latin polygōnum (a noun ... | heptagon (avoid "septagon" = Latin [sept-] + Greek) || 7 ...
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  • originated as an anglicized version of the Latin gentilis, meaning belonging ... The Latin term gentilis relates to gens, from which also derive gene ...
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  • Vellian 2001. The Portuguese started a Latin diocese in Goa (1534) and ... In the ancient times it was called "Muziris" in Latin and ...
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  • works influenced later Christian (Greek and Latin), Islamic, and Jewish thought ... the Existence of Evils are extant only in Latin translation. ...
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  • The word vaccination is variously attributed to the Latin root vacca, meaning "cow," or from Latin root vaccinia. The vaccinia virus ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • * 1721, (Principles of Chemistry) Latin: Prodromus principiorum rerum ... * 1722, (Miscellaneous Observations) Latin: Miscellanea de Rebus Naturalibu ...
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  • Mill had a thorough acquaintance with Greek and Latin literature, ... better, was the second. I learnt no Latin until my eighth year. At ...
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  • The word "Incubus" is derived from the Latin preposition in, which in this case means "on top of," and cubo, which is Latin ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • culture, similar to the importance of Latin in European culture. There ... languages, closely related to Greek and Latin and most distantly to English ...
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  • animals. The name rotifer is derived from the Latin word for "wheel-bearer," referring to a characteristic crown of cilia surrounding the mouth ...
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  • shtml Prologues of St. Jerome, Latin text] Retrieved February 15, 2008. ... and as they are contained in the old Latin vulgate edition". ...
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  • instrumentation and initially drew upon Latin American music styles more ... of the group, which blended the earlier Latin music elements with rock ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Gediminas' normal Latin style is as follows: * Gedeminne Dei gratia ... simply Koningh van Lettowen, mirroring the Latin Rex Lethowye (both "King ...
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  • | 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 ...
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  • except for Metaphysics, all available by then in Latin translation, as well as with the Islamic philosophers, including Averroes and Avicenna. William ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • various church traditions. In Hispanic and Latin culture, as well as some ... Christian cultures, especially those of Latin America and some in Europe ...
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  • tongues derive. His father began to teach him Latin, but ceased on discovering the boy's greater inclination and aptitude for mathematical studies ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Paganism (from Latin paganus, meaning "a country dweller or rustic") is a term that has been used from antiquity to derogatorily denote ...
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  • *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 ...
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  • 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. ...
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  • [[Image:Latin dictionary.jpg|thumb|250px|right|A multi-volume Latin ... were glossaries of French, Italian, or Latin words, along with definitions ...
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  • * Crow, John Armstrong. The Epic of Latin America. Berkeley, CA: University ... * Harvey, Robert. Liberators: Latin America's Struggle for Independence ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • In Greek mythology, Daedalus (Latin, also Hellenized Latin Daedalos, Greek Daidalos (Δαίδαλος) meaning "cunning worker," and ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Roger Bacon. Grosseteste introduced Latin translations of Greek and ... Grosseteste wrote a number of early works in Latin and French while ...
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  • roughly translates as "terrible." The Latin form, Gorgonem, is the origin of the English word. From Latin also comes the words Gorgoneion, ...
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  • such as Thomas Aquinas used the Latin word "existere" ... It was only in the Middle Ages that the Latin word "exsistere" ...
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  • # The Latin lolium, tares (mingled with the Catholic wheat); ... decades of the fourteenth century; but the Latin lolium (tares) an interesting ...
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  • some other parts of Europe, and much of Latin America. ... combined-America model is taught in Latin America, the Iberian Peninsula ...
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  • Shakespeare of having learned "Little Latin and less Greek," and ... In general outline, this play follows Latin models quite closely. ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Epic poetry in Latin continued to be written and circulated well into the nineteenth century. John Milton and even Arthur Rimbaud got their first ...
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  • verisimilitude.” As Royal Professor of Latin Eloquence, it was Vico’s ... second Scienza Nuova. Through an elaborate Latin etymology, Vico establishes ...
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  • the figure (the "corpus" - Latin for "body") of Christ. ... The term "crucifixion" derives from the Late Latin crucifixionem ...
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  • Laterite (from the Latin word later, meaning "brick" or "tile") is a surface formation that is enriched in iron and aluminum ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • was described as either cis (Latin, "on this side") or trans (Latin, "across"). (The terms cis and trans are also used to ...
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  • the word "census" coming from Latin "censere," meaning ... from ancient Rome, coming from the Latin word 'censere' ...
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  • Alluvium (from the Latin alluvius, from alluere, meaning "to wash against") is soil or sediment deposited by a river or other running ...
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  • The name "garnet" comes from the Latin granatus ("grain" ... "carbuncle" is derived from the Latin meaning "little spark ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • poems, one written in Greek, the other in Latin in a volume titled Musa Cantabrigiensis ... be appointed to the post of Assistant Latin Secretary to Cromwell's ...
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  • The name of the family comes from the Latin Solanum "the nightshade plant," but the further etymology of that word is unclear; it has ...
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  • Miscegenation (Latin miscere "to mix" + genus "kind ... "Miscegenation" comes from the Latin miscere, "to mix ...
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  • addresses this issue by employing the Latin letters customarily used ... the multiple sounds of a single Latin symbol, Wade-Giles uses hyphens ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • A brief or factum (Latin for "act" or "deed") ... Amicus curiae (plural amici curiae) is a legal Latin phrase, literally ...
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  • unable to retrieve. --> The Latin name of the college motto, Gloriam Sapientes Possidebunt, derives from chapter 3, verse 35 of the Latin ...
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  • [[Image:BookOfDurrowBeginMarkGospel.jpg|thumb|right|Beginning of a ... Galilee or the surrounding area. Mark uses Latin versions of Greek words in ...
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  • The ruby (from the Latin word ruber, meaning "red," or rubeus, meaning "reddish") is a well-known red gemstone. It is considered ...
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  • The word falcon comes from its Latin name falco, related to Latin ... or tiercel (American English), from Latin tertius, meaning "third ...
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  • three long poems written in French, Latin, and English respectively ... influence on his poetry; and like the Latin master, Gower's poetry ...
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  • for his single-handed composition of a new Latin translation of the Bible ... himself with the best examples of Latin and Greek literature, all ...
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  • Both pictogram and pictography share the same Latin root, pict(us), which roughly translates as "painting." It can be combined with ...
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  • The English term “substance” comes from the Latin terms sub (“under”) and stare (“to stand”). This is a translation of the Greek term ...
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  • French fr|administration, itself derived from the Latin la|administratio—a compounding of la|ad ("to") and la|ministratio ("give service ...
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  • oratour, from Old French orateur, from Latin orator "speaker," ... is considered one of the greatest of the Latin orators and prose writers ...
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  • The word limbo (late Latin limbus) is a word of Teutonic derivation ... the border of Hell and called it limbus, a Latin word meaning, “an ornamental ...
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  • quality of life is considered the highest in Latin America. ... significant contributions to the arts in Latin America. Montevideo's ...
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  • The word angle comes from the Latin word angulus, meaning "a corner." The word angulus is a diminutive, of which the primitive form ...
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  • Bamba," is probably the very first Latin Rock song to become a hit, ... musically. This song also inspired the Latin American communities who ...
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  • and he printed works in five—Hebrew, Latin, Portuguese, English, and Spanish. His major work is his Nishmat Hayim a kabbalistic treatise in ...
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  • suppressed that no complete Greek or Latin version has survived. It ... (in a work by Epiphanius), fragmentary Latin translations of the Greek ...
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  • " which was originated from Latin "absolutus," a ... included the Negative Way (Via Negativa; Latin), Affirmative Way, and Analogy. ...
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  • looked like a bubble floating on water: Latin bullire, "to boil." ... A papal bull traditionally begins with a Latin sentence containing ...
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  • took the letters "IHVH," from the Latin Vulgate version of the Bible ... name is traditionally transliterated in Latin as Sabaoth, a form that was ...
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  • The Latin word basilica was originally used to describe a public building, usually located at the center of a Roman town (forum). Public basilicas ...
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  • and sought to introduce them to the Roman (Latin) Rite. Since the Eastern ... The native Saint Thomas Christians or the Latin Rite Roman Catholics or the ...
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  • another four years of his life studying Latin and Greek did not appeal ... allows Graves to explore the etymology of Latin words (like the origins of ...
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  • A codex (Latin for block of wood, book; plural codices) is a book in the format used for modern books, with separate pages normally bound together ...
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  • A relic (from Latin: reliquiae meaning 'remains') is a venerated object of religious and/or historical significance, often the human ...
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  • Latin = appendix vermiformis | GraySubject = 249 | ... The term "vermiform" comes from Latin and means "wormlike ...
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  • at a careful study of classic Greek and Latin authors, the outcome of which ... year 1650, having also translated his prior Latin work into English. In 1650 ...
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  • rhythmic elements of Caribbean and Latin folk music into his compositions ... and thus is highly evocative of the Latin spirit, especially in the ...
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  • quot; and "ferrum," the Latin word for iron: ma(gnesium) + f(errum) + ic. In addition, mafic magmas are rich in calcium and sodium. ...
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  • Potassium was not known to the ancient Romans, and its names are neo-Latin, not Classical Latin. The Latin name kalium (from which potassium ...
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  • literature and classical languages—Latin and Greek—and his writings ... years in Chapel Hill, as his father taught Latin and Greek at the nearby University ...
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  • Isabel Allende Named to Council of Cervantes Institute Latin American ... *Main, Mary. Isabel Allende, Award-Winning Latin American Author. ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Galen (Greek: Γαληνός, Latin: Claudius Galenus of Pergamum; 129 C.E. – c. 210 C.E.) was the Greek physician and philosopher whose views ...
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  • *Crow, John Armstrong. The Epic of Latin America. University of California ... of the Baroque." in Spanish and Latin American Literature Duke ...
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  • and made rapid progress especially in Latin and music. He received advanced ... of establishing a policy on images and the Latin Mass. This meeting, attended ...
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  • upon in July 1420, and promulgated in Latin, Czech, and German. The articles ... The moderates were known as the Utraquists (Latin utraque—"both ...
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  • The word Protestant is derived from the Latin protestatio, meaning declaration ... 120 million in Europe, 70 million in Latin America, 60 million in Asia ...
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  • use riff- or lick-like ostinatos in modal music and Latin jazz. A riff can be a hook, if the riff meets the definition of a hook: "a musical idea ...
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  • in the third world countries, especially Latin America, and is considered ... * Freire, Paulo. 1998. Politics and Education. Los Angeles: UCLA Latin ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • systems of the world today: #99cccc|[[Latin alphabet|Latin]] (alphabetic ... may have some element in common. In the Latin alphabet, this is accidentally ...
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  • esteem, having sacked it in 1203-4 when the Latin Kingdom was established ... emperors had been received in the Latin Church since. Emperor John ...
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  • , gradually replacing rood, ultimately from Latin crux, via Old Irish cros ... *Latin cross. With a longer descending arm. Along with the Greek cross ...
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  • power in England, the tapestry is annotated in Latin. Nearly hidden ... and 37 trees or groups of trees, with 57 Latin inscriptions. It shows three ...
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  • the logic of Aristotle transmitted through Latin channels and was the main ... remarkable for her knowledge, not only of Latin, but of Greek and Hebrew ...
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  • They also are known as hepatics from the Latin word for liver; this and ... This name is derived from their common Latin name as Latin was the language ...
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  • with alphabets derived from the ancient Latin or Greek alphabets. In English ... Vietnamese orthography, although using the Latin alphabet, delimits monosyllabic ...
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  • Colombia is the oldest democracy in Latin America. Santander is credited ... * González, Roberto. The Cambridge History of Latin American Literature ...
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  • category is also called a "habitus" (from Latin "habere" "to have"). # Action. The production of change in some ...
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  • in Morocco took its name from the old Latin name for the flower. ... #039;s name of "olea," whose Latin translation is "oil." ...
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  • Natural law or the law of nature (Latin lex naturalis) is law whose content derives naturally from human nature or physical nature, and therefore ...
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  • Cardozo, and Manoel Cardozo. 1951. Who's Who in Latin America: A Biographical Dictionary of Notable Living Men and Women of Latin America. Palo Alto ...
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  • " which refers to the local Latin script and is composed of ... Civil script, became closer to those of the Latin alphabet. Several archaic ...
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  • prose, which in turn originates in the Latin expression prosa oratio ... ===Latin literature=== ====Early Latin literature==== The prose of ...
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  • growing in popularity with many people in Latin American countries and eventually ... United States, and other areas with large Latin American populations. In ...
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  • of logic, written in elegant, humanistic Latin. He was accused, by Jacques ... year he published the same book in Latin under the title Dialecticae ...
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  • of the old one. The ground plan was to be a Latin cross with an elongated nave ... cross, or the nave be extended so create a Latin cross. ...
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  • nous poi騁ikos in Greek, dator formarum in Latin and aql al-fa' 'al ... Cat疝ogo de las Ciencias, Arabic text with Latin and Spanish translation, ...
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  • eight, he began writing skillful elegies in Latin and soon became the best ... from Spain and made Grotius their official Latin historiographer, commissioning ...
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  • to write in the vernacular, eschewing the Latin and Greek which had dominated ... invent, or devise”), or in the Vulgar Latin tropare, (“to say with ...
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  • Italian word villanella, which derives from the Latin villa (farm) and villano (farmhand); to any poet before the mid-nineteenth century, the word villanelle ...
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  • influential on later Christian (Greek and Latin) and Islamic thought. Damascius ... It has been printed separately, with Latin translation and scholia, ...
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  • By 1882, he had finished his studies with honors in Latin, Greek, science, and mathematics. After Stanislas, Duhem’s father wanted him to study applied ...
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  • The term Latin America is used when referring to those territories ... Chile and quickly spread to the rest of the Latin America. People on the Peruvian ...
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  • talents, and one need not be an expert in Latin to take part. ... drawings, rather than relying on knowledge of Latin. The only stumbling ...
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  • quot; or "chaste." Casto in Latin means "chaste," ... of caste-based societies include colonial Latin America under Spanish and ...
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  • An amulet (from Latin amuletum; earliest extant use in Natural History Pliny) is "an object that protects a person from trouble." Amulets ...
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  • the liturgical texts and the writings of the Latin and Greek Church Fathers, their scriptoria copied the works of classical philosophers and theoreticians ...
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  • and circumincessio or circuminsessio in Latin) of the three distinct persons ... " however, actually came from the Latin Trinitas, meaning "three ...
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  • pun, Vesuvinum (combining Vesuvius and the Latin for wine, vinum). Graffiti carved on the walls shows us real street Latin. In 89 B.C.E., after ...
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  • Europe, and some were later translated into Latin, Spanish, French, English ... century, and all were later translated into Latin by Pietro d’Albaro. ...
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  • the law, and there was no appeal. It was written in Latin, although there were some vernacular words inserted for native terms with no previous Latin ...
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  • launched in 1980 that focused on Latin America. Shapiro married Linda ... Through his work in Latin America, Shapiro witnessed the situation ...
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  • English, yak is usually used for both sexes. The latin name Bos grunniens comes from Latin bos, meaning "ox," and grunnio, meaning "I ...
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  • to form a scroll. Tree bark such as lime (Latin liber, from there also library ... Monasteries carried on the Latin writing tradition in the Western ...
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  • Josephus were printed only in an imperfect Latin translation. It was only ... in Greek known to us as the Jewish War (Latin Bellum Iudaicum). It starts ...
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  • rule of Judea (as the Roman province of Iudaea, its Latin name) took Masada from the Roman garrison stationed there. In 70 C.E., they were joined by ...
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  • Ptolemy, or in Latin Claudius Ptolemaeus (ca. 90 – ca. 168 C.E. ... its familiar name) and made available in Latin translation (by Gerard of ...
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  • it στιβι (stibi). From that came the Latin name stibium, which was then ... in 1540. This book precedes the more famous Latin book De re metallica of 1556 ...
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  • Centrale du Panthéon in 1802, placing first in Latin and Greek verse and second in Latin composition. He left the school in 1804, and studied mathematics ...
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  • his native Greek language, he was fluent in Latin, Arabic, Hebrew; according ... The account of his life presented in the Latin Legenda claims that he also ...
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  • duties, and also on assignment for the Latin American newspaper La Nación ... He has been cited as inspiration for later Latin American and Carribean ...
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  • Cinco de Mayo in Latin America, Spanish for "Fifth of May") is an annual celebration held on May 5. The date is observed to commemorate ...
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  • The word "fable" comes from the Latin "fabula" ... * Gaius Julius Hyginus (Hyginus, Latin author, native of Spain or ...
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  • Anglicanism (from Anglia, the Latin name for England) describes the Christian denominations that follow the religious traditions developed by ...
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  • of the grace provided at baptism. In the Latin-Rite (i.e., Western) Catholic Church, the sacrament is to be conferred at about the age of discretion ...
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  • Republic. He translated Greek works into Latin, and wrote Latin summaries ... quot; is derived from cicer, the Latin word for "chickpea. ...
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  • in Baroque music. The term comes from the Latin punctus contra punctum ( ... part in the 'cantus firmus' (Latin for "fixed melody" ...
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  • Julian, who was born in 331), he wrote (in Latin) a history of the Roman empire ... prose, speculate why he chose to write in Latin and not in his native Greek ...
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  • the Book of Jeremiah from Greek and Hebrew into Latin.]] ... his rational for not including these in his Latin version of the book was based ...
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  • quot; is not descriptive; it is the Latin equivalent of his family ... conservative theologians of his time. Using Latin translations and the notes ...
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  • America (specifically, USA and Canada), and Latin America and the Caribbean ... ! style=text-align:left | Latin America and the Caribbean ...
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  • is the liturgical language, instead of Latin which was a tradition of ... Due to a long-term understanding with their Latin Rite counterparts in North ...
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  • The templon most likely has an independent origin from that of Latin ... Templon is a loan word in Greek, from the Latin templum, "temple; ...
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  • 1306). Rufinus who translated them into Latin united the two into a single ... an inclination towards the use of the Latin Liturgy; some monasteries ...
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  • The Rosary (from Latin rosarium, meaning "rose garden" [http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Rosary "Rosary." Online Etymology ...
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  • Old French jogler. There is also the Late Latin form joculare of Latin joculari ... traditional circus families that are often Latin American or European. Some ...
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  • back to the Château. The objective there was for Latin to become his first language. His intellectual education was assigned to a German tutor (a doctor ...
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  • absorbed by Christ Church, where he studied Latin and logic. He also studied ... More wrote poetry in Latin and English, and published a translation ...
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  • was well educated, fluent in both Greek and Latin, and a learned theologian ... at a verdict and referred the decision to a Latin church because Pelagius, ...
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  • Anglo-French sewere; and ultimately from Vulgar Latin exaquare ("to remove water"), from Latin ex- ‘out of’ + aqua ‘water’. ...
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  • The Latin Library, [http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/ein.html#9 Einhardi ... A Latin poem, Carmen de Prodicione Guenonis, was composed around 1120 ...
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  • around 250,000, and is the largest in Latin America. Most are of Northern ... makes it one of the wealthiest cities in Latin America. ...
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  • The word cathedral is derived from the Latin noun "cathedra" ... "cathedral church," from the Latin "ecclesia cathedralis ...
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  • reflects the integration of Spanish and Latin American architecture to ... The church interior takes the form of a Latin cross. The church has ...
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  • The Aramaic term abba has passed via Greek and Latin into European languages as an ecclesiastical term, Abbot (Father), the head of a monastery. ...
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  • composition, it was soon translated into Latin, which allowed its influence ... alkali-plains region called the Nitra (in Latin) (Wadi al-Natrun today), ...
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  • The crucifixion hill by Jerusalem was known in Latin as Calvariae Locus, in Greek as Κρανιου Τοπος (Kraniou Topos) and Gûlgaltâ in ...
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  • The term "sedevacantism" is derived from the Latin phrase ... a congregation called the Tridentine Latin Rite Catholic Church. ...
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  • Hadrian's Wall (Latin: Rigore Valli Aeli, "the line along Hadrian's frontier") is a stone and turf fortification built by ...
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  • Komenský; German Johann Amos Comenius; Latin: Iohannes Comenius) (March ... both in their native language as well as Latin, the universal language in ...
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  • already able to read and speak Greek and Latin at the age of seven. His ... to replace the four old liturgical books in Latin. The political aim of the ...
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  • among various persons. First performed in Latin, then in vernacular languages ... figure depicted in icons, readings, and Latin hymns in church. Through ...
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  • Lead is a chemical element that gets its symbol, Pb, from its Latin name, plumbum. The English word "plumbing" also derives from this ...
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  • ' Later, he would also use the Latin equivalent, 'Benedictus ... of Franciscus van den Enden, who taught him Latin and may have introduced him ...
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  • in Frankish hands as what was known as the Latin Empire (1204-1226; the title ... principles into actual powers. Two of his Latin works are still widely read: ...
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  • extant, and the imitations of Alcaeus in Latin by Horace and other poets who regarded Alcaeus as their model, help us to form a fair idea of ...
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  • English cube from Old French, Latin cubus, Greek kubos, "a cube, a die, vertebra." In turn from PIE *keu(b)-, "to bend, turn". ...
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  • greatly to its extension by publishing a Latin version of the Traité de physique of Jacques Rohault (1620-1675) with valuable notes, which he ...
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  • The book presented Latin documents forged by Plantard's group ... involved a series of raised letters in the Latin message, which when read ...
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  • * Geometry (1509), a Latin work that follows Euclid closely. ... translation of Piero della Francesca's Latin writings On [the] Five Regular ...
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  • at the time, so he had some contact with Latin Christians. However, he does ... Nomocanon" (Paris, 1898). A Latin translation is to be found ...
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  • The term limnology stems from Greek limne (marsh, pond, lake) and Latin limnaea (thing pertaining to a marsh) (Wetzel 2003). The development of ...
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  • Old-English spellings such as tragoedy (cf. Latin tragoedia) and tragedie ... Greek stories, such as Phaedra, into Latin plays; however, Senecan tragedy ...
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  • One double chronogram, in Latin and English, on the year 1642, reads ... year 1205 by Al-Harizi, while the earliest Latin chronogram is dated five ...
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  • the "Order of Saint Benedict" (in Latin name: Ordo Sancti Benedicti ... in the monastery), of Conversation Morum, a Latin phrase still debated, and ...
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  • in color, it was discovered in Silva Hercynia, the Latin name for the Bohemian Forest. Mindat.org. 2007. [http://www.mindat.org/min-1875.html ...
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  • ! rowspan=2 | Latin ! colspan="2" | Abbreviations ... ** The Latin Epistle to the Laodiceans. It is found in some old Latin ...
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  • Calvary. When she paused to wipe the sweat (Latin, suda) off his face with ... The name "Veronica" is a colloquial portmanteau of the Latin ...
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  • some sources as Protestant, and then at the Latin high school for older children ... Maria Stuart. In 1816 he joined Jena's Latin Society (Societas latina ...
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  • during Novatian's lifetime. Other Latin writings against them include ... as "puritans," and is rendered in Latin as cathari. They were found ...
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  • quot; or "assuming the conclusion" (Latin: petitio principii) occurs when an argument's premises assume the truth of the conclusion ...
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  • The word fetus is from the Latin fetus, meaning offspring, bringing ... Foetus is an English variation on the Latin spelling, and has been ...
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  • council, came to predominate in the Latin (Roman Catholic) church. In the East, Pelagianism was rejected, but Augustine, who wrote in Latin rather ...
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  • letters from magnesium and ferrum, the Latin word for iron [http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=mafic]. Mafic minerals are usually dark in ...
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  • The Latin-speaking provinces sent at least five representatives: Marcus ... it was written. Eventually it was translated into Latin ...
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  • the scholar Otto von Gebhardt identified a Latin manuscript in the Abbey of ... in Shepherd of Hermas (Mand., ii, 4-6). The Latin omits 1:3-6 and 2:1, and ...
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  • [http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-27073911 Author Gabriel ... and use of provincial locations influenced Latin American authors. ...
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  • Geulincx wrote all his works in Latin, and died before his principal books, namely Ethica and Metaphysica, were published. Despite professional ...
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  • referred to as the "long-haired kings" (Latin reges criniti) by contemporaries, for their symbolically unshorn hair (traditionally the tribal ...
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  • of this, only a single work survives, in Latin translation: Mago's ... * Beirut (Greek Βηρυτός; Latin Berytus;Arabic بيروت; English ...
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  • The question of being (Greek, τό ὄν, the present participle of the verb ειναι, "to be"; Latin, esse; German, Sein; French ...
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  • Justinian I (Latin: Flavius Petrus Sabbatius Iustinianus, Greek: Ιουστινιανός; May 11, 483 C.E. – November 13, 565 C.E.) was Eastern ...
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  • The term New Testament is a translation from the Latin Novum Testamentum ... author wrote in his early-fourth-century Latin Institutiones Divinae (Divine ...
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  • Vatican City, officially State of the Vatican City (Latin: Status Civitatis Vaticanae), is a landlocked sovereign city-state whose territory ...
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  • The word "Alps" was taken via French from Latin Alpes (meaning "the Alps"), which may be influenced by the Latin words albus ...
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  • symbol, Ag, is an abbreviation of the Latin word argentum. ... two elements are chemically unrelated. The Latin name for mercury was hydrargyrum ...
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  • Principle in philosophy and mathematics means a fundamental law or assumption. The word "principle" is derived from Latin "principium ...
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  • in a number of lesser developed countries in Latin America where it can count on some tens of thousands of supporters in both Argentina and Brazil ...
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  • who translated all the works of Plato into Latin. The Academy of Florence ... translated all the works of Plato into Latin and left translations of ...
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  • The first known natural satellite was the Moon (Luna in Latin). Until ... satellites, using a term derived from the Latin satelles, meaning "guard ...
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  • for fabricating and disseminating (in the Latin Orient as well as in Europe ... acquired wide currency in Europe and the Latin Orient, and they were accepted ...
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  • The word university is derived from the Latin universitas magistrorum et ... a university." The word comes from the Latin universitatum, meaning corporation ...
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  • |motto = la|Religioni et Bonis Artibus (Latin: "For ... was added to the already existing chairs in Latin, Greek, and Hebrew. With ...
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  • | Region = Latin America and the Caribbean | Year = 1985 ... america/south/cultures/chavin.html Latin American prehistory] Retrieved ...
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  • Provençal minstrels and poets, and Latin culture with a particular ... When Beatrice died in 1290, Dante, then 25, sought a refuge in Latin ...
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  • In metaphysics, a universal is a type, a property, or a relation. The term derives from the Latin word universalia and is often considered to ...
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  • of steel. The name fluorite is derived from the Latin word fluo, meaning "flow," in reference to its use as a flux. == Occurrence == ...
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  • Altona for four years. He studied Greek and Latin and received his diploma ... a collection of all known ancient Latin inscriptions when he published ...
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  • length. The word equinox derives from the Latin words aequus (equal) and ... These names are direct derivatives of Latin (ver = spring, autumnus ...
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  • The word "Druid" is derived from the Latin druides and is ... Greek and Latin "druides" bear comparison with Old Irish ...
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  • of Navarre. Many of his most thoughtful Latin treatises antedate 1360, ... . These three works, written in both Latin and French, mark Oresme as ...
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  • of her age, she was a brilliant scholar of Latin, Greek, and Hebrew and had ... see that she was well versed in the secular Latin poets and the classical philosophical ...
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  • Uruguay is a member of the Rio Group, an association of Latin American ... become the leading exporter of software in Latin America. Its main industries ...
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  • between 1458 and 1490. Corvinus is derived from the Latin for "raven," thus he is also referred to as "the Raven King" (A raven is ...
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  • New Testament Greek and Latin texts presented enough significant differences ... Likewise, Damasus's commissioning of the Latin Vulgate edition ...
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  • that octōpūs is a second declension Latin noun, which it is not. Rather ... ). If the word were native to Latin, it would be octōpēs (“eight ...
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  • Syllable is an Anglo-Norman variation of Old French sillabe, from ... – this is the case in languages like Latin and Arabic. The system of ...
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  • 38 species in the genus Mus, which is the Latin word for mouse." It ... cognate with mys in Old Greek and mus in Latin Retrieved August 22, 2007. ...
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  • named and classified as Homo sapiens sapiens (Latin for "wise wise man"). The genus of humans then is Homo. Genus necessarily includes one ...
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  • himself. He therefore made the boy learn Latin and begin the study of law ... the improviser's facility. Of the Latin poets he studied Ovid with ...
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  • Amillennialism (Greek: a- "not" + Latin: mille "thousand" + annum "year") is a view in Christian eschatology named ...
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  • Basil of Caesarea (ca. 330 - January 1, 379 C.E.) (Latin: Basilius), also called Saint Basil the Great (Greek: Άγιος Βασίλειος ...
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  • professional history, and one still needs Latin histories (e.g., William ... poor, and this makes them almost unique in Latin or English history. They ...
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  • |left|250px|The term "turbine" comes from the Latin "turbo ... Claude Burdin (1788-1873) coined the term turbine from the Latin word ...
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  • Homo Sovieticus (from New Latin) is a sarcastic and critical reference to a category of people with a specific mindset that were allegedly created ...
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  • is pure illusion." In a letter to the Latin-American writer Ernesto Cardenal ... Merton translated many Latin poems during these years, and was aware ...
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  • in their native language rather than Latin, French, or Provençal. The ... vernacular, in addition to the flood of Latin and Greek texts that constituted ...
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  • According to the World Health Organization, the infection rate in ... with some 100 million (25 percent of the Latin American population) at risk ...
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  • 250px|A copy of the Gutenberg Bible, in the Latin Vulgate]] of the Council of Trent that the Vulgate Latin edition of the Bible is both ...
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  • The botanic name Lilium is the Latin form and is a Linnaean name. The Latin name is derived from the Greek leirion, which is generally assumed ...
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  • of diverse traditions of ancient Greek, Latin, English, German, French ... Chinese, ancient Greek (in translations), Latin, English, German, French ...
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  • in the Anglican Communion. It replaced the four Latin liturgical books with a single compact volume in English. First produced in 1549 it was drastically ...
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  • A nebula (pl. nebulae, nebulæ, or nebulas; derived from the Latin word for "mist" or "cloud" Online Etymology Dictionary ...
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  • Bolivia is one of the poorest and least developed countries in Latin ... |Region = Latin America and the Caribbean |Year = 1991 |Session = 15th ...
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  • The term Holy Orders comes from the Latin Ordo (order) and the word holy referring to the church. Historically, an order refers to an established ...
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  • and toes. In English, the term decimal (from Latin decimus) means "tenth," decimate means "reduce by a tenth," and denary (Latin ...
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  • adapting the English language to ancient Greek and Latin forms. In particular, Herrick introduced the Greek style of lyrical poetry to English literature ...
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  • including Ancient Greek, Italian, Latin, and Provençal. ... hieroglyphs, which was based on later Latin versions of the same text ...
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  • Nowe Set Oute With the Names of the Herbes, in Greke Latin, English, Duche, Frenche, and in the Apothecaries and Herbaries Latin, With the Properties ...
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  • logic, natural philosophy, chemistry, history, Latin, and algebra. The Beecher School became the Hartford Female Seminary in 1827. Despite her unique ...
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  • In musical terminology, tempo (Italian for "time," from Latin Tempus) is the speed or pace of a given piece. It is a crucial element ...
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  • The other sister, Minerva, became a writer and Latin scholar. Sofonisba's brother, Asdrubale, studied music and Latin but not painting. ...
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  • purchase of a home. Segregation may be de jure (Latin, meaning "by law")—mandated by law—or de facto (also Latin, meaning "in fact ...
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  • Pope Paul VI (Latin: Paulus PP. VI; Italian: Paolo VI), born Giovanni Montini (September 26, 1897 – August 6, 1978), reigned as Pope of the ...
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  • Cadmium (Latin cadmia, Greek kadmeia meaning "calamine") was discovered in Germany in 1817 by Friedrich Strohmeyer. Strohmeyer found ...
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  • quot;). Eventually, the word was incorporated into Latin as catacumbæ, which roughly translates as "among the tombs," and then into variations ...
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  • States and the oldest independent nation in Latin America. ... back to a colonial state of Spain, the only Latin American nation to do so ...
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  • The Latin word Metator (messenger, guide, leader, measurer) had been ... 1994. ISBN 0875428320. Translated from the Latin. *Alexander, Philip ...
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  • Plumbing (from the Latin word plumbum, meaning "lead") is the skilled trade of working with pipes, tubing, and special fixtures for ...
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  • rhythmic and harmonic properties of actual Latin folk music. He was one of several important South American composers to achieve international ...
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  • #039;The letter names are presumed to come from the Latin words "AffIrmo" and "nEgO," which mean "I affirm" and "I ...
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  • in terms of cargo tonnage imported/exported from Latin America. ... by its large population of ethnic Latin Americans and cultures from ...
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  • have transformed Santiago into one of Latin America's most sophisticated ... and most important financial centers in Latin America, ranking high as ...
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  • canon are also found in the appendix to the Latin Vulgate, formerly the official ... were called the Septuagint (Latin for 'Seventy') from the ...
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  • ages as well as most of the classical Latin and Greek poems, follow strict ... The first translation, by Grímur Jónsson Thorkelin, was done in ...
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  • of the American sweet sixteen party, the Latin American Quinceañera, or the Catholic Confirmation. ==Notes== ==References== * Cutter, William ...
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  • " and when not engaged in his Latin and Greek studies, the ten ... mark of success. For example, when the new Latin American republics, formerly ...
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  • Pita ("Sky Father"). Similarly, in Latin, the term Jupiter, which referred to Zeus in the Roman tradition, is derived from Iuppiter. Iuppiter ...
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  • introduced the fruit to the Caribbean and Latin America, but in the English ... The name "pomegranate" derives from Latin pomum ("apple ...
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  • Basileía Romaíon, a direct translation of the Latin name of the ... that these laws were still written in Latin, a language that was becoming ...
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  • " a term coined by Rudolf Otto and based on the Latin numen (deity). ==References== *Allison, Henry E. Kant's Transcendental Idealism: ...
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  • Tabula rasa (Latin: "scraped tablet," though often translated "blank slate") is the notion, popularized by John Locke, that ...
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  • of the latter part of the Silver Age of Latin literature, his writing is ... to a Roman equestrian family; like many other Latin authors of the ...
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  • The word is from the Latin virus referring to poison and other noxious ... other form. No plural form appears in the Latin corpus, and the "reconstructed ...
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  • era Middle French. This, in turn, came from Latin genus. Both words mean "kind ... for tonality, and the words Dur (from Latin durus, hard) for major and ...
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  • Latin = glandula parathyroidea inferior, glandula parathyroidea superior | GraySubject = 273 | GrayPage = 1271 | Image = illu_endocr ...
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  • Augustus (Latin: IMPERATOR CAESAR DIVI FILIVS AVGVSTVS) (September 23, 63 B.C.E. – 14 C.E.), known as Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus (in English ...
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  • metal. Its symbol, W, is taken from the Latin word, wolframium. In the periodic table, it lies in period 6, between tantalum (Ta) and rhenium (Re). ...
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  • *Black in Latin America. (New York University Press, 2011) ... *Black in Latin America (executive producer, writer, and presenter ...
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  • The Lenten period of forty days owes its origin to the Latin word ... to be given in the vernacular instead of Latin, the English word lent was ...
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  • derived from the word's literal meaning (from Latin) of climbing or going beyond, that correspond with Ancient philosophy, Medieval philosophy, ...
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  • The Catholic (Latin rite) diocese of Chingelpet ministers at the shrine administration. The church conducts The Festival of Our Lady of Expectation ...
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  • noting that travelers to Asia, Africa, and Latin America have been especially ... is common (especially Asia, Africa, and Latin America). Typhim Vi, which ...
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  • much larger set of Brahmic graphemes to the Latin script. See also [http://homepage ... various other Indic scripts as well as a Latin-based script with diacritic ...
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  • Saint Ambrose (c.339 - April 4, 397 C.E.), known in Latin as Ambrosius, was successful bishop of Milan, who was later recognized as one of the ...
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  • multiplied by this factor. If the prefix is Latin-derived, it is divided. The Greek prefix kilo~ and the Latin prefixes centi~ and milli~ are ...
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  • in New England. After graduating from Boston Latin School, he attended Harvard University and received a business degree in 1754, when he was 17 ...
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  • language which had been modified by exposure to Latin. ==Notes== == References == *Bydén, Börje. 2003. Theodore Metochites’ Stoicheiosis astronomike ...
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  • he even graduated. He did, however, know Latin well, and was familiar with ... were replaced by ministers (from the Latin for servants), with each ...
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  • and genres, including many Caribbean and Latin American music genres like ... sphere, the importation of music from Latin America, like the rumba, ...
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  • when a Middle English work borrowed the word from Latin to describe a sandboard abacus. The Latin word came from abakos, the Greek genitive form of ...
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