Search results for "Latin language" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • if there is no common theoretical language that can be used to compare ... questions regarding translation. Each language is configured and structured ...
    17 KB (2,394 words) - 00:08, 8 January 2024
  • A word is a basic element of language that carries an objective or ... a morpheme, which is the smallest unit of language that has a meaning, even ...
    33 KB (4,842 words) - 20:11, 25 February 2023
  • by a Mr. Anderson who taught him Greek, Latin, mathematics, and physics ... is derived that extensive influence which language hath over the heart, an ...
    12 KB (1,775 words) - 11:12, 25 June 2024
  • of some works, particularly those in Latin with no Arabic originals ... the acquisition of copies of Greek and Latin authors for translation into ...
    16 KB (2,525 words) - 08:37, 13 March 2024
  • Europe and Latin America constituted minor destinations for post-war ... Brazil has Latin America's largest Koreatown while Koreatowns ...
    13 KB (1,907 words) - 15:38, 14 April 2023
  • and all probably derive, through Vulgar Latin *crosus (not attested), from ... of the Old French adjective magne, from Latin magnus, meaning "large ...
    8 KB (1,081 words) - 00:21, 15 January 2023
  • His prose works, written in the Hebrew language, made accessible to the ... Europe, and some were later translated into Latin, Spanish, French, English ...
    14 KB (2,169 words) - 06:29, 14 June 2023
  • classical scholar. Educated at the famous Latin school in Schlettstadt, which ... excellent education. He attended the famous Latin school of Schlettstadt, which ...
    12 KB (1,792 words) - 10:18, 26 September 2023
  • Both the Latin word cedrus and the generic name Cedrus are derived from the Greek kedros. Ancient Greek and Latin used the same word, kedros ...
    10 KB (1,494 words) - 23:43, 3 December 2023
  • with an amazing memory. He was schooled in Latin, and possibly Greek, at a ... in Italy. Already proficient in Latin and Greek, he studied Hebrew ...
    21 KB (3,278 words) - 14:25, 22 May 2024
  • Josephus were printed only in an imperfect Latin translation. It was only ... (War I.3), arguably the Western Aramaic language. He then wrote a seven-volume ...
    15 KB (2,242 words) - 17:37, 28 March 2024
  • suppressed that no complete Greek or Latin version has survived. It ... (in a work by Epiphanius), fragmentary Latin translations of the Greek ...
    13 KB (2,033 words) - 20:40, 4 October 2022
  • originally a French word that combined the Latin cuneus, which translates ... of c. 1800 B.C.E. to the Hittite language. When the cuneiform script ...
    19 KB (2,782 words) - 06:45, 12 January 2024
  • "Cogito, ergo sum" (Latin: "I am thinking, therefore I exist," or traditionally "I think, therefore I am") is a ...
    12 KB (1,920 words) - 22:26, 7 January 2024
  • The origin of the name is traceable to the Medieval Latin borax, which comes from the Arabic buraq, which comes from either the Persian burah ...
    10 KB (1,388 words) - 19:37, 20 November 2023
  • in Haitian Voodoo, derived from the language of the African slaves who ... in Havana in 1943. Since then, other Latin-American band leaders such ...
    10 KB (1,553 words) - 06:41, 5 November 2022
  • before January 1, 1959, were often given a Latin form and can be readily confused ... 'Aureomarginata' (pre-1959 name, Latin in form) ...
    14 KB (2,107 words) - 06:46, 11 January 2024
  • Questions of being are also closely tied to those of language, logic ... extant record of the word itself is the Latin form ontologia, which appeared ...
    15 KB (2,218 words) - 00:43, 18 November 2022
  • with a restless experimentation and their language remains fresh and inspiring ... metaphors expressed in ordinary language. The sonnets are brief enough ...
    9 KB (1,501 words) - 16:52, 20 May 2024
  • the most gifted love-poet in the English language, alongside W.B. Yeats. ... another four years of his life studying Latin and Greek did not appeal ...
    16 KB (2,484 words) - 05:05, 15 December 2022

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