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  • of early psychosomatic medicine. The id (Latin, "it" in English ... called libido, "I desire" in Latin. Libido came to mean the ...
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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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  • In Roman mythology, Saturn (Latin: Saturnus) was a major Roman deity ... fact that it parallels the origin of other Latin names that end in -urnus ...
    11 KB (1,785 words) - 17:00, 23 December 2022
  • of the American sweet sixteen party, the Latin American Quinceañera, or the Catholic Confirmation. ==Notes== ==References== * Cutter, William ...
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  • a great advance for the West, because the Latin alphabet requires precise ... of knowledge was the decline of Latin as the language of most published ...
    16 KB (2,311 words) - 18:44, 29 April 2023
  • The word "porphyry" is derived from a Latin term that means "purple." Purple was the color of royalty, and the "Imperial ...
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  • The term Latin America is used when referring to those territories ... is no evidence that they utilized written language, although they did use the ...
    34 KB (4,744 words) - 15:36, 4 February 2023
  • 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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  • 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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  • Prague, they were composed in the Czech language in order to resurrect the ... “The nation which, aware of the importance of a natural language ...
    26 KB (4,082 words) - 01:44, 23 November 2022
  • A crucifix (from Latin cruci fixus, meaning "one fixed to a cross ... INRI, an acronym for (translated from Latin), "Jesus of Nazareth ...
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  • of Confucian texts into a European language, Latin. In 1601, Ricci became ... as several Chinese Confucian texts into Latin. Xu Guang-qi became the first ...
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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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  • from the word's literal meaning (from Latin) of climbing or going beyond ... ==Introduction: concept, language, and transcendence== Transcendence ...
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  • In musical terminology, tempo (Italian for "time," from ... nova," "ballad," and "Latin rock," in much the same way. ...
    18 KB (2,794 words) - 05:39, 27 February 2023
  • roughly translates as "terrible." The Latin form, Gorgonem, is the origin of the English word. From Latin also comes the words Gorgoneion, ...
    11 KB (1,816 words) - 04:21, 24 May 2024
  • and composed original verses and dialogues in Latin. [[Image:Arthur ... by making them learn a hundred lines of Latin verse by heart and if they ...
    12 KB (1,837 words) - 17:37, 16 August 2023
  • in his life. Only after he had mastered Latin did he begin to express himself ... Testament to prepare for a new edition and Latin translation. This edition ...
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  • several other related concepts such as: language, logic, consciousness, knowledge ... derived from the French word raison, from Latin rationem (ratio) "reckoning ...
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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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