Good Friday is the Friday before Easter, which is calculated differently in Eastern Christianity and Western Christianity ( see Computus for details ).

One difference between Eastern Christianity and Western Christianity is the calculation of the date of Easter ( see Computus ).

* Easter Dating Method, or Computus, referring to the calculation of the date of Easter

* Anicetus meets with Polycarp of Smyrna to discuss the Computus, the date of Easter in the Christian calendar.

The date of Easter may be calculated using a procedure known as Computus.

For the method used to calculate the date of Pascha, see Computus.

This conflicts with the Julian Easter which could not occur on the 14th day of the moon ( Nisan 14 ) but was permitted on Nisan 15 to 21, although these dates were calculated via Christian, not Jewish, tables ( see Computus ).

The Roman Church had decided that when the 14th day of the Paschal moon was a Sunday, Easter Day should be the Sunday after ; Computus.

The Computus Runicus refers to a runic calendar produced in 1328 and found on the Swedish island of Gotland.

See Computus.

The author of a continuation of Dionysius's Computus, writing in 616, described Dionysius as a " most learned abbot of the city of Rome ", and the Venerable Bede accorded him the honorific abbas, which could be applied to any monk, especially a senior and respected monk, and does not necessarily imply that Dionysius ever headed a monastery ; indeed, Dionysius's friend Cassiodorus stated in Institutiones that he was still only a monk late in life.

* Computus Runicus.

These issues are dealt with in great detail in Computus.

For example, the Computus Runicus manuscript, originally from 1328, but collected and published by the Dane Ole Worm ( 1588-1654 ), uses this futhark notation, and not the pentadic numerals under discussion here.

Page 21 of Ole Worm's Computus Runicus.

* Dáibhi Ó Cróinin, ' A Seventh Century Computus from the Circle of Cummianus ', Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, vol.

In the eyes of those who still cared for such things, it was a reflection on his honor, and it gave further grounds for complaint to his overtaxed subjects, who were already grumbling -- although probably not in Latin -- `` Non est lex sana Quod regi sit mea lana ''.

Richard Quiney the younger, a schoolboy of eleven, wrote a letter in Latin asking his father to buy copybooks ( `` chartaceos libellos ) '' ) for him and his brother.

It may be thought unfortunate that he was called on entirely by accident to perform, if again we may trust the opening of the oratio, for it marks the beginning for us of his use of his peculiar form of witty word play that even in this Latin banter has in it the unmistakable element of viciousness and an almost sadistic delight in verbally tormenting an adversary.

Two committees of members of the Advisory Board constitute the committees of selection -- one for the selection of Fellows from Canada, the United States, and the English-speaking Caribbean area and one for the selection of Fellows from the Latin American republics and the Republic of the Philippines.

Latin America was once an area as `` safe '' for the West as Nebraska was for Nixon.

They will be for teaching, agriculture and community development in Southeast Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Latin America.

He thus kept his hands free for any action after Jan. 20, although reaction to the break was generally favorable in the U.S. and Latin America ( see the hemisphere ).

The Latin, for example, was not only clear ; ;

The name Austro-Asiatic comes from the Latin words for " south " and " Asia ", hence " South Asia ".

Algae ( or ; singular alga, Latin for " seaweed ") are a very large and diverse group of simple, typically autotrophic organisms, ranging from unicellular to multicellular forms, such as the giant kelps that grow to 65 meters in length.

The singular alga is the Latin word for a particular seaweed and retains that meaning in English.

The Latin word came from Greek ἄβαξ abax " board strewn with sand or dust used for drawing geometric figures or calculating "( the exact shape of the Latin perhaps reflects the genitive form of the Greek word, ἄβακoς abakos ).

It eventually became used for the descendant languages of Latin ( the Romance languages ) and then for most of the other languages of Europe.

These alphabets have since been replaced with the Latin alphabet, except for decorative usage for which the runes remained in use until the 20th century.

European alphabets, especially Latin and Cyrillic, have been adapted for many languages of Asia.

The largest alphabets in the narrow sense include Kabardian and Abkhaz ( for Cyrillic ), with 58 and 56 letters, respectively, and Slovak ( for the Latin script ), with 46.

The basic ordering of the Latin alphabet ( ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ ) is well established, although languages using this alphabet have different conventions for their treatment of modified letters ( such as the French é, à, and ô ) and of certain combinations of letters ( multigraphs ).

The word computation has an archaic meaning ( from its Latin etymological roots ), but the word has come back in use with the arising of a new scientific discipline: computer science.

The name Ratio was suggested by Albert Uttley, it being the Latin root meaning " computation or the faculty of mind which calculates, plans and reasons ".

Location arithmetic ( Latin arithmeticæ localis ) is the additive binary numeral systems, which John Napier explored as a computation technique in his treatise Rabdology ( 1617 ), both symbolically and on a chessboard-like grid.

From Latin animātiō, " the act of bringing to life "; from animō (" to animate " or " give life to ") +-ātiō (" the act of ").

For this he was also known as Parnopius ( ; Παρνόπιος, Parnopios, from πάρνοψ, " locust ") and to the Romans as Culicarius ( ; from Latin culicārius, " of midges ").

The order Caudata ( from the Latin cauda meaning " tail ") consists of the salamanders, elongated, low-slung animals that mostly resemble lizards in form, though this is a symplesiomorphic trait and the two groups are no more closely related than salamanders are to mammals.

The famous Latin Responsa Prudentium (" answers of the learned ones ") were the accumulated views of many successive generations of Roman lawyers, a body of legal opinion which gradually became authoritative.

An abbey ( from Latin abbatia, derived from Latin language abbatia, from Latin abbās, derived from Aramaic language abba, " father ") is a Catholic monastery or convent, under the authority of an Abbot or an Abbess, who serves as the spiritual father or mother of the community.

Animism ( from Latin anima " soul, life ") is a set of beliefs based on the existence of non-human " spiritual beings " or similar kinds of embodied principles.

The name means " red-beard " ( literally, " bronze-beard ") in Latin.

Plancius called the constellation " Paradysvogel Apis Indica "; the first word is Dutch for ' bird of paradise ', but the others are Latin for " Indian Bee "; " apis " ( Latin for " bee ") is presumably an error for " avis " or " bird ".

The term " adrenal " comes from ad-( Latin, " near ") and renes ( Latin, " kidney ").

Similarly, " suprarenal " is derived from supra-( Latin, " above ") and renes.

Meissner, and is derived from late Latin root ( which, in turn, comes from the Arabic al-qalwī – " ashes of plants ") and the suffix – " like ".

The Res Gestae Divi Augusti ( Latin: " The Deeds of the Divine Augustus ") is a remarkable account to the Roman people of the Emperor Augustus ' stewardship.

The word amputation is derived from the Latin amputare, " to cut away ", from ambi-(" about ", " around ") and putare (" to prune ").

* Senex: ( Latin for " old man ") A henpecked, sardonic Roman senator living in a less fashionable suburb of Rome.

* Domina: ( Latin for " mistress ") The wife of Senex.

* Erronius: ( Latin for " wandering ") Senex's elderly neighbor in the house to the right.

* Tintinabula: ( Latin for " Bells ") A jingling, bell-wearing courtesan in the house of Lycus.

* Vibrata: ( Latin for " Vibrant ") A wild, vibrant courtesan in the house of Lycus.

* Geminae: ( Latin for " Twins ") Twin courtesans in the house of Lycus.

The resulting tangle of blood vessels, often called a nidus ( Latin for " nest ") has no capillaries and abnormally direct connections between high-pressure arteries and low-pressure veins.