The term " Merovingian " comes from medieval Latin Merovingi or Merohingi (" sons of Merovech "), an alteration of an unattested Old West Low Franconian form, akin to their dynasty's Old English name Merewīowing, with the final-ing being a typical patronymic suffix.

Rodolphus Agricola ( Phrisius ) ( February 17, 1444 – October 27, 1485 ) was a pre-Erasmian humanist of the northern Low Countries, famous for his supple Latin and one of the first north of the Alps to know Greek well.

In contemporary Low German he is styled simply Koningh van Lettowen, mirroring the Latin Rex Lethowye ( both " King of Lithuania ").

* an edition of Luther's smaller catechism in Latin and Low German ( Magdeburg, 1531 );

Later influences on the development of Scots were from Romance languages via ecclesiastical and legal Latin, Norman and later Parisian French due to the Auld Alliance as well as Dutch and Middle Low German influences due to trade and immigration from the Low Countries.

Dithmarschen (, Low Saxon pronunciation:, archaic in English: Ditmarsh, Middle Latin: Tedmarsgo ) is a district in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

* Missa Cantata ( Latin for " sung mass "): celebrated by a priest without deacon and subdeacon, and thus a form of Low Mass, but with some parts ( the three variable prayers, the Scripture readings, Preface, Pater Noster, and Ite Missa Est ) sung by the priest, and other parts ( Introit, Kyrie, Gloria, Gradual, Tract or Alleluia, Credo, Offertory Antiphon, Sanctus and Benedictus, Agnus Dei, and Communion Antiphon ) sung by the choir.

Dortmund (; Low German: Düörpm ; Latin: Tremonia ) is a city in Germany.

Münster (; Low German: Mönster ; Latin: Monasterium, from the Greek μοναστήριον-monastērion, " monastery ") is an independent city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

The word stems from the French jalousie, formed from jaloux ( jealous ), and further from Low Latin zelosus ( full of zeal ), in turn from the Greek word ( zēlos ), sometimes " jealousy ", but more often in a positive sense " emulation, ardour, zeal "

Writ Religio Medici in English, which was since translated into Latin, French, Italian, High and Low Dutch.

Holstein () ( Northern Low Saxon: Holsteen,, Latin and historical ) is the region between the rivers Elbe and Eider.

The language ( or groups of dialects of Low German ) is spoken by over 300, 000 Mennonites ( Russian Mennonites ), most notably in the Latin American countries of Brazil, Mexico, Bolivia, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Honduras, Belize, and Argentina, as well as in the United States and Canada ( particularly Manitoba and Saskatchewan ).

The pronunciation, the vocabulary and the syntax of Low Latin were modified step by step by the Germanic tribe of the Franks and others as their settlements in the Empire were accepted by the Romans, or forced upon them, and finally as they conquered portions of Roman Gaul that are now France and Belgium during the Migration Period.

The Old Low Frankish influence is probably responsible for the difference between the langue d ′ oïl and the langue d ′ oc ( Occitan ) too, because different parts of Northern France were really bilingual Latin / Germanic, and that corresponds exactly to the places where the first documents in Old French were written.

Clovis's capital, Tournai ( in modern Wallonia ), was a Roman-founded city, and Latin was thus spoken there more than in other parts of the Low Countries.

The Merovingian and Carolingian courts thus had a vital importance in spreading Latin to the otherwise Germanic Low Countries.

Apart from some of the clergy who had studied at the universities and cathedral schools in Paris or in Cologne, there were few scholars in the land ; even amongst the higher clergy there were many who were ignorant of the scientific study of Latin, and the ordinary burgher of the Dutch cities was quite content if, when his children left school, they were able to read and write the Medieval Low German and Diets.

In his education and travels he acquired some knowledge of " High and Low Dutch, Latin, French, Spanish, Italian, and Lingua Franca "; he later states that he " understood ( Portuguese ) very well ".

" The South End's range of restaurants include American southern " Low Country ", French, Ethiopian, Brazilian, Indian, Italian, Venezuelan, African, Peruvian, Latin American, Thai, and Japanese among others.

Most specialists think it is a diminutive form biretum of the Low Latin birrum, which means " sort of short cloak with a hood " brevis ", that is from Gaulish birros " short ".

Low Mass ( called in Latin, Missa lecta, which literally means " read Mass ") is a Tridentine Mass defined officially in the Code of Rubrics included in the 1962 edition of the Roman Missal as Mass in which the priest does not chant the parts that the rubrics assign to him.

" Private Mass " ( in Latin, Missa privata or secreta, familiaris, peculiaris ), which is now understood as Mass celebrated without a congregation, formerly meant Low Mass.

In Low Mass incense is not used and the responses ( in Latin ) are given by one or more servers.

Behind him lay the Low Countries, where men were still completing the cathedrals that a later Florentine would describe as `` a malediction of little tabernacles, one on top of the other, with so many pyramids and spires and leaves that it is a wonder they stand up at all, for they look as though they were made of paper instead of stone or marble '' ; ;

The latest Low is a puzzler.

But there is a difference between the present volume and the early Low.

Low seems to have supported Eden at first and then relented because things worked out differently, so there is no fire in his eye.

* In Astrophysics, auto-correlation is used to study and characterize the spatial distribution of galaxies in the Universe and in multi-wavelength observations of Low Mass X-ray Binaries.

* Low brass is a copper-zinc alloy containing 20 % zinc with a light golden color and excellent ductility ; it is used for flexible metal hoses and metal bellows.

Conversely the use of true brass seems to have declined in Western Europe during this period in favour of gunmetals and other mixed alloys but by the end of the first Millennium AD brass artefacts are found in Scandinavian graves in Scotland, brass was being used in the manufacture of coins in Northumbria and there is archaeological and historical evidence for the production of brass in Germany and The Low Countries areas rich in calamine ore which would remain important centres of brass making throughout the medieval period, especially Dinant – brass objects are still collectively known as dinanterie in French.

Low vision is sometimes used to describe visual acuities from 20 / 70 to 20 / 200.

Crokinole is called knipsbrat (" flick-board ") in the Low German spoken by Mennonites.

Two paintings ( both dated 1565 ) by Pieter Bruegel the Elder depict Dutch peasants curling — Scotland and the Low Countries had strong trading and cultural links during this period, which is also evident in the history of golf.

It is sometimes known as Low fantasy in contrast to High fantasy, which is primarily serious in intent and tone.

The term " Low Fantasy " is used to represent other types of fantasy, however, so while comic fantasies may also correctly be classified as low fantasy, many examples of low fantasy are not comic in nature.

* Low cost is of utmost importance.

Some have theorized it emerged from the overwhelming influence of Low German in medieval times, having flattened the originally Nordic melodic accent, but stød is absent in most southern Danish dialects where Low German impact would have been the greatest.

Often logic " 0 " will be a lower voltage and referred to as " Low " while logic " 1 " is referred to as " High ".

Low voltage reduces the specimen damage by the incident electrons and increases image contrast that is especially important for biological specimens.

Estonian has been influenced by Swedish, German ( initially Middle Low German, later also standard German ), and Russian, though it is not related to them genetically.

This is primarily because the Estonian language has borrowed nearly one third of its vocabulary from Germanic languages, mainly from Low Saxon ( Middle Low German ) during the period of German rule, and High German ( including standard German ).

The name Freyja is in fact a title meaning " lady ", from Proto-Germanic * frawjōn, cognate with West Frisian frou, Dutch vrouw, Low German Fro, Fru, German Frau.

Frankish * forhist is attested by Old High German forst " forest ", Middle Low German vorst " forest ", Old English fyrhþ " forest, woodland, game preserve, hunting ground " ( English frith ), and Old Norse fýri " coniferous forest ", all of which derive from Proto-Germanic * furhísa -, * furhíþija-" a fir-wood, coniferous forest ", from Proto-Indo-European * perk < sup > w </ sup > u-" a coniferous or mountain forest, wooded height ".

The word is continued in German Deutsch ( meaning German ), English " Dutch ", Dutch Duits and Diets ( the latter referring to the historic name for Dutch or Middle Dutch, the former meaning German ), Italian tedesco ( meaning German ), Swedish / Danish / Norwegian tysk ( meaning German ) and Middle Low German dudesch meaning both Low German and the whole of Dutch / German / Low German, as well its descendant, modern Low German dütsch, meaning only Standard High German.