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Latin and alphabet

A ( named a, plural aes ) is the first letter and vowel in the ISO basic Latin alphabet.

There are dozens of alphabets in use today, the most common being the Latin alphabet ( which was derived from the Greek ).

Many languages use modified forms of the Latin alphabet, with additional letters formed using diacritical marks.

The English word alphabet came into Middle English from the Late Latin word alphabetum, which in turn originated in the Greek ἀλφάβητος ( alphabētos ), from alpha and beta, the first two letters of the Greek alphabet.

One of these became the Latin alphabet, which was spread across Europe as the Romans expanded their empire.

Some adaptations of the Latin alphabet are augmented with ligatures, such as æ in Old English and Icelandic and Ȣ in Algonquian ; by borrowings from other alphabets, such as the thorn þ in Old English and Icelandic, which came from the Futhark runes ; and by modifying existing letters, such as the eth ð of Old English and Icelandic, which is a modified d. Other alphabets only use a subset of the Latin alphabet, such as Hawaiian, and Italian, which uses the letters j, k, x, y and w only in foreign words.

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.

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Latin and appeared

The first ' modern ' publication of Alcaeus ' verses appeared in a Greek and Latin edition of fragments collected from the canonic nine lyrical poets by Michael Neander, published at Basle in 1556.

The term Al Nesr Al Tair appeared in Al Achsasi Al Mouakket catalogue, which was translated into Latin as Vultur Volans.

It first appeared in the sequence ii ( as in ingeníí ) in Latin manuscripts of the 11th century, then spread to i adjacent to m, n, u, and later spread to all lower-case i. The j, which separated from the i later, inherited the " dot ".

This Latin motto is literally translated as Perhaps and first appeared in the first Dalhousie Gazette of 1869.

The doctorate ( Latin: doceō, I teach ) appeared in medieval Europe as a license to teach ( Latin: licentia docendi ) at a medieval university.

It appeared in over 100 surviving early Latin copies of the Bible.

The first paper from his years of study in Paris appeared in Frankfurt am Main in 1816, under the title of Über das Conjugationssystem der Sanskritsprache in Vergleichung mit jenem der griechischen, lateinischen, persischen und germanischen Sprache ( On the Conjugation System of Sanskrit in comparison with that of Greek, Latin, Persian and Germanic ) ( Windischmann contributed a preface ).

Bopp started work on a new edition in Latin, for the following year, completed in 1832 ; a shorter grammar appeared in 1834.

His chief activity, however, centred on the elaboration of his Comparative Grammar, which appeared in six parts at considerable intervals ( Berlin, 1833, 1835, 1842, 1847, 1849, 1852 ), under the title Vergleichende Grammatik des Sanskrit, Zend, Griechischen, Lateinischen, Litthauischen, Altslawischen, Gotischen und Deutschen ( Comparative Grammar of Sanskrit, Zend ( Avestan ), Greek, Latin, Lithuanian, Old Slavonic, Gothic and German ).

Erotic, religious and occasional poetry appeared in both German and Latin.

The story of Barlaam and Josaphat was popular in the Middle Ages, appearing in such works as the Golden Legend, and a scene there involving three caskets eventually appeared, via Caxton's English translation of a Latin version, in Shakespeare's " Merchant of Venice ".

For many years, printed editions of the works of Josephus appeared only in an imperfect Latin translation from the original Greek.

In Latin America, lesbian consciousness and associations appeared in the 1970s, increasing while several countries transitioned to or reformed democratic governments.

While the etymology is Greek, the oldest extant record of the word itself is the New Latin form ontologia, which appeared in 1606, in the work Ogdoas Scholastica by Jacob Lorhard ( Lorhardus ) and in 1613 in the Lexicon philosophicum by Rudolf Göckel ( Goclenius ); see classical compounds for this type of word formation.

Alexander VII disliked the business of state, preferring literature and philosophy ; a collection of his Latin poems appeared at Paris in 1656 under the title Philomathi Labores Juveniles.

Words with the same root appeared with related meanings: in Raetic plaumorati " wheeled heavy plough " ( Pliny ), and in Latin plaustrum " farm cart ", plōstrum, plōstellum " cart ", and plōxenum, plōximum " cart box ".

While previous critics such as A. W. Gomme believed that the slave was “ truly comic character, the devisor of ingenious schemes, the controller of events, the commanding officer of his young master and friends, is a creation of Latin comedy ,” and that Greek dramatists such as Menander did not use slaves in such a way that Plautus later did, Harsh refutes these beliefs by giving concrete examples of instances where a clever slave appeared in Greek comedy.

The full text of the revised Missal was not published until the following year, and full vernacular translations appeared much later, but parts of the Missal in Latin were already available since 1964 in non definitive form and provisional translations appeared without delay.

To avoid clashing, More brought out his book, the Enchiridion ethicum, in Latin ; Cudworth's never appeared.

Pilate's rank while he was governor of Iudaea province appeared in a Latin inscription on the Pilate Stone which called him a prefect, while this Tacitean passage calls him a procurator.

The word theosophia appeared in both Greek and Latin in the works of early church fathers as a synonym for “ theology ”.

The term " Al Nesr al Waki " appeared in the Al Achsasi Al Mouakket star catalogue and was translated into Latin as " Vulture Cadens ".

Until 1960, another feast day which appeared in the General Roman Calendar is that of " St John Before the Latin Gate " on May 6, celebrating a tradition recounted by Jerome that St John was brought to Rome during the reign of the Emperor Domitian, and was thrown in a vat of boiling oil, from which he was miraculously preserved unharmed.

Latin and about

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

Classics Professor G. P. Goold at University College, wrote of Housman's scholarly accomplishments: " The legacy of Housman's scholarship is a thing of permanent value ; and that value consists less in obvious results, the establishment of general propositions about Latin and the removal of scribal mistakes, than in the shining example he provides of a wonderful mind at work ....

Increases in the number of immigrants to the United States from Africa, the Caribbean and Latin America have brought up questions about who uses the term African-American.

According to the Latin American Institute on Mental Health and Human Rights ( ILAS ), " situations of extreme trauma " affected about 200, 000 persons.

Matteo Ricci was among the very earliest to report on the thoughts of Confucius, and father Prospero Intorcetta wrote about the life and works of Confucius in Latin in 1687.

The word catholic ( derived via Late Latin catholicus, from the Greek adjective ( katholikos ), meaning " universal ") comes from the Greek phrase ( katholou ), meaning " on the whole ", " according to the whole " or " in general ", and is a combination of the Greek words meaning " about " and meaning " whole ".

The Dominican Republic is considered one of the countries with the most advanced telecommunications infrastructures in Latin America, with over 8. 9 million cell phones connected ( on just about 10 million populants, with 3. 5 million of them on extreme poverty conditions ) and large companies like Codetel and Orange ( FR ) on the telecommunications market.

The Latin name suggests that the city was already a Celtic oppidum, or walled town, on the banks on the River Exe before the foundation of the Roman city, in about AD 50.

This oppidum ( a Latin term meaning an important town ) on the banks of the River Exe certainly existed prior to the foundation of the Roman city in about AD 50.

** Waltharius by Ekkehard of St. Gall ( Latin ); about Walter of Aquitaine

Excavations at Praeneste, an Etruscan city which became Roman, turned up about 118 cistae, one of which has been termed " the Praeneste cista " or " the Ficoroni cista " by art analysts, with special reference to the one manufactured by Novios Plutius and given by Dindia Macolnia to her daughter, as the archaic Latin inscription says.

In October 1823, he entered the Lycée Louis-le-Grand, and despite some turmoil in the school at the beginning of the term ( when about a hundred students were expelled ), Galois managed to perform well for the first two years, obtaining the first prize in Latin.

During his reign, he also set about creating the Second Mexican Empire ( headed by his choice of Maximilian I of Mexico, a member of the House of Habsburg ), to regain France's hold in the Americas and to achieve greatness for the ' Latin ' race.

H. sapiens ( the adjective sapiens is Latin for " wise " or " intelligent ") have lived from about 250, 000 years ago to the present.

As Xavier learned more about the religious nuances of the word, he changed to Deusu from the Latin and Portuguese Deus.

One of the first movements in Mussorgsky's 1874 work Pictures at an Exhibition, named " Gnomus " ( Latin for " The Gnome "), is written to sound as if a gnome is moving about, his movements constantly changing in speed.

For about the next 10 years, the country saw a steady process of secular Westernization through Atatürk's Reforms, which included the unification of education ; the discontinuation of religious and other titles ; the closure of Islamic courts and the replacement of Islamic canon law with a secular civil code modeled after Switzerland's and a penal code modeled after the Italian Penal Code ; recognition of the equality between the sexes and the granting of full political rights to women on 5 December 1934 ; the language reform initiated by the newly founded Turkish Language Association ; replacement of the Ottoman Turkish alphabet with the new Turkish alphabet derived from the Latin alphabet ; the dress law ( the wearing of a fez, is outlawed ); the law on family names ; and many others.

Since about the 3rd century CE, the Jewish calendar has used the Anno Mundi epoch ( Latin for “ in the year of the world ,” abbreviated AM or A. M .; Hebrew ), sometimes referred to as the “ Hebrew era .” According to Rabbinic reckoning, the beginning of " year 1 " is not Creation, but about one year before Creation, with the new moon of its first month ( Tishrei ) to be called molad tohu ( the mean new moon of chaos or nothing ).

A later tradition called him Beauclerc for his scholarly interests — he could read Latin and put his learning to effective use — and Lion of Justice for refinements which he brought about in the royal administration, which he rendered the most effective in Europe, rationalizing the itinerant court, and his public espousal of the Anglo-Saxon legal tradition.

Previously, it was called Quintilis in Latin, since it was the fifth month in the ancient Roman calendar, which traditionally set March as the beginning of the year before it was changed to January at the time of the decemvirs about 450 BC.

There are about 170 extant Latin translations of Josephus, some of which go back to the sixth century, and according to Louis Feldman have proven very useful in reconstructing the Josephus texts through comparisons with the Greek manuscripts, reconfirming proper names and filling in gaps.

Jonah (; or ; Greek / Latin: Ionas ) is the name given in the Hebrew Bible ( Tanakh / Old Testament ) to a prophet of the northern kingdom of Israel in about the 8th century BC, the eponymous central character in the Book of Jonah, famous for being swallowed by a fish or a whale, depending on translation.

The Latin phrase falsum in uno, falsum in omnibus which, roughly translated, means " false in one thing, false in everything ", is fallacious in so far as someone found to be wrong about one thing, is presumed to be wrong about some other thing entirely.

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