Both terms, vasco and basque, are inherited from Latin ethnonym Vascones which in turn goes back to the Greek term οὐασκώνους ( ouaskōnous ), an ethnonym used by Strabo in his Geographica ( 23 CE, Book III ).

With the Lydian toponyms Τύρρα, Τύρσα, it has been connected with the ethnonym Τυρρήνιοι as well as with Tusci ( from * Turs-ci ), the Greek and Latin names for the Etruscans ( Kretschmer Glotta 22, 110ff.

Originally, the term Rusyn was an ethnonym applied to the eastern Slavic-speaking ethnic group who inhabited the cultural and ethnic region of Rus ' ( Русь ); often written through its Latin variant Ruthenia.

The ethnonym would then be etymologically related to words as Latin venus ,-eris ' love, passion, grace '; Sanskrit vanas-' lust, zest ', vani-' wish, desire '; Old Irish fine (< Proto-Celtic * venjā ) ' kinship, kinfolk, alliance, tribe, family '; Old Norse vinr, Old Saxon, Old High German wini, Old Frisian, Old English wine ' Friend '.

:: PIE * perkʷu-' oak ' → Latin quercus ; Goidelic ethnonym Querni

This ethnonym is an exonym used by the English-speaking world, although the term itself is derived from Latin.

The most common native ethnonym is " Hellenes " ( Έλληνες ); the name " Greeks " ( Latin: " Graeci ") was used by the Ancient Romans and gradually entered the European languages through its use in Latin.

The English term Germans is only attested from the mid-16th century, based on the classical Latin term Germani used by Julius Caesar and later Tacitus.

The English term " Germans " is only attested from the mid-16th century, based on the classical Latin term " Germani " used by Julius Caesar and later, Tacitus.

The theological complex present in Diana looks very elaborated and certainly Hellenic, while an analogous Latin concept of Diana Trivia seems uncertain, as Latin sources reflect a Hellenised character of the goddess.

Latin epigrams could be composed as inscriptions or graffiti, such as this one from Pompeii, which exists in several versions and seems from its inexact meter to have been composed by a less educated person.

However, the form gēr ( from PGmc * gaizaz ) seems far too advanced phonetically for the 1st century, has a long vowel where a short one is expected, and the Latin form has a simplex-n -, not a geminate.

As for Compostela, it comes, according to legend, from the Latin Campus Stellae ( i. e. " Field of the Star "); it seems unlikely however that this could yield the modern Compostela under normal evolution from Latin to Galician-Portuguese.

For example, in Spanish the fronting of Vulgar Latin before e ɛ seems to have reached every possible word it could, but the change involving voicing of word-initial Latin to as in colaphus > golpe and cattus > gato did not, e. g. canna > caña.

The etymology is uncertain, but the word seems to have originated from the conjunction of the two Latin words conserere ( meaning to tie, to join, to weave ) and certamen ( competition, fight ): the idea is that the two parts in a concerto, the soloist and the orchestra, alternate episodes of opposition, cooperation, and independence in the creation of the music flow.

He is also held in high esteem in Zonaras, whose Greek tradition seems to have been influenced by Latin.

As we have seen, Byrd had begun setting Latin liturgical texts as a teenager, and he seems to have continued to do so at Lincoln.

Further details on his education are scarce, but it seems he showed early promise in the military arts and was a skilled poet and orator both in Greek and Latin.

The burden of proof is often associated with the Latin maxim semper necessitas probandi incumbit ei qui agit, the best translation of which seems to be: " the necessity of proof always lies with the person who lays charges.

The Latin word Silesia seems to be the favourite candidate for the name of the new metropolis.

The Romans called this territory Aquitania, either from the Latin word aqua ( meaning " water "), in reference to the many rivers flowing from the Pyrenees through the area, or from the name of the Aquitanian Ausci tribe ( whose name seems related to the Basque root eusk-meaning " Basque "), in which case Aquitania would mean " land of the Ausci ".

Writing for Billboard on April 24, 1999, Michael Paoletta noted, " In the weeks since performance, it seems like every record label exec has been in a heated search for the next Latin hottie.

Conway compared Nortia to the Venetic goddess Rehtia, whose name seems to be the Venetic equivalent of Latin rectia, " right, correct.

Vitalian seems to have been of local Latinised Dacian-Getic ( Thracian ) stock, born in Scythia Minor or in Moesia ; his father bore a Latin name, Patriciolus, while two of his sons had Thracian names and one a Gothic name.

Within the Latin American world, the most iconic of magical realist novelist is Nobel Laureate Gabriel García Márquez, whose novel One Hundred Years of Solitude was an instant worldwide success. Plaque of Gabriel García Márquez, Paris García Márquez confessed: " my most important problem was destroying the line of demarcation that separates what seems real from what seems fantastic.

Geoffrey actually seems to have conflated the historical Constantine III with an unrelated Cornish king of the same name, Custennin Gorneu ( the Welsh name Custennin is derived from Latin Constaninus ; it is possible that Geoffrey picked up the name from a Welsh Arthurian genealogy resembling those found in Bonedd yr Arwyr # 30a and Mostyn MS 117 # 5 ), which has led to much confusion among modern scholars ; beyond their names, Geoffrey's fictional Constantine does not resemble the historical one.

Joseph was also required each day to write a Latin theme or declamation, though in other respects he seems to have been left to his own devices.

Additionally, Tullus Hostilius ' warlike and ferocious character seems be little more than a contrasting stereotype to the peaceable, devout Numa Pompilius ; the first Roman annalists may merely have imputed aggressive qualities to Hostilius by naively parsing his gentile name ( Hostilius meaning " hostile " in Latin ).

Here he began his Latin studies in the monastery school, and, though in 1470 he was a short time in Freiburg, that university seems to have taught him little.

He also displayed the ability to write Latin verse on almost any topic of dispute, the verses, of course, to be delivered from memory.

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.

The first year's projects should also be spread through several countries in Latin America, Africa and Asia.

Most of them, the world over, operate on the same principle by which justice is administered in France and some other Latin countries: the customer is to be considered guilty of abysmal ignorance until proven otherwise, with the burden of proof on the customer himself.

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

The President and his advisers felt that the time might have come to warn Premier Khrushchev against a grave miscalculation in areas such as Berlin, Iran or Latin America from which there would be no turning back.

Although some speculate that it is related to Latin algēre, " be cold ", there is no known reason to associate seaweed with temperature.

The earliest known alphabet in the wider sense is the Wadi el-Hol script, believed to be an abjad, which through its successor Phoenician is the ancestor of modern alphabets, including Arabic, Greek, Latin ( via the Old Italic alphabet ), Cyrillic ( via the Greek alphabet ) and Hebrew ( via Aramaic ).

Besides the Portuguese, significant numbers of people from other European and from diverse Latin American countries ( especially Brazil ) can be found.

It is an Ethiopian name of the Ge ‘ ez script, ’ ä bu gi da, taken from four letters of that script the way abecedary derives from Latin a be ce de.

In geography and agriculture, arable land ( from Latin arāre ; “ To plough, To farm ”) is land that can be used for growing crops.

The uppercase letter alpha is not generally used as a symbol because it tends to be rendered identically to the uppercase Latin A.

The English word Alps derives from the French and Latin Alpes, which at one time was thought to be derived from the Latin albus (" white ").

The Latin synonym is " sonic ", after which the term sonics used to be a synonym for acoustics and later a branch of acoustics.

This can be seen in a popular Latin anagram against the Jesuits: " Societas Jesu " turned into " Vitiosa seces ", or " cut off the wicked things ".

Documents again began to be written in Sumerian, although Sumerian was becoming a purely literary or liturgical language, much as Latin later would be in Medieval Europe.

That Latin learning had not been obliterated is evidenced by the presence in his court of learned Mercian and West Saxon clerics such as Plegmund, Wæferth, and Wulfsige, but Alfred's account should not be entirely discounted.

There they studied books in both English and Latin and " devoted themselves to writing, to such an extent .... they were seen to be devoted and intelligent students of the liberal arts.

" Conscious of the decay of Latin literacy in his realm, Alfred proposed that primary education be taught in English, with those wishing to advance to holy orders to continue their studies in Latin.

The hostility to Agnes, it must be admitted, may be exaggerated by the chronicler William of Tyre, whom she prevented from becoming Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem decades later, as well as from William's continuators like Ernoul, who hints at a slight on her moral character: " car telle n ' est que roine doie iestre di si haute cite comme de Jherusalem " (" there should not be such a queen for so holy a city as Jerusalem ").