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

The name Asia Minor was given by the Latin author Orosios in the 4th century AD.

The name is Medieval Latin for he has declared upon oath.

Its name is Latin for " water-carrier " or " cup-carrier ", and its symbol is 20px (), a representation of water.

The name Anatolia comes from the Greek () meaning the " East " or more literally " sunrise ", comparable to the Latin terms " Levant " or " Orient " ( and words for " east " in other languages ).

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.

The town's name is attested as Aisincurt in 1175, derived from a Germanic masculine name Aizo, Aizino and the early Northern French word curt ' farm with a courtyard ' ( Late Latin cortem ).

The Latin name ' Asteraceae ' is derived from the type genus Aster, which is a Greek term, meaning " star ".

The derivation of the name ( Latin Aprilis ) is uncertain.

Aventinus, whose name was real name is Johann or Johannes Turmair ( Aventinus being the Latin name of his birthplace ) wrote the Annals of Bavaria, a valuable record of the early history of Germany and the first major written work on the subject.

The generic name Alnus is the equivalent Latin name.

Adrian is a form of the Latin given name Hadrianus ( see Hadrian ).

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

Variants of the name include: Alfonso ( Italian and Spanish ), Alfons ( Catalan, Dutch, German, Polish and Scandinavian ), Afonso ( Portuguese and Galician ), Affonso ( Ancient Portuguese ), Alphonse, Alfonse ( Italian, French and English ), Αλφόνσος Alphonsos ( Greek ), Alphonsus ( Latin ), Alphons ( Dutch ), Alfonsu in ( Leonese ), Alfonsas ( Lithuanian ).

Ambrosiaster is the name given to the writer of a commentary on St Paul's epistles, " brief in words but weighty in matter ," and valuable for the criticism of the Latin text of the New Testament.

However, virtually all major works of Greek and Latin prose possessed such clausulae ; and some scholars have rejected the identification of Libanius ' Marcellinus with Ammianus, since Marcellinus was a very common name and the tone suggests Libanius was addressing a man much younger than himself ( Ammianus was his contemporary ).

Algoritmi, the translator's rendition of the author's name, gave rise to the word algorithm ( Latin algorithmus, " calculation method ").

During the Hellenization of Latin literature, the myths of Ares were reinterpreted by Roman writers under the name of Mars.

Colloquially referred to as the New World, this second super continent came to be termed " America ", probably deriving its name from the feminized Latin version of Vespucci's first name .< ref > Rival explanations have been proposed ( see Arciniegas, Germán.

The name of the taxon Apicomplexa is derived from two Latin words-apex ( top ) and complexus ( infolds )-and refers to a set of organelles in the sporozoite.

# The creed originally was most likely written in Latin, while Athanasius composed in Greek.

The Apostles ' Creed ( Latin: Symbolum Apostolorum or Symbolum Apostolicum ), sometimes titled Symbol of the Apostles, is an early statement of Christian belief, a creed or " symbol ".

The word derives from the Latin credo, which means " I believe " ( because the Latin translation of the Apostles ' Creed and the Nicene Creed both begin with this word ) so a creed may also be called a credo.

The derivation of the word " Edda " as the name of Snorri Sturluson ’ s treatise on poetry from the Latin " edo ", " I compose ( poetry )" by analogy with " kredda ", " superstition " from Latin " credo ", " creed " is now widely accepted.

The Nicene Creed ( Latin: ) is the creed or profession of faith ( Greek: ) that is most widely used in Christian liturgy.

In the Latin creed put forth at this meeting there was inserted a statement of views drawn up by Potamius of Lisbon and Hosius of Cordoba, which, under the name of the Sirmian Manifesto, as it afterwards came to be known, threw the Church into disorder.

The Goth minority, of Arian confession, constituted an aristocracy of landowners and militaries, but its influence over the country remained minimal ; the Latin population was still subject to Roman laws, and maintained the freedom of creed received by Odoacer.

Under the influence of Johannes Honterus, the great majority of the Transylvanian Saxons embraced the new creed of Martin Luther during the Protestant Reformation ( almost all became Lutheran Protestants, with very few Calvinists ), while other minor parts of the Transylvanian Saxons remained staunchly Catholic ( Latin Rite ) or were converted to Catholicism later on.

Formula of Concord ( 1577 ) ( German, Konkordienformel ; Latin, Formula concordiae ; also the " Bergic Book " or the " Bergen Book ") is an authoritative Lutheran statement of faith ( called a confession, creed, or " symbol ") that, in its two parts ( Epitome and Solid Declaration ), makes up the final section of the Lutheran Corpus Doctrinae or Body of Doctrine, known as the Book of Concord ( most references to these texts are to the original edition of 1580 ).

The crossguard bears the following Latin inscription: Quicumque hec / nomina Deii secum tu / lerit nullum periculum / ei omnino nocebit (" Whoever will carry these names of God with him, no danger will harm him ").

The Harrowing of Hell ( Latin Descensus Christi ad Inferos " the descent of Christ into hell ") is a doctrine in Christian theology referenced in the Apostles ' Creed and the Athanasian Creed ( Quicumque vult ) that states that Jesus Christ " descended into Hell ".

It is disputed whether the famous slogan " God wills it " or " It is the will of God " ( deus vult in Latin, Dieu le veut in French ) in fact was established as a rallying cry during the council.

For example, Latin volo, velle, volui, and other such forms from the Proto-Indo-European root * wel (' to will ') were represented by words derived from * gher (' to desire '): Oscan herest (' he shall want, he shall desire ', English cognate ' yearn ') as opposed to Latin vult ( id .).

* Curia advisari vult, or c. a. v., a Latin legal term meaning " the court wishes to be advised "

Deus vult ( Latin for " God wills it ") was the cry of the people at the declaration of the First Crusade by Pope Urban II at the Council of Clermont in 1095.

The phrase appears variously as Deus vult ( Classical Latin ), Dieu le veut ( French ), Deus lo vult, etc.

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Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur, a Latin phrase, means " The world wants to be deceived, so let it be deceived.

The entire exercise, Latin and English, is most suggestive of the kind of person Milton had become at Christ's during his undergraduate career ; ;

This, in more diplomatic language, is what Adlai Stevenson told the newspaper men of Latin America yesterday on behalf of the United States Government.

Most immediately relevant to these episodes in Goa, Katanga and Ghana, as to the Suez-Hungary crisis before them, is the belief that the main theater of the world drama is the underdeveloped region of Asia, Africa and Latin America.

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.

Indonesia is one of the twenty under-developed countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America that are receiving Soviet aid.

The Riegger, with its Latin hesitation bounce, is just this side of the pale ; ;

Albedo (), or reflection coefficient, derived from Latin albedo " whiteness " ( or reflected sunlight ), in turn from albus " white ", is the diffuse reflectivity or reflecting power of a surface.

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

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

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

Accordingly the modern study of marine and freshwater algae is called either phycology or algology, depending on whether the Greek or Latin root is used.

An acid ( from the Latin acidus / acēre meaning sour ) is a substance which reacts with a base.

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.

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 ).

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 ).

One, the ABCDE order later used in Phoenician, has continued with minor changes in Hebrew, Greek, Armenian, Gothic, Cyrillic, and Latin ; the other, HMĦLQ, was used in southern Arabia and is preserved today in Ethiopic.

The names were abandoned in Latin, which instead referred to the letters by adding a vowel ( usually e ) before or after the consonant ( the exception is zeta, which was retained from Greek ).