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38 unusual facts about Latin


A. W. Kjellstrand

While at Bethany, he also worked as the professor of Latin and served as a pastor.

Abdominis

The term abdominis is an old Latin term for abdomen.

Arabic grammar

Note that the relative pronoun agrees in gender, number and case, with the noun it modifies—as opposed to the situation in other inflected languages such as Latin and German, where the gender and number agreement is with the modified noun, but the case marking follows the usage of the relative pronoun in the embedded clause (as in formal English "the man who saw me" vs. "the man whom I saw").

Attempted murder

The mens rea (Latin for the "guilty mind") for murder includes an intention to kill or cause grievous bodily harm where there is virtual certainty of death resulting, whereas attempted murder depends on an intention to kill, and an overt act towards the homicide.

Basil Helmore

Born at Newcastle to company secretary Ernest Arthur James Helmore and Gertrude, née Allbon, he attended local state schools and in 1913 was first in the state in French and Latin for the Leaving certificate.

Bellon

The Latin term "bellon" is a disused name for the condition now known as lead colic

Caput Draconis

The phrase caput draconis means "dragon's head" or "head of the dragon" in Latin.

Dimissorial letters

Dimissorial letters (in Latin, litterae dimissoriae) are testimonial letters given by a bishop or by a competent religious superior to his subjects in order that they may be ordained by another bishop.

Exoletus

Exoletus is a Latin term, the perfect passive participle of the verb exolescere, which means "to wear out with age."

Gentlewoman

A gentlewoman (from the Latin gentilis, belonging to a gens, and English 'woman') in the original and strict sense is a woman of good family, analogous to the Latin generosus and generosa.

Gheisari

However it must be mentioned that the Gheisari version of the name, found in its Arabic and Persian forms are irrelevant from its Latin etymology due to its own etymological root from Arabic.

Gromatici

Gromatici (from Latin groma or gruma, a surveyor's pole), or agrimensores, was the name for land-surveyors amongst the ancient Romans.

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Somewhat later than Trajan was Siculus Flaccus (De condicionibus agrorum, extant), while the most curious treatise on the subject, written in barbarous Latin and entitled Casae litterarum (long a school textbook) is the work of a certain Innocentius (4th-5th century).

Guillaume Le Bé

1540 to 1550, where he produced Hebrew, Latin and Greek types for various printer/publishers, notably Marc'Antonio Giustiniani, Carlo Querini and Meir di Parenzo.

Hermannus Alemannus

Hermannus Alemannus (Herman the German) translated Arabic philosophical works into Latin.

History of the Bosniaks

Latin-speaking settlers from all over the empire settled among the Illyrians at this time.

International Commission on English in the Liturgy

The International Commission on English in the Liturgy is a commission set up by a number of episcopal conferences of English-speaking countries for the purpose of providing English translations of the liturgical books of the Roman Rite, the originals of which are in Latin.

Konrad Ruhland

He studied history, medieval Latin, theology, and liturgical history which helped him to gain extensive background knowledge for his musicological research.

Landfermann-Gymnasium

Founded before 1280 as Schola Duisburgensis, the school was transformed into a Latin school in 1559, which today's Landfermann-Gymnasium acknowledges as its official founding year.

Latin

Some films of ancient settings, such as Sebastiane and The Passion of the Christ, have been made with dialogue in Latin for the sake of realism.

Latin! or Tobacco and Boys

It was part of a double bill, the other play being written by Robert Farrar, then a fellow-undergraduate.

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While the audience is walking in, a teacher (Dominic) is seen on stage marking exercise books 'with three different coloured biros'.

Leslie Holdsworth Allen

He was Professor of English at the Royal Military College, Duntroon, the senior lecturer of English and Latin at Canberra University College and chairman of the Literature Censorship Board.

Libertas ecclesiae

Libertas ecclesiae ("freedom of the Church" in Latin) is the notion of freedom of ecclesiastical authority from secular or the temporal power, which guided the Reform movement which began in the 11th century.

Ludwig Haetzer

Born in Bischofszell, Thurgau, Switzerland, he wrote an article against the uses of images in worship, translated some Latin evangelical texts regarding the conversion of Jews, together with Hans Denck he translated the prophets of the Bible into German (1528) and wrote a booklet discouraging the consumption of alcohol.

Mario Esposito

Mario Esposito (7 September 1887 - 19 February 1975) was an Irish-born scholar who specialised in Hiberno-Latin studies.

Molinology

Molinology (from Latin: molīna, mill; and Greek λόγος, study) is the study of mills or other mechanical devices which use the kinetic energy of moving water or wind to power machines for such purposes as hammering, grinding, pumping, sawing, pressing or fulling.

Oratio Imperata

Oratio Imperata (Latin: Obligatory Prayer) is a set of Roman Catholic invocative prayers consisting of a liturgical action and a short, general prayer which the local ordinary or prelate of the church may publicly pray when a grave need or calamity occurs.

Orientales Ecclesiae

Orientales Ecclesiae is Latin for "Eastern Churches", and is used to refer to the Eastern Catholic Churches.

RV Belgica

Belgica was and is the name of two Belgian research vessels, with a name derived ultimately from the Latin Gallia Belgica.

Saltash United F.C.

The Charter of Incorporation refers to the town of Saltash as 'Essa', Latin for 'Ash' - to which the club takes its nickname.

Straßwalchen

From the 6th century onwards, Bavarii tribes moved into the region—the name Strazzuualaha, first documented in 799, is probably derived from walha, the Proto-Germanic denotation for a Latinized population they had encountered, similar to nearby Seewalchen or Wals.

Tropicália: ou Panis et Circencis

Tropicália ou Panis et Circencis (Latin for Bread and Circuses) is a 1968 collaboration album by artists including Gilberto Gil, Caetano Veloso, Tom Zé, Os Mutantes and Gal Costa.

Umbral

Umbral is derived from the Latin umbra, meaning "shadow".

Vestitor

As their name suggests, the vestitores were originally officials of the imperial wardrobe (Latin: vestiarium, adopted into Greek as vestiarion), and are first attested as such in the 6th century.

Viva voce

Viva voce is a Latin phrase literally meaning "with living voice," but most often translated as "by word of mouth."

William B. Maclay

He was associate editor of the New York Quarterly Review in 1836, taught Latin, studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1839 and commenced the practice of his profession in New York City.

Williams College Rugby Football

Their men's motto is "Nihil in Moderato", loosely-translated Latin for "nothing in moderation".


Abdias of Babylon

This compilation purports to have been translated from Hebrew into Greek by "Eutropius", a disciple of Abdias, and, in the third century, from Greek into Latin by Julius Africanus, the friend of Origen, or as reported in Legenda Aurea by his disciple Tropaeus Africanus.

Alberto Gollán

Through Televisión Litoral, Gollán started in 1977 the Ibero-American Advertising Festival (Festival Iberoamericano de Publicidad, or FIAP), which has continued to be celebrated annually, with the participation of producers from Spain, Portugal and several Latin American countries.

Ambrosiaster

The commentary itself was written during the papacy of Pope Damasus I, that is, between 366 and 384, and is considered an important document of the Latin text of Paul before the Vulgate of Jerome, and of the interpretation of Paul prior to Augustine of Hippo.

Anglo

The word is derived from Anglia, the Latin name for England, and still the modern name of its eastern region.

Austin Area Translators and Interpreters Association

As of 2011, there are about 240 members working in the following languages: Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dari, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hungarian, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Mandarin, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Romanian, Serbo-Croatian, Slovak, Swedish, Spanish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese.

Black bean

Black turtle bean, a variety of common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) typically used in Latin American cuisine

Canons of Hippolytus

Attention was called to the book by Vansleb and Ludolf towards the end of the 17th century, but it was only in 1870 that it was edited by Daniel Bonifacius von Haneberg, who added a Latin translation, and so made it generally accessible.

Choba B CCCP

The title is often taken as if written in Latin letters (i.e. "choba b cccp"), but it is Russian, written in Cyrillic, transliterated Snova v SSSR, and pronounced in Russian roughly snova v ess-ess-ess-er.

Clan name

Roman clan name, a common element of Latin names, usually the second name following the praenomen and before the cognomen

Dependency theory

Matias Vernengo, a University of Utah economist, identifies two main streams in dependency theory: the Latin American Structuralist, typified by the work of Prebisch, Celso Furtado and Anibal Pinto at the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America (ECLAC, or, in Spanish, CEPAL); and the American Marxist, developed by Paul A. Baran, Paul Sweezy, and Andre Gunder Frank.

Emilio Romano

Romano was a member of the Board of Directors for Univision Communications between 1995 and 1998, where he was responsible for leading numerous high profile transactions, including the sale of PanAmSat to Hughes Electronics; the formation of Via Digital DTH venture for the Iberian Peninsula; and the Sky Latin America joint venture with The News Corporation, Organizacoes Globo and TCI.

Female of the Species

Written and sung by frontman Tommy Scott in tribute to his late father, who was reported to dislike his son's taste of music, "Female of the Species" is a funky, upbeat Latin-flavoured number with feel-good sounding vibes and vocals reminiscent of lounge singers such as Perry Como and Frank Sinatra combined with keyboardist Franny Griffiths' trademark sound effects and Scott's dark humoured lyrics.

First International Conference of American States

To oppose the U.S. arbitration plan the Latin delegations supported a joint proposal drafted by Argentina's Sáenz Peña and co-sponsored by Brazil.

French Skyline

The opening track, "Latin Sirens Face The Wall," was recorded at Klaus Schulze Studios in Hambühren, West Germany, and was engineered by Klaus Schulze.

Giovanni Botero

By the late 1580s, Botero had already published a few works, most notably an epic-style poem dedicated to Henry III of France in 1573 and a Latin commentary on Hebrew Scriptures titled On Kingly Wisdom in 1583, but his most important works were yet to come.

Giuseppe Notarbartolo di Sciara

He has been guest lecturer at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Yale University in the U.S., and at many other academic institutions in Europe and Latin American.

Hug de Llupià

Hug de Llupià i Bages (Roussillon, ? - ?, 1427), was bishop of Tortosa, bishop of Valencia, and a Catalan writer in Latin language.

In the Blink of an Eye

In ictu oculi, a Latin expression meaning in the blink of an eye

Joel Casique

He has exhibited his work in galleries and museums in Venezuela, the United States, and Aruba; he has also participated in national and international fairs, including the sixteenth and seventeenth Ferias Iberoamericanas de Arte (FIA) in Caracas; the 2007 Latin American Art Fair in Miami; and the 2006 Feria Internacional de Arte de Bogotá (ARTBO) in Bogotá, Colombia.

John Percival Postgate

John Percival Postgate (24 October 1853 – 15 July 1926) was an English classicist, professor of Latin at the University of Liverpool from 1909 to 1920.

John Siberch

John Fisher's Contio, delivered on the day of the public burning of the writings of Martin Luther, translated into Latin by Richard Pace, 1521 1522.

John William Donaldson

Of his numerous other works the most important are The Theatre of the Greeks; The History of the Literature of ancient Greece (a translation and completion of Otfried Müller's unfinished work); editions of the Odes of Pindar and the Antigone of Sophocles; a Hebrew, a Greek and a Latin grammar.

José Acosta

José de Acosta (1539-1600), Jesuit naturalist and missionary in Latin America

Julio Jaramillo

Jaramillo recorded with many other noteworthy Latin American artists including Puerto Rican singer, Daniel Santos; fellow Ecuadorian singer, Olimpo Cárdenas; and Colombian singer, Alci Acosta.

Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen

The intended answer had been "Out of Many, One" which is a translation of the Latin phrase E pluribus unum, which is not actually the current United States motto.

Lost Decade

La Década Perdida or The Lost Decade, the economic crisis in Latin America in general, and specifically in Mexico, during the 1980s

Luis Carreño

He is best known for playing the character of SpongeBob SquarePants (or Bob Esponja, as it is called where he lives) in the Latin American version of the series of the same name, replacing Kaihiamal Martinez in the second season.

M. Margaret McKeown

She ruled that it was an impermissible governmental endorsement of religion: the Establishment Clause of the U.S. Constitution bars the government from favoring any one religion, as it specifically applied to a white metal Latin cross in the Mojave National Preserve in southern California between Los Angeles and Las Vegas.

Marcelo Bonevardi

Bonevardi's work has been collected by many leading North American and Latin American museums, including the Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim Museum in New York City; the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes and the Museo de Arte Moderno in Buenos Aires; the Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade in São Paulo; and the Museo Rufino Tamayo in Mexico City.

Matutinal

The etymology of the term is the Latin word mātūtīnus, "of or pertaining to the morning" (from Mātūta, Roman goddess of the dawn + -īnus, "-ine") + -ālis, "-al".

Miss Atlántico Internacional 2008

Miss Atlántico Internacional 2008 (or Miss Atlantic International 2008), the 22nd edition of the Miss Atlantic International beauty pageant, was held in Punta del Este, Uruguay on Saturday, January 26, at 22:00 hours and was delivered by Teledoce Televisora color, live and direct satellite television and Latin America, are now setting out for the broadcast across the globe.

Opilio

The genus name is derived from Latin opilio "sheep-master" (a kind of slave), used by Plautus, also used by Virgil with the meaning "shepherd".

Oppido

Oppidum, a Latin word meaning the main settlement in any administrative area of ancient Rome

Panamericana Televisión

The early years also saw Panamericana define itself as the market leader; news programs such as El Panamericano, hosted by Humberto Martínez Morosini and Ernesto García Calderón among others, became highly-rated, while telenovelas such as Simplemente María and Natacha found success in the Latin American market.

Punctapinella paraconchitis

The species name refers to similarity with Punctapinella conchitis plus the Latin prefix para (meaning near, close).

Querolus

Querolus (‘The Complainer’) or Aulularia (‘The Pot’) is an anonymous Latin comedy from late antiquity, the only Latin drama to survive from this period and the only ancient Latin comedy outside the works of Plautus and Terence.

Ricardo Ramírez

He attended Latin American School Jefferson Davis Grammar from 1942 to 1950, and Bay City High School from 1951 to 1955.

Rui Torres

Since October 2008, Neil Buchanan (program creator) has worked as presenter in the Latin American dubbed version by Disney Channel.

Scott C. Johnson

In 2004, Johnson was awarded an Overseas Press Club honorable mention for his reporting on economics in Latin America.

Security policy of Enrique Peña Nieto

During an interview with PBS NewsHour as president-elect, Peña Nieto said that Mexico – along with Latin America and the United States – should have a debate about drug legalization and the regulation of drug sells in the country, an approach advocated by some Latin American leaders who want to reduce the revenues of the drug trafficking organizations by legalizing marijuana.

Seumas Milne

Milne described the restoration of the sight of Mario Terán, the former Bolivian sergeant who killed Che Guevara, by Cuban doctors "paid for by revolutionary Venezuela in the radicalised Bolivia of Evo Morales", one of "1.4 million free eye operations carried out by Cuban doctors in 33 countries across Latin America, the Caribbean and Africa", as "an emblem both of the humanity of Fidel Castro and Guevara's legacy" and the transformation of Latin America.

Spanish-based creole languages

Chavacano is also spoken in Cavite City and in parts of Ternate, Cavite and Sabah, Malaysia nearest to the Philippines, and even in Brunei and Latin America, because of recent migrations.

Stimuli et Clavi

Theses were published both in Latin and German and the number of theses refers to the 95 Theses of Martin Luther.

The Last Drive

Alex Kalofolias and Thanos Amorginos created The Earthbound in 1998, a band with a completely different orientation around ethnic/Latin/desert rock.

Thomas Hewitt Key

In 1832 he became joint headmaster of the school founded in connection with that institution (the University College School); in 1842 he resigned the professorship of Latin, and took up that of comparative grammar, together with the undivided headmastership of the school.

Thomas Zouch

The official verses on the accession of George III contained a Latin poem by him; to those on that king's marriage he contributed a Greek poem, and he supplied English verses for the sets on the birth of the Prince of Wales and the peace of Paris, which are quoted with praise in the Monthly Review (xxviii. 27–9, xxix. 43).

WCSB

The station also airs news and information oriented toward many of the ethnic groups represented in Greater Cleveland: Latin, Hispanic, German, Hungarian, Polish, Irish, Macedonian, Arabic, and Slovenian.

William Lilly

This was the first of its kind to be printed in the English language rather than Latin, and is said to have tutored "a nation in crisis in the language of the stars".