Questions tagged [semantics]

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"Videre" is to "spectare" what "audire" is to...?

I am interested, did Latin have a word meaning specifically "to listen", as opposed to "hear"? Because it did have a word for "look" (spectare), as opposed to "see" (videre).
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"Etiam si omnes" and "Et si omnes"

Is there a semantic difference between "Etiam si omnes, ego non" and "Et si omnes ego non"? I know Latin is loose when it comes to word order, and it seems to me the answer is no, but the way this sentence is worded in this Wikipedia article has me…
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