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In the "Pater Noster" prayer why is 'panem nostrum' sometimes "quotidianum" and other times "cotidianum"?
In the "Pater Noster" prayer, why is "panem nostrum cotidianum" sometimes written as "panem nostrum quotidianum"?
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Strange spelling of final m
In a 16th century Latin treatise published in Poland several occurences of the final m have the form of ꝫ (in Unicode U+A76B LATIN SMALL LETTER ET).
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Janusz S. Bień
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As for I and V, when are they semi semivowels and when are they vowels?
In the olden days, before they had invented letters J and U, the way they spelled words like IVLIVS always seemed to me like they could be misread a little, and if you don't know the word, you don't know where the syllable breaks are. That word is…
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Lex Valeria Horatia de senatus consulta - spelling?
Wikipaedia has the following:
Lex Valeria Horatia de senatus consulta ordered that the senatus consulta (the decrees of the senate) had to be kept in the temple of Ceres by the plebeian aediles, the assistants of the plebeian tribunes. This meant…
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cōnsīde! or consīde!?
the first page of the textbook I have gives the imperative "cōnsīde" for "sit down". But the 555 verbs book lists the verb in the I form as consīdō and says it is declined the same as resīdō, which is verb 433 in the book, where the imperative is…
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