Questions tagged [terminology]

I have seen the term familiae Troianae mentioned in Pauly and elsewhere. It has something to do with Roman families and Trojan ancestry, but it seems to be a fixed and well known term: what does it mean exactly? Here it is in Pauly's article on…

I"ve started reading Love and responsibility by Karol Wojtyla. In it I find two interesting terms: amor complacentiae (love as attraction) and amor concupiscentiae (love as desire). Wouldn't the Latin word for attraction be attractio? Wouldn't the…

I thought I read somewhere that the declensions are numbered First through Fifth according to a vowel in one of the endings, the numbers corresponding to the sequence of vowels in the alphabet: a, e, i, o, u. But I can't remember where or exactly…