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Is there a word for ephemeral but meaning lasting one night?
Looking for a word like "ephemeral," which is derived from Latin "ephēmeros," meaning "lasting only a day," according to the Oxford Dictionary of English.
However, I'd like a word that means "lasting only a night." Does such a word exist?
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Ars gratia artis
I would like to know the meaning of the following Latin expression, as well as a grammatical analysis of the individual words in this context:
ARS GRATIA ARTIS
as it appears in the following logo of a lion with a "wreath" with the script on it for…
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Why is "repetunt" 3rd pl active in Luke 12:20 (Vulgate)?
I was reading today's gospel from the Roman calendar and noticed this in Luke 12:20:
dixit autem illi Deus stulte hac nocte animam tuam repetunt a te quae autem parasti cuius erunt
I was struck by the use of the 3rd-person plural active verb…
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Why is Cicero considered the best Latin prose author?
Marcus Tullius Cicero is often considered as the best Latin prose author (and sometimes as the best orator, see Encyclopaedia Britannica).
What is so special about his style to support such a claim? Did he use inventive syntax, rare words, etc. or…
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Which verbs come from *deh₃ and which from *dʰeh₁?
Latin has quite a few prefixed verbs looking like -dō, -dere, -didī, -ditus (condō, abdō, reddō, trādō, ēdō, etc).
I'd previously thought these came from the verb dō, dare, dedī, datus (< *deh₃ "give", Greek δίδωμι), with regular vowel reduction.…
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In Judith in Vulgate, why does Jerome transliterate the name "Arphaxad" with 'ph', but he transliterates "Holofernes" with an 'f'?
In Judith in Vulgate, why does Jerome transliterate the name "Arphaxad" with 'ph', but he transliterates "Holofernes" with an 'f'?
By the time of Jerome, both 'f' and 'ph' were the same sound, the English /f/, right? And Greek letter φ was…
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Is this the entire corpus of Latin up to 200 AD?
The Packard Humanities Institute (PHI) Latin Texts site claims to have 'essentially' all of the texts from before 200 AD plus a few others.
Is this really all of the text from before 200 AD? I would like to know what they mean by 'essentially'. I…
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What's the Latin for motorcycle
A long time ago, probably when I was auditing botanical Latin, I recall someone saying what the Latin word for motorcycle would be. It was a long and literal description of what one is given that such machines didn't exist when Latin was "alive."…
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Has anybody encountered this abbreviation/spelling before?
I need help transcribing the word in the red box: has anybody ever encountered this abbreviation/spelling before? Could anybody point me towards a resource that answers my question? I've looked in Cappelli, but nothing so far.
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Why is it "nomen mihi est" for "my name is", but it's "tibi nomen est" for "your name is"?
I understand that there is no strict order, but why is it that this specific order is preferable over something like "mihi nomen est" or "nomen tibi est".
The image below is from the Greetings assignment on the Duolingo course for Latin.
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Did the Romans have a word for "genius"?
I am looking for a Latin word corresponding to the common modern English sense of the word "genius", a person with extraordinary ability in a specific field.
I do not want to refer to the ability itself (the Latin genius can very rarely mean that;…
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How to use immo?
What does the word immo really mean and how can I use it?
I read this and this dictionary entry, and I was left confused.
Some of the uses I can understand, but some I cannot.
Either I do not have enough context to see what immo does or I cannot…
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What would an election campaign be called in Latin?
Our site has its first election now and the voting period starts in 12 hours.
Therefore it is a good moment to figure out some of the election vocabulary in Latin.
What would be a good Latin word for an election campaign?
The word "campaign" seems…
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When were macrons first used to mark Latin text?
A macron is a diacritical mark, which, in modern Latin texts, is sometimes used to mark a long vowel: ā, ē, ī, ō, ū, ȳ. From Roman uses of diacritical marks, I understand that the ancient Romans did not use macrons (they occasionally used an apex…
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Can you say "the" in Latin?
I'm reading Collar and Daniell's First Year in Latin right now and they mention that Latin has no articles such as "a", "an", and "the". Is this true? I have heard the book be inaccurate before.
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