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Mother Earth in Latin - Personification
I'm looking for a Latin equivalent to the personification 'Mother Earth'. Does Matris Orbis or Mater Terram do the job? Do they translate in the same way?
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Origin and actual quote of the proverb "Caesar's wife must be above suspicion"
While searching for the Latin quote of the proverb "Caesar's wife must be above suspicion", I was a bit surprised because the form that I know of that proverb was "It's not enough for Caesar's wife to be virtuous, she must be seen to be virtuous.".…
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Minimal pair for hidden quantity
Is there an example where the quantity of a vowel makes a difference in a syllable that is heavy by position?
For a concrete example, this does happen in Finnish (where long vowels are written as double): 'autonsa' ≠ 'autoonsa'.
In Latin I can only…
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How to say "having the last laugh" in Latin
The expression "to have the last laugh" means to come out on top in a dispute or contest eventually, even if it may at first not seem so. This is particularly so if the person was laughed at before, e.g.
All the courtiers ridiculed the stranger…
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Mediaeval Latin adopted the Greek word 'grapheus' as '-gravius' (which led to Dutch/German 'graaf/Graf', "count"); where and when did this happen?
Philippa (2003–2009) says about the Dutch word graaf, "count", that it came from Greek grapheus "writer/scribe", through Mediaeval Latin -gravius, "royal administrative official, overseer".
Now I wonder why people in Western Europe adopted this…
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What would be the Latin word for an entry in a dictionary or an encyclopedia?
entry An item in a list, such as an article in a dictionary or encyclopedia. — Wiktionary
What would be the best Latin word to translate entry in this context?
The online dictionary I use don't give any result.
Edit. Smith & All give “caput,…
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Why is "O felicem virum, beatum Ioseph" in the accusative case here?
This is one part of a prayer traditionally said before Mass, in honour of St. Joseph:
O felicem virum, beatum Ioseph, cui datum est Deum, quem multi reges voluerunt videre et non viderunt, audire et non audierunt, non solum videre et audire, sed…
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Non Nobis Domine - Sed nomini or nomine
Non nobis Domine, Domine
Non nobis Domine
Sed nomini, Sed nomini
Tuo da gloriam
Referring to the third line in Non Nobis Domine, I have seen this phrase written both 'Sed nomine' and 'Sed nomini'. In the Henry V film based on Shakespeare's play,…
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Was vowel quantity observed when singing?
It's well established that vowel length was phonemic in Latin, and that it played an important role in poetic verse. It seems probable to me that it also mattered when singing, but do we have evidence that it was? Or evidence to the contrary?
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Latinism to say "everyone knows"
Is there a common phrase to say "everyone knows x"? I always thought it would be "x is vox populi", but the way I understand from Wikipedia is that vox populi has an opinion content to it.
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Is "-landia" good Latin?
Several Latin names of modern countries end in -landia if the corresponding English name ends in -land:
Islandia, Nederlandia, Irlandia, Thailandia, Finlandia (also Finnia).
England has a much older Latin name, and it is different: Anglia.
I do not…
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Translating a phrase from "The Mandalorian": I can bring you in warm, or I can bring you in cold
A little bit of context: There is this character called Mando who is a "bounty hunter", someone who carries out certain tasks (mainly underworld) and gets rewarded with a handsome amount of money. The thing is, sometimes his means are a bit harsh,…
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Is Queneau's Latin in Exercises in Style good?
Exercises in Style (French: Exercices de style), written by Raymond Queneau, is a collection of 99 retellings of the same story, each in a different style.
This is the one I'm wondering about:
Sol erat in regionem zenithi et calor atmospheri…
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What are the research topics of Latin scholars?
Given that dozens of grammars and dictionaries exist I wonder what questions the Latin scholars are working on.
Are there any big unknowns left?
The only one I can think of is the author of classic works like De Bello Africo.
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“Hic” or “hīc”?
The pronoun hic (this) is written with short i in many places, e.g. Oxford Latin Dictionary. But in Lewis & Short: Latin-English dictionary and Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar, it is written as hīc with a long i.
Which is correct?
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