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Where did the name Ulixes come from?
He's Odysseus in Homer, but how did he become Ulixes/Ulysses when he arrived (so to speak) in Rome, where there were many people who knew him from the Iliad and the Odyssey?
And was there a separate Latin name for the Odyssey?
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Qua ratione in hoc libro Henrici Allen notæ diacriticæ ponuntur?
This wonderful book, Doctrina Copularum Linguæ Latinæ Sive De Vi Atque Usu Elegantiori Particularum AC, ATQUE, ET, -QUE Deque Earum Formulis, Commentarius by Henry Ellis Allen, A.B., published in 1830,* contains accents galore. What do they mean?…
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How is stress realized in Latin phonetically?
I have heard that Latin does not lengthen stressed syllables. If so, are they pronounced louder or with altered articulation, maybe a higher pitch?
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What is the meaning and history of the word Imperator?
As most people with historical interests know, the English word "emperor" is derived from Old French empereor which is derived from Latin imperator. IMHO it seems more correct to refer to a Roman Emperor by the full phrase imperator caesar augustus…
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Anima vs. Animus
I keep mixing up animus and anima, and it seems their meanings overlap somewhat. For example, Wiktionary gives the following:
animus: mind, soul, life force; courage, will
anima: soul, spirit, life; air, breeze; breath
Is there a definitive way to…
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When was a pair of Greek and Roman gods first identified?
There is a canonical correspondence between some Greek and Roman gods and goddesses, for example Ares and Mars.
However, these two were originally different deities: Ares represented rage in war and Mars was also a god of agriculture, to mention a…
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What are the most important scholarly resources for Latin and Greek historical linguistics?
When it comes to historical linguistics (history, prehistory, Indo-European studies, etymology) of Latin and Greek, what are the most important resources?
The resources can be historical grammars, etymological dictionaries, or anything similar.
I am…
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Latin exclamations ending in "h"
I was writing in Latin recently and was remarking to myself how strange "proh dolor" looks. It seems odd to see a Latin word ending in "h," and a Perseus search for such words reveals (beside Semitic loanwords) only the following…
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Does 'duco' refer to the art of leadership?
This follows on from my prior question.
I'm working on the name for an art project concerned with physical, emotional and psychological optimisation with a view to nurturing wholesome leadership.
I like the word duco but read that it may refer more…
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What is an eve?
It is New Year's Eve today, and there are other eves throughout the year.
What would be a good Latin translation for "eve"1?
The English word appears to be etymologically related to "evening" and means the day before.
Two possibilities come to mind:…
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Mediterranean Sea name in Old Latin
It is well known that the Romans referred to the Mediterranean Sea as mare nostrum, especially after the Punic Wars when they had claimed Iberia, Northern Africa, Sicily, etc.
But what did they call it before the Punic Wars? For instance, what…
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How would one translate the sentence "Novum equum laudat"?
I am using the Collar and Daniell, Beginner's Latin Book to learn latin on my own and need a bit of help to translate the sentence Novum equum laudat (Exercise 48.I.11., p 15). I know that laudat is praise in the present indicative tense, third…
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Is there a Latin POS-tagged corpus?
PHI is indispensable for looking up concordance, but it lacks part of speech tagging. Anybody knows if there exists a POS-tagged corpus of Latin works?
Best preference is a free one, as if not, it's price could be in the 4 or 5 figures easy, out of…
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How does the gerund 'bear' or 'carry'?
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1510s, from Latin gerundum "to be carried out," gerundive of gerere "to bear, carry" (see gest). In Latin, a verbal noun used for all cases of the infinitive but the nominative; applied in English to verbal nouns in -ing.
[1.] "So…
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Does the verb "amare" come from the babble word for "mother"?
Wiktionary gives us the following etymology of amare.
Probably from Proto-Indo-European *am-a-, *am- (“mother, aunt”), a lost nursery-word of the papa-type. Compare amita (“aunt”), Old High German amma (“nurse”). Alternatively, O. Hackstein…
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