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2 days ago · Latin language, Indo-European language in the Italic group and ancestral to the modern Romance languages. Originally spoken by small groups of people living along the lower Tiber River, Latin spread with the increase of Roman political power, first throughout Italy and then throughout most of western and southern Europe and the central and ...
1 day ago · Latin ( lingua Latina, Latin: [ˈlɪŋɡʷa ɫaˈtiːna], or Latinum, Latin: [ɫaˈtiːnʊ̃]) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Considered a dead language, Latin was originally spoken in Latium (now known as Lazio ), the lower Tiber area around Rome. [1] Through the expansion of the Roman ...
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3 days ago · Tenebrae means “shadows” or “darkness” in Latin. The service shows the darkness that comes over the earth upon Christ’s death. One of the chants of the service draws from Scripture that tenebrae factae sunt — “darkness fell” at the death of Christ (Matthew 27:45-46).
May 1, 2024 · How to Teach Word Sums. What Are Word Sums? A word sum is a visual way to show the word parts that make up multisyllabic words. Word sums show words broken apart into individual morphemes, separated by plus marks. Word Sum Examples. teach + er = teacher. re + late = relate. dark + ness = darkness. waffle + s = waffles. tap + ing = tapping.
May 12, 2024 · Art for art's sake. Art has its own sense. Ars longa, vita brevis. (Hippocrates) (KY) Skill (of medicine) is long, life (of a patient and doctor) is short. Asinus asinum fricat. (YB) The donkey scratches the donkey. Stupid and conceited people flatter each other about qualities they do not possess.
May 19, 2024 · Augustan Age, one of the most illustrious periods in Latin literary history, from approximately 43 bc to ad 18; together with the preceding Ciceronian period ( q.v. ), it forms the Golden Age ( q.v.) of Latin literature. Marked by civil peace and prosperity, the age reached its highest literary expression in poetry, a polished and sophisticated ...
6 days ago · Ecclesiastical Latin (sometimes called Church Latin) is a broad and analogous term referring to the Latin language as used in documents of the Roman Catholic Church, its liturgies (mainly in past times) and during some periods the preaching of its ministers. Ecclesiastical Latin is not a single style: the term merely means the language ...
