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1. www.britannica.com › topic › Latin-languageLatin language | Definition, Origin, Examples, Rules, & Facts

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   4 days ago · Latin language, Indo-European language in the Italic group and ancestral to the modern Romance languages. During the Middle Ages and until comparatively recent times, Latin was the language most widely used in the West for scholarly and literary purposes.

2. www.reddit.com › r › latinr/latin on Reddit: Would just reading with a dictionary and ...

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   There's your answer. Take a class or if you're disciplined enough to read a dictionary, then try working through a text book for learning Latin. It's a highly logical language but not without its twists and turns (e.g. very free word order, no definite articles, lots of different suffixes applied to nouns, adjectives, pronouns, verbs, etc., to ...

3. www.reddit.com › r › latinDuolingo is inferior to text : r/latin - Reddit

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   I have completed the entire Duolingo Latin course. In addition I have been supplementing my learning with the Oxford Latin Course Pt. 1 texbook. I can definitively say that Duolingo was a huge waste of time. I learned more from finishing the textbook and a solid L-E dictionary than I did in 74 straight days of Duo.

4. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › LatinLatin - Wikipedia

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   2 days ago · There are a small number of Latin services held in the Anglican church. These include an annual service in Oxford, delivered with a Latin sermon; a relic from the period when Latin was the normal spoken language of the university.

5. www.msn.com › en-us › newsWords That Don’t Mean What You Think They Do - MSN

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   1 day ago · According to the Oxford English Dictionary, there are currently 170,000 words (an additional 47,000 words that are outdated) that comprise the English language, drawing from Germanic, Latin, Greek ...

6. oxfordre.com › classics › abstractCassiodorus, Roman magistrate, author of political and ...

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   4 days ago · Summary. Cassiodorus was a prominent participant in the political, intellectual, and religious life of 6th-century ce Italy, and a learned scholar of the classical and Christian traditions.

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   What is medieval Latin?

   • Medieval Latin is the written Latin in use during that portion of the postclassical period when no corresponding Latin vernacular existed, that is from around 700 to 1500 AD. The spoken language had developed into the various Romance languages; however, in the educated and official world, Latin continued without its natural spoken base.

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   What is the oldest example of Latin?

   • The oldest example of Latin extant, perhaps dating to the 7th century bce, consists of a four-word inscription in Greek characters on a fibula, or cloak pin. It shows the preservation of full vowels in unstressed syllables—in contrast to the language in later times, which has reduced vowels.

   Latin language | Definition, Origin, Examples, Rules, & Facts

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   What is a regular Latin noun?

   • A regular Latin noun belongs to one of five main declensions, a group of nouns with similar inflected forms. The declensions are identified by the genitive singular form of the noun. The first declension, with a predominant ending letter of a, is signified by the genitive singular ending of -ae.

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   How important is Latin instruction?

   • Instruction in Latin is an essential aspect. In today's world, a large number of Latin students in the US learn from Wheelock's Latin: The Classic Introductory Latin Course, Based on Ancient Authors. This book, first published in 1956, was written by Frederic M. Wheelock, who received a PhD from Harvard University.

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8. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › List_of_Latin_legal_termsList of Latin legal terms - Wikipedia

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   1 day ago · estate. Landed property, tenement of land, especially with respect to an easement ( servitude ). 2 types: praedium dominans - dominant estate ( aka dominant tenement) praedium serviens - servient estate ( aka servient tenement) praeemptio. previous purchase. Right of first refusal. praesumptio. presumption.