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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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4 days ago · 1660s, "of or pertaining to poisons, poisonous," from French toxique and directly from Late Latin toxicus "poisoned," from Latin toxicum "poison," from Greek toxikon (pharmakon) "(poison) for use on arrows," from toxikon, neuter of toxikos "pertaining to arrows or archery," and thus to a bow, from toxon "bow," which has been regarded as a loan-word from Scythian.
6 days ago · History of Latin. One of the seven ceiling frescoes painted by Bartolomeo Altomonte in his 80th year for the library of Admont Abbey. An allegory of the Enlightenment, it shows Aurora, goddess of dawn, with the geniuses of language in her train awakening Morpheus, god of dreaming, a symbol of man. The geniuses are Grammar, Didactic, Greek ...
5 days ago · The term “cyber” has become ubiquitous in modern language, especially in the context of technology and digital culture. Its origins can be traced back to ancient Greek, where “kybernetes” meant “steersman” or “governor.”. This early usage reflected the idea of control and guidance, much like a captain steering a ship.
Wiktionary gives the following definitions for the latin word civitas (excluding those from medieval or ecclesiastical latin): 2. (Classical Latin) the state, body politic, citizens of a territory (collectively) 3. (Classical Latin, metonymically) a city and all external territory (thus distinguished from urbs) 4.
1 day ago · Retire (v.) 1530s, of armies, “to retreat, draw back,” also, of persons, “to withdraw” to some place, especially for the sake of privacy; from French retirer – from re- “back” + tirer “to draw” and -ment; common suffix of Latin origin; came to be used as a formative in nouns of action in Vulgar Latin and Old French.
