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2 days 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 ...
3 days ago · Classical Latin, the language of Cicero and Virgil, became “dead” after its form became fixed, whereas Vulgar Latin, the language most Romans ordinarily used, continued to evolve as it spread across the western Roman Empire, gradually becoming the Romance languages.
- The Latin language is an Indo-European language in the Italic group and is ancestral to the modern Romance languages. During the Middle Ages and un...
- Latin was the lingua franca of scientific work in the West during the Middle Ages, so Western scientists used Latin for naming species of organisms...
2 days ago · The term Romance derives from the Vulgar Latin adverb romanice, "in Roman ", derived from romanicus: for instance, in the expression romanice loqui, "to speak in Roman" (that is, the Latin vernacular ), contrasted with latine loqui, "to speak in Latin" ( Medieval Latin, the conservative version of the language used in writing and formal contexts...
1 day ago · The word bög (in the meaning “male homosexual”) has gradually since approximately the 1970s evolved from being a highly offensive and derogatory term to a word used by homosexual males to describe themselves in a conscious effort to rid the word and the concept it describes of their taboo status. It can nowadays be used in most mediums ...
3 days ago · The word vulva is Latin for "womb". It derives from the 1540s in referring to the womb and female sexual organs, from the earlier volvere meaning to turn, roll or revolve, with further derivatives such as used in volvox , and volvulus (twisted bowel).
2 days ago · Definitions include: to be slutty: f*ck over; Definitions include: to take advantage of. Clymer; Definitions include: "asshole." BBE; Definitions include: acronym of "Biggest Beating Ever," which can refer to "beating" as in a severe physical attack, or a severe defeat e.g. in a competitive sport. vio; Definitions include: "violation". informer
2 days ago · La Repubblica attributes its story to several unspecified sources, while Corriere says it was backed up by a few, unnamed bishops, who suggested the pope might have not realized that the Italian ...
