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Latin (lingua Latina or Latinum [I]) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.Latin was originally spoken by the Latins in Latium (now known as Lazio), the lower Tiber area around Rome, Italy. [1]
Translated into Latin from Baudelaire's L'art pour l'art. Motto of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. While symmetrical for the logo of MGM, the better word order in Latin is "Ars artis gratia". ars longa, vita brevis: art is long, life is short: Seneca, De Brevitate Vitae, 1.1, translating a phrase of Hippocrates that is often used out of context. The "art ...
This is a list of common Latin abbreviations. Nearly all the abbreviations below have been adopted by Modern English . However, with some exceptions (for example, versus or modus operandi ), most of the Latin referent words and phrases are perceived as foreign to English.
Meaning from out of the depths of misery or dejection. From the Latin translation of the Vulgate Bible of Psalm 130, of which it is a traditional title in Roman Catholic liturgy. de re: about/regarding the matter
the view depth in computer graphics, see also "z-buffering" the argument of a complex function, or any other variable used to represent a complex value; in astronomy, wavelength redshift [35]: 9 a third unknown variable; the collision frequency of A with A is denoted z A (A) [36] the collision frequency factor is denoted z AB [10]
This is a list of Latin words with derivatives in English language. Ancient orthography did not distinguish between i and j or between u and v. [1] Many modern works distinguish u from v but not i from j. In this article, both distinctions are shown as they are helpful when tracing the origin of English words. See also Latin phonology and ...
Latin phonology is the system of sounds used in various kinds of Latin.This article largely deals with what features can be deduced for Classical Latin as it was spoken by the educated from the late Roman Republic to the early Empire.
Latin Translation Notes I, Vitelli, dei Romani sono belli: Go, O Vitellius, at the war sound of the Roman god: Perfectly correct Latin sentence usually reported as funny by modern Italians because the same exact words, in Italian, mean "Romans' calves are beautiful", which has a ridiculously different meaning. ibidem (ibid.) in the same place