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Gloria is the anglicized form of the Latin feminine given name gloriae (Latin pronunciation:), meaning immortal glory; [1] glory, fame, renown, praise, honor. [ 2 ] The name, as Maria de Gloria, was in regular use in Spain by 1700, one of a number of Titles of Mary in use for Portuguese and Spanish girls.
Gloria in excelsis Deo: Glory to God in the Highest: Often translated "Glory to God on High". The title and beginning of an ancient Roman Catholic doxology, the Greater Doxology. See also ad maiorem Dei gloriam. Gloria invidiam vicisti: By your fame you have conquered envy: Sallust, Bellum Jugurthum ("Jugurthine War") 10:2. gloria filiorum patres
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 ...
Soli Deo gloria is a Latin term for Glory to God alone. It has been used by artists like Johann Sebastian Bach , George Frideric Handel , and Christoph Graupner to signify that the work was produced for the sake of praising God .
The Latin hymn thus uses the word excelsis to translate the Greek word ὑψίστοις – hypsístois (the highest) in Luke 2:14: Douay-Rheims, not the word altissimis, which Jerome preferred for his translation. However, this word is used near the end: tu solus Altissimus, Iesu Christe (you alone the Most High, Jesus Christ).
This is a list of letters of the Latin script. The definition of a Latin-script letter for this list is a character encoded in the Unicode Standard that has a script property of 'Latin' and the general category of 'Letter'. An overview of the distribution of Latin-script letters in Unicode is given in Latin script in Unicode.
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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 ...