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Jure uxoris (a Latin phrase meaning "by right of (his) wife") [1] [2] describes a title of nobility used by a man because his wife holds the office or title suo jure ("in her own right"). Similarly, the husband of an heiress could become the legal possessor of her lands.
Tertullian was the first theologian to write in Latin, and so has been called "the father of Latin Christianity", [5] [6] as well as "the founder of Western theology". [7] He is perhaps most famous for being the first writer in Latin known to use the term trinity (Latin: trinitas). [8]
The CSEL publishes Latin writings of Christian authors from the time of the late 2nd century until the beginning of the 8th century (Bede the Venerable, †735).Each text is edited on the basis of all (or the most important of all) the extant manuscripts according to modern editorial techniques, in order to produce a text as close as possible to the original.
Theo B. Rood. Glossarium: A compilation of Latin words and phrases generally used in law with English translations. Bryanston, South Africa: Proctrust Publications, 2003. Jan Scholtemeijer & Paul Hasse. Legal Latin: A basic course. Pretoria, South Africa: J.L. van Schaik Publishers, 1993.
German bishop Thietmar of Merseburg (c. 1015) described Volodimer as 'an immense fornicator' (Latin: fornicator immensus) until his marriage to a 'decent wife from Greece' (Latin: a Grecia decens uxorem) and adoption 'of the holy faith of Christianity at her instigation' (Latin: christianitatis sanctae fidem eius ortatu suscepit). [4]
Folio 1v. The Codex Agobardinus is a 9th-century parchment codex containing a collection of the works of the Christian author Tertullian. [1] [2] It is named after its first owner, the archbishop Agobard, who gave it to Lyon Cathedral, where it remained until the mid-16th century.
A Roman Art Lover (1868) by Lawrence Alma-Tadema showing the types of Roman art patrons who could have commissioned Statius' poetry [citation needed]. The Silvae is a collection of Latin occasional poetry in hexameters, hendecasyllables, and lyric meters by Publius Papinius Statius (c. 45 – c. 96 CE).
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 ...