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  2. Universe - Wikipedia

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    The word universe derives from the Old French word univers, which in turn derives from the Latin word universus, meaning 'combined into one'. [31] The Latin word 'universum' was used by Cicero and later Latin authors in many of the same senses as the modern English word is used. [32]

  3. Cosmos - Wikipedia

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    Flammarion engraving, Paris 1888. The cosmos (/ ˈ k ɒ z m ɒ s /, US also /-m oʊ s,-m ə s /; [1] Ancient Greek: κόσμος, romanized: kósmos) is an alternative name for the universe or its nature or order.

  4. List of Latin phrases (full) - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. List of adjectivals and demonyms of astronomical bodies

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    In practice forms ending in -ean may be pronounced as if they were spelled -ian even if the e is long in Latin. This dichotomy should be familiar from the dual pronunciations of Caribbean as / ˌ k ær ɪ ˈ b iː ə n / KARR -ə- BEE -ən and / k ə ˈ r ɪ b i ə n / kə- RIB -i-ən .

  6. List of proper names of stars - Wikipedia

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    Latin for 'liberty' (Aquila is Latin for 'eagle', a popular symbol of liberty). [27] /ˈlɪbərtæs/ Virgo: PSR B1257+12: Lich: NameExoWorlds 2015 A neutron star and pulsar with planets. A lich is a fictional undead creature known for controlling other undead creatures with magic. [27] /ˈlɪtʃ/ Ursa Major: HD 118203: Liesma: NameExoWorlds 2019

  7. Creatio ex nihilo - Wikipedia

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    Creatio ex nihilo (Latin for "creation out of nothing") is the doctrine that matter is not eternal but had to be created by some divine creative act. [1] It is a theistic answer to the question of how the universe came to exist.

  8. Vi veri universum vivus vici - Wikipedia

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    Vi veri universum vivus vici (or Vi veri veniversvm vivvs vici) is a modern Latin phrase meaning: "By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe".. Due to the popularity of Alan Moore's graphic novel V for Vendetta, the phrase has been incorrectly though commonly attributed to Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus, but the source of this attribution, as well as the origin ...

  9. Cosmology - Wikipedia

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    The Hubble eXtreme Deep Field (XDF) was completed in September 2012 and shows the farthest galaxies ever photographed at that time. Except for the few stars in the foreground (which are bright and easily recognizable because only they have diffraction spikes), every speck of light in the photo is an individual galaxy, some of them as old as 13.2 billion years; the observable universe is ...