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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.
deeds, not words: Motto of James Ruse Agricultural High School. 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
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).
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 .
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 ...
Sic transit gloria mundi is a Latin phrase that means "thus passes the glory of the world". In idiomatic contexts, the phrase has been used to mean "fame is fleeting". [1] [2] The phrase was used in the ritual of papal coronation ceremonies between 1409 (when it was used at the coronation of Alexander V) [3] and 1963.
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A psalm-tone setting of the Gloria Patri in neumes, with two alternative melodies for the words saeculorum Amen indicated with the abbreviation Euouae.. Euouae (/ j uː. ˈ uː. iː / yew-OO-ee; sometimes spelled Evovae) [1] is an abbreviation used as a musical mnemonic in Latin psalters and other liturgical books of the Roman Rite.