- Pronunciation of sedes - Latin Language Stack Exchange
I typically pronounce sedes as SED-ays However, I recently noticed that the quot;Holy See, quot; meaning the bishopric of the Vatican, comes from Sancta Sedes (the Holy Seat), so if this is being
- (Why) is the phrase sede vacante in the ablative?
The Latin phrase sede vacante (vacant seat) refers to the time when a Catholic episcopal see is vacant, as is currently the case for the papacy It looks like this phrase is in the ablative case I
- Correct pronunciation of full Latin dates
What is the correct Latin pronunciation of modern full dates, where the word 'anno' is omitted e g 'die 24 Augusti 1954 nata'? In which case stands the numeral of the year? Is the word 'anno' pron
- english to latin translation - What fresh hell is this? - Latin . . .
Problem 1: This is more like “What is this new hell?” – making it a foregone conclusion that it will be bad, not a weary expectation Problem 2: Despite being the language of the Catholic church for the better half of two millennia, Latin apparently has no proper word for hell (Georges in all earnestness suggests: sceleratorum sedes ac
- Augustine, De Civitate Dei, Book XVII, Ch. XVI
In De Civitate Dei, Augustine of Hippo wrote,1 Quis non hic Christum, quem praedicamus et in quem credimus, quamlibet sit tardus, agnoscat, cum audiat Deum, cuius sedes est in saecula saeculorum, et
- Can titillo refer to the literal action of tickling?
Is there any justification for the use of titillo outside of its figurative sense of "titillate"? Yes, I think so See Pliny the Elder, Natural History, book XI, 77:198 in eadem praecipua hilaritatis sedes, quod titillatu maxime intellegitur alarum ad quas subit, non aliubi tenuiore humana cute ideoque scabendi dulcedine ibi proxima In it [the diaphragm] also is the chief seat of merriment, a
- lingua latina per se illustrata - Meaning of virō in description of . . .
On p 29 of Roma Aeterna by Hans Ørberg, book II of Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata, is this passage from a simplified Latin, solūtīs versibus (prose) rendering of Book II of the Aeneid: Faunō mor
- Is there a Latin version of Quick brown fox. . . ?
"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" is an English pangram, i e a phrase or sentence that contains all the letters of the alphabet (Wiki) Pangrams are often used in font typography to sh
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