Many more European documents seem to confirm that the distinctive traits of Romance languages occurred all around the same time (e.g. France's Serments de Strasburg). This may well be the earliest document in Italian, though the Placito Capuano, dating to 960 AD, is the one to give official status to the new language, being the first verdict of a judge ever spoken and recorded in an Italian court. Objections have been raised as to whether the Indovinello Veronese (which shows far more archaic traits) is really Italian, or, rather, late Latin: much obvious ...

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Veronese Riddle, Veronese Riddle - Text, Veronese Riddle - Explanation and origins of the Indovinello, Veronese Riddle - Text analysis and comments, Veronese Riddle - Conclusion, Veronese Riddle - External link

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Anima Mundi, translated as "the soul of the world" from Latin language, may refer to one of the following. Anima mundi, a philosophical concept Anima Mundi, a 1991 documentary film directed by Godfrey Reggio. Anima Mundi, a Brazilian video and film festival Other related archives1991, Anima Mundi, Anima mundi, Brazilian, Godfrey Reggio, Latin language, documentary film, film festival

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Virgilius Maro Grammaticus (Virgil the Grammarian) is one of the most puzzling medieval writers. He most probably lived in Ireland around year 650, and maybe was educated in mainland Spain or Gallia. He definitely knew some Hebrew and was very well trained in Latin. We have his two works Epitomae and Epistolae that are respectively written following Donatus Ars Maior and Ars Minor. Actually we can name his works grammars only with reservation, as it seems, the main purpose of his text lies somewhere ...

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The Renaissance, also known as "Il Rinascimento" (in Italian), was an influential cultural movement which brought about a period of scientific revolution, religious reform and artistic transformation, at the dawn of modern European history. It marks the transitional period between the end of the Middle Ages and the start of the Modern Age. The Renaissance is usually considered to have originated in the 14th century in northern Italy and begun in the late 15th century in northern Europe. Renaissance - Historiograph ...

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Latin differs from languages like English in that it uses many noun cases which are declined in such a way that they are nearly all different from each other, and even proper nouns such as names are declined. For example, the ending of the common Roman name Marcus is different in each of the following sentences due to the different cases in which it is used (the name Cornelia remains undeclined): Marcus hits Cornelia. (Subject-Verb-Object, the most common permutation of expression in English)

Vulgar Latin (in Latin, sermo vulgaris) is a blanket term covering the vernacular dialects of the Latin language spoken mostly in the western provinces of the Roman Empire until those dialects, diverging still further, evolved into the early Romance languages — a distinction usually assigned to about the ninth century. This spoken Latin differed from the literary language of classical Latin in its pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar. Some features of Vulgar Latin did not appear until the late Empire. Other features ...

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• Vulgar Latin - Evidence of changes
• Vulgar Latin - Vocabulary
• Vulgar Latin - Grammar
• Vulgar Latin - The loss of the noun case system
• Vulgar Latin - The Romance articles
• Vulgar Latin - Gender: loss of the neuter
• Vulgar Latin - Prepositions multiply
• Vulgar Latin - Adverbs
• Vulgar Latin - Verbs

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The idea of a universal language is at least as old as the Biblical story of Babel. Babel's fall has the mythical point that there was once a time of a universal Adamic language (now often associated with the Kabbalah) — and then something happened, analogous to the Fall of Man. In the Christian tradition there are various attitudes to regaining the supposed golden age, before Babel; these include optimism, pessimism, and recourse to parody and warnings on hu ...

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A compound is a word (lexeme) that consists of more than one free morpheme. A certain type of compound (endocentric) consists of a head, i.e. the categorical part that contains the basic meaning of the whole compound, and modifiers, which restrict this meaning. For example, the English compound doghouse, where house is the head and dog is the modifier, is understood as a house intended for a dog. Obviously, an endocentric compound ten ...

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This is a List of Ancient Rome-related topics, that aims to include aspects of both the Ancient Roman Republic and Roman Empire. For an overview of the subject, see Ancient Rome. For other articles not listed below, see Category:Ancient Rome and its subcategories. An index of important figures in Ancient Rome can be found in List of ancient Romans. The topics in this list cover the culture, society and history of the ancient Roman Republic and the ...

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The word conjugation has several meanings: Grammatical conjugation is the modification of a verb from its basic form. In the Latin language, different verbs have complex conjugation rules. See Latin conjugation. In biology, conjugation is transmission of DNA between cells by contact other than fusion. Various forms of conjugation exist in different groups, such as bacteria (see bacterial conjugation) and ciliates. The term is derived from the use of the word for marriage. Marriage --

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Andrea Mantegna (c. 1431, near Vicenza, Italy – September 13, 1506, Mantua) was an Italian Renaissance artist from Florence, whose work included paintings, engravings, and frescoes. Andrea Mantegna - Biography. Mantegna was born in Isola di Cartura, near Vicenza in the Republic of Venice, second son of a poor woodcutter, Biagio. At the age of ten he had started as the apprentice of Francesco Squarcione, a mediocre Paduan painter. Squarcione, whose original vocation was tailoring, appears to have had a rem ...

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The original lines are: Se pareba boves alba pratalia araba albo versorio teneba negro semen seminaba which translate more or less like this: In front of him (he) led cows White fields (he) plowed A white plow (he) held A black seed (he) sowed ...

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Veronese Riddle, Veronese Riddle - Text, Veronese Riddle - Explanation and origins of the Indovinello, Veronese Riddle - Text analysis and comments, Veronese Riddle - Conclusion, Veronese Riddle - External link

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The umbracullum is a historic piece of the papal regalia and insignia, once used on a daily basis to provide shade for the pope. In modern usage, the umbracullum is a symbol of the Roman Catholic Church and the authority of a pope over it and the Eastern Rite. It is found in the contemporary Church at all the basilicas throughout the world, placed prominently at the right of their main altars. Whenever a ...

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Companion, in its most common meaning, refers to a close friend or associate. The word originates in the Latin language, meaning "one who shares bread," and so often hold connotations of a comrade or "mess-mate" with whom one eats. It is the title of the lowest rank in some military or other orders of knighthood, and is sometimes used to describe a person who lives with another in a paid position for the sake of company (or sometimes for sexual favors, as a concubine), and is looked on rather as a friend than a servant. In the Victorian and Edwardian eras, Englishwomen who wished to travel often hire ...

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In Latin grammar, the ablative absolute (Ablativus absolutus) is a noun phrase cast in the ablative case. It indicates the time, condition, or attending circumstances of an action being described in the main sentence. It takes the place of, and translates, many phrases that would require a subordinate clause in English. The unfamiliarity of this construction makes it sometimes difficult for Latin students to grasp; however, mastery of this construction is needed to write Latin well, and its availability makes Latin prose quite concise. The closest En ...

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17 (seventeen) is the natural number following 16 and preceding 18. << 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 >> List of numbers -- Integers 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 >> 17 number - In mathematics. Seventeen is the 7th prime number. The next prime is nineteen, with which it comprises a twin prime. 17 is the sum of the first four primes. 17 is the sixth Mersenne prime exponent, yielding 131071. 17 is an Eise ...

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The lines of this riddle tell us of a somebody with a "pair of cows" (boves) who used to plow "white fields" (alba pratalia) with a "white plow" (albo versorio), sowing a "black seed" (negro semen). This person is the writer himself, the monk whose business is to copy old manuscripts. The two cows are his fingers which draw a white pen (the white plow) across the page (the white fields). This document dates to the late 8th-early 9th century and was followed by a small thanksgiving prayer in Latin: gratia ...

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Veronese Riddle, Veronese Riddle - Text, Veronese Riddle - Explanation and origins of the Indovinello, Veronese Riddle - Text analysis and comments, Veronese Riddle - Conclusion, Veronese Riddle - External link

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Celtic Continental Celtic Celtiberian Celtiberian (also Hispano-Celtic) is an extinct Celtic language spoken by the Celtiberians in northern Spain before and during the Roman Empire. Very little remains of the Celtiberian language, which is attested in some pre-Roman placenames in the Iberian peninsula that survived long enough to be recorded in documents, in the formulas that were used in some personal names (giving hints of grammar), and in some inscriptions on bronze and lead plaques, written in the ...

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A quadriga (from the Latin language quadri-, four, and jungere, to yoke) is a four-horse chariot, raced in the Olympic Games and other sacred games, and represented in profile as the usual chariot of gods and heroes on Greek vases and bas-reliefs. The quadriga was adopted in ancient Roman chariot racing. Quadrigas became a natural emblem of triumph, victory or fame, often depicted as a triumphant woman guiding a quadriga. In classical mythology, quadrigas were the vehicles of the gods; Apollo was often depicted as driving his quadriga across the heavens, bringing daylight ...

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Classical Latin is the form of the Latin language used by the ancient Romans in what is usually regarded as "classical" Latin literature. Its use spanned the Golden Age of Latin literature—broadly the 1st century BC and the early 1st century AD—possibly extending to the Silver Age—broadly the 1st and 2nd centuries. What is now called "Classical Latin" was, in fact, a highly stylized and polished written literary language selectively constructed from early Latin, of which far fewer remains. Classical Latin is the product o ...

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