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  • 11Latin literature — Introduction       the body of writings in Latin, primarily produced during the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire, when Latin was a spoken language. When Rome fell, Latin remained the literary language of the Western medieval world until it was …

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  • 12Latin American music — Introduction       musical traditions of Mexico, Central America, and the portions of South America and the Caribbean colonized by the Spanish and the Portuguese. These traditions reflect the distinctive mixtures of Native American, African, and… …

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  • 13idiom — /ˈɪdiəm / (say ideeuhm) noun 1. a form of expression peculiar to a language, especially one having a significance other than its literal one. 2. a variety or form of a language; a dialect. 3. the language peculiar to a people. 4. the peculiar… …

  • 14Church Latin —     Ecclesiastical Latin     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Ecclesiastical Latin     In the present instance these words are taken to mean the Latin we find in the official textbooks of the Church (the Bible and the Liturgy), as well as in the works… …

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  • 15List of Latin phrases (S) — This page lists direct English translations of Latin phrases, such as veni vidi vici and et cetera. Some of the phrases are themselves translations of Greek phrases, as Greek rhetoric and literature reached its peak centuries before that of… …

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  • 16Contemporary Latin — is the form of the Latin language used from the end of the 19th century through to the present. Various kinds of contemporary Latin can be distinguished. On the one hand there is its symbolic survival in areas like taxonomy and others as the… …

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  • 17african latin — noun Usage: capitalized A&L : Latin of the style and idiom found in the earliest Latin version of the Bible …

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  • 18African Rite — In the history of Christianity, the African Rite refers to a now defunct Catholic, Western liturgical rite, and is considered a development or possibly a local use of the primitive Roman Rite. It used the Latin language. The African Rite may be… …

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  • 19Carmina Burana — (pronounced|ˈkarmɪna buˈraːna), also known as the Burana Codex, is a manuscript collection, found in 1803 in the Bavarian monastery of Benediktbeuern, and now housed in the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek in Munich. The 119 leaves of the original… …

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  • 20Latinism — Lat in*ism, n. [Cf. F. latinisme.] A Latin idiom; a mode of speech peculiar to Latin; also, a mode of speech in another language, as English, formed on a Latin model. [1913 Webster] Note: The term is also sometimes used by Biblical scholars to… …

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