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The offertory (from Medieval Latin offertorium and Late Latin offerre) [1] is the part of a Eucharistic service when the bread and wine for use in the service are ceremonially placed on the altar. Collection boxes, Our Lady of Mount Carmel and St Simon Stock , Kensington, London Collection bag used in Church of Sweden
This is a list of letters of the Latin script. The definition of a Latin-script letter for this list is a character encoded in the Unicode Standard that has a script property of 'Latin' and the general category of 'Letter'. An overview of the distribution of Latin-script letters in Unicode is given in Latin script in Unicode.
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 ...
The letters d and q often have open bowls. The letter a is unique, resembling two sharp points ("<<"), and the letter z , uncommon in Latin, is nevertheless very distinctive in the Laon type, with a flourish projecting upwards to the left, above the line. Because of these features, Laon type is sometimes called "a-z type".
The Letters of Abelard and Heloise are two series of passionate and intellectual correspondences apparently written in Latin during the 12th century. The purported authors, Peter Abelard, a prominent theologian, and his pupil, Heloise, a gifted young woman later renowned as an abbess, exchanged these letters following their ill-fated love affair and subsequent monastic lives.
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When the cobbler started offering advice on other parts of the painting, Apelles rebuked him with this phrase in Greek, and it subsequently became a popular Latin expression. suum cuique tribuere: to render to every man his due: One of Justinian I's three basic precepts of law. Also shortened to suum cuique ("to each his own"). s.v.
Referred to a specific type of coin in CL, though was used as a metonym for 'money' in Cicero's letters. mouth os — bucca: Fr. bouche, Occ. boca, Cat. boca, Sp. boca, Pt. boca, It. bocca, Ro. bucă [ζ] Meant 'cheek' in CL. Attested in the sense of 'mouth' already in the writings of Petronius. [9] narrow angustus: Sp. angosto, It. angusto, Ro ...