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'nourishing mother'; pl.: almae matres) is an allegorical Latin phrase used to proclaim a school that a person has attended or, more usually, from which one has graduated. [1] [2] [3] Alma mater is also a honorific title for various mother goddesses, especially Ceres or Cybele. [4] Later, in Catholicism, it became a title of Mary, mother of Jesus.
State University – Higher School of Economics: Non scolae sed vitae discimus: Latin We do not learn for the school, but for life European University at Saint Petersburg: Addo Optimus Una: Latin Bringing the best together Orenburg State Institute of Management (OSIM) Наши студенты - наша реклама: Russian Our students do ...
Vulgate Latin words and phrases (2 C, 28 P) Pages in category "Biblical phrases" ... Law of Christ; Law of Moses; Let there be light; Like sheep to the slaughter;
He led 20th and 21st century translation theory in understanding and demonstrating that a single word or phrase from one language cannot "live" in another language by simply translating word for word. Words and phrases, whether written or spoken, modern or ancient, live in complex cultural surroundings.
The following is a list of phrases from sports that have become idioms (slang or otherwise) in English. They have evolved usages and meanings independent of sports and are often used by those with little knowledge of these games. The sport from which each phrase originates has been included immediately after the phrase.
Although yin and yang are not mentioned in any of the surviving documents of Zou Yan, his school was known as the Yin Yang Jia (Yin and Yang School). Needham concludes "There can be very little doubt that the philosophical use of the terms began about the beginning of the 4th century, and that the passages in older texts which mention this use ...
δικαιοσύνε: justice, "consonant with the law and instrumental to a sense of duty" (Diogenes Laertius 7.98). One of the four virtues (justice, courage, temperance, wisdom/prudence). dogma δόγμα: principle established by reason and experience. doxa δόξα: belief, opinion.
The word fiqh is an Arabic term meaning "deep understanding" [7]: 470 or "full comprehension". Technically it refers to the body of Islamic law extracted from detailed Islamic sources (which are studied in the principles of Islamic jurisprudence) and the process of gaining knowledge of Islam through jurisprudence.