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  2. Ars Poetica (Horace) - Wikipedia

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    "Written, like Horace's other epistles of this period, in a loose conversational frame, Ars Poetica consists of 476 lines containing nearly 30 maxims for young poets." [7] But Ars Poetica is not a systematic treatise of theory, and it wasn't intended to be. It is an inviting and lively poetic letter, composed for friends who appreciate poetic ...

  3. List of Latin phrases (full) - Wikipedia

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    Also consuetudo est altera lex (custom is another law) and consuetudo vincit communem legem (custom overrules the common law); see also: Consuetudinary. consummatum est: It is completed. The last words of Jesus on the cross in the Latin translation of John 19:30. contemptus mundi/saeculi: scorn for the world/times: Despising the secular world.

  4. List of Latin phrases (E) - Wikipedia

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    AMA style forgoes the period (because it forgoes the period on abbreviations generally) and it forgoes the italic (as it does with other loanwords naturalized into scientific English); many journals that follow AMA style do likewise. et cetera (etc., &c.) and the rest: In modern usage, used to mean "and so on" or "and more". et cum spiritu tuo

  5. Transition (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    A transition or linking word is a word or phrase that shows the relationship between paragraphs or sections of a text or speech. [1] Transitions provide greater cohesion by making it more explicit or signaling how ideas relate to one another. [1] Transitions are, in fact, "bridges" that "carry a reader from section to section". [1]

  6. Cognate - Wikipedia

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    Likewise, English much and Spanish mucho look similar and have a similar meaning, ... In other words, it is the source of related words in different languages.

  7. Capitonym - Wikipedia

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    Likewise, both Catholic and catholic derive from a Greek adjective meaning "universal". Capital letters may be used to differentiate between a set of objects, and a particular example of that object. For instance in astronomical terminology a distinction may be drawn between a moon , any natural satellite, and the Moon , the natural satellite ...

  8. Comparison of Danish, Norwegian and Swedish - Wikipedia

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    Likewise in some other contexts, Danish bedst (best), sidst (last) versus Norwegian best, sist (ON bezt, sizt, where z denoted consonant combinations like ds etc.). Unlike Norwegian, Danish does not use double consonants at the end of words.

  9. Dysphemism - Wikipedia

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    Likewise, the word "fanny" when used in American English is a euphemism for one's buttocks, so benign that children use it. However, in British, Australian, New Zealand, and South African English, the word "fanny" is slang for vulva and is considered to be vulgar. [8]