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  2. Hellenistic-era warships - Wikipedia

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    Most of the warships of the era were distinguished by their names, which were compounds of a number and a suffix. Thus the English term quinquereme derives from Latin quīnquerēmis and has the Greek equivalent πεντήρης (pentḗrēs). Both are compounds featuring a prefix meaning "five": Latin quīnque, ancient Greek πέντε (pénte).

  3. Quinquereme - Wikipedia

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    Quinquereme. 23 languages ... Printable version; In other projects Wikimedia Commons; Wikidata item; Appearance. move to sidebar hide. From Wikipedia, the free ...

  4. Quinquagesima - Wikipedia

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    Quinquagesima (/ ˌ k w ɪ ŋ k w ə ˈ dʒ ɛ s ɪ m ə /), in the Western Christian Churches, is the last pre-Lenten Sunday, being the Sunday before Ash Wednesday, and the first day of Carnival (also known as Shrovetide).

  5. Quinqueremes - Wikipedia

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  6. Traditional English pronunciation of Latin - Wikipedia

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    As the traditional pronunciation of Latin has evolved alongside English since the Middle Ages, the page detailing English's phonological evolution from Middle English (in this case, from the Middle-English-Latin pronunciation roughly midway through the 1400-1600 section) can give a better idea of what exactly has happened, and this is just an ...

  7. Vettor Fausto - Wikipedia

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    a translation of the Aristotelis Mechanica (Paris, 1517) [19] Orationes quinque (Venice, 1551) [19] In addition to the published works above, Fausto left unpublished a Latin epigram in a manuscript now in the Biblioteca Estense. [9] He also made marginal annotations in his copy of the editio princeps of Homer's Iliad, published at Florence in 1488.

  8. Amanirenas - Wikipedia

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    Her full title was Amnirense qore li kdwe li ("Ameniras, qore and kandake"). Meroitic , the indigenous language of the kingdom of Kush, remains undeciphered; however, inscriptions giving Queen Amanirenas the title of " qore " as well as " kandake " suggest that she was an individually ruling queen.

  9. Khirbet Qeiyafa ostracon - Wikipedia

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    Artist's rendition of the ostracon. The Khirbet Qeiyafa ostracon is a 15-by-16.5-centimetre (5.9 in × 6.5 in) ostracon (a trapezoid-shaped potsherd) with five lines of text, [1] discovered in Building II, Room B, in Area B of the excavations at Khirbet Qeiyafa in 2008. [2]