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This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Latin on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Latin in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.
Before then, the pronunciation of Latin in church was the same as the pronunciation of Latin in other fields and tended to reflect the sound values associated with the nationality and native language of the speaker. [66] Other ecclesiastical pronunciations are still in use, especially outside the Catholic Church.
Down the rabbit hole; backtranslation, not a genuine Latin phrase; see Down the rabbit hole. desiderantes meliorem patriam: they desired a better land: From Hebrews 11:16; the motto of the Order of Canada. Deus caritas est: God Is Love: Title and first words of the first encyclical of Pope Benedict XVI.
The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (abbreviated AHD) uses a phonetic notation based on the Latin alphabet to transcribe the pronunciation of spoken English. It and similar respelling systems, such as those used by the Merriam-Webster and Random House dictionaries, are familiar to US schoolchildren.
Conciseness. The term "mipmap" is formed using the phrase's abbreviation "MIP"; motto of Rutland, a county in central England. Latin phrases are often multum in parvo, conveying much in few words. mundus senescit: the world grows old: mundus vult decipi: the world wants to be deceived: Ascribed to Roman satirist Petronius.
This popular Latin grammar printed toward the end of the period when Anglo-Latin pronunciation was still commonly taught in schools, devotes a section to the rules of the pronunciation. While somewhat scattershot in its approach, it reveals several otherwise inaccessible details of the traditional pronunciation.
In the Ossete Latin alphabet, it is used for /ɡʷ/. gü is used in Spanish, Portuguese and Catalan for /ɡw/ before front vowels i e where the digraph gu would otherwise represent /ɡ/. gv is used for /kʷ/ in Standard Zhuang and in Bouyei. In the General Alphabet of Cameroon Languages it is used for the labialized fricative /ɣʷ/.
Phrase used in legal language to indicate the most probable outcome from an act, fact, event or cause idem (id.) the same: Used to refer to something that has already been cited; ditto. See also ibidem. idem quod (i.q.) the same as: Not to be confused with an intelligence quotient. Idus Martiae: the Ides of March