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SPQR stands for "Senātus Populusque Rōmānus". It would be logical (at least in English or Spanish) to expect the initialism or acronym to be SPR. However, the first letter of the conjunction "-que" is also added to the acronym, forming the well-known SPQR.
3. votes. We definitely know that SPQR refers to senatus populusque Romanus and not something else. This text is inscribed in full in the temple of Saturn and arch of Titus in Rome. It's hard to say whether the abbreviation is systematic or an arbitrary choice that happened to stick. Share.
In SPQR the adjective is used attributively. It is intended to be a noun phrase, not a statement that the senate and people are Roman. Therefore it should indeed be Romanus, not Romani. As to why the phrase Senatus populusque Romanus is abbreviated SPQR and how we know what the letters stand for, see this question.
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When that came to an end with Julius Caesar's accession to perpetual dictatorship, the Romans didn't rename the nation. They continued saying that they had a republic. They kept making flags that said SPQR. Caesar styled himself imperator to retain the fiction that he was just a military commander, not a monarch.
7. I am interested in a couple of statues in Rome. They are on the north side of Via dei Fori Imperiali, between Via Cavour and Piazza Venezia. If my memory serves me well, they are of key figures in Roman history — like Augustus — and they have inscriptions in Latin. I think they were erected in modern times, perhaps under Mussolini's rule.
7. Acronyms are abbreviations that are read as whole words rather than letter by letter — or in other words, they are words formed from initials of a phrase. "NATO" and "laser" are two examples. I have seen abbreviations used in Latin, but I get the impression that they are often expanded to whole in speech or read as an abbreviation letter ...
The Wiktionary entry for "-que" states that: In archaic and official language, -que is preferred to et, from which it is distinguished by denoting a closer connection. Is that what explains the above examples? That might be clear in the case of "SPQR" and the Nicean Credo (where the filioque is sometimes found).
No flag is sufficiently strongly associated with Latin. Some languages can be easily identified from a flag in contexts like language learning software or choosing the language of a website. I would argue that Latin is not. The proposed Latin flag linked to in the comments combines Rome and Vatican.
Step one: in Mozart's 'Lacrimosa' the 'i' is sung on two notes. Step two: In the musical score the word might therefore written under the notes as 'la- cri- i -mo -sa'. Step three: a printer, seeing 'lacriimosa,' would set it as 'lacrijmosa' or 'lacrymosa' with two dots, or plain 'lacrymosa.'. Share.