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Oracle – a relational database management system (RDBMS). Larry Ellison , Ed Oates and Bob Miner were working on a consulting project for the CIA ( Central Intelligence Agency ). The code name for the project was Oracle (the CIA evidently saw this as a system that would give answers to all questions).
The word oracle comes from the Latin verb ōrāre, "to speak" and properly refers to the priest or priestess uttering the prediction. In extended use, oracle may also refer to the site of the oracle , and the oracular utterances themselves, are called khrēsmoí (χρησμοί) in Greek.
This list of Latin and Greek words commonly used in systematic names is intended to help those unfamiliar with classical languages to understand and remember the scientific names of organisms. The binomial nomenclature used for animals and plants is largely derived from Latin and Greek words, as are some of the names used for higher taxa , such ...
The Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG) is a research center at the University of California, Irvine.The TLG was founded in 1972 by Marianne McDonald (a graduate student at the time and now a professor of theater and classics at the University of California, San Diego) with the goal to create a comprehensive digital collection of all surviving texts written in Greek from antiquity to the present era.
Oracle Database 23ai LTR: 23.4.0 On May 2, 2024, Oracle Database 23ai [10] was released on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) as cloud services, including OCI Exadata Database Service, OCI Exadata Database Cloud@Customer, and OCI Base Database Service. It is also available in Always Free Autonomous Database.
Dodona (/ d oʊ ˈ d oʊ n ə /; Doric Greek: Δωδώνα, romanized: Dōdṓnā, Ionic and Attic Greek: Δωδώνη, [1] Dōdṓnē) in Epirus in northwestern Greece was the oldest Hellenic oracle, possibly dating to the 2nd millennium BCE according to Herodotus.
Classical oracles is a category for the oracle-sites, prophets, seers, prophetic daemons and oracular books - real, forged or imagined - of Greek and Roman antiquity. Subcategories This category has the following 6 subcategories, out of 6 total.
The English word sibyl (/ ˈ s ɪ b əl /) is from Middle English, via the Old French sibile and the Latin sibylla from the ancient Greek Σίβυλλα (Sibylla). [5] Varro derived the name from an Aeolic sioboulla, the equivalent of Attic theobule ("divine counsel"). [6] This etymology is not accepted in modern handbooks, which list the ...