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The sense of the Latin adjective sacer both overlaps and also contrasts with the Hebrew concept of ḥērem, [citation needed], "cursed, prohibited." [6] That which is cherem, such as spoil taken in war, is dedicated to God and therefore sacred; but it is also accursed, so that if it is appropriated by a secular person, that person and even their family could become cherem and stoned to death.
This form of socialist economy is related to the political philosophies of libertarian socialism, syndicalism and various forms of communal utopian socialism. Examples of decentralized democratic planning include council communism , individualist anarchism , industrial democracy , participatory economics , Soviet democracy and syndicalism .
Sacar may refer to: Sacar (charity), a charity in the United Kingdom; Sacara nigripalpis, a synonym for the moth genus Aventiola; Sacar or Sachar, a biblical name; Sacar, editor of About Woman, a compilation of writings by Sri Nolini Kanta Gupta; Sacar Anim (born 1997), American basketball player in the Israeli Basketball Premier League
Plena is another form of folkloric music of African origin. Plena was brought to Ponce by blacks who immigrated north from the English-speaking islands south of Puerto Rico. Plena is a rhythm that is clearly African and very similar to Calypso, Soca and Dance hall music from Trinidad and Jamaica .
Scarabaeus sacer was described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae, the starting point of zoological nomenclature.It is considered the type species of the genus Scarabaeus, despite some controversy surrounding Latreille's 1810 type designation, [2] which was resolved by a ruling of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature in 2014, to accept Hope's 1837 ...
Today, the two forms of the imperfect subjunctive – for example, "hubiese" and "hubiera", from "haber" – are largely interchangeable.* The -se form derives (as in most Romance languages) from the Latin pluperfect subjunctive, while the -ra form derives from the Latin pluperfect indicative. The use of one or the other is largely a matter of ...
A "scarabaeus" is also a now outdated term (OED 2) for an object in the form of a scarab beetle in art. The scarab was a popular form of amulet in Ancient Egypt, [3] and in ancient Greek art engraved gems were often carved as scarabs on the rest of the stone behind the main flattish face, which was used for sealing documents. [4]
The form is usually /u/ or /o/ in sedentary dialects, but /ah/ or /ih/ in Bedouin dialects. After a vowel, the bare form /h/ is used, but in many sedentary dialects the /h/ is lost here as well. In Egyptian Arabic, for example, this pronoun is marked in this case only by lengthening of the final vowel and concomitant stress shift onto it, but ...