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Agatha, also Agata, is a feminine given name derived from the Greek feminine name Ἀγάθη (Agáthē; alternative form: Ἀγαθή Agathḗ), which is a nominalized form of ἀγαθή (agathḗ), i.e. the feminine form of the adjective ἀγαθός (agathós) "good".
Maurice Richardson in a short review in the 7 December 1941 issue of The Observer wrote: "Agatha Christie takes time off from Poirot and the haute cuisine of crime to write a light war-time spy thriller. N or M is [an] unknown master fifth columnist concealed in [the] person of some shabby genteel figure in a Bournemouth boarding-house ...
Agatha may refer to: Agatha (given name), a feminine given name; Agatha, Alberta, a locality in Canada; List of storms named Agatha, tropical storms and hurricanes; Operation Agatha, a 1946 British police and military operation in Mandatory Palestine; Agatha, a genus of gastropods; Agatha, a 1979 film about Agatha Christie
Agatha was born in Catania, part of the Roman Province of Sicily, and was martyred c. 251. She is one of several virgin martyrs who are commemorated by name in the Canon of the Mass. [7] Agatha is the patron saint of Catania, Molise, Malta, San Marino, Gallipoli in Apulia, [b] and Zamarramala, a municipality of the Province of Segovia in Spain
Duff and Joan make up and decide to figure out a way to break the spell themselves and get Agatha out of their hair for good. They peruse the book about Agatha and realize that the Latin language makes her itch, and in order to break the spell, they must say one certain phrase to Agatha, and get her to speak Latin in return. They find the ...
In other contexts, it can mean "according to law", "by right", and "legally". de lege ferenda: of/from law to be passed: de lege lata: of/from law passed / of/from law in force: de medietate linguae: of half-tongue: from [a person's] language [group]; party jury; the right to a jury disproportionally chosen from the accused's ethnic group; [36 ...
The book contains a collection of Latin poems, including epigrams and odes, as well as letters written by Marchina who was an Early Modern Italian poet whose family made and sold soap. The poetry included in this volume were from the private collection of Virgilio Spada, the brother of Cardinal Bernardino Spada , who had been Martha Marchina's ...
Tridentine Latin Mass [18] or Traditional Latin Mass [19] [20] (both abbreviated as TLM), or simply the Latin Mass [21] [b] Old Order of Mass (Latin: Vetus Ordo Missae) or simply the Vetus Ordo [22] Preconciliar liturgy [23] The preconciliar Ambrosian Rite has been called the Extraordinary Form of the Ambrosian Rite. [24]