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Contemporary Latin, the Glossary

Contemporary Latin is the form of the Literary Latin used since the end of the 19th century.^[1]

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Forms of Latin
Languages attested from the 19th century
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Accademia Vivarium Novum

The Academy Vivarium Novum (or Accademia in Italian) in Rome is the only college in the world where students can spend one or more years immersed in Latin and Ancient Greek.

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Akihito

Akihito (born 23 December 1933) is a member of the Imperial House of Japan who reigned as the 125th emperor of Japan from 1989 until his abdication in 2019.

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Alcuin

Alcuin of York (Flaccus Albinus Alcuinus; 735 – 19 May 804) – also called Ealhwine, Alhwin, or Alchoin – was a scholar, clergyman, poet, and teacher from York, Northumbria.

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Alexander Lenard (Lénárd Sándor; Alexander Lenardus; Budapest, 9 March 1910 – Dona Emma, Brazil, 13 April 1972) was a Hungarian physician, writer, translator, painter, musician, poet and occasional language instructor.

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Alexis Hellmer

Alexis Hellmer is a Mexican Latinist and classicist and the founder of Studium Angelopolitanum.

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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (also known as Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 English children's novel by Lewis Carroll, a mathematics don at the University of Oxford.

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Annuit cœptis

Annuit cœptis is one of two mottos on the reverse side of the Great Seal of the United States.

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Arcadius Avellanus

Arcadius Avellanus, born Mogyoróssy Arkád (6 February 1851 – 16 June 1935), was a Hungarian American scholar of Latin and a proponent of Living Latin.

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Aristide Leonori

Aristide Leonori (28 July 1856 – 30 July 1928) was an Italian architect and engineer.

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Assimil

Assimil (often stylised as ASSiMiL) is a French company, founded by Alphonse Chérel in 1929.

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Association for the Reform of Latin Teaching

The Association for the Reform of Latin Teaching (ARLT) was founded in the United Kingdom in 1913 by the distinguished Classical scholar W. H. D. Rouse.

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Asterix

Asterix (Astérix or Astérix le Gaulois, "Asterix the Gaul") (also known as Asterix and Obelix in some adaptations or The Adventures of Asterix) is a comic book series about a village of indomitable Gaulish warriors (including the titular hero Asterix) who adventure around the world and fight the odds of the Roman Republic, with the aid of a magic potion, during the era of Julius Caesar, in an ahistorical telling of the time after the Gallic Wars.

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Audio, Video, Disco (song)

"Audio, Video, Disco" is a song by French duo Justice.

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Automated teller machine

An automated teller machine (ATM) is an electronic telecommunications device that enables customers of financial institutions to perform financial transactions, such as cash withdrawals, deposits, funds transfers, balance inquiries or account information inquiries, at any time and without the need for direct interaction with bank staff.

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Avignon

Avignon (Provençal or Avignoun,; Avenio) is the prefecture of the Vaucluse department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region of southeastern France.

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Barbarians (2020 TV series)

Barbarians (Barbaren) is a 2020 German historical war drama television series created by Andreas Heckmann, Arne Nolting, and Jan Martin Scharf.

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Bard College

Bard College is a private liberal arts college in the hamlet of Annandale-on-Hudson, in the town of Red Hook, in New York State.

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Bayer designation

A Bayer designation is a stellar designation in which a specific star is identified by a Greek or Latin letter followed by the genitive form of its parent constellation's Latin name.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.

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BBC News

BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world.

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Beneath the Wheel

Beneath the Wheel (Unterm Rad) is a 1906 novel written by Hermann Hesse.

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Binomial nomenclature

In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, both of which use Latin grammatical forms, although they can be based on words from other languages.

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Botanical Latin

Botanical Latin is a technical language based on Neo-Latin, used for descriptions of botanical taxa. Contemporary Latin and botanical Latin are forms of Latin.

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Brown University

Brown University is a private Ivy League research university in Providence, Rhode Island.

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Bucharest

Bucharest (București) is the capital and largest city of Romania.

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Cambridge Latin Course

The Cambridge Latin Course (CLC) is a series of textbooks published by Cambridge University Press, used to teach Latin to secondary school pupils.

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Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press is the university press of the University of Cambridge.

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Carl Linnaeus

Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné,Blunt (2004), p. 171.

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Casus belli

A casus belli is an act or an event that either provokes or is used to justify a war.

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Catchphrase

A catchphrase (alternatively spelled catch phrase) is a phrase or expression recognized by its repeated utterance.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.

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Charles University

Charles University (CUNI; Univerzita Karlova, UK; Universitas Carolina; Karls-Universität), or historically as the University of Prague (Universitas Pragensis), is the largest and best-ranked university in the Czech Republic. It is one of the oldest universities in the world in continuous operation, the first university north of the Alps and east of Paris.

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Charlotte's Web

Charlotte's Web is a book of children's literature by American author E. B. White and illustrated by Garth Williams.

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Chemical element

A chemical element is a chemical substance that cannot be broken down into other substances by chemical reactions.

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Church of England

The Church of England (C of E) is the established Christian church in England and the Crown Dependencies.

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Cigars of the Pharaoh

Cigars of the Pharaoh (Les Cigares du Pharaon) is the fourth volume of The Adventures of Tintin, the series of comic albums by Belgian cartoonist Hergé.

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Classical Association

The Classical Association (CA) is an educational organisation which aims to promote and widen access to the study of classical subjects in the United Kingdom.

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Classical Latin

Classical Latin is the form of Literary Latin recognized as a literary standard by writers of the late Roman Republic and early Roman Empire. Contemporary Latin and Classical Latin are forms of Latin.

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Classics

Classics or classical studies is the study of classical antiquity.

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Clive Carruthers

Clive Harcourt Carruthers (–1980) was a Canadian classicist.

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Corporate Art Awards

The Corporate Art Awards are the international awards for the best art projects developed by the business world.

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Critical apparatus

A critical apparatus (apparatus criticus) in textual criticism of primary source material, is an organized system of notations to represent, in a single text, the complex history of that text in a concise form useful to diligent readers and scholars.

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Dakar

Dakar (Ndakaaru) is the capital and largest city of Senegal.

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Department for Education

The Department for Education (DfE) is a ministerial department of the Government of the United Kingdom.

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Derek Jarman

Michael Derek Elworthy Jarman (31 January 1942 – 19 February 1994) was an English artist, film maker, costume designer, stage designer, writer, poet, gardener, and gay rights activist.

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Direct method (education)

The direct method of teaching, which is sometimes called the natural method, and is often (but not exclusively) used in teaching foreign languages, refrains from using the learners' native language and uses only the target language.

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DK (publisher)

Dorling Kindersley Limited (branded as DK) is a British multinational publishing company specialising in illustrated reference books for adults and children in 63 languages.

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Doctorate

A doctorate (from Latin doctor, meaning "teacher") or doctoral degree is a postgraduate academic degree awarded by universities and some other educational institutions, derived from the ancient formalism licentia docendi ("licence to teach").

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Dramatis personae

Dramatis personae (Latin: 'persons of the drama') are the main characters in a dramatic work written in a list.

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E pluribus unum

E pluribus unum – Latin for "Out of many, one" (also translated as "One out of many" or "One from many") – is a traditional motto of the United States, appearing on the Great Seal along with Annuit cœptis (Latin for "he approves the undertaking") and Novus ordo seclorum (Latin for "New order of the ages") which appear on the reverse of the Great Seal; its inclusion on the seal was suggested by Pierre Eugene du Simitiere and approved in an act of the Congress of the Confederation in 1782.

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Ecclesiastical Latin

Ecclesiastical Latin, also called Church Latin or Liturgical Latin, is a form of Latin developed to discuss Christian thought in Late antiquity and used in Christian liturgy, theology, and church administration to the present day, especially in the Catholic Church. Contemporary Latin and Ecclesiastical Latin are forms of Latin and Latin language.

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Electronic music

Electronic music broadly is a group of music genres that employ electronic musical instruments, circuitry-based music technology and software, or general-purpose electronics (such as personal computers) in its creation.

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Elvis Presley

Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977), known mononymously as Elvis, was an American singer and actor.

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Empress Michiko

is a member of the Imperial House of Japan.

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Encaenia

Encaenia is an academic or sometimes ecclesiastical ceremony, usually performed at colleges or universities.

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Enel

Enel S.p.A. is an Italian multinational manufacturer and distributor of electricity and gas.

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Erasmus

Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus (English: Erasmus of Rotterdam or Erasmus; 28 October c.1466 – 12 July 1536) was a Dutch Christian humanist, Catholic theologian, educationalist, satirist, and philosopher.

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Erfurt

Erfurt is the capital and largest city of the Central German state of Thuringia.

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European integration

European integration is the process of industrial, economic, political, legal, social, and cultural integration of states wholly or partially in Europe, or nearby.

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European Union

The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe.

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Finland

Finland, officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe.

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Francesco Lepore

Francesco Lepore (pronounce: Léhporeh), born on May 9, 1976, is a former priest of the Diocese of Benevento and minor official in the Roman Curia who became a journalist and an LGBTQ activist after leaving the church.

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Francis William Newman

Francis William Newman (27 June 1805 – 4 October 1897) was an English classical scholar and moral philosopher, prolific miscellaneous writer and activist for vegetarianism and other causes.

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Free verse

Free verse is an open form of poetry which does not use a prescribed or regular meter or rhyme and tends to follow the rhythm of natural or irregular speech.

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Gaudeamus igitur

"De Brevitate Vitae" (Latin for "On the Shortness of Life"), more commonly known as "Gaudeamus igitur" ("So Let Us Rejoice") or just "Gaudeamus", is a popular academic commercium song in many European countries, mainly sung or performed at university graduation ceremonies.

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Gold

Gold is a chemical element; it has symbol Au (from the Latin word aurum) and atomic number 79.

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Grammar

In linguistics, a grammar is the set of rules for how a natural language is structured, as demonstrated by its speakers or writers.

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Great Seal of the United States

The Great Seal is the seal of the United States of America.

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Green Eggs and Ham

Green Eggs and Ham is a children's book by Dr. Seuss.

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Habeas corpus

Habeas corpus (from Medieval Latin) is a recourse in law by which a report can be made to a court in the events of unlawful detention or imprisonment, requesting that the court order the person's custodian (usually a prison official) to bring the prisoner to court, to determine whether their detention is lawful.

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Hans Ørberg

Hans Henning Ørberg (21 April 1920 – 17 February 2010) was a Danish linguist and teacher.

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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets is a fantasy novel written by British author J. K. Rowling and the second novel in the Harry Potter series.

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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone is a fantasy novel written by British author J. K. Rowling.

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Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Hebdomada Aenigmatum

Hebdomada Aenigmatum is the first magazine of crosswords in Latin.

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Henry Beard

Henry Nichols Beard (born June 7, 1945) is an American humorist, one of the founders of the magazine National Lampoon and the author of several best-selling books.

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Hip hop music

Hip hop or hip-hop, also known as rap and formerly as disco rap, is a genre of popular music that originated in the early 1970s from the African American community.

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History of the British penny (1901–1970)

The British penny (of a pound sterling), a large, pre-decimal coin which continued the series of pennies which began in about the year 700, was struck intermittently during the 20th century until its withdrawal from circulation after 1970.

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Holy See

The Holy See (url-status,; Santa Sede), also called the See of Rome, Petrine See or Apostolic See, is the jurisdiction of the pope in his role as the Bishop of Rome.

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How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

How the Grinch Stole Christmas! is a Christmas children's book by Theodor "Dr. Seuss" Geisel written in rhymed verse with illustrations by the author.

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Iberian Peninsula

The Iberian Peninsula (IPA), also known as Iberia, is a peninsula in south-western Europe, defining the westernmost edge of Eurasia.

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Igor Stravinsky

Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky (– 6 April 1971) was a Russian composer and conductor with French citizenship (from 1934) and American citizenship (from 1945).

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Interlingua

Interlingua is an international auxiliary language (IAL) developed between 1937 and 1951 by the American International Auxiliary Language Association (IALA).

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International auxiliary language

An international auxiliary language (sometimes acronymized as IAL or contracted as auxlang) is a language meant for communication between people from all different nations, who do not share a common first language.

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International scientific vocabulary

International scientific vocabulary (ISV) comprises scientific and specialized words whose language of origin may or may not be certain, but which are in current use in several modern languages (that is, translingually, whether in naturalized, loanword, or calque forms).

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Iron

Iron is a chemical element.

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Italic languages

The Italic languages form a branch of the Indo-European language family, whose earliest known members were spoken on the Italian Peninsula in the first millennium BC.

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Jan Novák (composer)

Jan Novák (8 April 1921, Nová Říše – 17 November 1984, Neu Ulm) was a Czech composer of classical music.

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Jean Capelle (politician)

Jean Capelle (16 March 1909 – 29 May 1983) was a French politician and advocate of Living Latin.

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Jean Cocteau

Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (5 July 1889 – 11 October 1963) was a French poet, playwright, novelist, designer, film director, visual artist and critic.

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Jean Daniélou

Jean-Guenolé-Marie Daniélou (14 May 1905 – 20 May 1974) was a French Jesuit and cardinal, an internationally well known patrologist, theologian and historian and a member of the Académie française.

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Jozef IJsewijn

Jozef A. M. K. IJsewijn (Zwijndrecht, 30 December 1932 – Leuven, 27 November 1998) was a Belgian Latinist.

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Jukka Ammondt

Jukka Ammondt is a Finnish literature professor who has recorded popular music, including songs of Elvis Presley, in Latin and Sumerian.

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Justice (band)

Justice is a French electronic music duo consisting of Gaspard Augé and Xavier de Rosnay.

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Karl Heinrich Ulrichs

Karl Heinrich Ulrichs (28 August 1825 – 14 July 1895) was a German lawyer, jurist, journalist, and writer who is regarded today as a pioneer of sexology and the modern gay rights movement.

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Koji Kondo

is a Japanese composer and pianist at the video game company Nintendo.

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La Stampa

(English: "The Press") is an Italian daily newspaper published in Turin with an average circulation of 87,143 copies in May 2023.

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Language education

Language education – the process and practice of teaching a second or foreign language – is primarily a branch of applied linguistics, but can be an interdisciplinary field.

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Language revitalization

Language revitalization, also referred to as language revival or reversing language shift, is an attempt to halt or reverse the decline of a language or to revive an extinct one. Contemporary Latin and language revitalization are language revival.

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Late Latin

Late Latin is the scholarly name for the form of Literary Latin of late antiquity. Contemporary Latin and late Latin are forms of Latin.

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Latin

Latin (lingua Latina,, or Latinum) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Contemporary Latin and Latin are forms of Latin and Latin language.

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Latin alphabet

The Latin alphabet, also known as the Roman alphabet, is the collection of letters originally used by the ancient Romans to write the Latin language.

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Latin for All Occasions

Latin for All Occasions (Lingua Latina Occasionibus Omnibus) is a 1990 book by Henry Beard, and Latin for Even More Occasions (Lingua Latina Multo Pluribus Occasionibus) is a 1991 sequel.

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Latin influence in English

Although English is a Germanic language, it has significant Latin influences.

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Latin Letters Office

The Latin Letters Office is a department of the Roman Curia's Secretariat of State of the Holy See in Vatican City. Contemporary Latin and Latin Letters Office are Latin language.

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Latino sine flexione

Latino sine flexione ("Latin without inflections"), Interlingua de Academia pro Interlingua (IL de ApI) or Peano's Interlingua (abbreviated as IL) is an international auxiliary language compiled by the Academia pro Interlingua under the chairmanship of the Italian mathematician Giuseppe Peano (1858–1932) from 1887 until 1914. Contemporary Latin and Latino sine flexione are forms of Latin.

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Latino-Faliscan languages

The Latino-Faliscan or Latinian languages form a group of the Italic languages within the Indo-European family.

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Libretto

A libretto (an English word derived from the Italian word libretto) is the text used in, or intended for, an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, oratorio, cantata or musical.

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Lingua franca

A lingua franca (for plurals see), also known as a bridge language, common language, trade language, auxiliary language, vehicular language, or link language, is a language systematically used to make communication possible between groups of people who do not share a native language or dialect, particularly when it is a third language that is distinct from both of the speakers' native languages.

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Linkiesta

Linkiesta is an independent Italian online newspaper of investigative journalism, in-depth analysis, and commentary.

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List of Latin legal terms

. DON'T DELETE ->. --> A number of Latin terms are used in legal terminology and legal maxims.

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List of Latin translations of modern literature

A number of Latin translations of modern literature have been made to bolster interest in the language.

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List of songs with Latin lyrics

This is a list of songs having lyrics in Latin.

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Liturgical use of Latin

Liturgical use of Latin is the practice of performing Christian liturgy in Ecclesiastical Latin, typically in the liturgical rites of the Latin Church. Contemporary Latin and liturgical use of Latin are Latin language.

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Luca Desiata

Luca Desiata (born December 10, 1971) is an Italian manager, Latinist and art curator.

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Medical prescription

A prescription, often abbreviated or Rx, is a formal communication from a physician or other registered healthcare professional to a pharmacist, authorizing them to dispense a specific prescription drug for a specific patient.

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Medieval Latin

Medieval Latin was the form of Literary Latin used in Roman Catholic Western Europe during the Middle Ages. Contemporary Latin and Medieval Latin are forms of Latin and Latin language.

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Mel Gibson

Mel Columcille Gerard Gibson (born January 3, 1956) is an American actor and film director.

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Michael von Albrecht

Michael von Albrecht (born 22 August 1933 in Stuttgart) is a German classical scholar and translator, as well as a poet writing in Latin.

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Minimus

The Minimus books are a series of school textbooks, written by Barbara Bell, illustrated by Helen Forte, and published by the Cambridge University Press, designed to help children of primary school age to learn Latin.

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Mnemosyne (journal)

Mnemosyne is an academic journal of classical studies published by Brill Publishers.

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Motto of the European Union

In varietate concordia (diversity) is the official motto of the European Union (EU), adopted in 2000.

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Mr. Bean

Mr.

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Nancy-Université

Nancy-Université was a French federal university which federated the three principal institutes of higher education in Nancy, Lorraine before their merger into the University of Lorraine.

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Neo-Latin

Neo-LatinSidwell, Keith Classical Latin-Medieval Latin-Neo Latin in; others, throughout. Contemporary Latin and Neo-Latin are forms of Latin, history of literature, Latin language and Latin-language literature.

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Neoclassical compound

Neoclassical compounds are compound words composed from combining forms (which act as affixes or stems) derived from classical languages (classical Latin or ancient Greek) roots. Contemporary Latin and Neoclassical compound are Latin language.

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Nomenclature codes

Nomenclature codes or codes of nomenclature are the various rulebooks that govern the naming of living organisms.

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Novus ordo seclorum

The phrase Novus ordo seclorum ("New order of the ages") is one of two Latin mottos on the reverse side of the Great Seal of the United States.

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Nuntii Latini

Nuntii Latini is the name of several news services that broadcast in Latin.

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Oedipus Rex

Oedipus Rex, also known by its Greek title, Oedipus Tyrannus (Οἰδίπους Τύραννος), or Oedipus the King, is an Athenian tragedy by Sophocles that was first performed.

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Oedipus rex (opera)

Oedipus rex is an opera-oratorio by Igor Stravinsky, scored for orchestra, speaker, soloists, and male chorus.

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Old Latin

Old Latin, also known as Early, Archaic or Priscan Latin (Classical lit), was the Latin language in the period roughly before 75 BC, i.e. before the age of Classical Latin. Contemporary Latin and Old Latin are forms of Latin.

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Olivia (fictional pig)

Olivia is a fictional pig character in a series of children's picture books written and illustrated by the late Ian Falconer, the first entry of which was published in 2000.

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Oratorio

An oratorio is a musical composition with dramatic or narrative text for choir, soloists and orchestra or other ensemble.

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Oxford Classical Texts

Oxford Classical Texts (OCT), or Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis, is a series of books published by Oxford University Press.

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Paul Valéry University Montpellier 3

Paul Valéry University of Montpellier (Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier III), also known as or UPVM (official acronym) or Montpellier III (UM3, until early 2015), is a French university in the Academy of Montpellier.

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Planetary nomenclature

Planetary nomenclature, like terrestrial nomenclature, is a system of uniquely identifying features on the surface of a planet or natural satellite so that the features can be easily located, described, and discussed.

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Pope Benedict XVI

Pope BenedictXVI (Benedictus PP.; Benedetto XVI; Benedikt XVI; born Joseph Alois Ratzinger; 16 April 1927 – 31 December 2022) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 19 April 2005 until his resignation on 28 February 2013.

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Pound sterling

Sterling (ISO code: GBP) is the currency of the United Kingdom and nine of its associated territories.

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Princeton University

Princeton University is a private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey.

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Proto-Indo-European language

Proto-Indo-European (PIE) is the reconstructed common ancestor of the Indo-European language family.

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Proto-Italic language

The Proto-Italic language is the ancestor of the Italic languages, most notably Latin and its descendants, the Romance languages.

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Radio Bremen

Radio Bremen, shortened to RB is Germany's smallest public radio and television broadcaster and the legally mandated broadcaster for the city-state Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (which includes Bremerhaven).

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Radiology

Radiology is the medical specialty that uses medical imaging to diagnose diseases and guide their treatment, within the bodies of humans and other animals.

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Reginald Foster (Latinist)

Reginald Thomas Foster (November 14, 1939 – December 25, 2020) was an American Catholic priest and friar of the Order of Discalced Carmelites.

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Renaissance Latin

Renaissance Latin is a name given to the distinctive form of Literary Latin style developed during the European Renaissance of the fourteenth to fifteenth centuries, particularly by the Renaissance humanism movement. Contemporary Latin and Renaissance Latin are forms of Latin, history of literature, Latin language and Latin-language literature.

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Robinson Crusoe

Robinson Crusoe is an English adventure novel by Daniel Defoe, first published on 25 April 1719.

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Roman numerals

Roman numerals are a numeral system that originated in ancient Rome and remained the usual way of writing numbers throughout Europe well into the Late Middle Ages.

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RTÉ News

RTÉ News and Current Affairs (Nuacht agus Cúrsaí Reatha RTÉ), also known simply as RTÉ News (Nuacht RTÉ), is the national news service provided by Irish public broadcaster italic (RTÉ).

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Saarland University

Saarland University (Universität des Saarlandes) is a public research university located in Saarbrücken, the capital of the German state of Saarland.

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Science

Science is a strict systematic discipline that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable hypotheses and predictions about the world.

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Sebastiane

Sebastiane is a 1976 Latin-language British historical film directed by Derek Jarman and Paul Humfress and written by Jarman, Humfress and James Whaley.

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Second Vatican Council

The Second Ecumenical Council of the Vatican, commonly known as the or, was the 21st and most recent ecumenical council of the Catholic Church.

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Selenography

Selenography is the study of the surface and physical features of the Moon (also known as geography of the Moon, or selenodesy).

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Sewanee: The University of the South

The University of the South, familiarly known as Sewanee, is a private Episcopal liberal arts college in Sewanee, Tennessee.

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Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is an 1886 Gothic horror novella by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson.

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Studium Angelopolitanum

Studium Angelopolitanum is a non-profit educational organization, based in Puebla, Mexico and focused on promoting study and appreciation of classical languages and literature.

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Super Smash Bros. Brawl

Super Smash Bros.

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Syntax

In linguistics, syntax is the study of how words and morphemes combine to form larger units such as phrases and sentences.

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Taxonomy (biology)

In biology, taxonomy is the scientific study of naming, defining (circumscribing) and classifying groups of biological organisms based on shared characteristics.

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Terence Tunberg

Terence Tunberg (born 1950) is a professor of Latin at the University of Kentucky, specialising in Neo-Latin studies, especially the use of Ciceronian language; and the use of spoken Latin as a teaching tool.

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The Adventures of Alix

Alix, or The Adventures of Alix, is a Franco-Belgian comics series drawn in the ligne claire style by Jacques Martin.

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The Black Island

The Black Island (L'Île noire) is the seventh volume of The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé.

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The Cat in the Hat

The Cat in the Hat is a 1957 children's book written and illustrated by American author Theodor Geisel, using the pen name Dr. Seuss.

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The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph, known online and elsewhere as The Telegraph, is a British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed in the United Kingdom and internationally.

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The Giving Tree

The Giving Tree is an American children's picture book written and illustrated by Shel Silverstein.

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The Hobbit

The Hobbit, or There and Back Again is a children's fantasy novel by the English author J. R. R. Tolkien.

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The House at Pooh Corner

The House at Pooh Corner is a 1928 children's book by A. A. Milne and illustrated by E. H. Shepard.

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The Legend of Zelda

is an action-adventure game franchise created by the Japanese game designers Shigeru Miyamoto and Takashi Tezuka.

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The Linguist

The Linguist (formerly The Incorporated Linguist) is the bimonthly journal of the UK's Chartered Institute of Linguists.

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The Little Prince

The Little Prince (Le Petit Prince) is a novella written and illustrated by French writer and military pilot Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.

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The Passion of the Christ

The Passion of the Christ is a 2004 American epic biblical drama film co-written, co-produced, and directed by Mel Gibson.

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The Story of Ferdinand

The Story of Ferdinand (1936) is the best-known work by the American author Munro Leaf.

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The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck

The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck is a book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter and first published by Frederick Warne & Co.

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The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher

The Tale of Mr.

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The Tale of Peter Rabbit

The Tale of Peter Rabbit is a children's book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter that follows mischievous and disobedient young Peter Rabbit as he gets into, and is chased around, the garden of Mr.

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The Times

The Times is a British daily national newspaper based in London.

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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a 1900 children's novel written by author L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W. W. Denslow.

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Theoretical Chemistry Accounts

Theoretical Chemistry Accounts: Theory, Computation, and Modeling is a peer-reviewed scientific journal publishing original (primary) research and review articles in theoretical chemistry, physical chemistry, quantum chemistry, and computational chemistry.

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Three Blind Mice

"Three Blind Mice" is an English nursery rhyme and musical round.

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Through the Looking-Glass

Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (also known as Alice Through the Looking-Glass or simply Through the Looking-Glass) is a novel published on 27 December 1871, although it is indicated that the novel was published in 1872 by Lewis Carroll, a mathematics lecturer at Christ Church, University of Oxford, and the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865).

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Traditional English pronunciation of Latin

The traditional English pronunciation of Latin, and Classical Greek words borrowed through Latin, is the way the Latin language was traditionally pronounced by speakers of English until the early 20th century. Contemporary Latin and traditional English pronunciation of Latin are forms of Latin.

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Treasure Island

Treasure Island (originally titled The Sea Cook: A Story for BoysHammond, J. R. 1984. "Treasure Island." In A Robert Louis Stevenson Companion, Palgrave Macmillan Literary Companions. London: Palgrave Macmillan..) is both an 1883 adventure novel and a historical novel set in the 1700s by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, telling a story of "buccaneers and buried gold".

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Tyne and Wear Metro

The Tyne and Wear Metro is an overground and underground light rail rapid transit system serving Newcastle upon Tyne, Gateshead, North Tyneside, South Tyneside, and the City of Sunderland (together forming Tyne and Wear).

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University of Cambridge

The University of Cambridge is a public collegiate research university in Cambridge, England.

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University of Kentucky

The University of Kentucky (UK, UKY, or U of K) is a public land-grant research university in Lexington, Kentucky.

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University of Oxford

The University of Oxford is a collegiate research university in Oxford, England.

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University of Salamanca

The University of Salamanca (Universidad de Salamanca) is a Spanish public research university, located in Salamanca, in the autonomous community of Castile and León.

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Vatican City

Vatican City, officially the Vatican City State (Stato della Città del Vaticano; Status Civitatis Vaticanae), is a landlocked sovereign country, city-state, microstate, and enclave within Rome, Italy.

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Victoria Cross (Canada)

The Victoria Cross (VC; Croix de Victoria) was created in 1993, perpetuating the lineage of the British Victoria Cross, while serving as the highest award within the Canadian honours system, taking precedence over all other orders, decorations, and medals.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contemporary_Latin

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