You know how crazy I am about Latin. “No matter how confounding the case, Sherlock Holmes always finds the quaesitum.” Without looking up the meaning, just from context, which is what the SAT vocabulary section is all about now, can you guess what quaesitum means? A) meeting B) required C) inquiry D) clue. D is wrong.
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Linkin Park is an American rock band from Agoura Hills, CA. You might need to listen several times, as I did, but the video is more proof that Latin is alive, at least on YouTube and Patreon and in my world and a former student’s world.
Agoura comes from the Latin verb augurāre, which leads to the English verb, “to augur”, meaning “to predict or indicate”. Cambridge Dictionary: “The company’s sales figures for the first six months augur well for the rest of the year.” The root of the English word “nascent” (adjective meaning come into existence and beginning to develop) is the same root for “Renaissance” (noun meaning rebirth). The root is nascens, the present participle of the Latin verb nasci, which means “to be born.” Related words are nation, native, nature, and innate.
Roots sink deeper. Dies Natalis Solis Invicti, translated as, “Birth of the Invincible Sun,” celebrated the birth of the Sun in Imperium Romanum prior to the coming of Catholicism, and with its coming, the celebration neatly switched to “Birth of the Invincible Son.” The word itself, natalis, meaning “of the birth,” changed over time as Latin split into different languages. Latin is Nativitatis, Spanish is Natividad, and English is Nativity. Christus natus est is the Christmas refrain. Christmas is an English contraction of “Christ and Mass.” Polymath Luke Ranieri has many Patreon supporters, and his source list is long. In this video Luke explains the development of the two pronunciation systems, and most surprising is what he says about collaborators Alcuin of York and Charlemagne. If I read Latin out loud, it will have an American accent. I like that sound, of course.
This is an excerpt from the Sequence for today. I left out 2+ pages to make reading the Latin easier. Be flexible as you read, reordering words, as English word order differs. Because the Latin rhymes, the translators made the English rhyme. Not easy. From corpus we get corpus delicti, a common law Latin phrase that translates to “body of the crime.” The phrase generally refers to the principle that no one should be convicted of a crime without sufficient evidence that the crime occurred. The singular nominative masculine of delicti, meaning offenses, is delictus, and the perfect passive participle is delinquo, meaning failed, from which we get delinquent. Alexander has revised my duties. I am his amanuensis, slave with secretarial duties, accent on the fourth syllable. He dictated his expository essay, and I scribbled as fast as I could. From Latin āmanuēnsis (“secretary”), from ab- (“from, of”) + manus (“hand”) + -ensis (“of or from a place”). Definite backward progression!
Dives is a Latin name meaning “rich man.”
We spell Mardocheus as Mordecai. Robert is referring to the Book of Esther. If read, the citation below spades a clump of Old Testament literary forms. I shocked a Catholic by mentioning literary forms. “No, it’s the word of God.” Be smarter. “Although the Book of Esther was questioned by some early Christians, even St. Jerome, the whole book, including the Greek additions, was included in the canon of Scripture by the Council of Trent.” https://bible.usccb.org/bible/esther/0 Tourbillon
Part of speech noun; origin French, 15th century; definition 1. Any part of a machine with a spiral movement, or 2. A whirlwind. Turbine Part of speech noun; origin French, attested 1838; definition “waterwheel driven by the impact or reaction of a flowing stream of water.” Turbō Part of speech noun; origin Latin; definition “spinning top, eddy, whirlwind, that which whirls.” Originally applied to a wheel spinning on a vertical axis driven by falling water, later of mechanisms driven by the flow of air, and still later, “turbo” in reference to gas turbine engines is attested from 1904. There’s the Fibonacci spiral again. Noun zephirum
Leonardo is famous for the Fibonacci Sequence, which is pictured in geometric form above and in arithmetic form below. 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55 … The next number is found by adding up the two numbers before it. Word Sense Dictionary, Math is Fun, Wikipedia, and Quora helped me affix Latin to English to math, my favorite subjects. What comes next is unbelievable. Add asongscout of YouTube and Patreon.
Corpus omne perseverare in statu suo quiescendi vel movendi uniformiter in directum, nisi quatenus a viribus impressis cogitur statum illum mutare. “Every body preserves its state of rest or uniform movement in a straight line unless forced to change that state by forces impressed upon it.” Isaac Newton (b. 1643, d. 1727) Before 1700, scientific publications were primarily written in Latin. In 1687, Sir Isaac Newton wrote his book Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, explaining the laws of motion and gravity, in Latin. Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica Title page of Principia, first edition (1687) Author Sir Isaac Newton Publication date 1687 (1st ed.) Published in English 1728 LC Class QA803 .A53 The first English translation appeared the year after he died. Does that mean everyone was reading Latin? At King Edward VI Grammar School, Shakespeare (d. 1616) learned to read Latin, and his familiarity with the drama of Plautus appears in The Comedy of Errors, which shows that Shakespeare could read it when he wanted to. There is no evidence to suggest he could read Greek. Photo: Painting by Godfrey Kneller, via Wikimedia Commons//Getty Images
A chicken walks into a library clucking, “Book book book.”
He walks over to the main desk, looks up, and says, “Book book book.” After a bit of confusion, the librarian gives him a few books. The chicken quietly takes them and walks out. The next day, the chicken comes back. He places the books the librarian had given him on the desk and says, “Book book book.” The librarian gives him three new books, and the chicken walks out. This goes on for a week. Every day, the chicken comes in, returns the previous day’s books, and gets three new ones. “Book book book” is all he ever says. Eventually, the librarian can’t contain his curiosity and decides to follow the chicken. He keeps his distance as the chicken, carrying that day’s books, walks into the woods toward a local swamp. The chicken reaches the swamp and finds a frog sitting on a lily pad. He holds up the books for the frog to see and says, “Book book book!” The frog turns away, shakes his head, and says, “Reddit. Reddit. Reddit.” Courtesy of ESG on reddit.com What does the Latin word reddere mean? It is a verb meaning, “to pay back or render.” The verb in its different conjugations appears in the 1962 Latin/English Missal. From a contributor on reddit.com: “Also, there are some unintentional but interesting Latin meanings to the word. It turns out, the Latin meaning is ‘to submit for consideration or approval,’ as if it were typed on proverbial stone ages ago.” Mητέρα Greek Θεόςτόκε English Mother of God Latin Dei Genitrix Mother’s Day Here are some Latin words from the 1962 Missal, p 576. I could have taken words from the Epistle or Gospel for the Fifth Sunday of Easter (today), but the prayer is short, and looking at the Latin just once is enough. bona – good (bonus)
procedunt – come (proceed) largire – generously (largess) suplicibus – beseech (supplicate) cogitemus – think (cogitate) inspirante – inspiration (inspiration) gubernante – guidance (governance) Here is harmony within a single Latin word (in another place, same day): quidquam (short i, long a, Romance languages) – anything Mach 1 = 767.269 mph/767.269 mph. The Mach number is the ratio of the speed of the aircraft to the speed of sound. Any number over itself is equal to one.
An airplane flying at less than Mach 1 is traveling at subsonic speeds; at about Mach 1, or transonic, it is at the speed of sound; and greater than Mach 1 is supersonic. The root of the English word is sonus [Latin for sound]. The prefixes are sub [under], trans [across], and super [beyond]. Watch for the figure that appears in the center of the painting. I saw it on the third or fourth viewing. Aliquis Advenit annota Audi ipsum Sollicite Statum tuo nomine voluntate tua Scitis enim sumus hostibus vestris Percutiat te interficiemus Te et domum amicos tuos populi tui Nos sumus in hoc imperium et planeta Vos habere amisit potestatem Aureae magni imperii nunquam Superari parvam armatae What is the origin of the term conservative?
Conservatism is a political position that emphasizes tradition and relies primarily on the individual to maintain society. The term was first used by François-René de Chateaubriand in 1818 during the Bourbon Restoration. Conservatives sought to reverse the policies of the French Revolution. The Latin word for conservative is optimatium, from optimum, incomparable, the best or most advantageous, surpassing all others. synonyms: best, ideal, optimal Click on ideal and you will be taken to math concepts by Wiktionary. A new Latin Mass website is live, giving locations and the number of locations worldwide for FSSP 77, SSPX 163, ICKSP 29, Diocesan 348, College 14, and Other 56, and answers to frequently asked questions. I attend an FSSP church, St. Stephen the First Martyr, Sacramento, CA, USA. You are welcome to join me for any one of six Latin Masses on Sunday and get started. There are three Masses every day, Monday through Saturday. https://www.latinmass.com/
Plenilune is a noun meaning “full moon”.
It derives from Latin plenitas “fullness”, from plenus “complete, full”, and luna “moon”. Think of the English word, “plenty”. A little girl at St. Stephen is named Luna. She has plenty of freckles. Like Tolkien, Alexander, nine, my writing boy, likes to invent words. Next time we meet I’m gonna give him this one, “You’re pleniloony.” Here are the actual words of consecration from the 1962 Latin/English Missal. I provide them for people who have never seen or heard the words in English or Latin.
I’m not doing all the work. Do the Latin (tiny bit of Greek) and identify the works of art. I’ll give you a hoist.
Parca is a verb meaning spare. These words always confused me: audi “hear”, exaudi “graciously hear” hmm From ralspaugh.wordpress.com, I got this – “To get the sense, compare with specto and exspecto. Specto is simply to look, while exspecto means to be on the lookout, to scan the horizon like a sentry for the anticipated arrival of a thing—hence, mundanely, to await. “Exaudio is the same thing but with listening, like when the fainting damsel in the horror movie is hiding in the dark house listening for sounds of the intruder. “Colloquially we might say. ‘Listen up, what I say next is important!’ or something like that. That’s the kind of attentive listening we are asking of God, not just that He happen to hear our prayers.” That was good. Stunning example of lexeme (word) beauty, quaquaversal is an adjective and comes from Latin quaqua versus meaning “turned wheresoever”.
“Instead of painting in a straight line, try for quaquaversal coverage.” “The geological survey marked the quaquaversal ridge as the highest point.” “I designed a quaquaversal pattern for the macramé wall hanging.” word of the day Quaquaversal - dipping from a center toward all points of a compass. Dana Gervais designed this pattern with self-striping and self-patterning yarn in mind. This sock starts with the heel and creates a hub from which the yarn spreads in different directions. The sock uses a unique combination of cuff-down and toe-up sock techniques, pattern for sale on Amazon. The Latin word for water is aqua. Is aqua quaquaversal? Thinking of a whirlpool.
Universe comes from the Latin uni- ‘one’ + versus ‘turned’. It might be hyperbolic to say, but Latin is the bright, dividing line between ignorance of Western Civilization and appreciating it. There are 24 easy letters in the Latin alphabet: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, V, X, Y, and Z. J is missing. U is represented by V, but the translator has kindly given us back the U. State of the Union Address
President Barak Obama January 13, 2016 … Our troops are the finest fighting force in the history of the world. (Applause.) No nation attacks us directly, or our allies, because they know that’s the path to ruin. Surveys show our standing around the world is higher than when I was elected to this office, and when it comes to every important international issue, people of the world do not look to Beijing or Moscow to lead -- they call us. (Applause.) … That was then. What about now? How can one say that liberty is defended? Something else is going on. “…[Q]uasi líberi, et non quasi velámen habéntes malítiæ libertátem ….” “As free, and not as making liberty a cloak for malice ….” Excerpt Epistle 1 Pet. 2. Sir, with regard to America’s position in the world and defending freedom, your party wears a cloak for malice. Your party is far and away from pugilism for freedom’s sake, and malice takes the shape of censorship and deplatforming. in the year of Our Lord, the third of April, 33 What languages did Jesus speak? We know He spoke Hebrew because He taught the Pharisees in the Temple at age 12. Aramaic was a local dialect, and He spoke that. Greek, the language of commerce and the dominant tongue after Alexander the Great conquered the entire area, Jesus spoke.
What languages did Pontius Pilate speak? He was born in Abruzzo. His native tongue and main language was Latin, dominant in the Western Roman Empire. Could he speak Greek? Yes, but Jesus would have spoken to him in Latin, the language Pilate was most comfortable speaking. |
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