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Questions regarding Latin since the year 1900
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How to describe the SE voting system in Latin?
I would like to express the following ideas in Latin, for the purpose of describing this site:
Through voting, the best answers rise to more visible positions at the top of the page.
You can vote on …
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Numbers in call signs
Various military vehicles have often call signs containing a numbers.
For a quick example, you can watch a little bit of this YouTube video.
I would like to know how to render such call signs in Latin …
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How to translate "Winter Bash"?
The Stack Exchange Christmas celebration is here: Winter Bash 2017.
If I were to discuss the event in Latin, what should I call it?
I mentioned it in Conloquium (or chat room) and I simply called it S …
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How to describe a gazette to stakeholders in Latin?
Suppose a university sends a periodic magazine or gazette out to alumni, companies, and other stakeholders.
What would be a good Latin word for this kind of a publication?
Would it be simply nuntii?
P …
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What to call a visa in Latin?
Is there an established Latin word for "visa", the kind of document you need to enter some countries?
The English word seems to come from the past participle of the Latin verb videre, and so does the …
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A word for form
What would be a good Latin word for "form"?
I mean the word in the sense it has in "To order our new Latin language product, please fill in this online form".
I was unable to find this sense of the wo …
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Are Latin feminine academic titles used in formal occasions?
Many universities use Latin in some ceremonial occasions.
Many academic titles in Latin are masculine but have natural feminine counterparts:
doctor–doctrix,
lector–lectrix,
professor–profestrix.
Are …
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Parsing "quod Deus optime vertat"
I want to understand a diploma text:
DIPLOMA
QVOD DEVS OPTIME VERTAT
EX LEGIBVS
VNIVERSITATIS JYVÄSKYLÄENSIS
ATQVE EX DECRETO
FACVLTATIS (…)
If I consider Diploma as a title a …
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Latin names of Cambridge terms
The academic year at the University Cambridge consists of three terms: Michaelmas, Lent and Easter.
For more details, consult the term date pages of the university.
What are these terms called in Lati …
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What are the decimal and grouping marks in modern Latin?
To write non-integer numbers in the decimal system (without fractions), one needs a decimal mark.
In English one uses the decimal point, but in many other languages one uses a comma instead.
Wikipedia …
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Times at the end of daylight saving
I had to wake up before 3 am this morning (on a Sunday!), and I had to worry about the start of daylight saving time.
(It always starts on the last Sunday of March in Europe. Other areas have other co …
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Flags flying at half-mast
A well-known mathematician passed away recently, and I happened to be in the Trinity College on the day after.
As any Cambridge college undoubtedly would, they mourned the loss of a fellow by flying f …
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What is a major subject in Latin
Simply, what is "major subject" in Latin?
By a major subject I mean the subject a university student mainly focuses on.
I have used the translation materia principalis, but I wonder if there is a more …
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What is "terror" in Latin?
If I have understood correctly, the English word "terror" roughly means various activities invoking fear, such as attacks on civilians, and "terrorism" is the use of terror for political purposes.
The …
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Quo modo dicitur "application"?
Qua voce Latina tradidi potest vox Anglica "application"?
Non de theoria adhibenda ago, sed de programmatis telephonulorum (sive telephonorum mobilium) vel computatrorum hac voce Anglica appellatis.
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