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Has anybody encountered this abbreviation/spelling before?
It should say Inas or Ina. Ina, whose name is referred to as Ine on Wikipedia (unclear if this is because of a modernisation of his weakly declined Old English name or because ancient sources are also ...
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Transcribing and translating the passage read by Thomas More in Wolf Hall
This is from the New Testament of the Bible, 2 Peter 2. Translation from the 1611 KJV:
But there were false prophets also among the people, euen as there shall bee false teachers among you, who ...
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What are the conventions for transcribing Semitic languages into Greek?
In the oldest stratum of loan words Semitic t and k are generally represented by τ and κ, while the emphatic stops ṭ and q are represented by θ and χ. Witness the names of the letters tau and theta. ...
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Does any Greek word have a geminate consonant after a long vowel?
There are quite a few, actually. Just to add some more examples:
ἥττων "less"
πράττω "do" (impv. πρᾶττε shows the length)
πλήττω "strike"
μᾶλλον "more"
ἤλλαγμαι, pf. m./p. of ἀλλάττω "exchange"
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Does any Greek word have a geminate consonant after a long vowel?
There is the word γλῶσσα and a great number of other words derived from it.
Here is a list of words containing -ωσσ-, giving more examples.
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Is the Abrahamic god ever named in Classical-era Latin or Greek?
The Wikipedia article on Tetragrammaton gives a long list of examples from Greek and Latin in early manuscripts and patristic writing. The overwhelming majority use "Lord", but a few use proper ...
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Transcription of 3 latin lines in Dutch medieval manuscript
As stated in the comment by @Draconis, the "h"- and "C"-like glyphs appear to be the planetary symbols ♄ and ☾. Since plumbo is spelled out in the text, it appears that these are ...
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How should I best present the title of this mathematical work written in Latin?
Being trained in physics and mathematics, I enjoy seeing questions on these topics here!
Indeed, Latin has various spelling conventions regarding U and V.
I am not sure how well search engines cope ...
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Trouble transcribing a line of Latin from Codex Claromontanus
That's not a C, but a G:
relicto igitur initii Chr[is]t[i] verbum
This Latin is not the Vulgate at all, but a separate Latin translation made prior to it part of what's collectively known as the ...
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More on the 'honorificabilitudinitatibus' citation
As a supplement to the above answer, here is a full transcription and translation of the dictionary entry:
Haec honorificabilitas -tatis, et haec honorificabilitudinitas -tatis:
Et haec est ...
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What are the Latin lyrics to Ringo Starr's "Pax Um Biscum (Peace Be With You)"
The lyrics seem to be a corruption of:
Pax Vobiscum
This means, "Peace be with you." The subsequent lyrics of the song confirm this.
Though this particular phrase doesn't occur in the ...
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Transcribing Latin with or without ligatures -- is there an agreed convention
In this context, I would transcribe "Maria + contraction mark" as "Mariae" or "Mariae̲" and include a note explaining that your transcription expands contractions and ...
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Request to convert name into Latin
fdb has already given an excellent translation, but I'll take a different angle. Imagine you went back in time to the forum in Ancient Rome (somewhere in the Classical period) and shouted your name at ...
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Request to convert name into Latin
It is already in “Latin characters”, but perhaps you are asking for a Latin translation of your name? ʻUmar is a primary personal name in Arabic, without a transparent etymology, so perhaps it is best ...
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More on the 'honorificabilitudinitatibus' citation
I think there is only one hexameter verse:
Fulget hon/orifi/cabili/tudini/tatibus / iste.
This contains a word even longer than the headword.
It would not scan right without the addition of the ...
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What are the conventions for transcribing Semitic languages into Latin?
The vast majority of Semitic words transcribed in Latin come directly from Punic; Krahmalkov provides a summary of the conventions in his Phoenician-Punic Grammar.
g, d, l, m, n, r were transcribed ...
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Help with paleography in a 16th century grant
Thanks for your interesting question.
I think the key is the sequence ..ptonesh.. which suggests Northamptonshire to me.
et Joh.is Norgate de Naptoneshir
If that doesn't seem likely, Du CANGE, ...
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Is the Abrahamic god ever named in Classical-era Latin or Greek?
The oldest Greek transcription I've found is from Diodorus of Sicily (The Library of History I.94.2):
παρὰ δὲ τοῖς Ἰουδαίοις Μωυσῆν τὸν Ἰαὼ ἐπικαλούμενον θεόν
Among the Jews, Moses [attributed his ...
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Translating words in a Manorial Court Roll of 1699
Partial answer (to question 1:) blushing because of my schoolgirl error.
iujuslibet turns up in a lot of Latin documents online. However, looking for it in a dictionary requires it to be typed in as ...
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Translating words in a Manorial Court Roll of 1699
And an answer to question 2:
cepit extra manus D[omi]ni extradico[?]ne Senesca[lli?] pred[icti?]
The problem phrase is 'ex tradicione' (2 words not one) and in this context means 'by grant', so in ...
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Encoding abbreviated 'quod' in Unicode
Recently the needed glyph has became available in the JuniusX font as a stylistic variant of U+0111 LATIN SMALL LETTER D WITH STROKE (cv06). As the text in question does not contain U+0111 in its ...
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Encoding abbreviated 'quod' in Unicode
I think you're asking for a Unicode glyph to represent the flourished d in the abbreviation.
The Unicode standard doesn't have one.
However, you might be able to approximate with Latin Small Letter D ...
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