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Reimagining the logical gates in Latin
As far as I know, the names, especially the abbreviated ones you list, are always in English whether or not the surrounding text is in English.
Technical abbreviations like this tend to be universal, ...
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Would "motor oil" (such as in a car engine) be "oleum" or "unguentum" or something else?
Rock oils, now called by the modern Greek-Latin word, petroleum, were in ancient times called bitumen by the Romans:
Babylone lacus amplissima magnitudine, qui limne asphaltitis appellatur, habet ...
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Are there well-assimilated Latin words from Semitic languages?
To add other possibilities according to Wiktionary (filtering those words that convincingly pass through Ancient Greek):
ferrum: [possible Phoenician and maybe through Etruscan]
genius: [from Proto-...
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Are there well-assimilated Latin words from Semitic languages?
Some more probable direct Phoenician/Punic loanwords:
sūfes 'suffete' (a Carthaginian magistrate) from 𐤔𐤐𐤈 špṭ 'judge'. Compare Hebrew שׁוֹפֵט šōp̄ēṭ 'judge' (as in the Book of Judges), also a ...
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How would you ask "Which courses do you have this semester?" in Latin? Specifically, which word would you use for "course"?
I would use schola or lectio, or perhaps auditio. Typical expressions are in scholam ire, scholam obire or scholae interesse.
Therefore a possible translation would be: Quas scholas hoc semestri ...
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How would you say "to see things from up above" in Latin?
The adverb you are looking for is desuper (or, much more rarely, desursum).
Here's a close parallel from the Aeneid:
Aetheria tum forte plaga crinitus Apollo
desuper Ausonias acies urbemque uidebat
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