Book Description
Describes the origins and history of words adopted from Latin and discusses ancient and modern usage.
Author : Alexander Humez
Publisher : David R Godine Pub
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 37,16 MB
Release : 1987-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780879236649
Describes the origins and history of words adopted from Latin and discusses ancient and modern usage.
Author : Alexander Humez
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 18,33 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781567921007
This is a book about the Roman alphabet and the people who used it as a medium for the transmission of their civilization. Primarily, this means the Romans and their Italic subjects, speakers of Latin who disseminated the language, and the culture of which it was an expression, throughout Europe and the coasts of the Mediterranean Sea. As speakers, readers, and writers of English, we are greatly indebted to the long line of purveyors of Latin in its various forms. When words are borrowed, concepts come with them. So, if we have borrowed a wide variety of Latin words, it follows that we have also borrowed a great deal of the cultural stuff that they encase. This book takes a look at what the authors consider to be some of the more intriguing cultural/linguistic goodies that have crept willy-nilly into the English language over the ages from the Latin cornucopia. - Preamble.
Author : Alexander Humez
Publisher :
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 24,9 MB
Release : 1985
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Author : Grosset & Dunlap
Publisher :
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 35,69 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0448482150
Learn the alphabet with the use of animals, toys, vehicles, and more.
Author : Amos Ives Root
Publisher :
Page : 874 pages
File Size : 18,11 MB
Release : 1919
Category : Bee culture
ISBN :
Author : Frederick John MELVILLE
Publisher :
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 15,42 MB
Release : 1903
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Author : H. G. Hastings-Duffield
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 46,97 MB
Release : 2017-04-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1543412351
It is a miscellany of commentaries on absurdities prevalent in American societysuch as sleazy television fare, fraudulent and inaccurate language, Christian values, and the justice system. The author means to edify readers with his criticism in an attempt to make American society more sophisticated.
Author : Nicholas Sergeyevitch Timasheff
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 16,19 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780765807298
"A continuing thread in Introduction is Timasheff's interest in the dialectical interplay between the positive law and the living law. What is more, he discusses at length what he considers to be the essential systems of thought and action in the social sciences. Timasheff sees sociology's purpose as the study of similar, related, or clusters of social phenomena. Accordingly, Timasheff's focus is principally on the law's causal reality."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Kim Anne Bellefontaine
Publisher : Kids Can Press Ltd
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 50,9 MB
Release : 2004-01-03
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1554539579
An alphabet book of American places and things.
Author : Theodore Gray
Publisher : Black Dog & Leventhal
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 23,96 MB
Release : 2019-09-10
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0762496452
A delightful new Elements board book that teaches baby, age 0-3, all about the ABCs and the elements of the periodic table at the same time. With baby-friendly text and big, bright colorful photographs! ABC ELEMENTS features 26 elements that represent each of the letters of the alphabet-A for Aluminum, B for Bismuth, C for Copper etc. Each letter of the alphabet will be illustrated with a big, beautiful photograph of the element from Theodore Gray's famous photographic element collection.