The Carmina Burana of Carl Orff. The poems presented here are those which have been set to music by the German composer Carl Orff (1895-1982). They form only a small part of the whole Carmina Burana, the name applied to a large collection of medieval poems which survive in a late medieval manuscript found in the early nineteenth century in
Yahweh: Yahweh, the god of the Israelites, whose name was revealed to Moses as four Hebrew consonants (YHWH) called the tetragrammaton. After the Babylonian Exile (6th century bce), and especially from the 3rd century bce on, Jews ceased to use the name Yahweh for two reasons.
DEPONENT VERBS There is a group of verbs in Latin which have passive forms but active meanings. They are called deponent verbs because they have “laid aside” (dëpönö, -ere) their passive
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According to Terence Tunberg, “The study of Latin, traditionally, can be a dreary business.” He and his wife, Jennifer, would know. Both teach Latin at the University of Kentucky, where they work for the department of classics and literature.
Links: More Pig Latin information than you ever wanted to know about. The Internet (World Wide Web, et al.) is becoming and/or has …
Latin translations of the 12th century were spurred by a major search by European scholars for new learning unavailable in western Europe at the time; their search led them to areas of southern Europe, particularly in central Spain and Sicily, which recently had come under Christian rule following their reconquest in the late 11th century.
The Vulgate (/ ˈ v ʌ l ɡ eɪ t, – ɡ ə t /) is a late-4th-century Latin translation of the Bible that became the Catholic Church’s officially promulgated Latin version of …
*Irish names were often “translated” into English with names that had no etymological connection, but which sounded similar or had similar meanings.
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