Re the Sept. 27 letter, “War, abortion different issues”: The author said that fetus in Latin means “unborn child.” You cannot use this definition to support [the anti-abortion] cause, because at the ...

The final part of an epic dictionary of medieval Latin is to be published this week, bringing to a close a project initiated 100 years ago. The Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources has ...

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It's called the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. And it's considered "the most authoritative dictionary of ancient Latin." Researchers in Germany have spent the last 125 years working on the project. By ...

Scrolling through social media recently, you may have come across the viral claim that the word “homework” spelled backward translates to “child abuse” in Latin. This claim has been everywhere lately, ...

The final part of an epic dictionary of medieval Latin is to be published this week, bringing to a close a project initiated 100 years ago. The Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources has ...