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Example sentences for: latin
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Transformed by the Romans into the Latin alphabet, it has since become the most widely used writing system ever in the history of mankind.
Surname was indeed an adaptation of French surnom , but the Normans called it that because in Latin it was a super nomen , an `extra name.
Would Mellinkoff banish such useful words as heretofore, theretofore, hereto, and therefor ? Would we abandon the subjunctive mood, adverbs, Latin idioms, bon mots, and the like?
Any more pedantic suggestion being absent, I take the bit between the teeth to suggest that the above word, characterized by the OED as an “onomatopoeic representation of unmeaning chatter,” may well be a jocular rendering of Latin Flebiliter gemens , itself an almost facetious lament meaning something like `Woe is me!
It is derived from the Latin verb clausere , meaning "to close," which also gives us the enclosed architectural space cloister , the enclosed syntactical space clause , and the fear of enclosed space altogether, claustrophobia .
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