Citations:Latin

English citations of Latin

1948, L. E. Elliott-Binns, The Beginnings of Western Christendom, page 257
Africa was the natural leader because there the number of Christians who were of Roman origin and Latin speech was probably far greater than in so cosmopolitan a city as Rome.

1968, Mladen Bošnjak, A Study of Slavic Incunabula, page 62
The Croatian incunabula printed in Latin letters are indubitably the products of a very modest establishment.

2000, T. M. Charles-Edwards, Early Christian Ireland, page 176
The earliest Latin culture of Ireland was heavily indebted to that of Britain

1913, Oscar Browning, A General History of the World, page 151
From the Campagna and the Latin hills, the flame of rebellion spread to Antium and Terracina, and to the most remote allies of the Romans, the cities of the Campanian plains.

2002, Dean Foster, The Global Etiquette Guide to Mexico and Latin America, page 11
Therefore, although Portugal is a Latin culture, the significant African influence in Brazil creates a culture that cannot be defined simply as Latin; consequently, Brazilians prefer to define themselves as South American

2008, Michael Miller, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Music History, page 254
As such, today's Latin music is a synthesis of European, African, and the few indigenous elements that remain.

1901, John Hackett, A History of the Orthodox Church of Cyprus, page 117
The Latin bishop now took the Greek bishop by the hand and conducted him to his throne

1833, Philipp Buttmann (translated by Edward Robinson), A Greek grammar for the use of high schools and universities, page 23
This appears incontestably from the manner in which the Latins wrote Greek words and names

1933, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, 'All I Survey': a book of essays, page 148
No ; the test of the contrast between modern Latins and modern Teutons is exactly like the test of the contrast between modern Latins and ancient Latins.

1922, William Edmund Aughinbaugh, Advertising for trade in Latin-America, page 150
In the use of patent medicine the average Latin resembles the American of fifty years ago, who generally had a bottle of some concoction on which he depended whenever he felt out of sorts.

1853, William Palmer, Dissertations on Subjects Relating to the "Orthodox" or "Eastern-Catholic" Communion, page 118
The modern Latins have been in the habit of blaming the Greek and other Eastern Liturgies for not consecrating by the recital of OUR SAVIOUR'S words of Institution

2003, Natalie Harwood, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Learning Latin, 2nd illustrated edition, Penguin, →ISBN, page 13:
When the Christian Church rose in stature in the Dark Ages, its adoption of Latin as the official language assured its eternal life.
2005, Michael D. Fortescue, Historical linguistics 2003: selected papers from the 16th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Copenhagen, 11-15 August 2003, illustrated edition, John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 137:
Schøsler (2001) studies the expression of the category of definiteness (and the rise of the definite article) from Latin to Modern French, showing the evolutions along the sucessive synchronies of the same language (Classical Latin, Late Latin, Old French, Early Modern French, Modern French).
2010, Elizabeth Heimbach, A Roman Map Workbook, page 134
Like Copernicus and Galileo, Johannes Kepler was a renowned astronomer who wrote in Latin.