#latin

[thoodleoo]

man the whiplash you get from teaching advanced latin grammar to middle school students...one second you'll overhear one of them saying "you need to stop being so sus and start being skibidi" and the next they'll be explaining the sequence of tenses for participles to a classmate who has a question

[yvanspijk]

Duke, -duce, Herzog & ziehen

Duke comes from the Latin word dux (leader). It's related to the verb dūcere (to lead; pull), whence English -duce, for example in to seduce (whose original Latin meaning was 'to lead astray').

The second part of German Herzog (duke) is cognate to dux. This part, -zog, is related to the German verb ziehen (to pull), cognate of dūcere.

Old English had cognates of both words. Its counterpart of Herzog was heretoga (army leader). In Middle English it became heretowe, which would've become modern *hartow. The Old English cognate of ziehen was tēon. This verb would've become *to tee if it had continued to exist. See the infographic for information about its past tense and past participle.

[analogvideostore]

Brazilian videostore/gamestore

[thisisrealy2kok]

Ariola - StarMix (1999)

[upennmanuscripts]

A #CoffeeWithACodex highlight reel from February featuring Ms. Codex 723, a 12th century collection of canon law texts with colored initials and some interesting terrain. For the full 30-minute version, go to YouTube:

[blvvdk3ep]

I love you people going into "useless" fields I love you classics majors I love you cultural studies majors I love you comparative literature majors I love you film studies majors I love you near eastern religions majors I love you Greek, Latin, and Hebrew majors I love you ethnic studies I love you people going into any and all small field that isn't considered lucrative in our rotting capitalist society please never stop keeping the sacred flame of knowledge for the sake of knowledge and understanding humanity and not merely for the sake of money alive

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Rafael Romero Barros (Spanish, 1832-1895) Still life with oranges, 1863

[volumina-vetustiora]

what the fuck

saxo cere comminuit brum

what the actual fuck

[apas-95]

[livousart]

brazilian beaches: stairs

[nation-of-bros]

Damn, those dark almond eyes are irresistible.

[candela888]

Countries where cheek kissing is a common way of greeting people

Number of cheek kisses when greeting somebody in the Americas and Europe

[thoodleoo]

been reading cicero's rant about words being given obscene meanings and i don't think i've ever seen a latin sentence that made me burst into such immediate and violent laughter before

[joytri]

boarding school aesthetic