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    Etymologiae (Latin for 'Etymologies'), also known as the Origines ('Origins'), usually abbreviated Orig., is an etymological encyclopedia compiled by...
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    Isidore of Seville (c. 560–636) in his De Natura Rerum and later his Etymologiae (c. 625) A later manuscript added the names of Noah's sons (Sem, Iafeth...
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    Councils of Toledo and Seville. His fame after his death was based on his Etymologiae, an etymological encyclopedia that assembled extracts of many books from...
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    Christian writer to try to compile a summa of universal knowledge, the Etymologiae (c. 600–625), also known by classicists as the Origines (abbreviated...
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    animals (Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae, Book XII, i, 1–2) Folio 5 verso : Animal (Animal) (Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae, Book XII, i, 3) Folio 5 verso :...
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    Isidore of Seville wrote his noted encyclopedic-historical treatise titled Etymologiae, in which he traces the origins of most of the European peoples back...
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    Sanomat. 11 September 2022. (in Finnish). de Smit, Merlijn. "De Vanitate Etymologiae. On the origins of Suomi, Häme, Sápmi". Academia.edu. Academia, Inc....
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    This T and O map, from the first printed version of Isidore's Etymologiae (Augsburg, 1472), identifies the three known continents (Asia, Europe and Africa)...
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    of the Jews and De bello iudaico, Isidore of Seville's encyclopedia Etymologiae, the chronicle of Cosmas of Prague (Chronica Boemorum), and medical works:...
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    December 13, 2010. Retrieved December 3, 2010. Isidore, Etymologiae, XIV.v.17. Isidore, Etymologiae, IX.ii.133. Fontaine, Jacques (1960). Isidore de Seville:...
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    Agis. The actual transition may be captured by Isidore of Seville's Etymologiae (7th century AD), an etymological dictionary. Isidore relied heavily...
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  • brains of dragons. The association is likely derived from the 7th-century Etymologiae of Isidore of Seville. In Chile some say it moves like a firefly in the...
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  • The Etymologies (Tolkien), a 1930s word-list for his Elvish languages Etymologiae, also called The Etymologies, written by Isidore of Seville, c. 625 AD...
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    his slough...". Isidore of Seville wrote in the 7th century AD in his Etymologiae Book 12, 4:19, that "The scitalis (scytale) has a skin that shines with...
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  • insecurely based on fancied resemblances in sounds. Isidore of Seville's Etymologiae was an encyclopedic tracing of "first things" that remained uncritically...
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    Retrieved 24 January 2024. Isidore of Seville (July 2006) [625 AD]. Etymologiae [Etymologies] (in Latin). Cambridge University Press. pp. XVIII.52, XV...
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    of mythologized human beings received a long-lasting boost from the Etymologiae by Isidore of Seville (c. 560–636): They [the Greeks] imagine that "there...
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    of the strix survived into the Middle Ages, as recorded in Isidore's Etymologiae. In the 7th–8th century John of Damascus equated the stiriges (Greek...
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  • of the history of words. Etymology or etymologies may also refer to: Etymologiae, a 7th century encyclopedia compiled by Isidore of Seville The Etymologies...
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  • the 10th century, found in a Latin manuscript of Isidore of Seville's Etymologiae from 976 and the Gerbertian abacus, into the 12th and 13th centuries...
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    (Rowman & Littlefield, 2001), p. 8. Celia E. Schultz, Women's religious activity in the Roman Republic pp. 82–88. Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae 6.19.36....
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    gentis auctorem, the originator or founder of the Roman people as a gens (Etymologiae 5.33.5). The scene in which Ares and Aphrodite are entrapped by Hephaestus'...
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    grammars and florilegia, and encyclopedias, such as Isidore of Seville's Etymologiae (seventh century) and Hrabanus Maurus's De universo (ninth century),...
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  • monastic copyists. Isidore of Seville, in his seventh century encyclopedia, Etymologiae, described their use of the Greek diplé (a chevron): The double quotation...
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  • Slavs, the Franks, the Alamanni and the Goths. Book IX of Isidore's Etymologiae (7th century) treats de linguis, gentibus, regnis, militia, civibus (concerning...
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    This T and O map, from the first printed version of Isidore's Etymologiae (Augsburg 1472), identifies the three known continents (Asia, Europe and Africa)...
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    widespread by the early medieval period. It is referenced in Isidore's Etymologiae (7th century). The plainsong hymn Ave Maris Stella ("Hail, Star of the...
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    gentis auctorem, the originator or founder of the Roman people as a gens (Etymologiae 5.33.5). The classical Latin declension of the name is as follows: nominative...
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    Deus Homo 12. Isidore of Seville* 560 636 1722 Archbishop of Seville Etymologiae, On the Catholic Faith against the Jews 13. Peter Chrysologus* 406 450...
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  • multitude stemming from one origin") which continues in the original Etymologiae IX.2.i) "sive ab Alia national Secundum program collection distinct ("or...
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