limitis. An etymology by Julius Pokorny in Indogermanisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch says that limes comes from Indo-European el-, elei-, lei-, "to bow", "to...
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Hermann Grapow (ed.): Wörterbuch der Aegyptischen Sprache. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1926–1961. Adolf Erman, Hermann Grapow: Das Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache...
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Count (redirect from Roman Count)
Etymology, C. W. Onions (Ed.), 1966, Oxford University Press Wahrig Deutsches Wörterbuch, 1972 edition, page 1564: < Ahd. gravo, gravio, wahrscheinl. < mlat. graphio...
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gens in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The gens (plural gentes) was a Roman family, of Italic or Etruscan origins, consisting of all those individuals...
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(1997:173). Simek (2007:363). Lindow (2001:78). August Fick, Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der Indogermanischen Sprachen Part 3 Wortschatz der Germanischen Spracheinheit...
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Janus (redirect from Janus (Roman religion))
Irish āth ,*yā-tu-s ford: cf. J Pokorny Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch I Berne-Munich 1959 p. 296 s. v. i̯ā and Thesaurus Linguae Latinae s....
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Castra (redirect from Roman forts)
In the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire, the Latin word castrum (pl.: castra) was a military-related term. In Latin usage, the singular form castrum...
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Viroconium Cornoviorum (redirect from Wroxeter Roman City)
Editions Errance. p. 273. ISBN 978-2-87772-483-8. Wodtko, Dagmar (2000). Wörterbuch der keltiberischen Inschriften: Monumenta Linguarum Hispanicarum, Band...
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A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic (redirect from Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart)
was an enlarged and revised English version of Wehr's German Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart ("Arabic dictionary for the contemporary...
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with each Roman tribe having an equal vote in the Tribal Assembly. Latin tribus perhaps derives from the Latin word for "three", trēs. The Romans believed...
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