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...Latin ‘Navis’, which means ship. And really in a way we are the ship, we’re the first church of the diocese to offer guidance and to steer people through the waters of the church. Everybody has an uninterrupted view of what goes on in the altar. During mass, everybody can see what the priest is doing. I think most people’s eye would be drawn to the cross, which is...

...Latin version of ‘voice of the people’. We often hear it in its abbreviated form, ‘vox pop’ – a broadcasting term used to refer to interviews with the general public, or the ‘man/woman in the street’. Both these phrases, like sentence (b) in the previous activity, attribute a single voice to a group of people; although ‘vox pop’ interviews present us...

...Latin for ‘in the year of our Lord’), and you may find that the authors of other things you read on the topics discussed here use instead BC and AD instead of BCE and CE. Remember that BCE years count backwards – therefore the eighth century BCE is earlier than the seventh century BCE...Exploring ancient Greek religion: 1.1 Sacred places and the Greek gods - Now...

...Latin name "Ædes Christi," which means, literally translated, the House of Christ. There he won great distinction as a scholar of mathematics, and wrote many abstruse and learned books, very different from "Alice in Wonderland." There is a tale that when the Queen had read "Alice in Wonderland" she was so pleased that she asked for more books by the same author. Lewis...

...Latin classics, believing them to contain the lessons individuals needed to lead a moral and purposeful life. From this “rebirth” or “renaissance” of the ancient classical world, humanists developed a new, disciplined classical scholarship. In antiquity these disciplines were called “artes liberales” or”liberal arts”. These were considered to provide the...

...Latin words translate as ‘the oracles of the holy scripture’ and refer to using the Bible as a kind of fortune-telling device or as a way to solve problems; opening it and alighting on a verse at random would, it was believed, provide an answer. Names for new-born babies were sometimes chosen in the same way, and as you will see, in this chapter Bathsheba and Liddy...