Book texts are written in separately made capitals (often called uncials, but in Greek paleography, except for the time-hallowed class of biblical uncials, the term is better avoided) in columns of writing, with ample spaces between columns and good margins at head and foot. Punctuation (...
The term derived from an ancient Greek word that originally meant a song accompanied by music or the particular tone or accent given to an individual syllable. Greek and Latin literary critics generally regarded prosody as part of grammar; it concerned itself with the rules determining the length...
Such terms can be adopted for the Microsoft voice in Greek, in addition to the standard approved terms, for the text to sound casual and less formal. See the list below for some examples of such terms. en-US term PC email Greek existing term Greek prefered term Ηλεκτρονικ...
Usage: The term "δάκτυλος" refers to a finger, a part of the human hand. In the New Testament, it is used both literally and metaphorically. Literally, it describes the physical finger, while metaphorically, it can represent the power or action of God, as seen in the phras...
(and are still learned as such in modern Greek elementary school). The term for "aspiration" in Greek is "daseia" (= "thick", feminine, singular), or "pneuma" (= spirit, blowing, breeze); in writing, the "rough breathing mark". Dionysius, in fact, refers to the category of dasea...
between free and slave in order to maintain a more rigid distinction between relatively wealthy Athenian citizen males and a lower class comprising slaves, metics, foreigners, and the poorest Athenian citizens.Chapter two examines what I term the "sexually presumptive" slave characters of Old Comedy...
The Greek aitia or the Latin causa was originally a purely legal term. It was taken over into physics, developed there, and in the 18th century brought back as a foreign-born kind for the adoration of the social sciences. The same is true of the concept of law of nature. Originally a...
Here, I need to think first about how text expansion works: at the moment, it leaves accents unchanged as in other languages there's no pressing need to turn them into combining chars. It's at least possible that the best long-term plan is for \text_expand:n to covert to pre-...
The first three are often called aspects, a term taken over from Slavic grammar. According to this terminology, the “present” stem is used for imperfective aspect (ongoing or repeated process), the “perfect” stem for stative aspect (state resulting from the completion of the process), and...
Realism was not consciously adopted as anaestheticprogram until the mid-19th century in France, however. Indeed, realism may be viewed as a major trend in French novels and paintings between 1850 and 1880. One of the first appearances of the termrealismwas in theMercure français du XIXesiècl...