You've used abbreviations like 'i.e.,' 'e.g.,' 'etc.,' and 'et al,' but do you know what they're short for? Here are the hidden Latin origins of some common literary abbreviations.
It is the same word used in Greek for the ministers of the pagan Greek religion. In the Greek Septuagint translation of the Old Testament, the cohenim of the Old Covenant were likewise translated as hiereis. Likewise, when the Christian Bible was translated into Latin, and when the Old ...
[PERSEQUOR, PERSEQUI, -, PERSECUTUS SUM] : V follow up, pursue; overtake; attack; take vengeance on; accomplish; [PERSEQUOR] : to persecute, hunt down, track, trail. [PERSES, PERSAE] : N persian, native of persia; (sometimes for parthian] : persian breed os dog; ...