Sentence examples for Latin describes from inspiring English sources

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The Mare medi terraneum (in Latin) describes the Mediterranean as a "sea in the middle of the land".

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Christophe Maincourt, a former president of Richemont Latin America and Caribbean, describes the ideal career trajectory this way: "People should travel widely in their twenties and thirties.

Journey Latin America describes it as a "jungle-strangled backwater", but still includes it in the 18-day Coq of the Rock tour departing on 9 October 2016 (£4,090 excluding flights, journeylatinamerica.co.uk).

The Latin saying describes how a series of unfortunate events eventually leads to a happier outcome.

In order to facilitate the learning of Latin for young monks, Aelfric composed a grammar, glossary, and colloquy, containing a Latin grammar described in Anglo-Saxon, or Old English, a glossary in which master and pupil could find a methodically classified Latin vocabulary (names of birds, fish, plants, and so forth), and a manual of conversation, inspired by the bilingual manuals of antiquity.

The binomial names used by Homo sapiens are Latin, and for years botanists, unlike zoologists, were still required to use a page or two of Latin to describe the distinctive characteristics of a newly named species — the attributes that made it different from any other.

Pergolesi set his music to a Latin text describing the sorrows of Mary as she beholds the death of Jesus.

Still more extraordinary, Fracas is built on a concept of tuberose, a small white flower (unrelated to rose; the name comes from the Latin word describing the plant's tuberous root system) that generates an overpowering scent and is notorious among perfumers for being a difficult raw material to master.

During Roman times, Latin authors described different sheep breeds according to their fleece characteristics and celebrated the fine wool of ewes from the Apulia region, in Southern Italy [ 4].

It simply permitted solatium, a Latin term that describes damages for hurt feelings or grief.

Each, as is the case with other contemporary novels published in various Latin American countries, describes toil within a given national industry: Doña Bárbara and Don Segundo Sombra depict cattle ranching in the Venezuelan and Argentine plains (the llano and the pampa, respectively), and La vorágine describes rubber prospecting in the Colombian jungle.

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