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• Corpora
  A corpus may contain texts in a single language (monolingual corpus) or text data in multiple languages (multilingual corpu ...(base) form of each word. When the language of the corpus is not a working language of the researchers who use it, interlinear glossing is usedto make the anno
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• Barbarism
  ...rst [[language]] was not [[Greek]] or a Greek individual or tribe speaking Greek crudely. ...[linguistic]] sounds non-Greeks made or making [[grammatical]] errors in [[Greek]].[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbarian]
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• Prosopopoeia
  ...her person or object. The term literally derives from the [[Greek language|Greek]] roots meaning "a face, a person, to make". ...peaks as Appius Claudius Caecus, a stern old man. This serves to give the "ancient" perspective on the actions of the plaintiff. Prosopopoeiae can also be use
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• Alphabet
  ..._PERIOD Middle English] alphabete, from Late [[Latin]] alphabetum, from [[Greek]] alphabētos, from alpha + bēta beta ...ents]] a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoneme phoneme] in a [[spoken]] [[language]], either as it exists now or as it was in the [[past]]. There are other [[
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• Latin
  ...hed to word stems. The Latin alphabet, derived from the [[Etruscan]] and [[Greek]] [[alphabets]] (''each of which is derived from the earlier [[Phoenician]] Although now generally considered a dead language, of few fluent speakers and no native ones, Latin is still used by the Cath
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• Semitic
  modern Latin Sēmīta, < late [[Latin]] Sēm, [[Greek]] Σήμ Shem While the term ''Semite'' means a member of any of various ancient and modern Semitic-speaking peoples originating in southwestern Asia, inclu
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• Hero
  [[Latin]] heros, from Greek hērōs ...''[[meaning]] "to protect". According to Eric Partridge in Origins, the [[Greek]] word Hērōs "is akin to" the [[Latin]] seruāre, [[meaning]] to safeguar
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• Corpus
  A corpus may contain texts in a single [[language]] (monolingual corpus) or text [[data]] in multiple languages (multilingual ...(base) form of each word. When the language of the corpus is not a working language of the researchers who use it, interlinear glossing is used to make the ann
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• Eloquence
  ...[[power]] of expressing strong [[emotion]]s in striking and appropriate [[language]], thereby producing conviction or persuasion. The term is also used for wr The [[concept]] of eloquence dates to the ancient [[Greek]]s, [[Calliope]],(one of the nine daughters of [[Zeus]] and [[Mnemosyne]])
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• Patriotism
  ...with a [[nation]]-[[state]]. Scholar J. Peter Euben writes that for the [[Greek]] philosopher [[Socrates]], "patriotism does not require one to [[agree]] w ...and denouncing excessive penal laws were all considered patriotic. In both ancient and modern visions of patriotism, [[individual]] [[responsibility]] to fell
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• Sanskrit
  ...skrit, Pali, Prakrit and Tamil which have already been given the classical-language status.'' and one of the liturgical languages of Hinduism and [[Buddha|Budd ...culture]]s of South]] and Southeast Asia] is akin to that of [[Latin]] and Greek in Europe and it has significantly influenced most modern languages of Nepa
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• Hebrews
  ...'', ''ʿIvriyyim'' ʿIḇrîm'', ''ʿIḇriyyîm'', "traverse or pass over") are an ancient people defined as descendants of biblical Patriarch '''[[Abraham]]''' (Hebr ...as a synonym for Israelites, and sometimes for the users of the [[Hebrew]] language ([[Jews]] and [[Israel]]is).
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• Classics
  ...e time known as [[classical antiquity]], roughly spanning from the Ancient Greek [[Bronze Age]] in 1000 [[BCE]] to the [[Dark Ages]] circa [[Common Era|CE]] ...eastern Mediterranean—the ancient [[Persian Empire]] and the [[kingdoms of ancient India]]—are termed [[Orientalists]].
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• Syntax
  ...ate Latin; Middle French ''sintaxe'', from Late Latin ''syntaxis'', from [[Greek]], from ''syntassein'' to arrange [[together]], from ''syn''- + ''tassein'' ...], '''syntax''' (from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greek Ancient Greek] σύνταξις "arrangement" from σύν ''syn'', "together", and τάξ
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• Sarcasm
  French or Late Latin; French sarcasme, from Late Latin sarcasmos, from [[Greek]] sarkasmos, from sarkazein to tear [[flesh]], bite the lips in [[rage]], s ...'to tear flesh, gnash the teeth, speak bitterly'.[9] However, the ancient Greek word for the rhetorical concept of taunting was instead χλευασμός
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• Macrocosm and Microcosm
  '''Macrocosm and microcosm''' is an ancient [[Greek philosophy|Greek]] schema of seeing the same patterns reproduced in all levels of the [[cos ...3bc;&#x03b9;&#x03ba;&#x03c1;&#x03bf;- "Micro-", which are [[Greek language|Greek]] respectively for "large" and "small", and the word [[Cosmos|&#x03ba;&#x1f
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• Proselytism
  ...a place, [[stranger]], [[sojourner]], [[convert]] to [[Judaism]] < ancient Greek προσηλυθ- , aorist stem of προσέρχεσθαι to come to, app ...mer). Historically in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koine_Greek Koine Greek] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Septuagint Septuagint] and [[New Testament]
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• Philology
  ...the origins of that language, and so it is often defined as "the study of ancient [[writing|text]]s and languages," although this is a rather narrow view and ...thors, and [[critical theory|critical traditions]] associated with a given language.
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• Transcripts
  ...is the conversion into written, typewritten or printed form, of a spoken [[language]] source, such as the [[proceedings]] of a [[court]] hearing. It can also m [[Practical]] transcription can be done into a non-alphabetic [[language]] too. For example, in a Hong Kong Newspaper, George Bush's name is transli
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• Martyr
  ...OLD_ENGLISH.2C_OR_ANGLO-SAXON_PERIOD Old English], from Late Latin, from [[Greek]] martyr-, martys [[witness]] ...ntended to lead to the [[death]] of the witness, although it is known from ancient writers (e.g. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephus Josephus]) and from t
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