More Latin for the Illiterati: A Guide to Medical, Legal and Religious Latin

ISBN-13: 9780415922104 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 224 str.

Jon R. Stone

Opis

This text seeks to demystify the terminology of modern courtrooms and hospitals, untangle some of the most complex and unforgiving examples of Latin abbreviation, and allow readers to explore the classical roots of law, medicine and the ministry. The collection contains nearly 5000 entries devoted to law, medicine and religion, and includes phrases like: jus sibi dicere - to take the law into one's own hands; hircosus - smelling like a goat; opprobrium medicum (the reproach of physicians) - an incurable disease; ita et viri debent diligere uxores ut corpora sua - so men ought to love their wives as their own bodies (Ephesians 5:28); ludere cum sacris - to trifle with sacred things; amicus curiae - a friend of the court.

Recenzje

"Stone had done a masterful job of rendering Latin phrases into palatable English. His Latin reference work is beautifully laid out and easy to accesss. The choice of entries introduces professional terms in style: neatly, succintly, and gracefully." -- ARBA 2000
"It provides more specialized vocabularies that other handbooks of Latin phrases...and is the only one to provide a separate English to Latin index and a list of abbreviations...it will be helpful to public and undergraduate libraries." -- Choice, March 2000
"This dictionary contains many terms not found in other recent Latin-English dictionaries." -- Library Journal

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Medical Latin; Chapter 2 Legal Latin; Chapter 3 Religious Latin; Chapter 4 Abbreviations; Chapter 5 Miscellaneous; Chapter 6 Roman Catholic Liturgy (Selections);

O autorze

Jon R. Stone is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Center for the Study of Religion and Lecturer in the English Writing Program at the University of California at Santa Barbara. He is the author of Latin for the Illiterati (1996) and Guide to the End of the World: Popular Eschatology in America (1993).