Word | Random word | Common words | Link to this Word
HTML
<a href="http://wordincontext.com/en/suffragium">suffragium</a>
BBCode
[url=http://wordincontext.com/en/suffragium]suffragium[/url]
close [X]
Word of the Day
Others looking
Language
  • Català
  • Dansk
  • Deutsch
  • Ελληνικά
  • English
  • Esperanto
  • Español
  • Suomi
  • Français
  • Magyar
  • Italiano
  • Latina
  • Nederlands
  • Norsk
  • Polski
  • Português
  • Svenska
  • Tagalog
1 - 1 from 1
Vel, which in classical Latin only has the meanings or and even, means and in certain epochs of the middle ages; suffragium, which is classical Latin for suffrage, takes in mediæval Latin the sense of help. We have, then, to learn to resist the instinct which leads us to explain all the expressions of a text by their classical or ordinary meanings.
Charles Victor Langlois - Introduction to the Study of History
First Previous 1 Next Last
© WIC 2011 - 2021