More than half of all English words come from Latin. So do some of the language's strangest idiosyncrasies.... What Alarms ...

While this may sound a bit contradictory, Pig Latin isn't Latin, and it's also not quite a language. It's a playful code that ...

Read to learn the meaning, origin, and usage of the word blanch with examples from literature and a list of synonyms ...

"Tender" describes something soft, gentle, or easy to damage, as well as feelings of care, love, or kindness. It's used when ...

Contrive' means to plan, devise, or bring about something skillfully, often through ingenuity The word "contrive" comes from Latin and Medieval Latin roots, first appearing in English around the 14th ...

An ancient Roman bronze helmet from 241 B.C. was discovered in extraordinary condition near Italy's Aegates Islands, where ...

Bede's Latin style has been much neglected. This article attempts to fill a small portion of this lacuna with an examination of Bede's use of wordplay in his Historia ecclesiastica, Historia Abbatum, ...

A rather warm autumn is expected for Pope Leo XIV. The truce between conservatives and progressives is on a knife-edge. Until ...

In extensive interviews, Pope Leo XIV, who turned 70 on Sunday, contours the future of his papacy, potentially one of the ...

A study conducted by the Molecular Oncology Research Center (CPOM) at Hospital de Amor in Barretos (formerly Barretos Cancer ...