Saturday, October 12, 2024

25.12.24: level 1; topic; school [11]; Comenius: Ianua Linguarum Reserata [3]: concerning things at school [3]; vocabulary [2] books, paper, maps

charta, -ae [1/f]: [i] (CL) papyrus; paper [ii] (Mediaeval) map

mappa, -ae [1/f]: (New Latin) map, but is used in the Mediaeval period in the expression mappa mundī to refer to any European world map

papȳrus, -ī [2 m/f]: paper made from papyrus

margo, marginis [3 m/f]: margin

terms referring to types of books:

capsa, -ae [1/f]: a container (usually cylindrical) for containing scrolls

cōdex, cōdicis [3/m]: book; notebook; this term is used when classifying manuscripts

liber; librī [2/m]: book

librarium, -ī [2/n]: bookcase; library

scrīptum, -ī [2/n]: anything that is written

volumen, voluminis [3/n]: book but usually in the sense of a scroll




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