• @[email protected]
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    582 months ago

    Yes; “Luce” is Italian for "Light’ and “Lucifer” is Latin for “light bearer”. They are cognates.

    • @Rolando
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      312 months ago

      So whoever carries that anime figure is literally Luciferian.

    • @[email protected]
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      22 months ago

      I thought they spoke Latin in the Vatican, aren’t they Latino? Otherwise how do we get such classical Christian idioms like “Romanes eunt domus”?

      • @[email protected]
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        72 months ago

        Italian is a direct descendant of Latin (along with nearly every other Western language)

        • @samus12345
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          72 months ago

          There’s Italian, Spanish, French, Portuguese…there are more Germanic-derived ones than Latin-derived, aren’t there?

          • @[email protected]
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            102 months ago

            Romanian, Catalan, Sicilian, Galician, Venetian, probably a number of other dialects, are also Latin descendants.

            • @samus12345
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              I’d have to get a list of every country considered “western” and then figure out how many have predominantly Latin-derived and Germanic-derived languages. Too much work. “Nearly every” one of them would most certainly not be Latin-derived, though.

              • @[email protected]
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                72 months ago

                Thankfully there’s an entire field of linguistics that’s already done the work. Quick Google search shows 22 Latin descendant languages, and 24 Germanic descendant languages. So slightly more, yeah.

                • @samus12345
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                  22 months ago

                  Thanks, my google-fu wasn’t up to the task. That’s about what I was expecting.

          • @[email protected]
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            I was thinking like… English.
            Sure, it’s got German and French and Greek and just a mess of everything, but there’s a lot of Latin in there.

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              English is a Germanic language that has had significant Latin and French (which added more Latin) injected into it over the years. It has to be the most mongrel widespread language in existence, which is probably why it’s such a mess when it comes to spelling. Still, it also has a lot of flexibility and word choices because of it.