• @[email protected]
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    366 hours ago

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

    • @Rolando
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      154 hours ago

      So whoever carries that anime figure is literally Luciferian.

    • @[email protected]
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      44 hours 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”?

        • @samus12345
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          41 hour 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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            328 minutes 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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                213 minutes 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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                  11 minute ago

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