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Transliteration  n.  The act or product of transliterating, or of expressing words of a language by means of the characters of another alphabet.






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... said much on the subject and from the little he has said, more arguments might perhaps be drawn, in favour of the omission, than for the introduction of the Chorus. It is true that he says, in his 4th chapter, that "Tragedy, after many changes, paused, having gained its natural form:" [Greek transliteration: 'pollha': moiazolas metazalousa ae tragodia epausto, hepei hesche taen heauiaes phusin]. This might, at first sight, seem to include his approbation of the Chorus, as well as of all the other parts of Tragedy then in use: but ...
— The Art Of Poetry An Epistle To The Pisos - Q. Horatii Flacci Epistola Ad Pisones, De Arte Poetica. • Horace

... O.P., Niffon no Cotoba no Y Confesion, etc. (Rome, 1632). For further bibliographic data cf. Johannes Laures, Kirishitan Bunko (Tokyo, 1957). Cf. also [O]tsuka Mitsunobu, Koriyaado zangeroku (Tokyo, 1967), for a Japanese transliteration and concordance. It should be noted that the material in this work had no direct influence upon the concurrently written grammar. The only example in the Ars Grammaticae which might have been borrowed from the Confesion is on p. 23 where we find doco de qiqi marasuru mo, sono sata va msanu ...
— Diego Collado's Grammar of the Japanese Language • Diego Collado

... thorough discussion of the whole subject, see Zotenberg, Notice sur le livre de Barlaam et Joasaph, Paris, 1886; especially for arguments fixing date of the work, see parts i to iii; also Gaston Paris in the Revue de Paris for June, 1895. For the transliteration between the appellation of Buddha and the name of the saint, see Fausboll and Sayce, as above, p. xxxvii, note; and for the multitude of translations of the work ascribed to St. John of Damascus, see Table III, on ...
— History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom • Andrew Dickson White

... Hebrew terms which appeared in this location in the original text. The transliterations were created with the aid of Rabbi Manes Kogan of Beth Israel Synagogue in Roanoke, Virginia during fall, 2000. Occasionally no transliteration was available. When transliterating a multi word phrase, the transliteration is done using the Hebrew word ordering of right to left. Following the transliteration, if present, but still within the brackets, are the parenthesized ...
— Rashi • Maurice Liber

... (""That he had men-servants ..."), a missing "d" in "praised" on p. 17 ("is praise as acting"), "is" used for "in" on p. 25 ("now existing is these states ..."), and on p. 6, where the first two characters of NAAR were transposed. Also note that the author used Ashkenazic pronunciation for his transliteration, and that it would not be considered accurate by modern standards. ...
— Is Slavery Sanctioned by the Bible? • Isaac Allen

... 157. Transliteration: hybris. Liddell and Scott definition: "wanton violence, arising from the pride of ...
— Gaston de Latour: an unfinished romance • Walter Horatio Pater

... (1631) caveah; and the Journal d'Antoine Galland (1673) cave. That is, Englishmen use forms of a certain distinct type, viz., cohu, coho, coffao, coffe, copha, coffee, which differ from the more correct transliteration of foreigners. ...
— All About Coffee • William H. Ukers

... Egypt, or that which the later Romans possessed of their early monarchs. The monuments themselves present indications of several other names of kings, belonging evidently to the same series, which are too obscure or too illegible for transliteration. And there may, of course, have been many others of whom no traces remain, or of whom none have been as yet found. On the other hand, it may be observed, that the number of the early Chaldaean kings reported by Polyhistor is preposterous. If sixty-eight consecutive ...
— The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 1. (of 7): Chaldaea • George Rawlinson



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