{"id":26354,"date":"2020-11-30T22:22:23","date_gmt":"2020-11-30T22:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/?p=26354"},"modified":"2020-11-30T22:22:23","modified_gmt":"2020-11-30T22:22:23","slug":"steltens-dictionary-of-ecclesiastical-latin-arrives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/2020\/11\/30\/steltens-dictionary-of-ecclesiastical-latin-arrives\/","title":{"rendered":"Stelten&#8217;s Dictionary of Ecclesiastical Latin arrives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\">Today I received a copy of Leo F. Stelten&#8217;s <em>Dictionary of Ecclesiastical Latin<\/em> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Dictionary-Ecclesiastical-Latin-Leo-Stelten\/dp\/1565631315?tag=tertullianpro-20\/\">Amazon.com<\/a>).\u00a0 I&#8217;ve not really had a chance to look at it yet.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">But this evening it had its first test.\u00a0 John the Deacon&#8217;s <em>Life of St Nicholas<\/em> describes the city of Patara, the saint&#8217;s home town, as once &#8220;rutilabat&#8221;.\u00a0 The Oxford Latin Dictionary gives &#8220;rutilo, -are&#8221; as &#8220;to glow with a bright or golden red colour&#8221;, especially thinking of German hair!\u00a0 Nor did Neimeyer or Blaise give anything different.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Stelten passed.\u00a0 In church Latin, apparently, it means &#8220;shine&#8221; or &#8220;glow&#8221;.\u00a0 This makes perfect sense of John&#8217;s, um, glowing description of the city.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Clearly I need to spend more time with this book.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I received a copy of Leo F. Stelten&#8217;s Dictionary of Ecclesiastical Latin (via Amazon.com).\u00a0 I&#8217;ve not really had a chance to look at it yet. But this evening it had its first test.\u00a0 John the Deacon&#8217;s Life of St Nicholas describes the city of Patara, the saint&#8217;s home town, as once &#8220;rutilabat&#8221;.\u00a0 The Oxford [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19],"tags":[985,1575,1586],"class_list":["post-26354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-my-diary-announcements","tag-latin","tag-st-nicholas","tag-stelten"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}