Lexicon for Lovers of Language
Lexicon for Lovers of Language

Author: Henry I. Christ

Publisher: Noble House

Published: 2003-12

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9781561678273

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"Lexicon for Lovers of Language" is the essential guide to important language terms and expressions. Educational, fun, and user friendly, it is written for the average reader who is fascinated by words and eager to expand their horizons in language. Filled with humor, historical background, and linguistic trivia, it is the perfect reference tool for writers, students, and everyday lovers of language.

The Lover's Tongue
The Lover's Tongue

Author: Mark Morton

Publisher: Insomniac Press

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 1897414498

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This delightful book includes over 100 mini-essays explaining the origins and historical development of words in our language that pertain to love and sex. Do you know, for example, what a 78 is? Here's a hint: like the old 78 rpm records, the term refers to a man who is ... well, on the fast side! Diligently researched, The Lover's Tongue is written in a light-hearted style. A dictionary of a different kind, this book is the perfect gift for that special someone, or for the connoisseur of language and history in your life

The Latin Sexual Vocabulary
The Latin Sexual Vocabulary

Author: J. N. Adams

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 1990-10

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9780801841064

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LIke other languages, Latin contained certain words its speakers considered obscene as well as a rich stock of sexual euphemism and metaphor. Our sources for this information range from surviving graffiti to literary works with a marked sexual content. Yet despite its manifest literary and linguistic interest, the sexual vocabulary of Latin has remained uninvestigated by scholars. J. A. Adams's pioneering and unique reference work collects for the first time evidence of Latin obscenities and sexual euphemisms drawn from both literary and nonliterary sources from the early Republic to about he fouth century A.D. Separate chaptes treat each of the sexual pasrts of the body and the terminology used to describe sexual acts. General topics include the influence of Greek language on Latin, changes in the Latin vocabulary over time (including the evolution of sexual words into general terms of abuse), and lexical differences among various literary genres.

Smith's English-Latin Dictionary
Smith's English-Latin Dictionary

Author: William Smith

Publisher: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 1030

ISBN-13: 9780865164918

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Smith's English-Latin Dictionary is an invaluable resource for Latin composition. Each entry gives an English word, its corresponding Latin equivalents, and examples drawn from a full range of classical writers. The Index of Proper Names contains Latin forms of names of thousands of persons, places, and geographical features from history and mythology, as well as the Hebrew and Christian Bibles.

Love & Language
Love & Language

Author: Ilan Stavans

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2007-01-01

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9780300118056

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Surprising readers again and again, cultural critic Ilan Stavans creates a dialogue with Vernica Albin to explore love in its many variations.

A Feast of Words
A Feast of Words

Author: Michel Jeanneret

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 1991-10-08

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 9780226395753

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The banquet gives rise to a special moment when thought and the senses—words and food—enhance each other. Throughout history, the ideal of the symposium has reconciled the angel and the beast in the human, renewing the interdependence between the mouth that speaks and the mouth that eats. Michel Jeanneret's lively book explores the paradigm of the banquet as a guide to significant tendencies in Renaissance Humanist culture and shows how this culture in turn illuminates the tensions between physical and mental pleasures. Ranging widely over French, Italian, German, and Latin texts, Jeanneret not only investigates the meal as a narrative artefact but enquires as well into aspects of sixteenth-century anthropology and aesthetics.