[Buddha-l] Ordination and Vinaya

[David Casacuberta]

Dear friends:

If it helps, in Spanish, "gremio",  can be translated as "Guild" so I
guess both the German and the Spanish come from a common latin root.


best wishes

David


2009/7/22 jkirk <jkirk at spro.net>:
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> On Jul 22, 2009, at 11:04 AM, jkirk wrote:
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>> I can't find a translation for the Latin term 'gremium'--tried
> online
>> Latin-English dictionary to no avail--what I got was
> umentionable,
>> actually.
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> May I suggest using a German-English dictionary? The usually
> trustworthy German-English dictionary built into my MacBook
> laptop suggests that a Gremium is a panel, committee or
> organizing body.
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> Dayamatitovius Pedanticus
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> Hey Dayamatitovious--------brilliant.
> But how should I know that a word ending in -ium is German, not
> Latin?
> J+K
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