What's the difference between latin and semite?

Latin


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to Latium, or to the Latins, a people of Latium; Roman; as, the Latin language.
  • (a.) Of, pertaining to, or composed in, the language used by the Romans or Latins; as, a Latin grammar; a Latin composition or idiom.
  • (n.) A native or inhabitant of Latium; a Roman.
  • (n.) The language of the ancient Romans.
  • (n.) An exercise in schools, consisting in turning English into Latin.
  • (n.) A member of the Roman Catholic Church.
  • (v. t.) To write or speak in Latin; to turn or render into Latin.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Former Regional director for Latin American Caribbean and Middle East, Save the Children.
  • (2) Latin America has some of the most restrictive abortion laws in the world – 95% of abortions carried out there are performed in unsafe conditions.
  • (3) In an anthropologic study of illness referral among Latin-American immigrants three phases were ascertained: First, there was extended use of self-treatment.
  • (4) The 128 children arrived from one of eight countries in Asia or Latin America at ages ranging from 1 month to 10 years; 57% were female.
  • (5) Massive protests in the 1990s by Indian, Latin American and south-east Asian peasant farmers, indigenous groups and their supporters put the companies on the back foot, and they were reluctantly forced to shelve the technology after the UN called for a de-facto moratorium in 2000.
  • (6) In most developing countries abortion is illegal, and scrutiny of hospital records on complication (a 49% rate in a study in Latin America and 46% hospitalization) is a source.
  • (7) We propose to name these regulatory peptides 'deprimerones' (from Latin 'deprimere') and describe various fractions of them as chromatin deprimerones, messenger deprimerones, gene deprimerones (for specific genes).
  • (8) We conducted a cross-sectional survey simultaneously in six Latin American nations among people living near a river known to be polluted in each country.
  • (9) Other onlookers shivered, recalling Iglesias’s praise for Venezuela’s late president Hugo Chávez and fearing an eruption of Latin American-style populism in a country gripped by debt, austerity and unemployment.
  • (10) Löw’s side became the first from Europe to claim the trophy on Latin American soil courtesy of Götze’s fine 113th-minute finish from André Schürrle’s delivery.
  • (11) The following three corresponding arguments are put forward in support of the upgraded placebo-concept of "aura curae" (Latin: "air of care"; "unspecific healing context").
  • (12) This list gives the Latin first names of all 115 cardinals.
  • (13) Fifty per cent of the U.S. students with diarrhea had "severe" illness (greater than or equal to 10 unformed stools in first 48 hours) compared to 23% of the Latin Americans.
  • (14) The methodology of the first comprehensive multicenter study into risk factors of non-communicable chronic diseases carried out in Latin America is explained.
  • (15) Four to six groups of 4 x 4 Latin squares were used to estimate 80%, 100% and 120% standard preparations and the recovery rates were 95-106%.
  • (16) His eclectic approach to songwriting means he may not produce music that is typically Bahian or even Brazilian, but alongside the likes of Argentina's Juana Molina and Colombia's Bomba Estereo , he's redefining 21st-century Latin music.
  • (17) Most cephalometric analysis published to date are based on studies performed by orthodontists, focused on individuals in the growth and development stages, and based mainly on individuals with morphogenetic patterns different from those of the Latin prototype.
  • (18) Effects of dietary fat on milk composition, particularly milk N, were evaluated using 12 lactating Holstein cows in a replicated 4 X 4 Latin-square design.
  • (19) Further studies are needed to know whether these results could be extrapolated to studies on past diet and to non-Latin populations.
  • (20) Blacks made up 46% of the population; non-Latin whites, 40.1%; and Latin-Americans, 13.9%.

Semite


Definition:

  • (n.) One belonging to the Semitic race. Also used adjectively.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I did not - do not - quite understand how some are able to contemplate his anti-semitism with indifference.
  • (2) Despite the language of technocrats like Florian Philippot, the Front National is still the Front National, a party that’s racist, anti-semitic and extreme-right,” Sacha Ghozlan, of the Union of Jewish students of France, told Le Monde at the protest.
  • (3) 1 target of anti-Semitism in the journalistic world this year.
  • (4) In addition, all the defendants had been accused of support for the Muslim Brotherhood, a group associated with anti-semitism – although many say they had nothing to do with the brotherhood or the murder.
  • (5) Colborne said Salah had asked his legal team to take action against those in Britain who had made allegations of anti-semitism against him before his arrival.
  • (6) Her novel loosely uses Henry James's The Ambassadors as a platform from which to explore big themes such as anti-semitism and the postwar divergence in fortunes of Europe and America.
  • (7) The Kremlin insists that "radicals", including "anti-Semites, fascists and ultra-nationalists" staged a coup in Kiev – with murky western backing – and now continue to destabilize Ukraine.
  • (8) The novelist and critic Tom Bissell has described the protagonist's Jewish lawyer in 2002's Vice City as "an anti-Semitic parody of an anti-Semitic parody", while in the new game one of the main character's daughters has a tattoo that reads "skank", and one mission involves you helping a paparazzo capture a starlet's "low-hanging muff".
  • (9) He refers to a coup d’etat in Ukraine, says there were murders pogroms and lays the blame at nationalists, anti-semites and neo-Nazis.
  • (10) An anti-semitic comment is not really that, he says: it's just what he imagines an anti-semite might say.
  • (11) In a city where liberal 19th-century culture was menaced by anti-semitic populist politics - where Adolf Hitler wandered round bitterly nursing a sense of thwarted genius - the middle class escaped into hedonistic dreams, and invented modern sexuality.
  • (12) Freud's profound interest in classical civilization was established in childhood; he was particularly concerned with the struggle between Aryan Rome and Semitic Carthage, a conflict in which he identified with both sides.
  • (13) The opera was "anti-American, anti-semitic and anti-bourgeois".
  • (14) Anti-semitism continues to contribute to the general "climate".
  • (15) "We are therefore calling on you to ban Gabor Vona, the leader of the racist and anti-Semitic extremist party Jobbik, from entering the UK, as his politics of hate are simply not welcome here."
  • (16) Anti-semitism is rampant in much of the 'hypocritical' Middle East, the editor wrote, with Jewish rabbis depicted on prime-time Syrian TV as cannibals.
  • (17) In a court case in Paris this week, a French Jewish student union, backed by the country's biggest anti-racism groups, appealed to a judge to force Twitter to hand over personal details of users who had tweeted anti-semitic comments under the hashtags #UnBonJuif (a good Jew) and #UnJuifMort (a dead Jew), so the users could be prosecuted.
  • (18) His last PhD student was the lawyer Anthony Julius and it was (as Julius acknowledges), largely through Jacobson's tireless campaigning that Julius's TS Eliot, Anti-Semitism and Literary Form (1995), one of the most controversial critical books of the 90s, saw print.
  • (19) One critic, for example, in a very patient, and indeed in every respect but one a positively scrupulous, reading of one of Eliot's anti-semitic poems, "Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar," glancingly commented, "the question whether [it is] anti-semitic is obviously not a pressing one".
  • (20) We are not tolerating anti-Semitism in any form whatsoever in our party."

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