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To: Carolina

Aside from a few ancillaries, nearly every word in the prayer has found itself into English.

father
celestial
saint, sanctify
name
advent, vent, avenue
regal
fact
voluntary
terrestrial
panis, bread -- no corresponding borrowing that comes to mind
quotidian
hodie <- diem = day
dismiss
debt
unduce
tentative, tempt
liberation
malignance


17 posted on 08/18/2006 12:58:13 PM PDT by annalex
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To: annalex
Aside from a few ancillaries, nearly every word in the prayer has found itself into English.

Thank you, for listing the English cognates. Chanting the Lord's Prayer in Latin is wonderful. When I went to a General Audience at St. Peter's Square with tens of thousands of us, it was thrilling to hear us all gathered from all corners of the earth chanting it together.

39 posted on 08/18/2006 7:11:45 PM PDT by Carolina
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