- a
special occasion. The word may be of
Etruscan origin, via the
Latin caerimonia.
According to
Dally Messenger and
Alain de Botton, in most
Western countries...
- Per
Omnes Terras Familiarum [...] Genealogiam; Tum Mythologiam, Ritus,
Caerimonias,
Omnemque Veterum Antiquitatem [...];
Virorum [...]
Celebrium Enarrationem...
-
patrios ritus peregrinosque adsciscendo turbaretur. Nec
celestes modo
caerimonias sed
iusta quoque funebria placandosque manes ut idem
pontificem edoceret...
- Metamorphoses, 5.310. On the
color caeruleus, see also
Hendrik Wagenvoort, "
Caerimonia," in Studies, pp. 98–101.
Natale Conti,
Mythologiae 2.9. Conti's sources...
- also Jus ad bellum. The
English word "ceremony"
derives from the
Latin caerimonia or caeremonia, a word of
obscure etymology first found in
literature and...
