Cardinal Latin Series
- unicycle, bicycle, tricycle, quadricycle
- uniped, biped, triped, quadruped, centipede, millipede
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Famous quotes containing the words cardinal, latin and/or series:
“Time and I against any two.”
—Spanish proverb.
Quoted by Cardinal Mazarin during the minority of Louis XIV.
“He tries by a peculiar speech to speak
The peculiar potency of the general,
To compound the imagination’s Latin with
The lingua franca et jocundissima.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
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