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PRONUNCIATION OF ULFILA

Ulfila  [ˈʊlfɪlə] play
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Ulfila is a noun.
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WHAT DOES ULFILA MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Ulfila

Ulfilas

Ulfilas, also Ulphilas, Orphila, bishop, missionary, and Bible translator, was a Goth or half-Goth and half-Greek from Cappadocia who had spent time inside the Roman Empire at the peak of the Arian controversy. Ulfilas was ordained a bishop by Eusebius of Nicomedia and returned to his people to work as a missionary. In 348, to escape religious persecution by a Gothic chief, probably Athanaric he obtained permission from Constantius II to migrate with his flock of converts to Moesia and settle near Nicopolis ad Istrum in modern northern Bulgaria. There, Ulfilas translated the Bible from Greek into the Gothic language. For this he devised the Gothic alphabet. Fragments of his translation have survived, notably the Codex Argenteus held since 1648 in the University Library of Uppsala in Sweden. A parchment page of this Bible was found in 1971 in the Speyer Cathedral. According to Karl Lund, Ulfilas created the Gothic alphabet based on the Getae's alphabet, with minor alterations.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ULFILA


ala
ˈeɪlə
Anguilla
æŋˈɡwɪlə
caffila
ˈkɑːfɪlə
drosophila
drɒˈsɒfɪlə
filler
ˈfɪlə
fulfiller
fʊlˈfɪlə
gypsophila
dʒɪpˈsɒfɪlə
killer
ˈkɪlə
Manila
məˈnɪlə
miller
ˈmɪlə
nemophila
nəˈmɒfɪlə
similar
ˈsɪmɪlə
Taylor
ˈteɪlə
thriller
ˈθrɪlə
time-filler
ˈtaɪmˌfɪlə
trailer
ˈtreɪlə
Tyler
ˈtaɪlə
Venezuela
ˌvɛnɪˈzweɪlə
villa
ˈvɪlə
Wulfila
ˈwʊlfɪlə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ULFILA

Ulfilas
uliginous
ulitis
ullage
ullage rocket
ullaged
Ullswater
Ulm

WORDS THAT END LIKE ULFILA

agila
Aquila
Attila
Bikila
Coahuila
fila
Gila
hila
Kabila
l´Aquila
maquila
mochila
pila
sheila
strobila
tequila
Tutuila
voila
zila

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Ulfila
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Ulfila
570 millions of speakers

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Ulfila
380 millions of speakers
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Ulfila
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Ulfila
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Ulfila
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Ulfila
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Ulfila
190 millions of speakers

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Ulfila
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Ulfila
75 millions of speakers

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उलफिला
75 millions of speakers

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Ulfila
70 millions of speakers

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Ulfila
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Ulfila
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Ulfila
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Ulfila
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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ULFILA»

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The Goths in the Fourth Century
CHAPTER. FIVE. THE. LIFE. AND. WORK. OF. ULFILA. INTRODUCTION By far the best and fullest accounts of the career and work of the famous bishop among the Goths are given in two Arian sources. These are the fifth-century Church ...
Peter J. Heather, John Matthews, 1991
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The Visigoths in the Time of Ulfi
In this classic and still valuable short study of early Christianity among the Goths, E.A. Thompson first described the background to their conversion from paganism, discussing their material culture, relations with the Roman Empire, social ...
E. A. Thompson, 2008
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Augustine and the Arians: The Bishop of Hippo's Encounters ...
Raised in a Christian home, the young Ulfila entered the clergy and became a lector (reader). This function testifies to a knowledge of languages that his probable family origins affected, since the Scriptures had not yet been translated into the ...
William A. Sumruld, 1994
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The Barbarian Conversion: From Paganism to Christianity
'They converted many of the barbarians to the way of piety and persuaded them to adopt the Christian faith,' tells the fifth-century historian Philostorgius, one of the principal sources for what little we know of Ulfila. It may be that the family ...
Richard A. Fletcher, 1999
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Translators Through History
A translation of the Scriptures proved essential to Ulfila's evangelical work, and he soon realized that an alphabet would have to be invented for this purpose. Up to this point, Gothic had been strictly a spoken language. Ulfila used characters ...
Jean Delisle, Judith Woodsworth, 2012
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Forms of Devotion: Conversion, Worship, Spirituality, and ...
The orthodox accounts of Ulfila's life run counter to the conventional scholarly wisdom.16 The regnant scholarly life of Ulfila derives primarily from the testimony of the Arian Auxentius (second half of the fourth century), who produced a ...
Everett Ferguson, 1999
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Philostorgius: Church History
Among the captives were ulfila's forebears, who were of Cappadocian stock, from a village called Sadagolthina near the city of Parnassus. ulfila himself was leader of the faithful who had gone into exile, having become their first bishop.
Philostorgius, Philip R. Amidon, 2007
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Late Antiquity: A Guide to the Postclassical World
In the 330s Ulfila came to Constantinople as part of a delegation, resided in the empire for some time, and in 341 was consecrated "bishop of the Christians in the Getic land" at the council of Antioch and sent to the Balkan Goths. Ulfila's ...
Glen Warren Bowersock, Peter Brown, Oleg Grabar, 1999
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The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Constantine
For reasons more or less obscure to us, they began a persecution against the Christians of Gothia in 347 or 348 during which Ulfila and his followers were driven out and granted lands in Moesia.94 In this period, Ulfila created an alphabet with ...
Noel Lenski, Noel Emmanuel Lenski, 2012
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The Theological Review
Castiglione refers to one passage in which Ulfila's Arianism is said to peep out, i.e. Philippians ii. 6, □where \aa 0«ji is rendered galeiko gutha, like or similar to God, not equal; an opinion endorsed byGabelentz.Loebe and De Wette.
Charles Beard, 1869

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ULFILA»

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Descoperire unicat: cum arăta cea mai veche biserică creştină din …
Arheologul Liviu Şovan bănuieşte că misionarii creştini ai episcopului got Ulfila, cel care a tradus biblia in limba gotă şi care a fost hirotonisit episcop pentru ... «Adevărul, May 15»
2
Dracula sepolto a Napoli? Incisione misteriosa riapre il dibattito
Sicuramente non è greco antico o greco bizantino, non è samaritano, né ebraico, armeno, giorgiano, né gotico di Ulfila. Si possono rintracciare alcuni caratteri ... «You-ng.it, May 15»
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Les Wisigoths, avec Georges Labouysse
Un évêque arien, Ulfila, traduit la Bible (alors en version grecque) en langue gothique, langue des Wisigoths du Danube. Des vestiges ont été découverts à ... «ladepeche.fr, Apr 15»
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Със 17 % намаляват жп авариите в следствие повреди в …
... 25.07.2014 06:35. Most - the old script in the world..... ......Choose a movie number 4.... ....Ulfila ....created the alphabet of the Goths. добре де, добре поклон «News.bg, Jul 14»
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Dracula a Napoli, partono le ricerche e spunta un messaggio …
Sicuramente non è greco antico o greco bizantino, non è samaritano, né ebraico, armeno, giorgiano, né gotico di Ulfila. Si possono rintracciare alcuni caratteri ... «Leggo.it, Jun 14»
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Ausstellung: Wie das Christentum das Abendland eroberte
Ein früher Höhepunkt der christlichen Schriftkultur ist dem Goten Ulfila zu verdanken, der von Christen aus Kleinasien abstammte. Ulfila übersetzte die Bibel im ... «DIE WELT, Aug 13»
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Wie das Abendland christlich wurde
Ohne diese Ulfila-Bibel wüssten wir so gut wie nichts über die gotische Sprache. Wie wenig selbstverständlich Ulfilas Ansatz war, zeigte sich noch fünfhundert ... «DIE WELT, Aug 13»
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Ausstellung „Credo“ in Paderborn: Der Triumph der Galiläer
Und die auf Gotisch verfasste Bibelseite des Bischofs Ulfila mit ihrem Purpurgrund ist so einzig, dass sie nur zwanzig Minuten täglich als Original aus dem ... «FAZ - Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Jul 13»
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Tipos que importan
... de Palmira, cirílicos, ilirios, góticos de Ulfila, georgianos, tibetanos, brahmánicos, malbaricos, alemanes y rusos, junto con signos astronómicos, matemáticos, ... «El País.com, Sep 11»
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Einmal im Jahr werden die Bio-Betriebe kontrolliert
Ulfila Bartels kontrolliert die Etiketten. Im Kühlraum sieht sie sich jede einzelne Kiste mit Fleisch oder Gemüse an. Bei den Pastinaken fehlt das Stecketikett. «Göttinger Tageblatt, Jun 11»

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