Disputatio:Magna charta libertatum

"Magna Carta vim regum Anglicorum finivit."

Vero? IacobusAmor 19:56, 1 Februarii 2007 (UTC)

Finire hic non significat finem facere sed fines determinare. Id est definivit. --Iustinus 20:00, 1 Februarii 2007 (UTC)

Ah, OK; but it's still an odd way to begin an article: by the end of the sentence, we still don't know what Magna Carta was. IacobusAmor 20:06, 1 Februarii 2007 (UTC)

Move request

Magna charta libertatum => Magna carta

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the first written appearance of the term was in 1218: “Concesserimus libertates quasdam scriptas in magna carta nostra de libertatibus” --Espoo 19:07, 22 Iunii 2009 (UTC)

However, the first Latin appearance of charta occurred more than a millennium earlier, and the ch preserves the sound of the original, a Greek word, χάρτης. So is it your argument that medieval spellings trump classical ones? IacobusAmor 19:34, 22 Iunii 2009 (UTC)