[tied] Re: Albanian Christian religious terminology

The on-line Lewis and Short Latin dictionary has 'creatio' noted
as "very rare". Is there a specific Christian usage relating to the
birth of Jesus, for this time frame (or any other)?
Dan
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--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, george knysh <gknysh@...> wrote:
> > > *****GK:
> > >(Alex) crãciun= creatione related to arianism.
> >
> > This can be, it has nothing to do with Christianity.
> > The 25 December was
> > the day of the re-born of the Sun in the old pagan
> > rituals and too the
> > day of Mithra.
>
> *****GK: Agreed. But we're discussing the adopted
> Christian date for the birth of Jesus, and its
> Romanian name.*****
>
> > The rom. word for "creatio" is "facere" and there is
> > no inherited word
> > for Lat. "creatio".
>
> ****GK: But as Marius has pointed out, in the 4th c.
> when the Danubian populations (incl.the
> proto-Romanians) were being "Christianized", the
> relevant language was Latin. So "creatio" would be OK,
> and its utilization for what we mean by "Christmas" by
> Arian-leaning groups would also be OK. Once the word
> was adopted in that sense, it would be subject to the
> laws of development which affected all other Latin
> words in today's Romanian would it not? And the fact
> that other meanings of Latin "creatio" left no
> descendants (if what you say is correct) is
> interesting but hardly decisive.****