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This article lists direct English translations of common Latin phrases. Some of the
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reached its peak centuries before that of ancient Rome.
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From general to particular; "What holds for

from the greater to the
a maiore ad minus all X also holds for one particular X."
smaller
– argumentum a fortiori

An inference from smaller to bigger; what is

forbidden at least is forbidden at more ("If
from the smaller to the
a minore ad maius riding a bicycle with two on it is forbidden,
greater
riding it with three on it is at least similarly
punished".)

A solis ortu usque

from sunrise to sunset
ad occasum
 Said of an argument either for a conclusion
that rests on the alleged absurdity of an
opponent's argument (cf. appeal to ridicule)
ab absurdo from the absurd or that another assertion is false because it is
absurd. The phrase is distinct from reductio
ad absurdum, which is usually a valid
logical argument.

ab abusu ad usum
An inference from an Rights abused are still rights; confer abusus
non valet
abuse to a use is not valid non tollit usum.
consequentia

Literally, "from the everlasting", "from

eternity", and "from outside of time".
Philosophically and theologically, it
indicates something, e. g., the universe, that
was created from outside of time.
ab aeterno from the eternal
Sometimes the phrase is used incorrectly to
denote "from time immemorial", "since the
beginning of time", or "from an infinitely
remote time in the past", i. e., not from
without time but from a point within time.

ab antiquo from the ancient From ancient times

Or, "at will" or "at one's pleasure". This

phrase, and its Italian (beneplacito) and
a bene placito from one well pleased Spanish (beneplácito) derivatives, are
synonymous with the more common ad
libitum (at pleasure).

Regarding or pertaining to correspondence;

ab epistulis from the letters[1] [1]
 secretarial office in the Roman Empire

Legal term denoting derivation from an

external source, rather than from a person's
ab extra from beyond/without
self or mind, this latter source being denoted
by "ab intra".

ab hinc from here on Also sometimes written as "abhinc"

ab imo pectore from the deepest chest Or "from the bottom of my heart", "with
deepest affection", or "sincerely". Attributed
 to Julius Caesar.

New Latin for "based on unsuitability",

"from inconvenience", or "from hardship".
An argumentum ab inconvenienti is one
from an inconvenient based on the difficulties involved in
ab inconvenienti
thing pursuing a line of reasoning, and is thus a
form of appeal to consequences. The phrase
refers to the legal principle that an argument
from inconvenience has great weight.

Thus, "from the beginning" or "from

infancy". Incunabula is commonly used in
English to refer to the earliest stage or origin
ab incunabulis from the cradle
of something, and especially to copies of
books that predate the spread of the printing
press circa AD 1500.

Or, "from the outset", referring to an inquiry

or investigation. In literature, it refers to a
story told from the beginning rather than in
medias res ("from the middle"). In law, it
refers to a thing being true from its
beginning or from the instant of the act,
rather than from when the court declared it
so. An annulment is a judicial declaration of
ab initio from the beginning the invalidity or nullity of a marriage ab
initio; i. e., that the pseudo marriage was "no
thing" (in Latin, nullius, from which the
word "nullity" derives) and never existed,
except perhaps in name only. In science, the
phrase refers to the first principles. In other
contexts, it often refers to beginner or
training courses. Ab initio mundi means
"from the beginning of the world".

From a decedent, i. e., a dead person, who

ab intestato from an intestate died without executing a legal will; cf. ex
testamento

ab intra from within From the inside; the opposite of ab extra

ab invito unwillingly

ab irato from an angry man Or, "by an angry person"; used in law to
 describe a decision or action that is
detrimental to those whom it affects and is
motivated by hatred or anger instead of
reason. The form irato is masculine;
however, this does not limit the application
of the phrase to men: rather, "person" is
meant because the phrase probably elides
"homo" ("man/person"), not "vir" ("man").

From the origin, beginning, source, or

ab origine from the source commencement; i. e., "originally". It is the
source of the word aboriginal.

From Horace, Satire, 1.3. Means "from

beginning to end", based on the Roman
main meal typically beginning with an egg
ab ovo usque ad from the egg to the
dish and ending with fruit; cf. the English
mala apples
phrase soup to nuts. Thus, ab ovo means
"from the beginning", and can connote
thoroughness.

absens haeres non an absent person will not Legal principle that a person who is not
erit be an heir present is unlikely to inherit

[with] the defendant Legal phrase denoting action "in the absence
absente reo (abs. re.)
being absent of the accused"

Expresses the wish that no insult or injury

be presumed or done by the speaker's words,
absit iniuria "let injury be absent" i. e., "no offense". Also rendered absit
iniuria verbis ("let injury be absent from
these words"). Contrast with absit invidia.

Said in the context of a statement of

excellence: unlike the English expression
"no offense", absit invidia is intended to
ward off envious deities who might interpret
"let ill will/envy be
absit invidia a statement of excellence as hubris. Also
absent"
extended to absit invidia verbo, ("may ill
will/envy be absent from these words").
Contrast it with absit iniuria verbis. An
explanation of Livy's usage.

absit omen let an omen be absent Or, "let this not be a bad omen". Expresses
the wish that something seemingly ill-
boding does not turn out to be an omen for
 future events, and calls on Divine protection
against evil.

absolutum Total, if not supreme, power, dominion,

absolute dominion
dominium ownership, and sovereignty

Legal term pronounced by a judge to acquit

a defendant following his trial. Te
absolvo or absolvo te, translated, "I forgive
absolvo I acquit you", said by Roman Catholic priests during
the Sacrament of Confession, in Latin prior
to the Second Vatican Council and in
vernacular thereafter.

abundans cautela abundant caution does no Frequently re-phrased as "one can never be
non nocet harm too careful"

From Virgil, Aeneid, Book 2, 65-6. Refers

to situations where a single example or
observation indicates a general or universal
ab uno disce omnes from one, learn all
truth. Visible in the court of the character
King Silas in the American television
series Kings.

Or, "from the founding of Rome", which

occurred in 753 BC, according to Livy's
count. It was used as a referential year in
ab urbe from the city having been ancient Rome from which subsequent years
condita (a.u.c.) founded were calculated, prior to being replaced by
other dating conventions. Also anno urbis
conditae (a.u.c.); literally "in the year of the
founded city".

abusus non tollit misuse does not remove The misuse of some thing does not eliminate
usum use the possibility of its correct use.

ab utili from utility Used of an argument

abyssus abyssum From Psalms 42:7; some translations have

deep calleth unto deep
invocat "sea calls to sea".

a caelo usque ad from the sky to the center Or, "from Heaven all the way to the center
centrum of the Earth". In law, it may refer to the
 proprietary principle of Cuius est solum,
eius est usque ad coelum et ad
inferos ("Whosesoever is the soil, it is his up
to the sky and down to the depths [of the
Earth]").

From top to bottom; all the way through; or

a capite ad calcem from head to heel from head to toe; see also a pedibus usque
ad caput

Motto of the 848 Naval Air

accipe hoc take this
Squadron, British Royal Navy

Legal principle denoting that an accused

person is entitled to plead not guilty, and
accusare nemo se no one ought to accuse that a witness is not obligated to respond or
debet nisi coram himself except in the submit a document that would incriminate
Deo presence of God himself. A similar phrase is nemo tenetur se
ipsum accusare ("no one is bound to accuse
himself"). See right to silence.

Equivalent to "on the contrary" and "au

contraire". An argumentum a
a contrario from the opposite contrario ("argument from the contrary") is
an argument or proof by contrast or direct
opposite.

Ovid, Tristia, 1.2.97: si tamen acta deos

acta deos numquam mortalia fallunt, / a culpa facinus
mortal actions never
numquam mortalia scitis abesse mea. ("Yet if mortal actions
deceive the gods
fallunt never deceive the gods, / you know that
crime was absent from my fault.")

Common ending to ancient Roman

comedies; Suetonius claimed in The Twelve
Caesars that these were the last words
acta est fabula The play has been of Augustus; Sibelius applied them to the
plaudite performed; applaud! third movement of his String Quartet No. 2,
so that his audience would recognize that it
was the last one, because a fourth would be
ordinarily expected.

Motto of the United States Merchant Marine

acta non verba Deeds not Words
Academy
 Also used in the singular preceding a saint's
acta sanctorum Deeds of the Saints name: Acta Sancti ("Deeds of Saint") N.; a
common title of hagiography works

actiones secundum "We act according to what we believe

action follows belief
fidei (ourselves to be)."[2]

actus me invito the act done by me

factus non est meus against my will is not my
actus act

actus non facit The act does not make [a

Legal principle of the presumption of mens
reum nisi mens sit person] guilty unless the
rea in a crime
rea mind should be guilty.

The actual crime that is committed, as

distinguished from the intent, thinking, and
rationalizing that procured the criminal act;
actus reus guilty act
the external elements of a crime, as
contrasted with the mens rea, i. e., the
internal elements.

In logic, to the point of being silly or

nonsensical. See also reductio ad absurdum.
ad absurdum to absurdity
Not to be confused with ab absurdo ("from
the absurd").

In legal language, used when providing

additional evidence to an already sufficient
ad abundantiam to abundance
collection. Also used commonly, as an
equivalent of "as if this wasn't enough".

ad acta to the archives Denoting the irrelevance of a thing

I strive towards higher

ad altiora tendo
things

ad arbitrium at will, at pleasure

ad astra to the stars Name or motto, in whole or part, of many

 organizations' publications

Or, "a rough road leads to the stars", as on

to the stars through the Launch Complex 34 memorial plaque
ad astra per aspera
difficulties for the astronauts of Apollo 1; motto of
the State of Kansas and other organisations

ad augusta per to rise to a high position

angusta overcoming hardships

To appeal to the masses. Often said of or

ad in order to capture the used by politicians. An argumentum ad
captandum vulgus crowd captandum is an argument designed to
please the crowd.

Formal letter or communication in the

Christian tradition from a bishop to his
clergy. An "ad clerum" may be an
ad clerum to the clergy
encouragement in a time of celebration or a
technical explanation of new regulations
or canons.

A long time ago; from Gaius

a Deucalione from or since Deucalion
Lucilius, Satires, 6, 284

An ad eundem degree, from the Latin ad

eundem gradum ("to the same step" or "to
the same degree"), is a courtesy degree
awarded by a university or college to an
ad eundem to the same
alumnus of another. It is not an honorary
degree but a recognition of the formal
learning for which the degree was earned at
another college.

Motto of Renaissance humanism and

ad fontes to the sources
the Protestant Reformation

Said during a generic toast; equivalent to

ad fundum to the bottom "bottoms up!" In other contexts, it generally
means "back to the basics".

ad hoc to this Generally means "for this", in the sense of

improvised or intended only for a specific,
 immediate purpose.

Or, "at the man". Typically used

in argumentum ad hominem, a logical
fallacy consisting of criticizing a person
when the subject of debate is the person's
ad hominem to the man
ideas or argument, on the mistaken
assumption that the soundness of an
argument is dependent on the qualities of the
proponent.

"for the honour", not for the purpose of

ad honorem to the honour
gaining any material reward

Enduring forever. Used to designate a

property which repeats in all cases in
ad infinitum to infinity mathematical proof. Also used in
philosophical contexts to mean "repeating in
all cases".

As in the term "chargé d'affaires ad

ad interim (ad int.) for the meantime interim", denoting a diplomatic officer who
acts in place of an ambassador

Attributed by Suetonius in The Twelve

Caesars to Augustus. The Calends were
ad kalendas specific days of the Roman calendar, not of
at the Greek Calends
graecas the Greek, and so the "Greek Kalends"
would never occur. Similar to "when pigs
fly".

Loosely, "according to what pleases" or "as

you wish"; libitum comes from the
past participle of libere, "to please". It
typically indicates in music and theatrical
scripts that the performer has the liberty to
ad libitum (ad lib) toward pleasure
change or omit something. Ad lib is
specifically often used when
someone improvises or ignores limitations.
Also used by some restaurants in favor of
the colloquial "all you can eat or drink".

ad litem to the lawsuit Legal phrase referring to a party appointed

by a court to act in a lawsuit on behalf of
another party who is deemed incapable of
representing himself. An individual who
 acts in this capacity is called a guardian ad
litem.

Used to suggest looking for information

ad locum (ad loc.) at the place about a term in the corresponding place in a
cited work of reference.

frequently used motto for educational

ad lucem to the light
institutions

ad maiorem Dei Motto of the Society of

gloriam or ad For the greater glory of Jesus (Jesuits). Edward Elgar dedicated his
majorem Dei God oratorio The Dream of
gloriam (AMDG) Gerontius "A.M.D.G."

Motto of St Patrick's College, Cavan,

ad meliora towards better things
Ireland

Medical phrase serving as a synonym for

ad mortem to death
death

Wish for a long life; similar to "many happy

ad multos annos to many years
returns"

Or, "to the point of disgust". Sometimes

used as a humorous alternative to ad
infinitum. An argumentum ad nauseam is
ad nauseam to sickness a logical fallacy whose erroneous proof is
proffered by prolonged repetition of the
argument, i. e., the argument is repeated so
many times that persons are "sick of it".

"obvious on sight" or "obvious to anyone

ad oculos to the eyes
that sees it"

Thus, "exactly as it is written"; similar to the

ad pedem litterae to the foot of the letter phrase "to the letter", meaning "to the last
detail"

ad perpetuam to the perpetual memory Generally precedes "of" and a person's

memoriam name, and is used to wish for someone to be
 remembered long after death

More loosely, "considering everything's

weight". The abbreviation was historically
ad pondus used by physicians and others to signify that
omnium (ad pond to the weight of all things
the last prescribed ingredient is to weigh as
om)
much as all of the previously mentioned
ones.

Meaning "according to the harm" or "in

proportion to the harm". The phrase is used
in tort law as a measure
ad quod damnum to whatever damage of damages inflicted, implying that
a remedy, if one exists, ought to correspond
specifically and only to the damage suffered
(cf. damnum absque iniuria).

Loosely "subject to reference": provisionally

ad referendum to be proposed [before
approved, but still needing official approval.
(ad ref) the Senate]
Not the same as a referendum.

ad rem to the matter "to the point", without digression

ad sumus here we are Motto of the Brazilian Marine Corps

ad susceptum in order to achieve what

Motto of the Association of Trust Schools
perficiendum has been undertaken

Legal phrase for a writ of entry ad terminum

ad terminum qui for the term which has
qui praeteriit ("for the term which has
praeteriit passed
passed").[3]

ad undas to the waves Equivalent to "to Hell"

ad unum to one

ad usum Delphini for the use of Said of a work that has been expurgated of
the Dauphin offensive or improper parts. The phrase
originates from editions of Greek and
Roman classics which King Louis XIV of
France had censored for his heir apparent,
 the Dauphin. Also rarely "in usum Delphini"
("into the use of the Dauphin").

ad usum
proprium (ad us. for one's own use
propr.)

Motto of Lund University, with the implied

alternatives being the book (study) and the
ad utrumque prepared for either
sword (defending the nation in war), and of
paratus [alternative]
the United States Marine Corps' III Marine
Expeditionary Force

Used in commerce to refer to ad valorem

ad valorem according to value taxes, i. e., taxes based on the assessed value
of real estate or personal property

More commonly translated "for victory", it

ad victoriam to victory
was a battlecry of the Romans

Also "to life everlasting"; a common

ad vitam aeternam to eternal life
Biblical phrase

Phrase describing the term of a political

ad vitam aut office as ending upon the death of the
for life or until fault
culpam officer or his commission of a sufficiently
grave immorality and/or legal crime.

An item to be added, especially as a

addendum thing to be added supplement to a book. The plural
is addenda.

One of the classic definitions of "truth".

adaequatio correspondence of the When the mind has the same form as reality,
intellectus et rei mind and reality we think truth. Also found as adaequatio rei
et intellectus.

adaequatio
conformity of our minds Phrase used in epistemology regarding the
intellectus nostri
to the fact nature of understanding.
cum re
 Equivalent to "Present!" or "Here!" The
adsum I am here
opposite of absum ("I am absent").

adversus solem ne do not speak against the Or, "do not argue what is
loquitor Sun obviously/manifestly incorrect".

Someone who, in the face of a specific

argument, voices an argument that he does
not necessarily accept, for the sake of
advocatus diaboli Devil's advocate
argument and discovering the truth by
testing the opponent's argument. Confer the
term "arguendo".

Horace, Ars Poetica, 7. Loosely, "troubled

aegri somnia a sick man's dreams
dreams".

aes alienum financial debt literally "someone else's money"

Often abbreviated to "aetat.", or more

frequently further to "aet."; meaning "of age
aetatis of age / aged
_ [years]" or "aged _ [years]". E. g., "aetatis
36" denotes being "36 years old".

Thus, "at the age of _ [years]". Appears on

portraits, gravestones, monuments, et cetera.
Usually preceded by anno (AAS), "in the
year [of his age/life] _". Sometimes
shortened to aetatis, aetat.", or even
"aet. Frequently combined with Anno
of his age (followed by
aetatis suae Domini, giving a date as both the theoretical
an ordinal number)
age of Jesus Christ and the age of the
decedent; e. g., Obiit anno Domini
MDCXXXVIo  (tricensimo sexto), [anno]
aetatis suae XXVo (vicensimo quinto) ("he
died in the 1636th year of the Lord, [being]
the 25th [year] of his age[/life]").

a falsis principiis to set forth from false

Legal phrase; Cicero, De Finibus, 4.53.
proficisci principles

Legal term from "fides" ("faith"),

affidavit he asserted originating at least from Medieval Latin to
denote a statement under oath.
 Loosely, "even more so" or "with even
stronger reason". Often used to lead from a
a fortiori from the stronger
less certain proposition to a more evident
corollary.

More often translated as "do well whatever

you do". Literally translated, it means "do
what you do"; figuratively it means "keep
going, because you are inspired or dedicated
to do so". This is the motto of several
Roman Catholic schools. It was also used
by Pope John XXIII in the sense of "do not
age quod agis do what you are doing be concerned with any other matter than the
task in hand"; he was allaying worry of what
would become of him in the future: his
sense of "age quod agis" was "joy"
regarding what is presently occurring and
"detachment" from concern of the future.
(Pope John XXIII, Journal of a Soul, pages
154-5)

Metaphysical and moral principle that
agere sequitur
action follows being indicates the connection
(esse)
of ontology, obligation, and ethics.[2]

Latin translation from John 1: 36, when St.

John the Baptist exclaimed "Ecce Agnus
Dei!" ("Behold the Lamb of God!") upon
Agnus Dei Lamb of God seeing Jesus Christ; it refers both to the
innocence of a lamb and to Christ being
a sacrificial lamb after the Jewish religious
practice.

Or, in Greek, ἀνερρίφθω

κύβος anerrhíphthō kýbos; said by Julius
Caesar upon crossing the Rubicon in 49 BC,
according to Suetonius. The original
meaning was similar to "the game is afoot",
alea iacta est the die is cast but its modern meaning, like that of the
phrase "crossing the Rubicon", denotes
passing the point of no return on a
momentous decision and entering into a
risky endeavor where the outcome is left to
chance.

alenda lux ubi orta light [is] to be nourished

Motto of Davidson College
libertas where liberty [has] arisen
 An assumed name or pseudonym; similar
at another time,
alias to alter ego, but more specifically referring
otherwise
to a name, not to a "second self".

Legal defense where a defendant attempts to

show that he was elsewhere at the time a
alibi elsewhere crime was committed.
His alibi is sound; he gave evidence that he was in
another city on the night of the murder.

aliquid stat pro something stands for

Foundational definition in semiotics
aliquo something else

Quotation from Isaiah, 40: "But those who

wait for the Lord shall find their strength
alis aquilae on an eagle's wings renewed, they shall mount up on wings like
eagles, they shall run and not grow weary,
they shall walk and not grow faint."

Or, "nothing is heavy to those who have

nothing [is] heavy with
alis grave nil wings". Motto of the Pontifical Catholic
wings
University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Motto of the State of Oregon, adopted in

she flies with her own
alis volat propriis 1987; it replaced the previous state motto of
wings
"The Union", which was adopted in 1957.

Term used for the university one attends or

has attended. Another university
term, matriculation, is also derived
alma mater nourishing mother from mater. The term suggests that the
students are "fed" knowledge and taken care
of by the university. The term is also used
for a university's traditional school anthem.

Another self, a second persona or alias. Can

be used to describe different facets or
identities of a single character, or different
alter ego another I
characters who seem representations of the
same personality. Often used of a fictional
character's secret identity.

alterius non sit qui let no man be another's Final sentence

suus esse potest who can be his own from Aesop ascribed fable (see also Aesop's
 Fables) "The Frogs Who Desired a King" as
appears in the collection commonly known
as the "Anonymus Neveleti", in Fable
21B: De ranis a Iove querentibus
regem). Motto of Paracelsus. Usually
attributed to Cicero.

alterum non One of Justinian I's three basic legal

to not wound another
laedere precepts

Graduate or former student of a school,

alumnus or college, or university. Plural of alumnus is
pupil
alumna alumni (male). Plural of alumna is alumnae
(female).

This translation ignores the word usque,

which is an emphasis word, so a better
translation is probably from sea even unto
sea. From Psalm 72:8, "Et dominabitur a
a mari usque ad
from sea to sea mari usque ad mare, et a flumine usque ad
mare
terminos terrae" (KJV: "He shall have
dominion also from sea to sea, and from the
river unto the ends of the earth"). National
motto of Canada.

amicus certus in re a sure friend in an unsure Ennius, as quoted by Cicero in Laelius de

incerta matter Amicitia s. 64

An adviser, or a person who can obtain or

grant access to the favour of a powerful
group, e. g., the a Roman Curia. In current
amicus curiae friend of the court United States legal usage, an amicus
curiae is a third party allowed to submit a
legal opinion in the form of an amicus brief
to the court.

An assertion that truth is more valuable than

Amicus Plato, sed friendship; attributed
Plato is my friend, but
magis amica to Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, 1096a15
truth is a better friend.
veritas. and Roger Bacon, Opus Majus, Part 1,
Chapter 5.

An obsolete legal phrase signifying the

amittere legem
to lose the law of the land forfeiture of the right of swearing in any
terrae
court or cause, or to become infamous.
amat victoria frequently used motto for educational
victory favors care
curam institutions

amor Dei
intellectual love of God Baruch Spinoza
intellectualis

amor et melle et
love is rich with both
felle est
honey and venom
fecundissimus

Nietzscheian alternative world view to that

represented by memento mori ("remember
amor fati love of fate
you must die"): Nietzsche believed "amor
fati" was more affirmative of life.

amor omnibus
love is the same for all Virgil, Georgics, 3
idem

amor patriae love of the fatherland Or, "love of the nation", i. e., patriotism

Inscribed on a bracelet worn by

the Prioress in Chaucer's The Canterbury
Tales; originally from Virgil, Eclogues, 10,
amor vincit omnia love conquers all
69: omnia vincit amor: et nos cedamus
amori ("love conquers all: let us too
surrender to love").

Said by Axel Oxenstierna to encourage his

Do you not know, my son, a delegate to the negotiations that
An nescis, mi fili,
son, with how little would lead to the Peace of Westphalia, who
quantilla prudentia
wisdom the world is worried about his ability to hold his own
mundus regatur?
governed? amidst experienced and eminent statesmen
and diplomats.

Used before the anglicized version of a word

anglice in English or name. For example, "Terra
Mariae, anglice, Maryland".

animus in a mind unfettered in

Motto of NATO
consulendo liber deliberation
 Also used in such phrases as anno urbis
anno (an.) in the year conditae (see ab urbe condita), Anno
Domini, and anno regni.

Abbreviated from Anno Domini Nostri Jesu

Christi ("in the year of Our Lord Jesus
Christ"), the predominantly used system for
dating years across the world; used with
the Gregorian Calendar and based on the
perceived year of the birth of Jesus Christ.
anno Domini (A.D.) in the year of our Lord
The years before His birth were formerly
signified by a. C. n (ante Christum
natum ("before Christ was born")), but now
use the English abbreviation "BC" ("before
Christ"). For example, Augustus was born in
the year 63 BC and died in AD 14.

anno regni In the year of the reign Precedes "of" and the current ruler

Or, "he approves our undertakings". Motto

on the reverse of the Great Seal of the
he nods at things now
annuit cœptis United States and, consequently, on the
begun
reverse of the United States one-dollar bill;
in this context the motto refers to God.

Variation on annus mirabilis, recorded in

print from 1890;[4] notably used in a speech
by Queen Elizabeth II to describe what a
annus horribilis horrible year
bad year 1992 had been for her. In Classical
Latin, this phrase actually means "terrifying
year". See also annus terribilis.

Used particularly to refer to the years 1665

and 1666, during which Isaac Newton made
revolutionary inventions and discoveries in
calculus, motion, optics and
gravitation. Annus Mirabilis is also the title
of a poem by John Dryden written in the
annus mirabilis wonderful year same year. It has since been used to refer to
other years, especially to 1905, when Albert
Einstein made equally revolutionary
discoveries concerning the photoelectric
effect, Brownian motion, mass-energy
equivalence, and the special theory of
relativity. (See Annus Mirabilis papers)

annus terribilis dreadful year Used to describe 1348, the year the Black
 Death began to afflict Europe

As in status quo ante bellum ("as it was

before the war"); commonly used in
ante bellum before the war the Southern United States as antebellum to
refer to the period preceding the American
Civil War.

ante cibum (a.c.) before food Medical shorthand for "before meals"

Ante faciem before the face of the Motto of the Christian Brothers College,
Domini Lord Adelaide

Said of an expression or term that describes

something which existed before the phrase
ante litteram before the letter itself was introduced or became
common. Example: Alan Turing was a computer
scientist ante litteram, since the field of "computer
science" was not yet recognized in Turing's day.

ante From midnight to noon; confer post

before midday
meridiem (a.m.) meridiem

ante mortem before death See post mortem ("after death")

ante omnia armari before all else, be armed

Used on pharmaceutical prescriptions to

ante
before lunch denote "before a meal". Less common
prandium (a.p.)
is post prandium ("after lunch").

antiqui colant let the ancients worship

The motto of Chester
antiquum dierum the ancient of days

Or, "completely"; similar to the English

a pedibus usque ad expressions "from tip to toe" and "from head
from feet to head
caput to toe". Equally a capite ad calcem. See
also ab ovo usque ad mala.

aperire terram open the land to nations Motto of Ferdinand de Lesseps referring to

 the Suez and Panama Canals. Also appears
gentibus
on a plaque at Kinshasa train station.

"From possibility to actuality" or "from

a posse ad esse from being able to being
being possible to being actual".

Based on observation, i. e., empirical

evidence; the reverse of a priori. Used in
mathematics and logic to denote something
a posteriori from the latter
that is known after a proof has been carried
out. In philosophy, used to denote
something known from experience.

Textual notes or a list of other readings

apparatus criticus tools of a critic relating to a document, especially in a
scholarly edition of a text.

Presupposed independent of experience; the

reverse of a posteriori. Used in mathematics
and logic to denote something that is known
or postulated before a proof has been carried
a priori from the former out. In philosophy, used to denote
something is supposed
without empirical evidence. In everyday
speech, it denotes something occurring or
being known before the event.

apologia pro vita

defense of one's life [5]
sua

Used in scholarly works to cite a reference

apud in the writings of
at second hand

aqua (aq.) water

Refers to nitric acid, thus called because of

aqua fortis strong water its ability to dissolve all materials except
gold and platinum

aqua pura pure water Or, "clear water" or "clean water"

 Refers to a mixture of hydrochloric
aqua regia royal water acid and nitric acid, thus called because of
its ability to dissolve gold and platinum

"Spirit of Wine" in many English texts.

Used to refer to various native distilled
beverages, such as whisky (uisge beatha) in
aqua vitae water of life
Scotland and Ireland, gin in the
Netherlands, brandy (eau de vie) in France,
and akvavit in Scandinavia.

aquila non capit an eagle does not catch Or, "a noble or important person does not
muscas flies deal with insignificant matters"

Desiderius Erasmus, Adagia (AD 1508);

arare litus to plough the seashore
meaning "wasted labor"

One who prescribes, rules on, or is a

recognized authority on matters of social
arbiter
judge of tastes behavior and taste. Said of Petronius.
elegantiarum
Sometimes found in the singular as arbiter
elegantiae ("judge of taste").

Originally used by Tacitus to refer to the

arcana imperii the secrets of power state secrets and unaccountable acts of the
Roman imperial government

arcanum boni The secret behind a good

Motto of the Starobrno Brewery in Brno
tenoris animae mood

An opaque circle around the cornea of the

arcus senilis bow of an old person
eye, often seen in elderly people

arduus ad solem Striving towards the Sun Motto of Victoria University of Manchester

Also "silver coin"; mentioned in

argentum album white silver the Domesday Book;
signifies bullion or silver uncoined

arguendo for arguing Or, "for the sake of argument". Said when
something is done purely in order to discuss
 a matter or illustrate a point. E. g., "let us
assume, arguendo, that your claim is
correct."

Or "reasoning", "inference", "appeal", or

"proof". The plural is argumenta.
Commonly used in the names of
logical arguments and fallacies, preceding
phrases such as a silentio (by silence), ad
antiquitatem (to antiquity), ad baculum (to
the stick), ad captandum (to capturing), ad
consequentiam (to the consequence), ad
crumenam (to the purse), ad feminam (to the
woman), ad hominem (to the person), ad
ignorantiam (to ignorance), ad invidiam (to
hatred – appealing to low passions), ad
argumentum argument
judicium (to judgment), ad lazarum (to
poverty), ad logicam (to logic), ad
metum (to fear), ad misericordiam (to
pity), ad nauseam (to nausea), ad
novitatem (to novelty), ad personam (to the
character), ad numerum (to the number), ad
odium (to spite), ad populum (to the
people), ad temperantiam (to
moderation), ad verecundiam (to
reverence), ex silentio (from silence), in
terrorem (into terror), and e
contrario (from/to the opposite).

charge made by a Justice of the

armata potentia armed and powerful Peace in Medieval England against those
who rode in arms against the King's Peace.

An aesthetic ideal that good art should

appear natural rather than contrived. Of
ars celare artem art [is] to conceal art
medieval origin, but often incorrectly
attributed to Ovid.[6]

Translated into Latin

from Baudelaire's L'art pour l'art. Motto
ars gratia artis art for the sake of art of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. While
symmetrical for the logo of MGM, the better
word order in Latin is "Ars artis gratia".

ars longa, vita art is long, life is short Seneca, De Brevitate Vitae, 1.1, translating a
brevis phrase of Hippocrates that is often used out
of context. The "art" referred to in the
original aphorism was the craft of medicine,
 which took a lifetime to acquire.

arte et labore by art and by labour Motto of Blackburn Rovers F.C.

Motto of the Electrical and Mechanical

arte et marte by skill and by fighting Engineering (EME) Branch of the Canadian
Forces

Award of the Minister of Culture of

Artis Bohemiae
Friends of Czech Arts the Czech Republic for the promotion of the
Amicis
positive reputation of Czech culture abroad

Desiderius Erasmus, Adagia (AD 1508);

asinus ad lyram an ass to the lyre meaning "an awkward or incompetent
individual"

asinus asinum the jackass rubs the Used to describe 2 persons who are
fricat jackass lavishing excessive praise on one another

assecuratus non the assured does not seek

quaerit lucrum sed profit but makes [it his Refers to the insurance principle that the
agit ne in damno profit] that he not be in indemnity can not be larger than the loss
sit loss

astra inclinant, sed the stars incline us, they Refers to the distinction of free will from
non obligant do not bind us astrological determinism

Used in bibliography for books, texts,

auctores varii various authors publications, or articles that have more than
3 collaborators

Level of prestige a person had in Roman

auctoritas authority
society

This formula appears in the 1668 Latin

auctoritas non authority, not truth, revised edition of Thomas
veritas facit legem makes law Hobbes's Leviathan, book 2, chapter 26,
p. 133.

audacia pro muro boldness is our wall, Cornelis Jol,[7] in a bid to rally his rebellious
 captains to fight and conquer the Spanish
et scuto opus action is our shield
treasure fleet in 1638.

audacter
calumniare, slander boldly, something Francis Bacon, De Augmentis
semper aliquid always sticks Scientiarum (AD 1623)
haeret

audax at fidelis bold but faithful Motto of Queensland, Australia

Motto of the Canadian Special Operations

Regiment [CSOR] on their regimental coat
of arms; of Otago University Students'
audeamus let us dare Association, a direct response to the
university's motto of sapere aude ("dare to
be wise"); and of Champlain
College in Burlington, Vermont.

Motto of the State of Alabama, adopted in

AD 1923; translated into Latin from a
audemus jura we dare to defend our paraphrase of the stanza "Men who their
nostra defendere rights duties know / But know their rights, and
knowing, dare maintain" from William
Jones, "What Constitutes a State?"

From Virgil, Aeneid, Book 10, 284, where

the first word is in the archaic
form audentis. Allegedly the last words
of Pliny the Elder before he left the docks
audentes fortuna
fortune favors the bold at Pompeii to rescue people from the
iuvat
eruption of Vesuvius in 79. Often quoted
as audaces fortuna iuvat. Also the motto of
the Portuguese Army Commandos and
the USS  Montpelier in the latter form.

audere est facere to dare is to do Motto of Tottenham Hotspur F.C.

Legal principle; also worded as audiatur et

audi alteram
hear the other side altera pars ("let the other side be heard
partem
also")

audio hostem I hear the enemy Motto of the 845 NAS Royal Navy
audi, vide, tace hear, see, be silent

From Horace's Odes, 2, 10. Refers to the

ethical goal of reaching a virtuous middle
aurea mediocritas golden mean ground between two sinful extremes.
The golden mean concept is common to
many philosophers, chiefly Aristotle.

From Virgil, Aeneid, Book 3, 57. Later

quoted by Seneca as quod non mortalia
auri sacra fames accursed hunger for gold pectora coges, auri sacra fames ("what do
not you force mortal hearts [to do], accursed
hunger for gold").

Common ancient proverb, this version

from Terence. It indicates that one is in a
auribus teneo
I hold a wolf by the ears dangerous situation where both holding on
lupum
and letting go could be deadly. A modern
version is "to have a tiger by the tail".

The Southern Lights, an aurora that appears

in the Southern Hemisphere. It is less well-
aurora australis southern dawn known than the Northern Lights (aurorea
borealis). The Aurora Australis is also the
name of an Antarctic icebreaker ship.

The Northern Lights, an aurora that appears

aurora borealis northern dawn
in the Northern Hemisphere.

Title of a distich by Iohannes Christenius

(1599–1672): "Conveniens studiis non est
nox, commoda lux est; / Luce labor bonus
aurora musis dawn is a friend to the est et bona nocte quies." ("Night is not
amica muses suitable for studying, daylight is; / working
by light is good, as is rest at night.");
in Nihus, Barthold (1642). Epigrammata
disticha. Johannes Kinckius.

Motto of the fictional Fowl Family in

aurum potestas est gold is power the Artemis Fowl series, written by Eoin
Colfer

auspicium melioris hope/token of a better Motto of the Order of St Michael and St

aevi age George and of Raffles
 Institution in Singapore

Denotes an absolute aspiration to become

the Emperor, or the equivalent supreme
magistrate, and nothing else. More
generally, "all or nothing". A personal motto
aut Caesar aut
either Caesar or nothing of Cesare Borgia. Charlie Chaplin also used
nihil
the phrase in The Great Dictator to ridicule
Hynkel's (Chaplin's parody of Hitler)
ambition for power, but substituted "nullus"
for "nihil".

I. e., either through reasoned discussion or

through war. It was the
aut consilio aut either by meeting or the first motto of Chile (see coat of arms),
ense sword changed to Spanish: Por la razón o la
fuerza. Name of episode 1 in season 3
of Berlin Station.

Or, "do or die" or "no retreat". A Greek

expression («Ἢ τὰν ἢ ἐπὶ τᾶς») that Spartan
mothers said to their sons as they departed
aut cum scuto aut either with shield or on for battle. It refers to the practices that a
in scuto shield Greek hoplite would drop his cumbersome
shield in order to flee the battlefield, and a
slain warrior would be borne home atop his
shield.

Seneca the Younger, Epistulae morales ad

aut imiteris aut Lucilium, 7:7. From the full phrase: "necesse
imitate or loathe it
oderis est aut imiteris aut oderis" ("you must either
imitate or loathe the world").

Also: "neca ne neceris" ("kill lest you be

aut neca aut necare either kill or be killed
killed")

aut pax aut bellum either peace or war Motto of the Gunn Clan

Said of two situations that can only occur

aut simul stabunt they will either stand
simultaneously: if one ends, so does the
aut simul cadent together or fall together
other, and vice versa.[8]
aut viam inveniam I will either find a way or
Hannibal
aut faciam make one

General pledge of victoria aut

mors ("victory or death"). Motto of the
Higgenbotham and Higginbottom families
aut vincere aut
either to conquer or to die of Cheshire, England; participants in
mori
the War of the Roses. Also the motto for the
United States 1st Fighter Wing, Langley Air
Force Base in Virginia.

Catullus, Carmen 101, addressed to his

ave atque vale hail and farewell
deceased brother

ave Europa nostra hail Europe, our true

Anthem of Imperium Europa
vera patria fatherland

Hail, Emperor! Those
Ave Imperator,
who are about to die
morituri te salutant
salute you!
From Suetonius' The Twelve
Caesars, Claudius 21. A salute and plea for
mercy recorded on one occasion
by naumachiarii–captives and criminals
fated to die fighting during mock naval
encounters. Later versions included a variant
of "We who are about to die", and this
translation is sometimes aided by changing
the Latin to nos morituri te salutamus.

Roman Catholic prayer of intercession

Ave Maria Hail, Mary asking St. Mary, the Mother of Jesus
Christ to pray for the petitioner

ave mater Angliae Hail, Mother of England Motto of Canterbury, England

B[edit]

Latin Translation Notes

beard grows,
barba crescit
head doesn't
caput nescit
grow wiser
 a beard doesn't
barba non facit
make one a
philosophum
philosopher

barba tenus wise as far as Wise only in appearance. From Erasmus's collection

sapientes the beard of Adages.

A common name in the Roman Catholic

Church for Mary, the mother of Jesus.
Beata Virgo Blessed Virgin
The genitive, Beatae Mariae Virginis (BMV), occurs
Maria (BVM) Mary
often as well, appearing with such words
as horae (hours), litaniae (litanies) and officium (office).

beatae of blessed
See in memoriam
memoriae memory

A Beatitude from Matthew 5:3 in the Vulgate: beati

beati pauperes blessed in spirit pauperes spiritu, quoniam ipsorum est regnum
spiritu [are] the poor. caelorum "Blessed in spirit [are] the poor, for theirs is the
kingdom of the heavens".

blessed [are]
beati
those who Translated from Euripides
possidentes
possess

blessed are
beati qui
they who walk Inscription above the entrance to St. Andrew's Church
ambulant lege
in the law of (New York City), based on Psalm 119:1
domini
the Lord

beatus homo blessed is the

From Proverbs 3:13; set to music in a 1577 motet of the
qui invenit man who finds
same name by Orlando di Lasso.
sapientiam wisdom

Bella, mulier war, a woman

qui hominum who lures men
Latin proverb[citation needed]
allicit et accipit and takes them
eos per fortis by force

bella gerant alii let others wage Originally from Ovid, Heroides 13.84,[9] where Laodamia

Protesilaus amet! war is writing to her husband Protesilaus who is at the Trojan
Protesilaus should War. She begs him to stay out of danger, but he was in
love! fact the first Greek to die at Troy. Also used of
 the Habsburg marriages of 1477 and 1496, written
as bella gerant alii, tu felix Austria nube (let others wage
war; you, happy Austria, marry). Said by King Matthias.

bella detesta war hateful to

From Horace
matribus mothers

I grow old
bello et jure
through war Motto of the House of d'Udekem d'Acoz [nl]
senesco
and law

bellum omnium war of all A phrase used by Thomas Hobbes to describe the state of
contra omnes against all nature

bellum se ipsum
war feeds itself
alet

Biblia Tradition of biblical pictures displaying the essential facts

Paupers' Bible
pauperum of Christian salvation

I drink,
bibo ergo sum A play on "cogito ergo sum", "I think therefore I am"
therefore I am

he gives twice,
bis dat qui cito
who gives A gift given without hesitation is as good as two gifts.
dat
promptly

bis in die (bid) twice in a day Medical shorthand for "twice a day"

In other words, "well-intentioned", "fairly". In modern

contexts, often has connotations of "genuinely" or
bona fide in good faith "sincerely". Bona fides is not the plural (which would
be bonis fidebus), but the nominative, and means simply
"good faith". Opposite of mala fide.

bona notabilia note-worthy In law, if a person dying has goods, or good debts, in
goods another diocese or jurisdiction within that province,
besides his goods in the diocese where he dies, amounting
to a certain minimum value, he is said to have bona
notabilia; in which case, the probat of his will belongs to
 the archbishop of that province.

A nation's offer to mediate in disputes between two other

bona officia good services
nations

goods of a
bona patria A jury or assize of countrymen, or good neighbors
country

United Kingdom legal term for ownerless property that

bona vacantia vacant goods
passes to The Crown

it is a good
boni pastoris est shepherd's
Tiberius reportedly said this to his regional commanders,
tondere pecus [job] to shear
as a warning against taxing the populace excessively.
non deglubere his flock, not to
flay them

bono malum overcome evil

Motto of Westonbirt School
superate with good

Or "general welfare". Refers to what benefits a society, as

opposed to bonum commune hominis, which refers to
bonum common good what is good for an individual. In the film Hot Fuzz, this
commune of the phrase is chanted by an assembled group of people, in
communitatis community which context it is deliberately similar to another phrase
that is repeated throughout the film, which is The Greater
Good.

Refers to an individual's happiness, which is not

bonum
common good "common" in that it serves everyone, but in that
commune
of a man individuals tend to be able to find happiness in similar
hominis
things.

the North is our

boreas domus,
home, the sea Motto of Orkney
mare amicus
is our friend

harmless (or
Used to indicate either an empty threat, or a judgement at
brutum fulmen inert)
law which has no practical effect
thunderbolt
 John of Cornwall (ca. 1170) was once asked by a scribe
what the word meant. It turns out that the original text
said in diebus illis magnis plenae (in those days there
were plenty of great things), which the scribe misread
baffling puzzle, as indie busillis magnis plenae (in India there were plenty
busillis [it]
thorny problem of large busillis). This mondegreen has since entered the
literature; it occurs in Alessandro Manzoni's novel The
Betrothed (1827), in Dostoyevsky's The Brothers
Karamazov (1880), and in Andrea Camilleri's Inspector
Montalbano series.

C[edit]

Latin Translation Notes

Cacoēthes[10] "bad habit", or medically, "malignant

disease" is a borrowing of Greek kakoēthes.[11] The
cacoethes insatiable desire to phrase is derived from a line in
scribendi write the Satires of Juvenal: Tenet insanabile multos
scribendi cacoethes, or "the incurable desire (or
itch) for writing affects many". See hypergraphia.

cadavera vero truly countless Used by the Romans to describe the aftermath of
innumera bodies the Battle of the Catalaunian Plains.

Supposed statement by Abbot Arnaud

Caedite eos.
Kill them all. For Amalric before the Massacre at Béziers during
Novit enim
the Lord knows the Albigensian Crusade, recorded 30 years later,
Dominus qui
those who are his. according to Caesarius of Heisterbach. cf. "Kill
sunt eius.
them all and let God sort them out."

Those who hurry

Caelum non across the sea Hexameter by Horace (Epistula XI).
animum mutant change the sky [12]
 Seneca shortens it to Animum debes mutare,
qui trans mare [upon them], not non caelum (You must change [your] disposition,
currunt their souls or state not [your] sky) in his Letter to Lucilium XXVIII, 1.
of mind

Caesar non Caesar has no

Political power is limited; it does not include power
supra authority over the
over grammar.[13]
grammaticos grammarians

caetera desunt the rest is missing Caetera is Medieval Latin spelling for cētera.

calix meus my cup making me
inebrians drunk

calamus gladio The pen is mightier

fortior than the sword

An optical device used in drawing, and an ancestor

camera obscura dark chamber of modern photography. The source of the
word camera.

Perfectly correct Latin sentence usually reported as

Cane Nero Tell, oh Nero, of the funny from modern Italians because the same exact
magna bella great wars of words, in today's dialect of Rome, mean "A black
Persica Persia dog eats a beautiful peach", which has a
ridiculously different meaning.

war dogs or fighting
canes pugnaces
dogs

Refers to a situation where nobody is safe from

canis canem edit dog eats dog
anybody, each man for himself.

From Augustine, De Trinitate XIV, 8.11: Mens eo

capable of receiving ipso imago Dei est quo eius capax est,[14] "The mind
capax Dei
God is the image of God, in that it is capable of Him and
can be partaker of Him."

Capability of achieving goals by force of many

capax infiniti holding the infinite
instead of a single individual.

So aggrandized as to be beyond practical (earthly)

caput inter (she plunges) [her] reach or understanding (from Virgil's Aeneid and
nubila (condit) head in the clouds the shorter form appears in John Locke's Two
Treatises of Government)

Originally an alchemical reference to the dead

head or worthless residue left over from a reaction.
caput mortuum dead head
Also used to refer to a freeloader or worthless
element.

Caritas Christi The love of Christ It implies a command to love as Christ loved. Motto
 of St. Francis Xavier High School located in West
Meadowlark Park, Edmonton.

Caritas in
Charity in Truth Pope Benedict XVI's third encyclical.
Veritate

An exhortation to live for today.

From Horace, Odes I, 11.8. Carpere refers to
carpe diem seize the day
plucking of flowers or fruit. The phrase collige
virgo rosas has a similar sense.

An exhortation to make good use of the night, often

used when carpe diem, q.v., would seem absurd,
carpe noctem seize the night e.g., when observing a deep-sky object or
conducting a Messier marathon or engaging in
social activities after sunset.

carpe vinum seize the wine

The Roman senator Cato the Elder ended every

speech after the Second Punic War with ceterum
Carthago Carthage must be
censeo Carthaginem esse delendam, literally "For
delenda est destroyed
the rest, I am of the opinion that Carthage is to be
destroyed."

Or, "[Comedy/Satire] criticises customs through

humour", is a phrase coined by French New
One corrects
castigat ridendo Latin poet Jean-Baptiste de Santeul (1630–1697),
customs by laughing
mores but sometimes wrongly attributed to his
at them
contemporary Molière or to Roman lyric
poet Horace.

Refers to an incident that is the justification or case

casus belli event of war
for war.

The cause is hidden,

causa latet, vis Ovid: Metamorphoses IV, 287; motto of Alpha
but the result is well
est notissima Sigma Phi.
known.

causa mortis cause of death

 especially used by Doctors of Medicine, when they
want to warn each other (e.g.:
"cave nephrolithiases" in order to warn about side
cave beware!
effects of an uricosuric). Spoken aloud in some
British public schools by pupils to warn each other
of impending authority.

Earliest written example is in the Satyricon of

cave canem Beware of the dog
Petronius, circa 1st century C.E.

The purchaser is responsible for checking whether

the goods suit his need. Phrases modeled on this one
caveat emptor let the buyer beware
replace emptor with lector, subscriptor, venditor, ut
ilitor: "reader", "signer", "seller", "user".

It is a counter to caveat emptor and suggests that

sellers can also be deceived in a market transaction.
caveat venditor let the seller beware This forces the seller to take responsibility for the
product and discourages sellers from selling
products of unreasonable quality.

"Let military power yield to civilian

cedant arma let arms yield to the
power", Cicero, De Officiis I:77. Former motto of
togae gown
the Territory of Wyoming. See also Toga

I know not how to

cedere nescio Motto of HMAS  Norman
yield

Motto of the United States Marine Corps Force

Reconnaissance, also known as FORCE
RECON or FORECON, one of the United States
Marine Corps Special Operations Capable
Celer – Silens – Swift – Silent – Forces (SOC) that provide essential elements of
Mortalis Deadly military intelligence to the command element of
the Marine Air-Ground Task Force (MAGTF),
supporting their task force commanders, and their
subordinate operating units of
the Fleet Marine Force (FMF).

Or simply "faster than cooking asparagus". A

celerius quam more swiftly
variant of the Roman phrase velocius quam
asparagi than asparagus [ste
asparagi coquantur, using a different adverb and an
cocuntur m]s are cooked
alternative mood and spelling of coquere.
 In law, it is a return made by the sheriff, upon
I have taken the a capias, or other process to the like purpose;
cepi corpus
body signifying, that he has taken the body of the party.
See also habeas corpus.

Or "... if it can be rendered certain." Often used in

certum est quod it is certain,
law when something is not known, but can be
certum reddi whatever can be
ascertained (e.g. the purchase price on a sale which
potest rendered certain
is to be determined by a third-party valuer)

cessante ratione when the reason for A rule of law becomes ineffective when the reason
legis cessat ipsa the law ceases, the for its application has ceased to exist or does not
lex law itself ceases correspond to the reality anymore. By Gratian.

cetera desunt the rest are missing Also spelled "caetera desunt".

all other things That is, disregarding or eliminating extraneous

ceteris paribus
being equal factors in a situation.

charta
a paper of pardon to The form of a pardon for killing another man in
pardonationis se
defend oneself self-defence (see manslaughter).
defendendo

charta
a paper of pardon to The form of a pardon of a man who is outlawed.
pardonationis
the outlaw Also called perdonatio utlagariae.
utlagariae

[Throw the]
Christianos ad
Christians to the
leones
lions!

Christo et For Christ and
The motto of Furman University.
Doctrinae Learning

Christus nos title of volume I, book 5, chapter XI of Les

Christ has freed us
liberavit Misérables by Victor Hugo.

Christus Rex Christ the King A Christian title for Jesus.

circa (c.) or (ca.) around In the sense of "approximately" or "about". Usually

 used of a date.

circulus in circle made in

Circular reasoning. Similar term to circulus vitiosus.
probando testing [a premise]

In logic, begging the question, a fallacy involving

the presupposition of a proposition in one of the
circulus vitiosus vicious circle premises (see petitio principii). In science,
a positive feedback loop. In economics, a
counterpart to the virtuous circle.

citius altius faster, higher,

Motto of the modern Olympics.
fortius stronger

civis romanus I am (a) Roman Is a phrase used in Cicero's In Verrem as a plea for
sum citizen the legal rights of a Roman citizen

clamea A writ whereby the king of England could

admittenda in command the justice to admit one's claim by an
 
itinere per attorney, who being employed in the king's service,
atturnatum cannot come in person.

clarere audere [be] bright, daring,

Motto of the Geal family.
gaudere joyful

A legal action for trespass to land; so called,

because the writ demands the person summoned to
clausum fregit   answer wherefore he broke the close (quare
clausum fregit), i.e., why he entered the plaintiff's
land.

claves Sancti the keys of Saint

A symbol of the Papacy.
Petri Peter

The means of discovering hidden or mysterious

clavis aurea golden key meanings in texts, particularly applied
in theology and alchemy.

clerico for being made a In law, a writ directed to the bishop, for the
admittendo clerk admitting a clerk to a benefice upon a ne admittas,
 tried, and found for the party who procures the writ.

clerico capto per In law, a writ for the delivery of a clerk out of
statutum   prison, who is imprisoned upon the breach of statute
mercatorum merchant.

clerico convicto
In law, a writ for the delivery of a clerk to his
commisso gaolae
ordinary, that was formerly convicted of felony; by
in defectu  
reason that his ordinary did not challenge him
ordinarii
according to the privilege of clerks.
deliberando

clerico intra
sacros ordines In law, a writ directed to the bailiffs, etc., that have
constituto non   thrust a bailiwick or beadleship upon one in holy
eligendo in orders; charging them to release him.
officium

Codex Iuris The official code of canon law in the Roman

Book of Canon Law
Canonici Catholic Church (cf. Corpus Iuris Canonici).

Cogitationis "No one suffers

A Latin legal phrase. See, State v Taylor, 47 Or 455,
poenam nemo punishment for
84 P 82.
patitur mere intent."

A rationalistic argument used by French

I think, therefore I
cogito ergo sum philosopher René Descartes to attempt to prove his
am.
own existence.

Aborting sexual intercourse prior to ejaculation—

coitus
interrupted congress the only permitted form of birth control in some
interruptus
religions.

coitus more congress in the way A medical euphemism for the doggy-style sexual

ferarum of beasts position.

Exhortation to enjoy "Gather ye

collige virgo pick, girl, the roses fully the youth, similar rosebuds
rosas to Carpe diem, from while ye
"De rosis nascentibus" may",
(also titled "Idyllium 1909,
de rosis"), attributed by John
to Ausonius or Virgil. William
[15]
Waterhous
 e

It is frequently abbreviated comb. nov.. It is used in

the life sciences literature when a new name is
combinatio nova new combination
introduced, e.g. Klebsiella granulomatis comb.
nov..

One year with another; on an average. "Common"

communibus
in common years here does not mean "ordinary", but "common to
annis
every situation"

A term frequently used among philosophical and

other writers, implying some medium, or mean
communibus
in common places relation between several places; one place with
locis
another; on a medium. "Common" here does not
mean "ordinary", but "common to every situation"

prevailing doctrine, generally accepted view (in an

academic field), scientific consensus;
communis opinio common opinion
originally communis opinio doctorum, "common
opinion of the doctors"

Describes someone of sound mind. Sometimes used

in control of the ironically. Also a legal principle, non compos
compos mentis
mind mentis (not in control of one's faculties), used to
describe an insane person.

by wisdom and
concilio et labore Motto of the city of Manchester.
effort

concordia cum in harmony with

Motto of the University of Waterloo
veritate truth

well-being through Motto of Montreal. It is also the Bank of

concordia salus
harmony Montreal coat of arms and motto.

concordia parvae small things grow in

Motto of Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood
res crescunt harmony

condemnant They condemn what The quod here is ambiguous: it may be the relative

quod non they do not pronoun or a conjunction.
intellegunt understand or
They condemn
 because they do not
understand

A required, indispensable condition. Commonly

condicio sine qua condition without mistakenly rendered with conditio ("seasoning" or
non which not "preserving") in place of condicio ("arrangement" or
"condition").

it is founded on the Motto of Peterhouse Boys' School and Peterhouse

conditur in petra
rock Girls' School

The abbreviation cf. is used in text to suggest a

confer (cf.)[16][17] compare
comparison with something else (cf. citation signal).

Congregatio Congregation of the

Sanctissimi Most Holy Redemptorists
Redemptoris C.Ss Redeemer
.R

Or "with united powers". Sometimes

coniunctis with connected
rendered conjunctis viribus. Motto of Queen Mary,
viribus strength
University of London.

consensu with consent

Where there are no specific laws, the matter should

be decided by custom;[18] established customs have
consuetudo pro Custom is held as the force of laws.[19] Also consuetudo est altera
lege servatur law. lex (custom is another law) and consuetudo vincit
communem legem (custom overrules the common
law); see also: Consuetudinary.

consummatum The last words of Jesus on the cross in the Latin

It is completed.
est translation of John 19:30.

Despising the secular world.
contemptus scorn for the
The monk or philosopher's rejection of a mundane
mundi/saeculi world/times
life and worldly values.
contra bonos Offensive to the conscience and to a sense of
against good morals
mores justice.

Especially in civil law jurisdictions, said of an

understanding of a statute that directly contradicts
contra legem against the law
its wording and thus is neither valid by
interpretation nor by analogy.

In contract law, the doctrine of contractual

interpretation which provides that an ambiguous
contra term will be construed against the party that
against the proferror
proferentem imposed its inclusion in the contract – or, more
accurately, against the interests of the party who
imposed it.

Title of a poem by Lesya Ukrainka; it derives from

an expression found in Paul's Letter to the Romans
contra spem 4:18 (Greek: παρ' ἐλπίδα ἐπ' ἐλπίδι) with reference
I hope against hope
spero to Abraham the Patriarch who maintained faith in
becoming the father of many nations despite being
childless and well-advanced in years.

No
contra vim
herb (or sage) grows
mortis non there is no medicine against death; from various
in the gardens
crescit herba (or medieval medicinal texts
against the power of
salvia) in hortis
death

A thing or idea that would embody a contradiction,

contradictio in contradiction in
for example, payment for a gift, or a circle with
terminis terms
corners. The fallacy of proposing such a thing.

there can be no
contra principia
debate with those Debate is fruitless when you don't agree on common
negantem non
who deny the rules, facts, presuppositions.
est disputandum
foundations

From Augustine's Confessions, referring to a
prescribed method of prayer: having a "heart to
cor ad cor
heart speaks to heart heart" with God. Commonly used in reference to a
loquitur
later quote by Cardinal John Henry Newman. A
motto of Newman Clubs.

cor aut mors Heart or Death (Your choice is between) The Heart (Moral Values,
 Duty, Loyalty) or Death (to no longer matter, to no
longer be respected as person of integrity.)

cor meum tibi

my heart I offer to
offero domine John Calvin's personal motto, also adopted
you Lord promptly
prompte et by Calvin College
and sincerely
sincere

A popular school motto. Often used as names for

cor unum one heart religious and other organisations such as
the Pontifical Council Cor Unum.

A phrase from Christian theology which

summarizes the idea of Christians living in the
in the presence of
coram Deo presence of, under the authority of, and to the honor
God
and glory of God; see also coram Deo
(disambiguation).

coram
in our presence, in
nobis, coram Two kinds of writs of error.
your presence
vobis

in the presence of
coram populo Thus, openly.
the people

coram publico in view of the public

The name of a feast in the Roman Catholic

Church commemorating the Eucharist. It is also the
name of a city in Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas, the
Corpus Christi Body of Christ
name of Colleges
at Oxford and Cambridge universities, and a
controversial play.

The fact that a crime has been committed, a

necessary factor in convicting someone of having
corpus delicti body of the offence
committed that crime; if there was no crime, there
can not have been a criminal.

Corpus Iuris The official compilation of canon law in the Roman

Body of Canon Law
Canonici Catholic Church (cf. Codex Iuris Canonici).
Corpus Iuris
Body of Civil Law The body of Roman or civil law.
Civilis

A person or thing fit only to be the object of an

corpus vile worthless body experiment, as in the phrase 'Fiat experimentum in
corpore vili.'

things to be
corrigenda
corrected

corruptio optimi the corruption of the

pessima best is the worst

When the republic

corruptissima re
is at its most corrupt
publica plurimae Tacitus
the laws are most
leges
numerous

a raven does not

corvus oculum
pick out an eye of
corvi non eruit
another raven

corruptus in corrupt to the Motto of the fictional Mayor's office in The

extremis extreme Simpsons

May he who has The refrain from the 'Pervigilium Veneris', a poem
cras amet qui
never loved before, which describes a three-day holiday in the cult of
nunquam
love tomorrow; And Venus, located somewhere in Sicily, involving the
amavit; quique
may he who has whole town in religious festivities joined with a
amavit, cras
loved, love deep sense of nature and Venus as the "procreatrix",
amet
tomorrow as well the life-giving force behind the natural world.

As "The Future is Ours", motto of San Jacinto

cras es noster Tomorrow, be ours
College, Texas

A concept about creation, often used in a

creation out of theological or philosophical context. Also known as
creatio ex nihilo
nothing the 'First Cause' argument in philosophy of religion.
Contrasted with creatio ex materia.

Credo in Unum I Believe in One The first words of the Nicene Creed and

Deum God the Apostles' Creed.

A very common misquote of Tertullian's et mortuus

est Dei Filius prorsus credibile quia ineptum
est (and the Son of God is dead: in short, it is
credible because it is unfitting), meaning that it is so
absurd to say that God's son has died that it would
have to be a matter of belief, rather than reason. The
credo quia I believe it because
misquoted phrase, however, is commonly used to
absurdum est it is absurd
mock the dogmatic beliefs of the religious
(see fideism). This phrase is commonly shortened
to credo quia absurdum, and is also sometimes
rendered credo quia impossibile est (I believe it
because it is impossible) or, as Darwin used it in his
autobiography, credo quia incredibile.

credo ut I believe so that I A motto of St Anselm, used as the motto of St.

intelligam may understand Anselm Hall, Manchester

May we grow in
crescamus in Illo
Him through all Motto of Cheverus High School.
per omnia
things

Motto of the University of Chicago. Often rendered

crescat scientia let knowledge grow, in English as "Let knowledge grow from more to
vita excolatur let life be enriched more, And so be human life enriched," so as to
achieve an iambic meter.

Light ever
crescente luce Motto of James Cook University.
increasing

crescit cum Civilization

commercio prospers with Motto of Claremont McKenna College.
civitas commerce

From Lucretius' De rerum natura book VI, where it

refers in context to the motion of
a thunderbolt across the sky, which acquires power
and momentum as it goes. This metaphor was
crescit eundo it grows as it goes adapted as the state motto of New Mexico (adopted
in 1887 as the territory's motto, and kept in 1912
when New Mexico received statehood) and is seen
on the seal. Also the motto of Rocky Mount,
Virginia.
 while I live, I trust
cruci dum spiro in the cross, Whilst Motto of the Sisters of Loreto (IBVM) and its
fido I trust in the Cross I associated schools.
have life

cucullus non The hood does not William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Scene I, Act V
facit monachum make the monk 48–50

"Who benefits?" An adage in criminal investigation

which suggests that considering who would benefit
from an unwelcome event is likely to reveal who is
cui bono Good for whom? responsible for that event (cf. cui prodest). Also the
motto of the Crime Syndicate of America, a
fictional supervillain group. The opposite is cui
malo (Bad for whom?).

Short for cui prodest scelus is fecit (for whom the

for whom it crime advances, he has done it) in Seneca's Medea.
cui prodest
advances Thus, the murderer is often the one who gains by
the murder (cf. cui bono).

cuique suum to each his own

Whose the land is, First coined by Accursius of Bologna in the 13th
cuius est solum,
all the way to the century. A Roman legal principle of property
eius est usque ad
sky and to law that is no longer observed in most situations
coelum et ad
the underworld is today. Less literally, "For whosoever owns the soil,
inferos
his. it is theirs up to the sky and down to the depths."

The privilege of a ruler to choose the religion of his

cuius regio, eius whose region, his subjects. A regional prince's ability to choose his
religio religion people's religion was established at the Peace of
Augsburg in 1555.

cuiusvis hominis
est errare,
Anyone can err, but
nullius nisi
only the fool Cicero, Philippica XII, 5.
insipientis in
persists in his fault
errore
perseverare.

Also "blame" or "guilt". In law, an act of neglect. In

culpa fault
general, guilt, sin, or a fault. See also mea culpa.
cum gladiis et with swords and From the Bible. Occurs in Matthew 26:47 and Luke
fustibus clubs 22:52.

cum gladio et
with sword and salt Motto of a well-paid soldier. See salary.
sale

cum grano salis with a grain of salt Not to be taken too seriously or as the literal truth.

cum hoc ergo with this, therefore Fallacy of assuming that correlation implies
propter hoc on account of this causation.

The standard formula for academic Latin honors in

cum laude with praise the United States. Greater honors include magna
cum laude and summa cum laude.

cum mortuis in with the dead in a Movement from Pictures at an

lingua mortua dead language Exhibition by Modest Mussorgsky

cum privilegio
Copyright notice used in 16th-century England,
ad with the exclusive
used for comic effect in The Taming of the
imprimendum right to print
Shrew by William Shakespeare
solum

cuncti adsint
let all come who by
meritaeque
merit deserve the Motto of University College London.
expectent
most reward
praemia palmae

desire to be From the Bible, locution indicating a will to death

cupio dissolvi
dissolved ("I want to die").

The question attributed to Anselm in his work of by

this name, wherein he reflects on why the Christ of
cur Deus Homo Why the God-Man Christianity must be both fully Divine and fully
Human. Often translated "why did God become
Man?"

care for the whole Motto of Georgetown University School of

cura personalis
person Medicine and University of Scranton.
 An exhortation to physicians, or experts in general,
take care of your
cura te ipsum to deal with their own problems before addressing
own self
those of others.

An overview of a person's life and qualifications,

curriculum vitae course of life
similar to a résumé.

custodi
guard the city, O
civitatem, Motto of the City of Westminster.
Lord
Domine

custos morum keeper of morals A censor.

distinguished by its
cygnis insignis Motto of Western Australia.
swans

cygnus inter
swan among ducks
anates

D[edit]

Latin Translation Notes

O God, give
da Deus fortunae A traditional greeting of Czech brewers.
fortune/happiness

Also da mihi facta, dabo tibi ius (plural "facta"

(facts) for the singular "factum"). A legal
da mihi factum, Give me the fact, I will principle of Roman law that parties to a suit
dabo tibi ius give you the law should present the facts and the judge will rule
on the law that governs them. Related to iura
novit curia (the court knows the law).

damnant quod They condemn what Paraphrase of Quintilianus, De Institutione

non intellegunt they do not understand Oratoria, Book 10, Chapter 1, 26:

 Modesto tamen et circumspecto iudicio

de tantis viris pronuntiandum est, ne, quod
plerisque accidit,  damnent quae non
intellegunt.
o Yet students must pronounce
 with diffidence and circumspection on
the merits of such illustrious characters,
lest, as is the case with many, they
condemn what they do not
understand. (translated by Rev. John
Selby Watson)
damnatio ad condemnation to [the]
Colloquially, "thrown to the lions".
bestias beasts
The ancient Roman custom by which it was
damnatio pretended that disgraced Romans, especially
damnation of memory
memoriae former emperors), never existed, by eliminating
all records and likenesses of them.
Meaning a loss that results from no one's
wrongdoing. In Roman law, a person is not
responsible for unintended, consequential injury
damnum absque
damage without injury to another that results from a lawful act. This
injuria
protection does not necessarily apply to
unintended damage caused by one's negligence
or folly.
dat deus
incrementum or
God gives growth Motto of several schools.
deus dat
incrementum
with due respect / given
data venia Used before disagreeing with someone.
the excuse
datum
We shall accomplish Motto of Batalhão de Operações Policiais
perficiemus
the mission assigned Especiais (BOPE), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
munus
In law, a de bene esse deposition is used to
preserve the testimony of a witness who is
de bene esse as well done
expected not to be available to appear at trial and
be cross-examined.
In law, trespass de bonis asportatis was the
de bonis
carrying goods away traditional name for larceny, i.e., the unlawful
asportatis
theft of chattels (moveable goods).
Used, e.g., in "as we agreed in the meeting d.d.
de dato of the date
26th May 2006".
Said of something that is the actual state of
affairs, in contrast to something's legal or official
standing, which is described as de jure. De
de facto by deed
facto refers to "the way things really are" rather
than what is officially presented as the fact of the
matter in question.
A clerk of a court makes this declaration when
he is appointed, by which he promises to
de fideli with faithfulness
perform his duties faithfully as a servant of the
court.
Describes an oath taken to faithfully administer
de fideli of faithful
the duties of a job or office, like that taken by a
administratione administration
court reporter.[20]
de futuro regarding the future Usually used in the context of "at a future time".
 Less literally, "there is no accounting for taste",
because they are judged subjectively and not
objectively: everyone has his own and none
de gustibus non Of tastes there is deserve preeminence. The complete phrase is
est disputandum nothing to be disputed "de gustibus et coloribus non est disputandum"
("when we talk about tastes and colours there is
nothing to be disputed"). Probably
of Scholastic origin; see Wiktionary.
de integro again, a second time
"Official", in contrast with de facto; analogous to
"in principle", whereas de facto is to "in
de jure by law
practice". In other contexts, it can mean
"according to law", "by right", and "legally".
of/from law to be
de lege ferenda
passed
of/from law passed /
de lege lata
of/from law in force
A court does not care about small, trivial things.
The law does not care
de minimis non A case must have some importance in order for a
about the smallest
curat lex court to hear it. See "de minimis non curat
things.
praetor".
Also, "the chief magistrate does not concern
himself with trifles." Trivial matters are no
concern of a high official; cf. aquila non capit
The commander does
de minimis non muscas (the eagle does not catch flies).
not care about the
curat praetor Sometimes rex (king) or lex (law) is used in
smallest things.
place of praetor. De minimis is a legal phrase
referring to things unworthy of the law's
attention.
de mortuis aut about the dead, either Less literally, "speak well of the dead or not at
bene aut nihil well or nothing all"; cf. de mortuis nil nisi bonum.
From de mortuis nil nisi bonum dicendum
est ("nothing must be said about the dead except
the good"), attributed by Diogenes
de mortuis nil about the dead, nothing Laërtius to Chilon. In legal contexts, this
nisi bonum unless a good thing quotation is used with the opposite meaning:
defamation of a deceased person is not a crime.
In other contexts, it refers to taboos against
criticizing the recently deceased.
Thus: "their story is our story". Originally it
de nobis fabula About us is the story referred to the end of Rome's dominance. Now
narratur told often used when comparing any current situation
to a past story or event.
"Anew" or "afresh". In law, a trial  de novo is a
retrial. In biology, de novo means newly
synthesized, and a de novo mutation is a
mutation that neither parent possessed or
de novo from the new
transmitted. In economics, de novo refers to
newly founded companies, and de novo banks
are state banks that have been in operation for
five years or less. (Cf. ex novo)
de omni re scibili about every knowable The Italian scholar Giovanni Pico della
 Mirandola of the 15th century wrote the De
et quibusdam thing, and even certain omni re scibili ("concerning every knowable
aliis other things thing") part, and a wag added et quibusdam
aliis ("and even certain other things").
Attributed to the French philosopher René
Be suspicious of
de omnibus Descartes. It was also Karl Marx's favorite motto
everything / doubt
dubitandum and a title of one of Søren Kierkegaard's works,
everything
namely, De Omnibus Dubitandum Est.
free from having been Loosely, "to liberate the oppressed". Motto of
de oppresso liber
oppressed the United States Army Special Forces.[21]
de praescientia from/through the
Motto of the Worshipful Company of Barbers.
Dei foreknowledge of God
Meaning from out of the depths of misery or
dejection. From the Latin translation of
de profundis from the depths
the Vulgate Bible of Psalm 130, of which it is a
traditional title in Roman Catholic liturgy.
In logic, de dicto statements regarding the truth
about/regarding the of a proposition are distinguished from de
de re
matter re statements regarding the properties of a thing
itself.
Used in genealogical records, often abbreviated
decessit sine
died without issue as d.s.p., to indicate a person who died without
prole
having had any children.
Used in genealogical records, often abbreviated
decessit sine died without legitimate
as d.s.p.l., to indicate a person who died without
prole legitima issue
having had any children with a spouse.
Used in genealogical records in cases of nobility
or other hereditary titles, often abbreviated
decessit sine
died without legitimate as d.s.p.m.l. or d.s.p.m. legit, to indicate a person
prole mascula
male issue who died without having had any legitimate
legitima
male children (indicating there were illegitimate
male children)
Used in genealogical records, often abbreviated
decessit sine
died without surviving as d.s.p.m., to indicate a person who died
prole mascula
male issue without having had any male children who
superstite
survived, i.e., outlived, him.
Used in genealogical records, often abbreviated
decessit sine died without surviving as d.s.p.s., to indicate a person who died without
prole superstite issue having had any children who survived, i.e.,
outlived him.
Used in genealogical records, often abbreviated
decessit vita died in the lifetime of
as d.v.m., to indicate a person who predeceased
matris the mother
his mother.
Used in genealogical records, often abbreviated
decessit vita died in the lifetime of
as d.v.p., to indicate a person who predeceased
patris the father
his father.
A phrase from the Aeneid of Virgil. Inscription
on British one-pound coins. Originally inscribed
an ornament and a
decus et tutamen on coins of the 17th century, it refers to the
safeguard
inscribed edge of the coin as a protection against
the clipping of its precious metal.
defendit There is safety in
numerus numbers
Official motto of the United States Air Force
Defensor Fortis Defender of the Force
Security Forces (Security Police).
Part of the full style of a monarch historically
considered to be ruling by divine right, notably
Dei gratia By the grace of God
in the style of the English and British monarch
since 1521
Also Dei gratia rex ("By the Grace of God,
By the Grace of God, King"). Abbreviated as D G REG preceding Fidei
Dei gratia regina
Queen Defensor (F D) on British pound coins, and as D
G Regina on Canadian coins.
Dei sub numine Under God's Spirit she Motto of Princeton University, Princeton, New
viget flourishes Jersey, United States.
In Catholic theology, pleasure taken in a sinful
thought or imagination, such as brooding on
delectatio sexual images. As voluntary and complacent
peevish delight
morosa erotic fantasizing, without attempt to suppress
such thoughts, it is distinct from actual sexual
desire.
A legal principle whereby one to whom certain
delegata potestas Delegated powers can powers were delegated may not ipso facto re-
non potest not be [further] delegate them to another. A distinction may be
delegari delegated had between delegated powers and the additional
power to re-delegate them.
A Latin translation of René Goscinny's phrase in
French ils sont fous, ces romains! or Italian Sono
delirant isti They are mad, those
pazzi questi Romani. Cf. SPQR,
Romani Romans[!]
which Obelix frequently used in
the Asterix comics.
Deo ac veritati for God and for truth Motto of Colgate University.
Deo confidimus In God we trust Motto of Somerset College.
Deo domuique For God and for home Motto of Methodist Ladies' College, Melbourne.
Motto of Regis High School in New York
Deo et patriae For God and country
City, New York, United States.
A frequent phrase in the Roman Catholic liturgy,
used especially after the recitation of a lesson,
Deo gratias Thanks [be] to God
the Last Gospel at Mass or as a response to Ite
Missa Est / Benedicamus Domino.
Motto of Monaco and its monarch, which is
Deo juvante with God's help
inscribed on the royal arms.
by God, not
Deo non fortuna Motto of the Epsom College in Surrey, England.
fortune/luck
Derived from the pagan Iupiter optimo
Deo optimo To the best and greatest
maximo ("to the best and greatest Jupiter").
maximo (DOM) God
Printed on bottles of Bénédictine liqueur.
Deo patriae For God, country, [and]
Motto of Scotch College (Melbourne).
litteris learning
Deo regi vicino For God, king and Motto of Bromsgrove School.
 neighbour
This was often used in conjunction with a
signature at the end of letters. It was used in
order to signify that "God willing" this letter will
get to you safely, "God willing" the contents of
this letter come true. As an abbreviation (simply
"D.V.") it is often found in personal letters (in
Deo volente God willing English) of the early 1900s, employed to
generally and piously qualify a given statement
about a future planned action, that it will be
carried out, so long as God wills
(see James 4:13-15, which encourages this way
of speaking). The motto of Southern Illinois
University-Carbondale.
descensus in The descent into the Down the rabbit hole. See Alice's Adventures in
cuniculi cavum cave of the rabbit Wonderland#Famous lines and expressions.
desiderantes
they desired a better From Hebrews 11: 16. Adopted as the motto of
meliorem
land the Order of Canada.
patriam
Title and first words of the first encyclical
Deus caritas est God Is Love of Pope Benedict XVI. For other meanings
see Deus caritas est (disambiguation).
From the Greek ἀπὸ μηχανῆς θεός (apò
mēchanēs theós). A contrived or artificial
solution, usually to a literary plot. Refers to the
practice in Greek drama of lowering by crane
deus ex machina a god from a machine
(the mechanê) an actor playing a god or goddess
onto the stage to resolve an insuperable conflict
in the plot. The device is most commonly
associated with Euripides.
The motto of The Catholic University of
Deus lux mea est God is my light
America.
Deus meumque The principal motto of Scottish
God and my right
jus Rite Freemasonry. See also Dieu et mon droit.
Deus nobis haec God has given us these
Motto of the city of Liverpool, England.
otia fecit days of leisure
Deus otiosus God at leisure
The motto of Sir Thomas de Boteler, founder of
Deus spes nostra God is our hope
Boteler Grammar School in Warrington in 1526.
The principal slogan of the Crusades. Motto of
Deus vult God wills it Bergen Catholic High School in New Jersey,
United States.
A recent academic substitution for the spacious
dictatum and inconvenient phrase "as previously stated".
as previously stated
erat (dict) Literally, has been stated. Compare also "dicta
prius"; literally, said previously.
dicto simpliciter [from] a maxim, I.e. "from a rule without exception." Short for a
simply dicto simpliciter, the a is often dropped because
it is confused with the English indefinite article.
A dicto simpliciter occurs when an acceptable
exception is ignored or eliminated. For example,
 the appropriateness of using opiates is contingent
on suffering extreme pain. To justify the
recreational use of opiates by referring to a
cancer patient or to justify arresting said patient
by comparing him to the recreational user would
be a dicto simpliciter.
Motto of United States Navy Fighter Squadron
dictum factum what is said is done
VF-194.
dictum meum
my word [is] my bond Motto of the London Stock Exchange.
pactum
From the Roman Emperor Titus. Recorded in the
diem perdidi I have lost the day biography of him by Suetonius in Lives of the
Twelve Caesars.
Reference to the Judgment Day in Christian
eschatology. The title of a famous Medieval
dies irae Day of wrath
Latin hymn by Tommaso da Celano in the 13th
century and used in the Requiem Mass.
Days under common law (traditionally Sunday),
during which no legal process can be served and
dies
Day without judiciary any legal judgment is invalid. The English
non juridicum
Parliament first codified this precept in the reign
of King Charles II.
In Classical Latin, "I arrange". Motto of the State
dirigo I direct of Maine, United States; based on a comparison
of the State to the star Polaris.
In other words, the gods have ideas different to
those of mortals, and so events do not always
occur in the way persons wish them to.
It seemed otherwise to
dis aliter visum Confer Virgil, Aeneid, 2: 428. Also confer "Man
the gods
proposes and God disposes" and "My Thoughts
are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My
ways", Isaiah 55, 8-9.
Refers to the Manes, i.e. Roman spirits of the
dead. Loosely, "to the memory of". A
conventional pagan inscription preceding the
dis manibus Sacred to the ghost-
name of the deceased on his tombstone; often
sacrum (D.M.S.) gods
shortened to dis manibus (D.M.), "for the ghost-
gods". Preceded in some earlier monuments
by hic situs est (H. S. E.), "he lies here".
learn or depart / learn Motto of Royal College, Colombo and of King's
disce aut discede
or leave School, Rochester.
disce ut semper Learn as if always
Attributed to St. Edmund of Abingdon. First
victurus, vive ut going to live; live as if
seen in Isidoro de Sevilla
cras moriturus tomorrow going to die.
discendo
while learning we learn See also docendo…(2).
discimus
Motto of California Polytechnic State
discere faciendo learn by doing
University, California, United States.
disiecta membra scattered limbs I.e., "scattered remains". Paraphrased
from Horace, Satires, 1, 4, 62, where it is written
"disiecti membra poetae" (limbs of a scattered
 poet).
Motto of the State of Arizona, United States,
adopted in 1911. Probably derived from the
ditat Deus God enriches
translation of the Vulgate Bible of Genesis 14:
23.
A Roman maxim adopted by Roman
divide and rule / Dictator Julius Caesar, King Louis XI of
divide et impera
"divide and conquer" France and the Italian political author Niccolò
Machiavelli.
A popular, eloquent expression, usually used in
the end of a speech. The implied meaning is that
dixi I have spoken
the speaker has said all that he had to say and
thus his argument is completed.
Used to attribute a statement or opinion to its
["...", ...] dixit ["...", ...] said
author, rather than the speaker.
I give that you may Often said or written of sacrifices, in which one
do ut des
give "gives" and expects a return from the gods.
It is learned by
docendo discitur teaching / one learns by Attributed to Seneca the Younger.
teaching
docendo disco, I learn by teaching, I
scribendo cogito think by writing
"The ... concept is particular to a few civil law
systems and cannot sweepingly be equated with
the notions of 'special' or 'specific intent' in
common law systems. Of course, the same might
dolus specialis special intent equally be said of the concept of 'specific intent',
a notion used in the common law almost
exclusively within the context of the defense of
voluntary intoxication." (Genocide scholar
William A. Schabas)[22]
Domine dirige
O Lord, guide us Motto of the City of London, England.
nos
Domine salvum
O Lord, save the king Psalm 20, 10.
fac regem
Domine salvam
O Lord, save the queen After Psalm 20, 10.
fac reginam
Sunday in [Setting
Dominica in Latin name of the Octave of Easter in the
Aside the] White
albis [depositis] Roman Catholic liturgy.
Garments
Dominus The Lord is our Motto of the Southland College, Philippines.
fortitudo nostra strength Psalm 28, 8.
Dominus Motto of the University of Oxford, England.
The Lord is my light
illuminatio mea Psalm 27, 1.
The Lord is [our] Motto of St. John's College and Prep
Dominus pastor
shepherd School, Harare, Zimbabwe. After Psalm 23, 1.
Dominus The Lord be with you. A phrase used in the Roman Catholic liturgy,
vobiscum and sometimes in its sermons and homilies, and
a general form of greeting among and towards
 members of Catholic organizations. See also Pax
vobiscum.
Often set to music, either by itself or as the final
dona nobis phrase of the Agnus Dei prayer of the Holy
give us peace
pacem Mass. Also an ending in the video
game Haunting Ground.
A legal concept in which a person in imminent
mortal danger need not satisfy the otherwise
donatio mortis a donation in
requisite consideration to effect a testamentary
causa expectation of death
donation, i.e., a donation by instituting or
modifying a will.
Motto of the fictional Hogwarts School of
draco dormiens
a sleeping dragon is Witchcraft and Wizardry of the Harry
nunquam
never to be tickled Potter series; translated more loosely in the
titillandus
books as "never tickle a sleeping dragon".
dramatis the parts/characters of More literally, "the masks of the drama"; the cast
personae the play of characters of a dramatic work.
duae tabulae
two blank slates with
rasae in quibus Stan Laurel, inscription for the fan club logo
nothing written upon
nihil scriptum of The Sons of the Desert.
them
est
ducimus we lead Motto of the Royal Canadian Infantry Corps.
ducit amor love of country leads Motto of the 51st Battalion, Far North
patriae me Queensland Regiment, Australia.
ducunt volentem the fates lead the
Attributed to Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Sen. Ep.
fata, nolentem willing and drag the
107.11).
trahunt unwilling
Motto of the United States Marine Corps Officer
ductus exemplo leadership by example Candidates School, at the base
in Quantico, Virginia, United States.
Meaning: "war may seem pleasant to those who
dulce bellum war is sweet to the have never been involved in it, though the
inexpertis inexperienced experienced know better". Erasmus of
Rotterdam.
It is sweet on occasion
Horace, Odes 4, 12, 28. Also used by George
dulce est to play the fool. / It is
Knapton for the portrait of Sir Bourchier Wrey,
desipere in loco pleasant to relax once
6th Baronet in 1744.
in a while.
dulce et decorum It is sweet and Horace, Odes 3, 2, 13. Also used by Wilfred
est pro patria honorable to die for the Owen for the title of a poem regarding World
mori fatherland. War I, Dulce et Decorum Est.
a sweet and useful
Horace, Ars Poetica: poetry must be dulce et
dulce et utile thing / pleasant and
utile, i.e., both enjoyable and instructive.
profitable
Horace, Odes, 3 25, 16. Motto of the Scottish
dulce periculum danger is sweet
clan MacAulay.
dulcius ex sweeter after
Motto of the Scottish clan Fergusson.[23]
asperis difficulties
dum cresco I hope when I grow Motto of The Ravensbourne School.
spero
Used when someone has been asked for urgent
dum Roma while Rome
help, but responds with no immediate action.
deliberat debates, Saguntum is in
Similar to Hannibal ante portas, but referring to
Saguntum perit danger
a less personal danger.
Cicero. Motto of the State of South Carolina.
dum spiro spero while I breathe, I hope
Motto of the Clan MacLennan.
dum vita est, while there is life, there
spes est is hope
dum vivimus
while we live, we serve Motto of Presbyterian College.
servimus
An encouragement to embrace life. Motto
dum vivimus, while we live, let us
inscribed on the sword of the main character of
vivamus live
the novel Glory Road.
[the] law [is] harsh, but Ulpian, Digesta Iustiniani, Roman jurist of the
dura lex sed lex
[it is the] law 3rd century AD.
dura mater tough mother The outer covering of the brain.
Meaning: "serving at the pleasure of the
durante bene
during good pleasure authority or officer who appointed". A
placito
Mediaeval legal Latin phrase.
For example, the Governor General of
durante munere while in office Canada is durante munere the Chancellor and
Principal Companion of the Order of Canada.
dux bellorum war leader
initium The fear of the Lord is
A quotation of Psalm 111:10. Motto of
sapientiae timor the beginning of
the University of Aberdeen, Scotland.
Domini wisdom.

E[edit]

Latin Translation Notes

Often used in medicine when the

e causa ignota of unknown cause underlying disease causing a symptom is
not known. See also  idiopathic.

Literally, out of more (than one), one. The

former national motto of the United
States, which "In God We Trust" latter
replaced; therefore, it is still inscribed on
E pluribus unum out of many, one
many US coins and on the United States
Capitol. Also the motto of S.L. Benfica.
Less commonly written as ex pluribus
unum.

ecce ancilla domini behold the From Luke 1:38 in the Vulgate Bible.

 Name of an oil painting by Dante Gabriel
handmaiden of the
Rossetti and motto of Bishopslea
Lord
Preparatory School.

From the Gospel of John in

the Vulgate 19:5 (Douay-Rheims),
where Pontius Pilate speaks these words
as he presents Christ, crowned with
thorns, to the crowd. It is also the title
ecce homo behold the man
of Nietzsche's autobiography and of the
theme music by Howard Goodall for
the ITV comedy Mr. Bean, in which the
full sung lyric is Ecce homo qui est
faba ("Behold the man who is a bean").

From the Catholic hymn Lauda Sion;

occasionally inscribed near the altar of
behold the bread of Catholic churches; it refers to
ecce panis angelorum
angels the Eucharist, the Bread of Heaven;
the Body of Christ. See also: Panis
angelicus.

editio princeps first edition The first published edition of a work.

From the canons of statutory

interpretation in law. When more general
descriptors follow a list of many specific
of the same kinds,
ejusdem generis descriptors, the otherwise wide meaning
class, or nature
of the general descriptors is interpreted as
restricted to the same class, if any, of the
preceding specific descriptors.

Part of the formula

of Catholic sacramental absolution, i. e.,
ego te absolvo I absolve you spoken by a priest as part of
the Sacrament of Penance (see
also  absolvo).

Used as a challenge; "I dare you". Can

ego te provoco I challenge you
also be written as te provoco.

eheu fugaces labuntur Alas, the fleeting

From Horace's Odes, 2, 14.
anni years slip by
 let the light shine
eluceat omnibus lux The motto of Sidwell Friends School.
out from all

Retired from office. Often used to denote

an office held at the time of one's
retirement, as an honorary title, e.
emeritus veteran g. professor emeritus and provost
emeritus. Inclusion in one's title does not
necessarily denote that the honorand is
inactive in the pertinent office.

Or "being one's own cause". Traditionally,

existing because of a being that owes its existence to no other
ens causa sui
oneself being, hence God or a Supreme
Being (see also  Primum Mobile).

by the sword she

ense petit placidam sub Motto of the US state of Massachusetts,
seeks a serene
libertate quietem adopted in 1775.
repose under liberty

Occam's Razor or Law of Parsimony;

entia non sunt entities must not be
arguments which do not introduce
multiplicanda praeter multiplied beyond
extraneous variables are to be preferred in
necessitatem necessity
logical argumentation.

entitas ipsa involvit

reality involves a
aptitudinem ad A phrase used in modern Western
power to compel
extorquendum certum philosophy on the nature of truth.
certain assent
assensum

Technical term in philosophy and law.

Similar to ipso facto. Example: "The fact
eo ipso by that very (act) that I am does not eo ipso mean that I
think." From the Latin ablative form of id
ipsum ("that thing itself").

eo nomine by that name

do not trust the From Virgil, Aeneid, II. 48–49; a

equo ne credite
horse reference to the Trojan Horse.

erga omnes in relation to Used in law, especially international law,


ergo
errare humanum est
erratum
errantis voluntas nulla est
eruditio et religio
esse est percipi
everyone to denote a kind of universal obligation.
Denotes a logical conclusion (see
therefore
also  cogito ergo sum).
Sometimes attributed to Seneca the
Younger, but not attested: Errare
humanum est, perseverare autem
diabolicum, et tertia non datur (To err is
human; to persist [in committing such
errors] is of the devil, and the third
possibility is not given.) Several authors
contemplated the idea before
Seneca: Livy, Venia dignus error is
humanus (Storie, VIII, 35) and Cicero: is
Cuiusvis errare: insipientis nullius nisi, in
errore perseverare (Anyone can err, but
only the fool persists in his fault)
to err is human
(Philippicae, XII, 2, 5). Cicero, being
well-versed in ancient Greek, may well
have been alluding to Euripides'
play Hippolytus some four centuries
earlier.[24] 300 years later Saint Augustine
of Hippo recycled the idea in
his Sermones, 164, 14: Humanum fuit
errare, diabolicum est per animositatem
in errore manere.[25] The phrase gained
currency in the English language
after Alexander Pope's An Essay on
Criticism of 1711: "To err is human, to
forgive divine" (line 325).
I. e., mistake. Lists of errors in a previous
error edition of a work are often marked with
the plural errata ("errors").
Roman legal principle formulated
the will of a by Pomponius in the Digest of the Corpus
mistaken party is Juris Civilis, stating that legal actions
void undertaken by man under the influence of
error are invalid.
scholarship and duty Motto of Duke University
to be is to be Motto of George Berkeley for
perceived his subjective idealist philosophical
position that nothing exists independently
 of its perception by a mind except minds
themselves.

Truly being a thing, rather than merely

seeming to be a thing. The motto of many
institutions. From Cicero, De
amicitia (On Friendship), Chapter 26.
Prior to Cicero, Sallust used the phrase
in Bellum Catilinae, 54, 6, writing
to be, rather than to
esse quam videri that Cato esse quam videri bonus
seem
malebat ("preferred to be good, rather
than to seem so"). Earlier
still, Aeschylus used a similar phrase
in Seven Against Thebes, line 592: ou gar
dokein aristos, all' enai thelei ("he wishes
not to seem the best, but to be the best").

there is a middle or mean in things, there

is a middle way or position;
from Horace, Satires 1.1.106; see
also: Golden mean (philosophy).
According to Potempski and Galmarini
(Atmos. Chem. Phys., 9, 9471-9489, 2009)
there is measure in the sentence should be translated as:
est modus in rebus
things "There is an optimal condition in all
things", which in the original text is
followed by sunt certi denique fines quos
ultra citraque nequit consistere
rectum ("There are therefore precise
boundaries beyond which one cannot find
the right thing").

Said of Venice, Italy, by the Venetian

historian Fra Paolo Sarpi shortly before
his death. Motto of the US state of Idaho,
esto perpetua may it be perpetual
adopted in 1867; of S. Thomas' College,
Mount Lavinia, Sri Lanka; of Sigma Phi
Society.

esto quod es be what you are Motto of Wells Cathedral School.

it is still before the From Horace, Ars Poetica (The Art of

et adhuc sub iudice lis est
court Poetry) 1.78.

et alibi (et al.) and elsewhere A less common variant on et cetera ("and

the rest") used at the end of a list of
locations to denote unenumerated/omitted

et alii (et al.)
et cetera (etc. (US English);
etc (UK English)) or (&c.
(US); &c (UK))
et cum spiritu tuo
Et facere et pati fortia
Romanum est
et facta est lux
et hoc genus omne
ones.
Used similarly to et cetera ("and the rest")
to denote names that, usually for the sake
of space, are
unenumerated/omitted. Alii is masculine,
and therefore it can be used to refer to
men, or groups of men and women; the
feminine et aliae is proper when the
"others" are all female, but as with
many loanwords, interlingual use, such as
in reference lists, is often invariable. Et
alia is neuter plural and thus in Latin text
is properly used only for inanimate,
and others genderless objects, but some use it as a
gender-neutral alternative.[26] APA
style uses et al. (normal font)[27] if the
work cited was written by more than six
authors; MLA style uses et al. for more
than three authors; AMA style lists all
authors if ≤6, and 3 + et al if >6. AMA
style forgoes the period (because it
forgoes the period on abbreviations
generally) and it forgoes the italic (as it
does with other loanwords naturalized into
scientific English); many journals that
follow AMA style do likewise.
In modern usage, used to mean "and so
and the rest
on" or "and more".
A response in the Sursum corda element
and with your spirit
of the Catholic Mass.
Acting and suffering The words of Gaius Mucius
bravely is the Scaevola when Lars Porsena captured
attribute of a Roman him.
From Genesis, 1:3: "and there was light".
And light came to Motto of Morehouse
be or was made College in Atlanta, Georgia, United
States. See also  Fiat lux.
and all that sort of
Abbreviated as e.h.g.o. or ehgo
thing
 and in Arcadia [am] In other words, "I too am in Arcadia". See
et in Arcadia ego
I also  memento mori.

See also  Lux in Tenebris. Motto of

and light shines in
et lux in tenebris lucet the Pontificia Universidad Católica del
the darkness
Perú.

"And now, O ye
et nunc reges intelligite kings, understand:
From the Book of Psalms, II.x.
erudimini qui judicatis receive instruction,
(Vulgate), 2.10 (Douay-Rheims).
terram you that judge the
earth."

Also et sequentia ("and the following

things": neut.), abbreviations: et seqq., et
seq., or sqq. Commonly used in legal
and the following citations to refer to statutes that comprise
et sequentes (et seq.) (masculine/feminine several sequential sections of a code of
plural) statutes (e. g. National Labor Relations
Act, 29 U.S.C. § 159 et seq.; New Jersey
Prevention of Domestic Violence Act,
N.J. Stat. Ann. § 2C:25-17 et seq.).

and a supposition
et suppositio nil ponit in More usually translated as "Sayin' it don't
puts nothing in
esse make it so".
being

Or "Even you, Brutus?" or "You too,

Brutus?" Indicates betrayal by an intimate
associate. From William
Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, based on the
traditional dying words of Julius Caesar.
However, these were almost certainly not
Et tu, Brute? And you, Brutus?
Caesar's true last words: Plutarch quotes
Caesar as saying in Greek, the language of
the Roman elite at the time, καὶ σὺ
τέκνον (Kaì sù téknon?), translated as
"You too, (my) child?", quoting
from Menander.

et uxor (et ux.) and wife A legal term.

et vir and husband A legal term.

 Saint Peter to Jesus Christ, from
Even if all others, I the Vulgate, Gospel of
Etiam si omnes, ego non
will never Matthew 26:33; New King James
Version: Matthew 26:33).

even if God were This sentence synthesizes a famous

etsi deus non daretur
not a given concept of Hugo Grotius (1625).

In law, describes someone taking

precautions against a very remote
contingency. "One might wear a belt in
addition to braces ex abundanti cautela".
[28]
 In banking, a loan in which
the collateral is more than the loan itself.
out of an abundance
ex abundanti cautela Also the basis for the term "an abundance
of caution
of caution" employed by United States
President Barack Obama to explain why
the Chief Justice of the US Supreme
Court John Roberts had to re-administer
the presidential oath of office, and again
in reference to terrorist threats.

From the Gospel of Matthew, XII.xxxiv

for out of the
(Vulgate), 12.34 (Douay-Rheims) and
ex abundantia enim abundance of the
the Gospel of Luke, VI.xlv (Vulgate), 6.45
cordis os loquitur heart the mouth
(Douay-Rheims). Sometimes rendered
speaketh.
without enim ("for").

Denoting "on equal footing", i. e., in a tie.

Used for those two (seldom more)
ex aequo from the equal
participants of a competition who
demonstrated identical performance.

Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 8, 42

"(There is) always
(unde etiam vulgare Graeciae dictum
ex Africa semper aliquid something new
semper aliquid novi Africam adferre[29]), a
novi (coming) out of
translation of the Greek «Ἀεὶ Λιβύη φέρει
Africa"
τι καινόν».

Often used on internal diplomatic event

peace from invitations. A motto sometimes inscribed
ex amicitia pax
friendship on flags and mission plaques
of diplomatic corps.

ex animo from the soul Sincerely.

 Denoting "beforehand", "before the
ex ante from before event", or "based on prior assumptions";
denoting a prediction.

The motto of the fictional Starfleet

From the Stars, Academy of Star Trek. Adapted from ex
Ex Astris Scientia
Knowledge luna scientia, which in turn derived
from ex scientia tridens.

A phrase applied to the declarations or

promulgations of the Catholic Supreme
Pontiff (Pope) when, preserved from the
possibility of error by the Holy
Spirit (see  Papal infallibility), he
solemnly declares or promulgates ("from
the chair" that was the ancient symbol of
ex cathedra from the chair the teacher and governor, in this case of
the Church) a dogmatic doctrine on faith
or morals as being contained in divine
revelation, or at least being intimately
connected to divine revelation. Used, by
extension, of anyone who is perceived as
speaking as though with supreme
authority.

from culture
ex cultu robur The motto of Cranleigh School, Surrey.
[comes] strength

ex Deo from God

"From harmful deceit"; dolus malus is

the Latin legal term denoting "fraud". The
full legal phrase is ex dolo malo non
oritur actio ("an action does not arise
ex dolo malo from fraud from fraud"). When an action has its
origin in fraud or deceit, it cannot be
supported; thus, a court of law will not
assist a man who bases his course of
action on an immoral or illegal act.

From suffering Motto of Rapha Cycling club (see

ex duris gloria
[comes] glory also  Rapha (sportswear)).

ex facie from the face Idiomatically rendered "on the face of it".
A legal term typically used to state that a
document's explicit terms are defective
 absent further investigation.

Motto of St George's College,

from faith [comes]
ex fide fiducia Harare and Hartmann House Preparatory
confidence
School.

from faith [comes] Motto of Loyola School in New York

ex fide fortis
strength City, New York, United States.

Motto of the Municipal Borough of

from the acorn the
ex glande quercus Southgate, London, England, United
oak
Kingdom.

More literally "from grace". Refers to

someone voluntarily performing an act
purely from kindness, as opposed to for
ex gratia from kindness personal gain or from being compelled to
do it. In law, an ex gratia payment is one
made without recognizing
any liability or obligation.

ex hypothesi from the hypothesis Denoting "by hypothesis".

ex ignorantia ad from ignorance into Motto of the fictional Miskatonic

sapientiam; ex luce ad wisdom; from light University in Arkham, Massachusetts,
tenebras (e.i.) into darkness from the Cthulhu Mythos

Recent academic notation denoting "from

ex infra (e.i.) "from below"
below in this writing". See also ex supra.

The medical pitfall in which response to a

from that which
ex juvantibus therapeutic regimen substitutes proper
helps
diagnosis.

ex lege from the law

Precedes a person's name, denoting "from

ex libris from the books the library of" the nominate; also a
synonym for "bookplate".
 The motto of the Apollo 13 lunar mission,
from the moon, derived from ex scientia tridens, the motto
ex luna scientia
knowledge of Jim Lovell's alma mater, the United
States Naval Academy.

From Saint Augustine of Hippo, "Sermon

LXI", in which he contradicts the dictum
of Seneca the Younger in Epistulae
morales ad Lucilium, 87:22: bonum ex
ex malo bonum good out of evil
malo non fit ("good does not come from
evil"). Also the alias of the song
"Miserabile Visu" by Anberlin in the
album New Surrender.

ex mea sententia in my opinion

out of mere impulse,

ex mero motu or of one's own
accord

From Lucretius, and said earlier

by Empedocles. Its original meaning is
"work is required to succeed", but its
modern meaning is a more general
"everything has its origins in
something" (see also causality). It is
commonly applied to the conservation
laws in philosophy and modern
nothing comes from science. Ex nihilo is often used in
ex nihilo nihil fit
nothing conjunction with "creation", as in creatio
ex nihilo, denoting "creation out of
nothing". It is often used
in philosophy and theology in connection
with the proposition that God created the
universe from nothing. It is also
mentioned in the final ad-lib of the Monty
Python song Always Look on the Bright
Side of Life.

Denotes something that has been newly

ex novo anew made or made from scratch (see also de
novo).

The title of a short story by H. P.

Ex Oblivione from oblivion
Lovecraft.
 By virtue or right of office. Often used
when someone holds one office by virtue
of holding another: for example,
the President of France is an ex officio Co-
Prince of Andorra. A common
misconception is that all ex officio
members of a committee or congress may
ex officio from the office not vote; but in some cases they do.
In law ex officio can also refer to an
administrative or judicial office taking
action of its own accord, in the case of the
latter the more common term is ex
proprio motu or ex meru motu, for
example to invalidate a patent or
prosecute infringers of copyright.[30]

A theological phrase contrasted with ex

opere operato, referring to the notion that
from the work of the
ex opere operantis the validity or promised benefit of
one working
a sacrament depends on the person
administering it.

A theological phrase meaning that the act

of receiving a sacrament actually confers
the promised benefit, such as
from the work a baptism actually and literally cleansing
ex opere operato
worked one's sins. The Catholic Church affirms
that the source of grace is God, not just
the actions or disposition of the minister
or the recipient of the sacrament.

Originally refers to the sun rising in the

east, but alludes to culture coming from
ex oriente lux light from the east
the Eastern world. Motto of several
institutions.

Shown on the logo as used by East

peace comes from Germany's CDU, a blue flag with two
ex oriente pax the east (i.e. from yellow stripes, a dove, and the CDU
the Soviet Union) symbol in the center with the words ex
oriente pax.

A legal term that means "by one party" or

ex parte from a part "for one party". Thus, on behalf of one
side or party only.

ex pede Herculem from his foot, so From the measure of Hercules' foot you
 shall know his size; from a part, the
Hercules
whole.

"Afterward", "after the event". Based on

ex post from after knowledge of the past. Measure of past
performance.

from a thing done

ex post facto Said of a law with retroactive effect.
afterward

Or 'with due competence'. Said of the

from one declaring
ex professo person who perfectly knows his art or
[an art or science]
science. Also used to mean "expressly".[31]

The term is a legal phrase; the legal

citation guide called
the Bluebook describes ex rel. as a
"procedural phrase" and requires using it
[arising] out of the
to abbreviate "on the relation of," "for the
ex rel. or ex relatio relation/narration
use of," "on behalf of," and similar
[of the relator]
expressions. An example of use is in court
case titles such as Universal Health
Services, Inc. v. United States ex rel.
Escobar

The United States Naval Academy motto.

from knowledge, Refers to knowledge bringing men power
ex scientia tridens
sea power. over the sea comparable to that of
the trident-bearing Greek god Poseidon.

The motto of the College of Graduate

from knowledge,
ex scientia vera Studies at Middle Tennessee State
truth
University.

In general, the claim that the absence of

something demonstrates the proof of a
proposition. An argumentum ex
silentio ("argument from silence") is an
ex silentio from silence argument based on the assumption that
someone's silence on a matter suggests
("proves" when a logical fallacy) that
person's ignorance of the matter or their
inability to counterargue validly.
ex situ out of position opposite of "in situ"

from the Earth to the The motto of the University of Central

ex solo ad solem
Sun Lancashire, Preston

Recent academic notation for "from above

ex supra (e.s.) "from above"
in this writing". See also  ex infra.

from [this moment "This instant", "right away" or

ex tempore
of] time "immediately". Also written extempore.

A legal doctrine which states that a

From a dishonorable claimant will be unable to pursue a cause
Ex turpi causa non oritur
cause an action does of action, if it arises in connection with his
actio
not arise own illegal act. Particularly relevant in the
law of contract, tort and trusts.

from the shadow Motto of Federico Santa María Technical

ex umbra in solem
into the light University.

from the waves [of

ex undis motto in the coat of arms of Eemsmond
the sea]

union is strength, or
Ex Unitate Vires Former motto of South Africa.
unity is strength

from the force of the

ex vi termini Thus, "by definition".
term

ex vita discedo, tanquam I depart from life as

Cicero, Cato Maior de Senectute (On Old
ex hospitio, non tanquam from an inn, not as
Age) 23
ex domo from home

Used in reference to the study or assay of

ex vivo out of or from life living tissue in an artificial environment
outside the living organism.

ex voto from the vow Thus, in accordance with a promise.

An ex voto is also an offering made in
 fulfillment of a vow.

used to describe social computing, in The

from crowd,
ex vulgus scientia Wisdom of Crowds and discourse referring
knowledge
to it.

"Ever upward!" The state motto of New

excelsior higher York. Also a catchphrase used by Marvel
Comics head Stan Lee.

A juridical principle which means that the

statement of a rule's exception (e.g., "no
The exception
exceptio parking on Sundays") implicitly confirms
confirms the rule in
firmat (or probat) regulam the rule (i.e., that parking is allowed
cases which are not
in casibus non exceptis Monday through Saturday). Often
excepted
mistranslated as "the exception that proves
the rule".

an excuse that has More loosely, "he who excuses himself,

excusatio non petita not been sought [is] accuses himself"—an unprovoked excuse
accusatio manifesta an obvious is a sign of guilt. In French, qui s'excuse,
accusation s'accuse.

exeat s/he may go out A formal leave of absence.

I have reared a
exegi monumentum aere monument more
Horace, Carmina III:XXX:I
perennius enduring than
bronze

Exempli  gratiā, 'for example', is usually

abbreviated "e.g." (less commonly, ex.
gr.). The abbreviation "e.g." often is
interpreted anglicised as 'example given'.
for the sake of It is not usually followed by a comma in
exempli gratia (e.g.) example, for British English, but it is in American
example usage. E.g. is often confused with i.e. (id
est, meaning 'that is' or 'in other words').
[32]
 Some writing styles give such
abbreviations without punctuation,
as ie and eg.[a]

exercitus sine duce corpus an army without a On a plaque at the former military staff
est sine spiritu leader is a body
 without a spirit building of the Swedish Armed Forces.

Third-person plural present active

indicative of the Latin verb exire; also
exeunt they leave
seen in exeunt omnes, "all leave";
singular: exit.

This term has been used

in dermatopathology to express that there
is no substitute for experience in dealing
with all the numerous variations that may
experientia docet experience teaches
occur with skin conditions.[49] The term
has also been used in gastroenterology.
[50]
 It is also the motto of San Francisco
State University.

experiment of the Or "crucial experiment". A decisive test of

experimentum crucis
cross a scientific theory.

Literally "believe one who has had

experto crede trust the expert experience". An author's aside to the
reader.

"Mentioning one thing may exclude

another thing". A principle of
legal statutory interpretation: the explicit
presence of a thing implies intention to
exclude others; e.g., a reference in the
the expression of the
expressio unius est Poor Relief Act 1601 to "lands, houses,
one is the exclusion
exclusio alterius tithes and coal mines" was held to exclude
of the other
mines other than coal mines. Sometimes
expressed as expressum facit cessare
tacitum (broadly, "the expression of one
thing excludes the implication of
something else").

Refers to a possible result of Catholic

[placed] outside of ecclesiastical legal proceedings when the
extra domum
the house culprit is removed from being part of a
group like a monastery.

extra Ecclesiam nulla outside the Church This expression comes from the Epistle to
salus [there is] no Jubaianus, paragraph 21, written by Saint
salvation Cyprian of Carthage, a bishop of the third
century. It is often used to summarise the
doctrine that the Catholic Church is
 absolutely necessary for salvation.

It is issued by the Master of the Papal

Liturgical Celebrations before a session of
the Papal conclave which will elect a
extra omnes outside, all [of you] new Pope. When spoken, all those who
are not Cardinals, or those otherwise
mandated to be present at the Conclave,
must leave the Sistine Chapel.

he who administers
extra territorium jus justice outside of his Refers to extraterritorial jurisdiction.
dicenti impune non territory is Often cited in law of the sea cases on
paretur disobeyed with the high seas.
impunity

"extreme solution",
"last possibility",
extrema ratio
"last possible course
of action"

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Latin Translation Notes

Appius Claudius Caecus; motto

faber est suae quisque every man is the artisan of his
of Fort Street High School in
fortunae own fortune
Petersham, Sydney, Australia

fac et spera do and hope motto of Clan Matheson

motto of Prince Alfred

fac fortia et patere do brave deeds and endure
College in Adelaide, Australia

origin of the word facsimile,

fac simile make a similar thing
and, through it, of fax

appeared on British coinage

faciam eos in gentem
I will make them into one nation following the Union of the
unum
Crowns
faciam quodlibet quod
I'll do whatever it takes
necesse est

from Plautus, Persa IV.3–24;
faciam ut mei memineris I'll make you remember me used by Russian hooligans as
tattoo inscription

said of the acknowledged leader

facile princeps easily the first in some field, especially in the
arts and humanities

facilius est multa facere It is easier to do many things, Quintilian, Institutio

quam diu than one thing consecutively Oratoria 1/12:7

"I make free adults out of motto of St. John's College in

facio liberos ex liberis
children by means of books and Annapolis, Maryland, and Santa
libris libraque
a balance." Fe, New Mexico

facta, non verba deeds, not words Frequently used as motto

factum fieri infectum It is impossible for a deed to be

Terence, Phormio 5/8:45
non potest undone

A Roman legal principle
indicating that a witness who
willfully falsifies one matter is
not credible on any matter. The
falsus in uno, falsus in
false in one, false in all underlying motive for attorneys
omnibus
to impeach opposing witnesses
in court: the principle discredits
the rest of their testimony if it is
without corroboration.

frequently used as a family

familia supra omnia family over everything
motto

It is lawful to be taught even by

fas est et ab hoste doceri Ovid, Metamorphoses 4:428
an enemy

feci quod potui, faciant I have done what I could; let Slight variant ("quod potui
meliora potentes those who can do better. feci") found in James
 Boswell's An Account of
Corsica, there described as "a
simple beautiful inscription on
the front of Palazzo Tolomei at
Siena".[51] Later, found in Henry
Baerlein's introduction to his
translation of The Diwan of
Abul ʿAla by Abul ʿAla Al-
Maʿarri (973–1057);[52] also
in Anton Chekhov's Three
Sisters, act 1. Also in Alfonso
Moreno Espinosa, Compendio
de Historia Universal, 5. ed.
(Cádiz 1888).

a formula used traditionally in

the author's signature by
NN fecit NN made (this)
painters, sculptors, artisans,
scribes etc.; compare pinxit

Verse 63 from the poem De

fecisti patriam diversis "From differing peoples you reditu suo by Rutilius Claudius
de gentibus unam have made one native land" Namatianus praising
emperor Augustus.[53]

"be more fortunate

felicior Augusto, melior ritual acclamation delivered to
than Augustus and better
Traiano late Roman emperors
than Trajan"

The motto of Oakland Colegio

Campestre school through
Felicitas, Integritas Et Happiness, Integrity and Knowl
which Colombia participates
Sapientia edge
of NASA Educational
Programs

from the "Exsultet" of

felix culpa fortunate fault the Catholic liturgy for
the Easter Vigil

Virgil. "Rerum cognoscere

causas" is the motto of
felix qui potuit rerum happy is he who can ascertain the London School of
cognoscere causas the causes of things Economics, University of
Sheffield, and University of
Guelph.
 archaic legal term for one who
commits suicide, referring to
early English common
felo de se felon from himself
law punishments, such as land
seizure, inflicted on those who
killed themselves

People's beliefs are shaped

fere libenter homines id men generally believe what they
largely by their desires. Julius
quod volunt credunt want to
Caesar, The Gallic War 3.18

An oxymoronic motto
of Augustus. It encourages
proceeding quickly, but calmly
and cautiously. Equivalent to
"more haste, less speed". Motto
festina lente hurry slowly
of the Madeira School,
McLean, Virginia and Berkham
sted School,
Berkhamsted, England, United
Kingdom

festinare nocet, nocet et it is bad to hurry, and delay is

cunctatio saepe; often as bad; the wise person is
Ovid[54]
tempore quaeque suo the one who does everything in
qui facit, ille sapit. its proper time.

fiat iustitia et pereat let justice be done, though the motto of Ferdinand I, Holy
mundus world shall perish Roman Emperor

let justice be done, should the attributed to Lucius Calpurnius

fiat justitia ruat caelum
sky fall Piso Caesoninus

from the Genesis, "dixitque

Deus fiat lux et facta est lux"
("and God said: 'Let there be
fiat lux let there be light
light', and there was light.");
frequently used as the motto of
schools.

fiat mihi secundum be it done to me according to Virgin Mary's response to

verbum tuum thy word the Annunciation

fiat panis let there be bread Motto of the United

 Nations Food and Agriculture
Organization (FAO)

motto of Robert May's School;

fiat voluntas Dei May God's will be done
see the next phrase below

motto of Archbishop Richard

Smith of the Roman Catholic
Archdiocese of Edmonton;
quotation of the third petition of
fiat voluntas tua Thy will be done the Pater Noster (Our Father)
prayer dictated by Jesus
Christ and his response to the
Father during the Agony in the
Garden of Gethsemane

Horace, Ars Poetica (338);
ficta voluptatis causa fictions meant to please should
advice presumably discounted
sint proxima veris approximate the truth
by the magical realists

A title given to King Henry

VIII of England by Pope Leo
X on 17 October 1521, before
Henry broke from the Roman
Fidei Defensor (Fid
Defender of the Faith Church and founded the Church
Def) or (fd)
of England. British monarchs
continue to use the title, which
is still inscribed on all British
coins, and usually abbreviated.

sometimes mistranslated to
"keep the faith" when used in
contemporary English writings
fidem scit he knows the faith
of all kinds to convey a light-
hearted wish for the reader's
well-being

Roman Catholic theological

term for the personal faith that
apprehends what is believed,
fides qua creditur the faith by which it is believed contrasted
with fides  quae creditur, which
is what is believed; see next
phrase below

fides quae creditur the faith which is believed Roman Catholic theological
 term for the content and truths
of the Faith or "the deposit of
the Faith", contrasted
with fides  qua  creditur, which
is the personal faith by which
the Faith is believed; see
previous phrase

fides quaerens motto of St.

faith seeking understanding
intellectum Anselm; Proslogion

refers to a faithful friend; from

fidus Achates faithful Achates the name of Aeneas's faithful
companion in Virgil's Aeneid

filiae nostrae sicut may our daughters be as

motto of Francis Holland
anguli incisi similitudine polished as the corners of the
School
templi temple

A major part of a work is

properly finishing it. Motto of
St. Mary's Catholic High
finis coronat opus the end crowns the work School in Dubai, United Arab
Emirates; on the Coat of Arms
of Seychelles; and of the Amin
Investment Bank

finis vitae sed non

the end of life, but not of love unknown
amoris

title for Attila the Hun, the

flagellum dei the scourge of God ruthless invader of the Western
Roman Empire

a mere name, word, or sound

without a corresponding
objective reality; expression
used by the nominalists of
flatus vocis [a or the] breath of voice
universals and traditionally
attributed to the medieval
philosopher Roscelin of
Compiègne

flectere si nequeo if I can not reach Heaven I will Virgil, Aeneid, Book VII.312

superos, Acheronta mov
raise Hell
ebo

Motto of Eton College,

floreat Etona may Eton flourish
England, United Kingdom

floreat nostra schola may our school flourish a common scholastic motto

indicates the period when a

historic person was most active
or was accomplishing that for
floruit (fl.) one flourished which he is famous; may be
used as a substitute when the
dates of his birth and/or death
are unknown.

Motto of the City of

fluctuat nec mergitur she wavers and is not immersed
Paris, France

also: "the fountainhead and

fons et origo the spring and source
beginning"

fons sapientiae, verbum the fount of knowledge is the motto of Bishop Blanchet High
Dei word of God School

motto of Chisipite Senior

fons vitae caritas love is the fountain of life School and Chisipite Junior
School

formosam resonare teach the woods to re-echo "fair

Virgil, Eclogues, 1:5
doces Amaryllida silvas Amaryllis"

forsan et haec olim perhaps even these things will Virgil, Aeneid, Book 1, Line
meminisse iuvabit be good to remember one day 203

The motto of the United States

fortes fortuna adiuvat Fortune favours the bold Marine Corps 3rd Marine
Regiment

fortes fortuna juvat Fortune favours the bold The motto of the Jutland
 Dragoon Regiment of Denmark

fortes in fide strong in faith a common motto

motto on the Coat of Arms of

fortis cadere, cedere non the brave may fall, but can not the Fahnestock Family and of
potest yield the Palmetto Guard
of Charleston, South Carolina

motto on the Coat of
fortis est veritas truth is strong Arms of Oxford, England,
United Kingdom

fortis et liber strong and free motto of Alberta, Canada

motto of the Municipal
fortis in arduis strong in difficulties Borough of Middleton, from
the Earl of Middleton

fortiter et fideliter bravely and faithfully a common motto

fortiter in re, suaviter in resolute in execution, gentle in

a common motto
modo manner

fortunae meae, artisan of my fate and that of

motto of Gatineau
multorum faber several others

a legal principle: the occurrence

fraus omnia vitiat or taint of fraud in a (legal)
transaction entirely invalidates it

An epitaph that reminds the

reader of the inevitability of
death, as if to state: "Once I was
fui quod es, eris quod I once was what you are, you
alive like you are, and you will
sum will be what I am
be dead as I am now." It was
carved on the gravestones of
some Roman military officers.

fumus boni iuris presumption of sufficient legal a legal principle

 basis

fundamenta inconcussa unshakable foundation

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Latin Translation Notes

according to Cassiodorus, an expression used

gaudia
the joys of battle by Attila in addressing his troops prior to the
certaminis
451 Battle of Châlons

gaudeamus
let us rejoice today
hodie

gaudeamus First words of an academic anthem used, among

therefore let us rejoice
igitur other places, in The Student Prince.

gaudete in
rejoice in the Lord Motto of Bishop Allen Academy
domino

gaudium in
joy in truth Motto of Campion School
veritate

A principle of statutory interpretation: If a

matter falls under a specific provision in a
general provisions enacted
statute enacted before a general provision
generalia in later legislation do not
enacted in a later statute, it is to be presumed
specialibus detract from specific
that the legislature did not intend that the earlier
non derogant provisions enacted in
specific provision be repealed, and the matter is
earlier legislation
governed by the earlier specific provision, not
the more recent general one.

The unique, distinctive aspects or atmosphere of

a place, such as those celebrated in art, stories,
genius loci spirit of place folk tales, and festivals. Originally, the genius
loci was literally the protective spirit of a place,
a creature usually depicted as a snake.

generatim Learn each field of study Motto of the University of Bath.

 according to its kind.
discite cultus
(Virgil, Georgics II.)

gens una Motto of FIDE. Can be traced back

we are one people
sumus to Claudian's poem De consulatu Stilichonis.

gesta non
deeds, not words Motto of James Ruse Agricultural High School.
verba

Often translated "Glory to God on High". The

Gloria in Glory to God in the title and beginning of an ancient Roman
excelsis Deo Highest Catholic doxology, the Greater Doxology. See
also ad maiorem Dei gloriam.

Gloria
By your fame you have Sallust, Bellum Jugurthum ("Jugurthine War")
invidiam
conquered envy 10:2.
vicisti

gloria filiorum The glory of sons is their

Motto of Eltham College
patres fathers (Proverbs17:6)

Gloria Patri Glory to the Father The beginning of the Lesser Doxology.

gloriosus et
glorious and free Motto of Manitoba
liber

Motto of private spaceflight company Blue

gradatim
by degrees, ferociously Origin, which officially treats "Step by step,
ferociter
ferociously" as the English translation

gradibus
ascending by degrees Motto of Grey College, Durham
ascendimus

Graecia capta Conquered Greece in turn

ferum defeated its savage Horace Epistles 2.1
victorem cepit conqueror

Graecum est; It is Greek (and therefore) Most commonly from Shakespeare's Julius

non legitur it cannot be read. Caesar where Casca couldn't explain to Cassius
what Cicero was saying because he was
 speaking Greek. The more common
colloquialism would be: It's all Greek to me.

grandescunt By hard work, all things

Motto of McGill University
aucta labore increase and grow

gratia et
grace and learning Motto of Arundel School
scientia

gratiae veritas Truth through mercy and

Motto of Uppsala University
naturae nature

graviora Virgil Aeneid 6:84; more severe things await,

heavier things remain
manent the worst is yet to come

Gravis Dulcis
serious sweet immutable Title of a poem by James Elroy Flecker [55]
Immutabilis

gutta cavat
a water drop hollows a main phrase is from Ovid, Epistulae ex
lapidem [non
stone [not by force, but by Ponto IV, 10, 5.;[56] expanded in the Middle
vi sed saepe
falling often] Ages
cadendo]

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Latin Translation Notes

A legal term from the 14th century or earlier. Refers to a

number of legal writs to bring a person before a court or
judge, most commonly habeas corpus ad subiciendum (you
habeas You should may have the body to bring up). Commonly used as the
corpus have the body general term for a prisoner's legal right to challenge the
legality of their detention. (Corpus here is used in a similar
sense to corpus delicti, referring to the substance of the
reason for detention rather than a physical human body.)

habemus we have a Used after a Catholic Church papal election to announce

papam pope publicly a successful ballot to elect a new pope.

Habent sua Books have Terentianus Maurus, De Litteris, De Syllabis, De

 their destiny
[according to
fata libelli Metris, 1:1286.
the capabilities
of the reader]

hac lege with this law

one day, this

haec olim Commonly rendered in English as "One day, we'll look back
will be
meminisse on this and smile". From Virgil's Aeneid 1.203. Also, motto
pleasing to
iuvabit of Handsworth Grammar School, and the Jefferson Society.
remember

"These are my
haec Attributed to Cornelia Africana (talking about her children)
ornaments" or
ornamenta by Valerius Maximus in Factorum ac dictorum
"These are my
mea [sunt] memorabilium libri IX, IV, 4, incipit.[57][58]
jewels"

Found in Cicero's first Philippic and in Livy's Ab urbe

condita
Hannibal ad Hannibal at the Hannibal was a fierce enemy of Rome who almost brought
portas gates them to defeat.
Sometimes rendered "Hannibal ante portas", with verisimilar
meaning: "Hannibal before the gates"

I speak not of
haud ignota Thus, "I say no things that are unknown".
unknown
loquor From Virgil's Aeneid, 2.91.
things

Hei mihi!
quod nullis Oh me! love
amor est can not be From Ovid's Metamorphoses ("Transformations"), I, 523.
medicabilis cured by herbs
herbis.

hic abundant here lions Written on uncharted territories of old maps; see also: here
leones abound be dragons.

The imperative motto for the satisfaction of desire. "I need it,
hic et nunc here and now
Here and Now"

Also rendered hic iacet. Written on gravestones or tombs,

preceding the name of the deceased. Equivalent to hic
hic jacet (HJ) here lies
sepultus (here is buried), and sometimes combined into hic
jacet sepultus (HJS), "here lies buried".
hic locus est
This is the
ubi mors
place where
gaudet A motto of many morgues or wards of anatomical pathology.
death delights
succurrere
in helping life
vitae
According to Titus Livius the phrase was pronounced
hic by Marcus Furius Camillus, addressing the senators who
here we'll stay
manebimus intended to abandon the city, invaded by Gauls, circa 390
excellently
optime BC. It is used today to express the intent to keep one's
position, even if the circumstances appear adverse.
hic sunt here there are Written on a globe engraved on two conjoined halves of
dracones dragons ostrich eggs, dated to 1504.
hic sunt here there are
Written on uncharted territories of old maps.
leones lions
from both
hinc et inde
sides
From Terence, Andria, line 125. Originally literal, referring
hinc illae hence those to the tears shed by Pamphilus at the funeral of Chrysis, it
lacrimae tears came to be used proverbially in the works of later authors,
such as Horace (Epistula XIX, 41).
from here the
hinc itur ad Written on the wall of the old astronomical observatory
way leads to
astra of Vilnius University, Lithuania, and the university's motto.
the stars
herefore
hinc robur et
strength and Motto of the Central Bank of Sweden.
securitas
safety
historia vitae history, the From Cicero's De Oratore, II, 9. Also "history is the mistress
magistra teacher of life of life".
hoc age do this Motto of Bradford Grammar School
hoc est
This is war
bellum
hoc est
To know
Christum
Christ is to Famous dictum by the Reformer Melanchthon in his Loci
cognoscere,
know his Communes of 1521
beneficia eius
benefits
cognoscere
The words of Jesus reiterated in Latin during the Roman
hoc est enim For this is my
Catholic Eucharist. Sometimes simply written as "Hoc est
corpus meum Body
corpus meum" or "This is my body".
From Horace's Satires, 1/2:2. Refers to the crowd at
hoc genus All that
Tigellio's funeral (c. 40–39 BC). Not to be confused with et
omne crowd/people
hoc genus omne (English: and all that sort of thing).
Today it's me,
hodie mihi, Inscription that can be seen on tombstones dating from the
tomorrow it
cras tibi Middle Ages, meant to outline the ephemerality of life.
will be you
hominem It is of man
From Martial's Epigrams, Book 10, No. 4, Line 10; stating
pagina nostra that my page
his purpose in writing.
sapit smells
hominem non Treat the Man, Motto of the Far Eastern University – Institute of Nursing
morbum cura not the Disease
Varro (116 BC – 27 BC), in the opening line of the first book
of Rerum Rusticarum Libri Tres, wrote "quod, ut dicitur, si
man is a est homo bulla, eo magis senex" (for if, as they say, man is a
homo bulla
bubble bubble, all the more so is an old man)[59] later reintroduced
by Erasmus in his Adagia, a collection of sayings published
in 1572.
First attested in Plautus' Asinaria (lupus est homo homini).
homo homini man [is a] wolf
The sentence was drawn on by Hobbes in Leviathan as a
lupus to man
concise expression of his views on human nature.
Homo Man, the
minister et servant and
Motto of the Lehigh University
interpres interpreter of
naturae nature
homo
praesumitur One is
bonus donec innocent until See also: presumption of innocence.
probetur proven guilty
malus
From Terence's Heauton Timorumenos (The Self-
Tormentor) (163 BC). Originally "strange" or "foreign"
homo sum I am a human (alienum) was used in the sense of "irrelevant", as this line
humani a me being; nothing was a response to the speaker being told to mind his own
nihil alienum human is business, but it is now commonly used to advocate
puto strange to me respecting different cultures and being humane in
general. Puto (I consider) is not translated because it is
meaningless outside of the line's context within the play.
homo unius a man of a Attributed to Thomas Aquinas: «Hominem unius libri timeo»
libri single book “I fear a man of a single book.”
honestas ante honesty before
Motto of King George V School (Hong Kong)
honores glory
esteem is the
honor virtutis
reward of Motto of Arnold School, Blackpool, England
praemium
virtue
for the sake of Said of an honorary title, such as "Doctor of Science honoris
honoris causa
honor causa"
hora fugit the hour flees See tempus fugit
hora at the hour of
Medical shorthand for "at bedtime"
somni (h.s.) sleep
I do not count
horas non
the hours
numero nisi A common inscription on sundials.
unless they are
serenas
sunny
horresco I shudder as I From Virgil's Aeneid, 2.204, on the appearance of the sea-
referens tell serpents who kill the Trojan priest Laocoön and his sons
horribile
horrible to say cf. mirabile dictu
dictu
hortus in A garden in Motto of the Chicago Park District, a playful allusion to the
urbe the city city's motto, urbs in horto, q.v.
 hortus siccus A dry garden A collection of dry, preserved plants
hostis
enemy of the Cicero defined pirates in Roman law as being enemies of
humani
human race humanity in general.
generis
humilitas
humility
occidit
conquers pride
superbiam
I do not
hypotheses From Newton, Principia. Less literally, "I do not assert that
fabricate
non fingo any hypotheses are true".
hypotheses

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Latin Translation Notes

Perfectly correct Latin sentence usually

Go, oh Vitellius, at the
I, Vitelli, dei Romani
war sound of the
sono belli
Roman god
reported as funny by modern Italians
because the same exact words, in Italian,
mean "Romans' calves are beautiful", which
has a ridiculously different meaning.

Usually used in bibliographic citations to

ibidem (ibid.) in the same place refer to the last source previously
referenced.

"That is (to say)" in the sense of "that

means" and "which means", or "in other
words", "namely", or sometimes "in this
case", depending on the context. The
abbreviation may be followed by a comma
or not, depending on the style of the writer
(or the grammatical sense of what follows.
id est (i.e.) that is (literally "it is") [35]
) The comma is more apt to be dropped
before a simple expression with no
punctuation of its own, and is more likely to
be retained for multiple items.[60] I.e. is often
confused with e.g. (exempli gratia, "for
example").[61] Some writing styles give such
abbreviations without punctuation,
as ie and eg.

A phrase used in legal language to indicate

id quod plerumque that which generally
the most probable outcome from an act,
accidit happens
fact, event or cause.

idem (id.) the same Used to refer to something that has already

 been cited; ditto. See also ibidem.

Not to be confused with an intelligence

idem quod (i.q.) the same as
quotient.

In the Roman calendar, the Ides of March

refers to the 15th day of March. In modern
times, the term is best known as the date on
Idus Martiae the Ides of March
which Julius Caesar was assassinated in 44
BC; the term has come to be used as a
metaphor for impending doom.

Used by Johann Sebastian Bach at the

beginning of his compositions, which he
Jesu juva (J.J.) Jesus, help!
ended with "S.D.G." (Soli Deo gloria).
Compare Besiyata Dishmaya.

From Vulgate; John 19:19. John
19:20 states that this inscription was
Iesus Nazarenus Rex Jesus the Nazarene,
written in three languages—Aramaic,
Iudaeorum (INRI) King of the Jews
Latin and Greek—at the top of
the cross during the crucifixion of Jesus.

Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus, De Re

igitur qui desiderat Therefore whoever
Militari; similar to si vis pacem, para
pacem, praeparet desires peace, let him
bellum and in pace ut sapiens aptarit
bellum prepare for war
idonea bello.

igne natura renovatur through fire, nature is An alchemical aphorism invented as an

integra reborn whole alternate meaning for the acronym INRI.

A phrase describing scorched earth tactics.

igni ferroque with fire and iron Also rendered as igne atque ferro, ferro
ignique, and other variations.

A phrase referring to the refining of

ignis aurum probat fire tests gold character through difficult circumstances, it
is also the motto of the Prometheus Society.

ignis fatuus foolish fire Will-o'-the-wisp.

ignorantia juris non (or ignorantia legis A legal principle whereby ignorance of a

excusat non
 excusat or ignorantia
legis neminem
law does not allow one to escape liability.
excusat) ignorance of
the law is no excuse

The logical fallacy of irrelevant conclusion:

making an argument that, while possibly
valid, doesn't prove or support the
proposition it claims to. An ignoratio
ignoratio elenchi ignorance of the issue
elenchi that is an intentional attempt to
mislead or confuse the opposing party is
known as a red herring. Elenchi is from the
Greek elenchos.

An explanation that is less clear than the

unknown by means of
ignotum per ignotius thing to be explained. Synonymous
the more unknown
with obscurum per obscurius.

ignotus (ign.) unknown

In the Gospel of John 3:30, a phrase said

He must become
illum oportet crescere by John the Baptist after baptizing Jesus.
greater; I must become
me autem minui Motto of Saint John the Baptist Catholic
less
School, San Juan, Metro Manila.

From the religious concept that man was

imago Dei image of God
created in "God's image".

A principle, held by several religions, that

imitatio dei imitation of a god believers should strive to resemble their
god(s).

1. A group of people who owe utmost fealty

to their leader(s), subordinating the interests
of the larger group to the authority of the
an order within an internal group's leader(s).
imperium in imperio
order 2. A "fifth column" organization operating
against the organization within which they
seemingly reside.
3. "State within a state"

imperium sine fine an empire without an In Virgil's Aeneid, Jupiter ordered Aeneas t

end o found a city (Rome) from which would
come an everlasting, never-ending empire,
 the endless (sine fine) empire.

impossibilium nulla there is no obligation Publius Juventius Celsus, Digesta L 17,

obligatio est to do the impossible 185.

An authorization to publish, granted by

imprimatur let it be printed some censoring authority (originally
a Catholic Bishop).

Used in a number of situations, such as in a

in absentia in the absence trial carried out in the absence of the
accused.

in absentia lucis, in the absence of light,

tenebrae vincunt darkness prevails

in actu in act In the very act; in reality.

[Sunday in Setting
[Dominica] in
Aside the] White Latin name of the Octave of Easter.
albis [depositis]
Garments

in articulo mortis at the point of death

in bono veritas truth is in the good

in camera in the chamber In secret. See also camera obscura.

in casu (i.c.) in the event In this case.

Using the metaphor of a scorpion, this can

be said of an account that proceeds gently,
but turns vicious towards the end—or more
in cauda venenum the poison is in the tail
generally waits till the end to reveal an
intention or statement that is undesirable in
the listener's ears.

in com. Ebor. In the county of Eboracum was the Roman name for York
 and this phrase is used in some Georgian
Yorkshire and Victorian books on the genealogy of
prominent Yorkshire families.

in the light of Christ

in Christi lumine pro Motto of Pontifical Catholic University of
for the life on the
mundi vita Chile.
world

in Deo speramus in God we hope Motto of Brown University.

Expresses the judicial principle that in case

in doubt, on behalf of of doubt the decision must be in favor of the
in dubio pro reo
the [alleged] culprit accused (in that anyone is innocent until
there is proof to the contrary).

in duplo in double In duplicate

In (the form of) an image; in effigy (as

in effigie in the likeness
opposed to "in the flesh" or "in person").

in esse in existence In actual existence; as opposed to in posse.

In full; at full length; complete or

in extenso in the extended
unabridged

At the very end. In extremity; in dire straits;

in extremis in the furthest reaches also "at the point of death" (cf. in articulo
mortis).

To our faith add

in fide scientiam Motto of Newington College.
knowledge

in fidem into faith To the verification of faith.

in fieri in becoming In progress; pending.

in fine (i.f.) in the end At the end. The footnote says "p.

157 in fine": "the end of page
 157".

in a blazing wrong, Caught in the act (esp. a crime or in a

in flagrante delicto while the crime is "compromising position"); equivalent to
blazing "caught red-handed" in English idiom.

in flore in blossom Blooming.

in foro in forum In court (legal term).

We enter the circle at A palindrome said to describe the behavior

in girum imus nocte et
night and are of moths. Also the title of a film by Guy
consumimur igni
consumed by fire Debord.

in harmonia Motto of Bandung Institute of Technology,

progress in harmony
progressio Indonesia.

in hoc sensu or in Recent academic abbreviation for "in this

in this sense
sensu hoc (s.h.) sense".

Words Constantine the Great claimed to

by this sign you will
in hoc signo vinces have seen in a vision before the Battle of
conquer
the Milvian Bridge.

Describes a meeting called for a particular

in hunc effectum for this purpose
stated purpose only.

in ictu oculi in the blink of an eye

Recent academic substitution for the

in illo ordine (i.o.) in that order spacious and inconvenient "...,
respectively."

At that time, found often in Gospel lectures

in illo tempore in that time during Masses, used to mark an
undetermined time in the past.

in inceptum finis est lit.: in the beginning is or: the beginning foreshadows the end
 the end

Preliminary, in law, a motion in limine is

a motion that is made to the judge before or
in limine at the outset/threshold
during trial, often about the admissibility of
evidence believed prejudicial.

That is, 'on site'. "The nearby labs were

in the place, on the
in loco closed for the weekend, so the water
spot
samples were analyzed in loco."

Assuming parental or custodial

responsibility and authority
in loco parentis in the place of a parent
(e.g., schoolteachers over students); a legal
term.

Motto of Valparaiso University. The phrase

in luce Tua videmus in Thy light we see comes from the book of Psalms 36:9 "For
lucem light with you is the fountain of life; in your light
we see light."

Motto of Columbia University, Presbyterian

Boys' Secondary School and Ohio
in lumine tuo in your light we will
Wesleyan University. Also, it is the motto
videbimus lumen see the light
of the South African University of Fort
Hare.

in manus tuas
into your hands I According to Luke 23:46, the last words
commendo spiritum
entrust my spirit of Jesus on the cross.
meum

From Horace. Refers to the literary

technique of beginning a narrative in the
middle of, or at a late point in, the story,
into the middle of
in medias res after much action has already taken place.
things
Examples include the Iliad, the Odyssey, Os
Lusíadas, Othello, and Paradise Lost.
Compare ab initio.

Equivalent to "in the memory of". Refers to

in memoriam into the memory remembering or honoring a deceased
person.
in natura in nature

"Charity" (caritas) is being used in the

in necessary things classical sense of "compassion" (cf. agape).
in necessariis unitas, Motto of the Cartellverband der
unity, in doubtful
in dubiis libertas, in katholischen deutschen
things liberty, in all
omnibus caritas Studentenverbindungen. Often
things charity
misattributed to Augustine of Hippo.[citation
needed]

advice comes over

night. Literally: the
night brings advice, I.e., "Tomorrow is a new day." Motto
in nocte consilium
source of the English of Birkbeck College, University of London.
expression "Sleep over
it"

in the name of the

in nomine diaboli
devil

in the name of the Motto of Trinity College, Perth, Australia;

in nomine Domini
Lord the name of a 1050 papal bull

in the name of the

in nomine patris, et
Father, and of the Son, invocation of the Holy Trinity
filii, et spiritus sancti
and of the Holy Spirit

in a nutshell; briefly stated; potential; in the

in nuce in a nut
embryonic phase

Used in reference to the deaths of

in odium fidei in hatred of the faith
Christian martyrs

Motto of the United States Army's 18th

in omnia paratus Ready for anything.
Infantry Regiment

in omnibus amare et In everything, love The motto of Ateneo de Iloilo, a school in

servire Domino and serve the Lord. the Philippines

in omnibus requiem Everywhere I have Quote by Thomas à Kempis

quaesivi, et nusquam searched for peace and
 nowhere found it,
inveni nisi in angulo
except in a corner with
cum libro
a book

An experiment or process performed in an

in the egg or in the
in ovo egg or embryo (e.g. in ovo electroporation
embryo
of chicken embryo).

in peace, like the wise Horace, Satires 2/2:111; similar to si vis

in pace ut sapiens
man, make pacem, para bellum and igitur qui desiderat
aptarit idonea bello
preparations for war pacem, praeparet bellum.

Alternate form of requiescat in pace ("let

him rest in peace"). Found in this form at
in pace requiescat in peace may he rest
the end of The Cask of
Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe.

In statutory interpretation, when a statute is

upon the same matter ambiguous, its meaning may be determined
in pari materia
or subject in light of other statutes on the same subject
matter.

"In the land of the infidels"; used to refer to

in the parts of the bishoprics that remains as titular sees even
in partibus infidelium
infidels after the corresponding territory was
conquered by Muslim empires.

A cardinal named in secret by the pope. See

in pectore in the heart
also ab imo pectore.

in personam into a person Directed towards a particular person

In the state of being possible; as opposed

in posse in potential
to in esse.

For one's self, for the sake of one's

"Personhood"; acting on one's own behalf,
especially a person representing themselves
in propria persona in one's own person
in a legal proceeding; see also litigant in
person, pro se legal representation in the
United States (abbreviated pro per).
in principio erat in the beginning was
Beginning of the Gospel of John
Verbum the Word (Logos)

A legal term used to indicate that a judicial

proceeding may not have formally
designated adverse parties or is otherwise
uncontested. The term is commonly used in
in re in the matter [of]
case citations of probate proceedings, for
example, In re Smith's Estate; it is also used
in juvenile courts, as, for instance, In re
Gault.

Primarily of philosophical use to discuss

properties and property exemplification.
In philosophy of mathematics, it is typically
in rebus in the thing [itself]
contrasted with "ante rem" and, more
recently, "post res" structuralism.
Sometimes in re is used in place of in rebus.

A quote of Desiderius Erasmus from

In the land of the
in regione caecorum Adagia (first published 1500, with
blind, the one-eyed
rex est luscus numerous expanded editions through 1536),
man is king.
III, IV, 96.

Legal term indicating a court's jurisdiction

over a piece of property rather than a legal
in rem to the thing person; contrast with personal (ad
personam) jurisdiction. See In rem
jurisdiction; Quasi in rem jurisdiction

See also Lucretius' De rerum natura (On

in rerum natura in the nature of things
the Nature of Things).

Used to describe documents kept separately

among things held
in retentis from the regular records of a court for
back
special reasons.

in saecula
roughly: down to the
(saeculorum), in forever (and ever), liturgical
times of the times
saeculum saeculi

In the secular world, esp. outside

in saeculo in the times
a monastery, or before death.
in salvo in safety

in scientia In Knowledge, there is

opportunitas Motto of Edge Hill University.
Opportunity
(Dog Latin)

In Knowledge, and Motto of St. Joseph's College, Colombo. Sri

in scientia et virtue
Virtue Lanka.

great things collapse

in se magna ruunt Lucan, Pharsalia 1:81.
of their own weight

Coined in the late 1980s for scientific

papers. Refers to an experiment or process
performed virtually, as a computer
in silico simulation. The term is Dog Latin modeled
in silicon
(Dog Latin) after terms such as in vitro and in vivo. The
Latin word for silicon is silicium, so the
correct Latinization of "in silicon" would
be in silicio, but this form has little usage.

In the original place, appropriate position,

in situ in the place
or natural arrangement.

In dreams there is
in somnis veritas
truth

"future" (My mother-in-law in

spe", i.e., "My future mother-in-law), or "in
embryonic form", as in "Locke's theory of
in spe in hope
government resembles, in
spe, Montesquieu's theory of the separation
of powers."

in specialibus To seek the general in That is, to understand the most general rules
generalia quaerimus the specifics through the most detailed analysis.

in the state of being

in statu nascendi Just as something is about to begin
born

in toto in all Totally; entirely; completely.

in triplo in triple In triplicate.

in umbra, igitur, Then we will fight in

pugnabimus the shade

in utero in the womb

prepared for either

in utrumque paratus
(event)

in vacuo in a void In a vacuum; isolated from other things.

The motto of the European Union and

in varietate concordia united in diversity
the Council of Europe

invidiae prudentia prudence conquers

victrix jealousy

That is, wine loosens the tongue (referring

in vino veritas in wine [there is] truth
to alcohol's disinhibitory effects).

An experimental or process methodology

performed in a "non-natural" setting (e.g. in
a laboratory using a glass test tube or Petri
in vitro in glass dish), and thus outside of a living organism
or cell. Alternative experimental or process
methodologies include in vitro, in silico, ex
vivo and in vivo.

An experiment or process performed on a

in vivo in life/in a living thing
living specimen.

An expression used by biologists to express

the fact that laboratory findings from testing
in a living thing [there
in vivo veritas an organism in vitro are not always
is] truth
reflected when applied to an organism in
vivo. A pun on in vino veritas.
 Westville Boys' High School and Westville
Girls' High School's motto is taken directly
from Virgil. These words, found in Aeneid,
Book 1, are used by Juno, queen of heaven
who hated the Trojans led by Aeneas. When
May I not shrink from
incepto ne desistam she saw the fleet of Aeneas on its way to
my purpose!
Italy, after the sack of Troy by the Greeks,
she planned to scatter it by means of strong
winds. In her determination to accomplish
her task she cried out "Incepto Ne
Desistam!"

A term used to classify a taxonomic group

of uncertain position
incertae sedis when its broader relationships are unknown
(seat)
or undefined.

incredibile dictu incredible to say A variant on mirabile dictu.

Inwardly, under the

intus et in cute skin [intimately, Persius, Satire 3:30.
without reservation]

Index Librorum Index of Prohibited A list of books considered heretical by

Prohibitorum (or, Forbidden) Books the Roman Catholic Church.

From Augustine, De Civitate Dei XII,

being-in-need-of-God, 1.3: beatitudinem consequatur nec expleat
indigens Deo
beggar before God indigentiam suam, "since it is not satisfied
unless it be perfectly blessed."

indignor quandoque I too am annoyed

bonus dormitat whenever good Homer Horace, Ars Poetica 358
Homerus nods off

Motto of Austria-Hungary before it was
indivisibiliter ac indivisible and
divided and separated into independent
inseparabiliter inseparable
states in 1918.

Infinitus est numerus Infinite is the number

stultorum. of fools.

infirma mundi elegit God chooses the weak The motto of Venerable Vital-Justin
Deus of the world Grandin, the bishop of the St. Albert
 Diocese, which is now the Roman Catholic
Archdiocese of Edmonton

infra dignitatem (infra beneath one's dignity

dig)

ingenio stat sine morte The honors of genius

Propertius, Elegies Book III, 2
decus are eternal

iniuriae qui addideris You who have added

Phaedrus, Fables 5/3:5.
contumeliam insult to injury

To poverty many
inopiae desunt multa,
things are lacking; to Publilius Syrus.
avaritiae omnia
avarice, everything

insita hominibus Men have an innate

Titus Livius, (XXVII, XXIV); Michel de
libidine alendi de desire to propagate
Montaigne, (Essays).
industria rumores rumors or reports

Used in formal correspondence to refer to

the current month, sometimes abbreviated
instante mense (inst.) in the present month as inst; e.g.: "Thank you for your letter of
the 17th inst."—ult. mense = last
month, prox. mense = next month.

Used to express the exploitation

of religion by State or ecclesiastical
instrument of
Instrumentum regni polity as a means of controlling the masses,
government
or in particular to achieve political
and mundane ends.

So Varro in his De re rustica (On

Agriculture) defines the slave: an
Instrumentum vocale instrument with voice
instrument (as a simple plow, or etc.) with
voice.

intaminatis fulget Untarnished, she From Horace's Odes (III.2.18). Motto

honoribus shines with honor of Wofford College.

integer vitae unimpaired by life and From Horace. Used as a funeral hymn.

scelerisque purus clean of wickedness

Few words suffice for

intelligenti pauca
he who understands

A term used in formal extract minutes to

indicate that the minute quoted has been
inter alia (i.a.) among other things taken from a fuller record of other matters,
or when alluding to the parent group after
quoting a particular example.

Often used to compress lists of parties to

inter alios among others
legal documents

Said by Cicero in Pro Milone as a protest

against unchecked political mobs that had
virtually seized control of Rome in the 60s
and 50s BC. Famously quoted in the
inter arma enim silent in a time of war, the
essay Civil Disobedience by Henry David
leges law falls silent
Thoreau as "The clatter of arms drowns out
the voice of the law". This phrase has also
been jokingly translated as "In a time of
arms, the legs are silent."

inter caetera among others Title of a papal bull

Motto for Rockwell
inter mutanda Steadfast in the midst
College in Ireland and Francis Libermann
constantia of change
Catholic High School in Ontario, Canada

inter spem et metum between hope and fear

inter faeces et urinam we are born between

Attributed to Saint Augustine
nascimur feces and urine

Refers to property transfers between living

persons, as opposed to a testamentary
inter vivos between the living
transfer upon death such as an inheritance;
often relevant to tax laws.

intra muros within the walls Not public; source of the word intramural.
 See also Intramuros, Manila.

intra vires within the powers Within one's authority

You would still

invenias etiam disiecti Horace, Satires, I, 4, 62, in reference to the
recognize the scattered
membra poetae earlier Roman poet Ennius
fragments of a poet

Attributed to Petronius[62] or Prudentius.
Motto of Nature in Cambridgeshire:[63]
Inveniet quod quisque velit; non
inveniet quod quisque Each shall find what omnibus unum est, quod placet; hic
velit he desires spinas colligit, ille rosas.
("Each shall find what he desires;
no one thing pleases all; one
gathers thorns, another roses.")
Motto of the English county
invicta Unconquered
of Kent and the city of Oporto
I remain
invictus
unvanquishe Motto of the Armstrong Clan
maneo
d
Iohannes est John is his Motto of the Seal of the
nomen eius name Commonwealth of Puerto Rico
knowledge
ipsa scientia Famous phrase written by
itself is
potestas est Sir Francis Bacon in 1597
power
Commonly said in Medieval
debates and referring to Aristotle.
Used in general to emphasize that
some assertion comes from some
authority, i.e., as an argument from
authority, and the term ipse-
dixitism has come to mean any
he himself
ipse dixit unsupported rhetorical assertion
said it
that lacks a logical argument. A
literal translation by Cicero (in
his De Natura Deorum 1.10) of the
Greek «αὐτὸς ἔφα», an invocation
by Pythagoreans when appealing
to the pronouncements of the
master.
"Strictly word for word"
(cf. verbatim). Often used in
the very
ipsissima Biblical Studies to describe the
words
verba record of Jesus' teaching found in
themselves
the New Testament (specifically,
the four Gospels).
ipsissima voce in the very To approximate the main thrust or
 message without using the exact
'voice' itself
words
by the fact
ipso facto By that very fact
itself
Like the vast majority of
inhabitants of the ancient world,
the ancient
Romans practiced pagan rituals,
wrath of the
ira deorum believing it important to achieve a
gods
state of pax deorum (peace of the
gods) instead of ira deorum (wrath
of the gods): earthquakes, floods,
famine, etc.
Wrath
ira furor (anger) is but
brevis est a brief
madness
A useful phrase, as the Romans
had no word for "yes", preferring
to respond to questions with the
affirmative or negative of the
ita vero thus indeed
question (e.g., "Are you hungry?"
was answered by "I am hungry" or
"I am not hungry", not "Yes" or
"No).
Loosely: "You have been
dismissed", literally "Go. Mass is
Go, it is the
ite, missa est over". Concluding words
dismissal
addressed to the people in
the Mass of the Roman Rite.[64]
The path of The path a law takes from its
iter legis
the law conception to its implementation
iucunda Pleasant is
memoria est the memory Cicero, De finibus bonorum et
praeteritoru of past malorum 2, 32, 105
m malorum troubles
From Gerhard Gerhards' (1466–
1536) [better known as Erasmus]
collection of annotated Adagia
to cut the (1508). It can mean attacking the
iugulare
throat of work or personality of deceased
mortuos
corpses person. Alternatively, it can be
used to describe criticism of an
individual already heavily
criticised by others.
also spelled juncta juvant; from
the legal principle quae non
together they
iuncta iuvant valeant singula, iuncta
strive
iuvant ("What is without value on
its own, helps when joined")
iura novit the court A legal principle in civil law
curia knows the countries of the Roman-German
 tradition that says that lawyers
need not to argue the law, as that is
law the office of the court. Sometimes
miswritten as iura novat curia (the
court renews the laws).
in right of his Indicates a right exercised by a son
iure matris
mother on behalf of his mother
in right of his Indicates a right exercised by a
iure uxoris
wife husband on behalf of his wife
it is
iuris
ignorance of
ignorantia est
the law when
cum ius
we do not
nostrum
know our
ignoramus
own rights
Commonly referred to as "right of
survivorship": a rule in property
ius right of
law that surviving joint tenants
accrescendi accrual
have rights in equal shares to a
decedent's property
Refers to the laws that regulate the
reasons for going to war.
law towards
ius ad bellum Typically, this would address
war
issues of self-defense or
preemptive strikes.
Refers to a fundamental principle
of international law considered to
have acceptance among the
international community of states
as a whole. Typically, this would
address issues not listed or defined
compelling by any authoritative body, but
ius cogens
law arise out of case law and changing
social and political attitudes.
Generally included are
prohibitions on waging aggressive
war, crimes against humanity, war
crimes, piracy, genocide, slavery,
and torture.
Refers to the "laws" that regulate
the conduct of combatants during a
conflict. Typically, this would
address issues of who or what is a
ius in bello law in war
valid target, how to treat prisoners,
and what sorts of weapons can be
used. The word jus is also
commonly spelled ius.
ius primae law of the
The droit de seigneur
noctis first night
iustitia justice is the Motto of the Supreme Public
fundamentum foundation of Prosecutor's Office of the Czech
regni a reign Republic
 iustitia
justice for all The motto of Washington, D.C.
omnibus
to the young
iuventuti nil Motto of Canberra Girls Grammar
nothing is
arduum School
difficult
I bear the
iuventutis
fortunes of Motto of Dollar Academy
veho fortunas
youth

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Latin Translation Notes

labor ipse The pleasure is in the work

Motto of Leopold von Ranke (Manilius IV 155)
voluptas itself.

Popular as a motto; derived from a phrase

labor omnia in Virgil's Eclogue (X.69: omnia vincit Amor –
Hard work conquers all.
vincit "Love conquers all"); a similar phrase also
occurs in his Georgics I.145.

laborare
To work, (or) to fight; we
pugnare Motto of the California Maritime Academy
are ready
parati sumus

labore et
By labour and honour
honore

laboremus pro Let us work for the

Motto of the Carlsberg breweries
patria fatherland

laboris gloria Games are the glory of Motto of the Camborne School of Mines,
Ludi work, Cornwall, UK

lacrimae
The poignancy of things. Virgil, Aeneid 1:462
rerum

lapse, slip, error;

lapsus involuntary mistake made
while writing or speaking
 inadvertent typographical
lapsus calami  
error, slip of the pen

inadvertent speech error,
lapsus linguae  
slip of the tongue

lapsus
slip of memory source of the term memory lapse
memoriae

latius est
impunitum
relinqui It is better to let the crime
facinus of the guilty go unpunished
Ulpian, Digest 5:6.
nocentis (than to condemn the
(quam innocent)
innocentem
damnari)

lauda finem praise to the end Motto of Nottingham High School

Laudatio Ejus
Manet In His Praise Remains unto
Motto of Galway
Secula Ages of Ages
Seculorum

One who is discontent with the present and

laudator instead prefers things of the past ("the good old
praiser of time past
temporis acti days"). In Horace's Ars Poetica, line 173. The
motto of HMS  Veteran

laudetur Jesus Often used as a salutation, but also used

Praise (Be) Jesus Christ
Christus after prayers or the reading of the gospel

Inscription on the east side at the peak of

the Washington Monument in Washington,
laus Deo praise be to God
D.C.; motto of the Viscount of
Arbuthnott and Sydney Grammar School

lectio brevior The shorter reading is the A maxim in text criticism. Codified, but
potior better simultaneously refuted, by Marxist educators.
[citation needed]
lectio
The more difficult reading
difficilior
is the stronger
potior

Often abbreviated to L.S., used as opening

lectori salutem greetings reader
words for a letter

Denotes that a certain intervention is performed

according to the law of the in a correct way. Used especially in a medical
lege artis
art context. The 'art' referred to in the phrase is
medicine.

legem terrae the law of the land

leges humanae
nascuntur, laws of man are born, live
vivunt, et and die
moriuntur

leges sine laws without morals [are] From Horace's Odes; motto of the University of
moribus vanae vain Pennsylvania

legio patria The Legion is our

Motto of the French Foreign Legion
nostra fatherland

legi, intellexi, I read, understood, and

et condemnavi condemned.

legis plenitudo charity (love) is the Motto of Ratcliffe College, UK and of the
charitas fulfilment of the law Rosmini College, NZ

In Roman and civil law, a forced share in

an estate; the portion of the decedent's estate
legitime lawfully from which the immediate family cannot
be disinherited. From the French héritier
legitime (rightful heir).

lex artis law of the skill The rules that regulate a professional duty.

lex dei vitae the law of God is the lamp Motto of the Presbyterian Ladies' College,
lampas of life Melbourne

the law that should be

lex ferenda The law as it ought to be.
borne

The rule whereby a spouse cannot by deed inter

vivos or bequeath by testament to his or her
lex hac
the law here proclaims second spouse more than the amount of the
edictali
smallest portion given or bequeathed to any
child.

A law that only concerns one particular case.

lex in casu law in the event
See law of the case.

lex lata the law that has been borne The law as it is.

lex loci law of the place

law that has not been

lex non scripta Unwritten law, or common law
written

lex orandi, lex the law of prayer is the law

credendi of faith

lex paciferat the law shall bring peace Motto of the European Gendarmerie Force

lex
law of succinctness also known as Occam's Razor
parsimoniae

A principle of government advocating a rule by

law rather than by men. The phrase originated
as a double entendre in the title of Samuel
lex rex the law [is] king
Rutherford's controversial book Lex,
Rex (1644), which espoused a theory of limited
government and constitutionalism.

lex scripta written law Statutory law; contrasted with lex non scripta

lex talionis the law of retaliation Retributive justice (i.e., eye for an eye)

Used in the movie Event Horizon (1997),

where it is translated as "save yourself (from
hell)". It is initially misheard as liberate
libera te
me (free me), but is later corrected. Libera te is
tutemet (ex Free yourself (from hell)
often mistakenly merged into liberate, which
inferis)
would necessitate a plural pronoun instead of
the singular tutemet (which is an emphatic form
of tu, you).

Libertas
Motto of the Korea University and Freie
Justitia Liberty Justice Truth
Universität Berlin
Veritas

Libertas
Freedom will flood all Motto of the University of Barcelona and
perfundet
things with light the Complutense University of Madrid
omnia luce

Libertas quae freedom which [is] Liberty even when it comes late; motto
sera tamen however late of Minas Gerais, Brazil

Libertas
Securitas Liberty Security Justice Motto of the Frontex
Justitia

Its abbreviation lb is used as a unit of weight,

libra (lb) balance; scales
the pound.

lignum crucis
The wood of the cross is
arbor School motto of Denstone College
the tree of knowledge
scientiae

littera scripta
The written word endures Attributed to Horace
manet

More fully written in loco citato; see also opere

loco citato (lc) in the place cited
citato

locum tenens place holder A worker who temporarily takes the place of
another with similar qualifications, for example
 as a doctor or a member of the clergy; usually
shortened to locum.

The most typical or classic case of something;

locus classicus a classic place
quotation which most typifies its use.

A medical term to describe a location on or in a

locus minoris body that offers little resistance to infection,
place of less resistance
resistentiae damage, or injury. For example, a weakened
place that tends to be reinjured.

A legal term, it is the opportunity of

withdrawing from a projected contract, before
locus
a place of repentance the parties are finally bound; or of abandoning
poenitentiae
the intention of committing a crime, before it
has been completed.

Standing in law (the right to have one's case in

locus standi A right to stand
court)

longissimus
even the longest day soon
dies cito Pliny the Younger, Epistulae 9/36:4
ends
conditur

A mangled fragment from Cicero's De Finibus

Bonorum et Malorum (On the Limits of Good
sorrow itself; pain for its and Evil, 45 BC), used as typographer's filler to
lorem ipsum
own sake show fonts (a.k.a. greeking). (The first syllable
of lorem is cut off; the original was dolorem
ipsum').

luce veritatis By the light of truth School motto of Queen Margaret College

luceat lux From Matthew Ch. 5 V. 16; popular as a school

Let your light shine
vestra motto

lucem
We follow the light Motto of the University of Exeter
sequimur

luceo non uro I shine, not burn Motto of the Highland Scots Clan Mackenzie
lucida sidera The shining stars Horace, Carmina 1/3:2

Motto of the Dutch province of Zeeland to

luctor et
I struggle and emerge denote its battle against the sea, and the Athol
emergo
Murray College of Notre Dame

Luctor, non 'I struggle, but am not Motto of the Glass Family (Sauchie, Scotland)
mergor overwhelmed [65]

From late 4th-century grammarian Honoratus

Maurus, who sought to mock implausible word
origins such as those proposed by Priscian.
A pun based on the word lucus (dark grove)
having a similar appearance to the
lucus a non [it is] a grove by not being verb lucere (to shine), arguing that the former
lucendo light word is derived from the latter word because of
a lack of light in wooded groves. Often used as
an example of absurd etymology, it derives
from parum luceat (it does not shine [being
darkened by shade]) by Quintilian in Institutio
Oratoria.

ludemus bene
We play well in groups Motto of the Barony of Marinus
in compania

Plautus' adaptation of an old Roman

proverb: homo homini lupus est ("man is a wolf
to [his fellow] man"). In Asinaria, act II, scene
lupus est
A man to a man is a wolf IV, verse 89 [495 overall]. Lupus est homo
homo homini
homini, non homo, quom qualis sit non novit
("a man to a man is a wolf, not a man, when the
other doesn't know of what character he is.")[66]

lupus in With the meaning "speak of the wolf, and he

the wolf in the story
fabula will come"; from Terence's play Adelphoe.

lupus non
a wolf does not bite a wolf
mordet lupum

lupus non
a wolf is not afraid of a
timet canem
barking dog
latrantem
lux aeterna eternal light epitaph

Motto of the Franklin & Marshall College and

lux et lex light and law
the University of North Dakota

A translation of the Hebrew Urim and

lux et veritas light and truth Thummim. Motto of several institutions,
including Yale University.

lux ex tenebris light from darkness Motto of the 67th Network Warfare Wing

lux hominum
light the life of man Motto of the University of New Mexico
vita

lux in Domino light in the Lord Motto of the Ateneo de Manila University

lux in tenebris The light that shines in the Motto of Columbia University School of
lucet darkness General Studies[67] Also: John 1:5.

Motto of the University of North Carolina at

lux libertas light and liberty
Chapel Hill

Lux mentis Light of the mind, Light of

Motto of Sonoma State University
Lux orbis the world

A more literal Latinization of the phrase; the

most common translation is fiat lux, from
Latin Vulgate Bible phrase chosen for
lux sit let there be light the Genesis line "‫אֹור‬-‫ יְהִי אֹור; ַויְהִי‬,‫"וַי ֹּאמֶר אֱֹלהִים‬
(And God said: 'Let there be light.' And there
was light). Motto of the University of
Washington.

lux tua nos

Your light guides us
ducat

lux, veritas,
light, truth, courage Motto of Northeastern University
virtus
M[edit]

Latin Translation Notes

Young, cheer
Macte animo! Generose up! This is the Motto of Academia da Força Aérea (Air
puer sic itur ad astra way to the Force Academy) of the Brazilian Air Force
skies.

or "excellence is the way to the stars";

those who
macte virtute sic itur ad astr frequent motto;
excel, thus
a from Virgil's Aeneid IX.641 (English, Dryde
reach the stars
n)

the teacher has Canonical medieval reference to Aristotle,

magister dixit
said it precluding further discussion

common Catholic edict and motto of a

Christ is my
magister meus Christus Catholic private school, Andrean High
teacher
School in Merrillville, Indiana

Set of documents from 1215 between Pope

Magna Carta Great Charter Innocent III, King John of England, and
English barons.

with great Common Latin honor, above cum laude and

magna cum laude
praise below summa cum laude

The gods care

about great
magna di curant, parva
matters, but Cicero, De Natura Deorum 2:167
neglegunt
they neglect
small ones

great is the
magna est vis consuetudinis
power of habit

Greater Europe
Magna Europa est patria
is Our Political motto of pan-Europeanists
nostra
Fatherland
magno cum gaudio with great joy

magnum opus great work Said of someone's masterpiece

Cicero, Paradoxa 6/3:49. Sometimes
translated into English as "thrift (or
frugality) is a great revenue (or income)",
magnum vectigal est Economy is a edited from its original subordinate clause:
parsimonia great revenue "O di immortales! non intellegunt homines,
quam magnum vectigal sit parsimonia."
(English: O immortal gods! Men do not
understand what a great revenue is thrift.)

greater
maior e longinquo When viewed from a distance, everything is
reverence from
reverentia beautiful. Tacitus, Annales 1.47
afar

greater things Used to indicate that it is the moment to

maiora premunt
are pressing address more important, urgent, issues.

Said of an act done with knowledge of its

mala fide in bad faith illegality, or with intention to defraud or
mislead someone. Opposite of bona fide.

Bad News Motto of the inactive 495th Fighter

Mala Ipsa Nova
Itself Squadron, US Air Force

Also used ironically, e.g.: New teachers

bad times are
mala tempora currunt know all tricks used by pupils to copy from
upon us
classmates? Oh, mala tempora currunt!.

wrongly
captured, An illegal arrest will not prejudice the
male captus bene detentus
properly subsequent detention/trial.
detained

Motto of the inactive 34th Battalion

Death rather
Malo mori quam foedari (Australia), the Drimnagh Castle Secondary
than dishonour
School

Malo periculosam I prefer liberty Attributed to the Count Palatine of Posen

 with danger to
libertatem quam quietam before the Polish Diet, cited in The Social
peace with
servitutem Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
slavery

Alludes to the apple of Eris in the Judgement

of Paris, the mythological cause of
the Trojan War. It is also a pun based on the
apple of
malum discordiae near-homonymous word malum (evil). The
discord
word for "apple" has a long ā vowel in Latin
and the word for "evil" a short a vowel, but
they are normally written the same.

A legal term meaning that something is

malum in se wrong in itself
inherently wrong (cf. malum prohibitum).

wrong due to
A legal term meaning that something is only
malum prohibitum being
wrong because it is against the law.
prohibited

the more
malum quo communius eo common an
peius evil is, the
worse it is

literally
translated
means 'with a
manu forte strong hand', Motto of the Clan McKay
often quoted as
'by strength of
hand'

A phrase from Virgil's Aeneid, VI.883,
mourning the death of Marcellus, Augustus'
give lilies with
manibus date lilia plenis nephew. Quoted by Dante as he leaves Virgil
full hands
in Purgatory, XXX.21, echoed by Walt
Whitman in Leaves of Grass III, 6.

with a military Using armed forces in order to achieve a

manu militari
hand goal

manu propria (m.p.) with one's own With the implication of "signed by one's
hand hand". Its abbreviated form is sometimes
used at the end of typewritten or printed
 documents or official notices, directly
following the name of the person(s) who
"signed" the document exactly in those cases
where there isn't an actual
handwritten signature.

famous quote from The Pumpkinification of

one hand
Claudius, ascribed to Seneca the Younger.
manus manum lavat washes the [68]
 It implies that one situation helps the
other
other.

many hands,
manus multae cor unum Motto of the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity.
one heart

manus nigra black hand

Seneca the Younger, De Providentia 2:4.

Also, translated into English as "[their]
strength and courage droop without an
valor becomes antagonist" ("Of Providence" (1900) by
marcet sine adversario
feeble without Seneca, translated by Aubrey Stewart),
virtus
an opponent [69]
 "without an adversary, prowess shrivels"
(Moral Essays (1928) by Seneca, translated
by John W, Basore)[70] and "prowess withers
without opposition".

In law, a sea under the jurisdiction of one

mare clausum closed sea
nation and closed to all others.

The sea
Motto of Montrose,
Mare Ditat, Rosa Decorat enriches, the
Angus and HMS  Montrose
rose adorns

In law, a sea open to international shipping

mare liberum free sea
navigation.

A nickname given to the Mediterranean

mare nostrum our sea during the height of the Roman Empire, as it
encompassed the entire coastal basin.

Mater Dei Mother of God A name given to describe Mary, who gave

birth to Jesus, who is also called the Son of
 God.

the mother of The female head of a family. See pater

mater familias
the family familias.

mater lectionis mother reading

a Roman-law principle which has the power

of praesumptio iuris et de iure, meaning that
no counter-evidence can be made against this
the mother is
Mater semper certa est principle (literally: Presumed there is no
always certain
counter evidence and by the law). Its
meaning is that the mother of the child is
always known.

Branch of medical science concerned with

materia medica medical matter the study of drugs used in the treatment of
disease. Also, the drugs themselves.

greatest
maxima debetur puero deference is
from Juvenal's Satires XIV:47
reverentia owed to the
child

Less literally, "my foot itches". Refers to a

trivial situation or person that is being a
it annoys me at bother, possibly in the sense of wishing to
me vexat pede
the foot kick that thing away or, such as the
commonly used expressions, a "pebble in
one's shoe" or "nipping at one's heels".

Used in Christian prayers and confession to

through my denote the inherently flawed nature of
mea culpa
fault mankind; can also be extended to mea
maxima culpa (through my greatest fault).

A relatively common recent Latinization

mea navis aëricumbens My hovercraft
inspired by the Dirty Hungarian
anguillis abundat is full of eels
Phrasebook sketch by Monty Python.

media vita in morte sumus In the midst of A well-known sequence, falsely attributed
our lives we to Notker during the Middle Ages. It was
die translated by Cranmer and became a part of
 the burial service in the funeral rites of
the Anglican Book of Common Prayer.

Used erroneously as Mediolanum Capta

Milan has been Est by the black metal band Mayhem as an
Mediolanum captum est
captured album title. Mediolanum was an ancient city
in present-day Milan, Italy.

Better too
Melius abundare quam Also used in elliptical form as melius
much than not
deficere abundare.
enough.

Carrying the connotation of "always better".

meliora better things
The motto of the University of Rochester.

To improve the
Meliorare legem meliorare The motto of the Salem/Roanoke County,
law is to
vitam est Virginia Bar Association.
improve life.

He has planted The motto of the Belmont County, Ohio, and

Meliorem lapsa locavit one better than the motto in the seal of the Northwest
the one fallen. Territory

A relatively common recent Latinization

from the joke phrasebook Latin for All
Honey, I'm
Melita, domi adsum Occasions. Grammatically correct, but the
home!
phrase would be anachronistic in ancient
Rome.

remember that
memento mori remember your mortality
[you will] die

remember to
memento vivere
live

lovers
meminerunt omnia amantes
remember all

memores acti prudentes mindful of Thus, both remembering the past and
futuri things done, foreseeing the future. From the North
aware of things
 to come Hertfordshire District Council coat of arms.

A common first line on 17th century English

church monuments. The Latinized name of
Sacred to the the deceased follows, in the genitive case.
Memoriae Sacrum (M.S.) Alternatively it may be used as a heading,
Memory (of ...) the inscription following being in English,
for example: "Memoriae Sacrum. Here lies
the body of ..."
the mind
From Virgil; motto of several educational
mens agitat molem moves the
institutions
mass
Motto of Massachusetts Institute of
mens et manus mind and hand Technology, and also of the Philadelphia
College of Osteopathic Medicine.
Also "culprit mind". A term used in
mens rea guilty mind discussing the mindset of an accused
criminal.
a sound mind
Or "a sensible mind in a healthy body".
mens sana in corpore sano in a sound
Satire X of the Roman poet Juvenal (10.356)
body
for the sake of Excusing flaws in poetry "for the sake of the
metri causa
the metre metre"
Or "Boastful Soldier". Miles Gloriosus is the
title of a play of Plautus. A stock character in
comedy, the braggart soldier. (It is said that
Glorious at Salamanca, there is a wall, on which
Miles Gloriosus
Soldier graduates inscribe their names,
where Francisco Franco had a plaque
installed reading "Franciscus Francus Miles
Gloriosus".)
A phrase on the plaque in commemoration of
Soldier of the
Prof. Benjamin Marius
miles praesidii libertatis Bastion of
Telders [nl], Academiegebouw
Freedom
Leiden [nl] (Netherlands).
mictus cruentus bloody urine see hematuria
he threatens the
minatur innocentibus qui innocent who
parcit nocentibus spares the
guilty
wonderful to
mirabile dictu Virgil
tell
wonderful to A Roman phrase used to describe a
mirabile visu
see wonderful event/happening.
mirum videtur quod sit Does it seem Livius Andronicus, Aiax Mastigophorus.
factum iam diu wonderful
[merely]
because it was
done a long
time/so long
 ago?
Latin Aeneid of Virgil, Book IV, line 112,
He approves of
"he" referring to the great Roman god, who
the mingling of
miscerique probat populos approved of the settlement of Romans in
the peoples and
et foedera jungi Africa. Old Motto of Trinidad and Tobago,
their bonds of
and used in the novel A Bend in the
union
River by V. S. Naipaul.
miserable is
that state of
misera est servitus ubi jus
slavery in Quoted by Samuel Johnson in his paper
est aut incognitum aut
which the law for James Boswell on Vicious intromission.
vagum
is unknown or
uncertain
miserabile visu terrible to see A terrible happening or event.
A phrase within the Gloria in Excelsis
have mercy
miserere nobis Deo and the Agnus Dei, to be used at certain
upon us
points in Christian religious ceremonies.
the Mission of A theological phrase in the Christian
Missio Dei
God religion.
the Lord has
missit me Dominus A phrase used by Jesus.
sent me
A warrant of commitment to prison, or an
mittimus we send instruction for a jailer to hold someone in
prison.
"moving in a
moving thing"
or, poetically, The motto of the Nautilus from the Jules
mobilis in mobili "changing Verne novel Twenty Thousand Leagues
through the Under the Sea.
changing
medium"
Dog Latin based on wordplay with modus
ponens and modus tollens, referring to the
modus morons common logical fallacy that if P then
—
(Dog Latin) Q and not P, then one can conclude not
Q (cf. denying the
antecedent and contraposition).
method of Usually used to describe a criminal's
modus operandi (M.O.)
operating methods.
Loosely "method of affirming", a logical rule
method of
modus ponens of inference stating that from propositions if
placing
P then Q and P, then one can conclude Q.
Loosely "method of denying", a logical rule
method of of inference stating that from propositions if
modus tollens
removing P then Q and not Q, then one can
conclude not P.
An accommodation between disagreeing
method of
modus vivendi parties to allow life to go on. A practical
living
compromise.
Monasterium sine libris est A monastery Used in the Umberto Eco novel The Name of
 the Rose. Part of a much larger phrase:
Monasterium sine libris, est sicut civitas sine
opibus, castrum sine numeris, coquina sine
suppellectili, mensa sine cibis, hortus sine
without books herbis, pratum sine floribus, arbor sine foliis.
sicut civitas sine opibus is like a city Translation: A monastery without books is
without wealth like a city without wealth, a fortress without
soldiers, a kitchen without utensils, a table
without food, a garden without plants, a
meadow without flowers, a tree without
leaves.
mountaineers
State motto of West Virginia, adopted in
montani semper liberi [are] always
1872.
free
Badge of the
Montis Insignia Calpe Rock
of Gibraltar
used to describe any sexual act in the manner
more ferarum like beasts
of beasts
in
more suo his/her/its/their
usual way
I die sometimes also translated as "death before
morior invictus unvanquished[71
] defeat"[71]

we who are
morituri nolumus mori about to die From Terry Pratchett's The Last Hero
don't want to
Used once in Suetonius' De Vita
Caesarum 5, (Divus Claudius), chapter 21,
[72]
 by the condemned prisoners manning
those who are
galleys about to take part in a mock naval
morituri te salutant about to die
battle on Lake Fucinus in AD 52. Popular
salute you
misconception ascribes it as a gladiator's
salute. See also: Ave Imperator, morituri te
salutant and Naumachia.
death is certain,
mors certa, hora incerta its hour is
uncertain
A common epitaph, from St Paul's Epistle to
the Philippians, 1:21 (Mihi enim vivere
death to me is
mors mihi lucrum Christus est et mori lucrum, translated in
reward
the King James Bible as: "For to me to live
is Christ and to die is gain")
mors omnibus death to all Signifies anger and depression.
From medieval Latin, it indicates that battle
your death, my
mors tua, vita mea for survival, where your defeat is necessary
life
for my victory, survival.
mors vincit omnia "death An axiom often found on headstones.
conquers all"
or "death

morte magis metuenda
senectus
mortui vivos docent
mortuum flagellas
mos maiorum
motu proprio
mulgere hircum
mulier est hominis confusio
multa paucis
multis e gentibus vires
multitudo sapientium
sanitas orbis
multum in parvo
mundus senescit
mundus vult decipi
mundus vult decipi, ergo
decipiatur
always wins"
old age should
rather be feared from Juvenal in his Satires
than death
Used to justify dissections of human
The dead teach
cadavers in order to understand the cause of
the living
death.
From Gerhard Gerhards' (1466–1536) [better
you are known as Erasmus] collection of annotated
flogging a dead Adagia (1508). Criticising one who will not
be affected in any way by the criticism.
an unwritten code of laws and conduct, of
the custom of the Romans. It institutionalized cultural
our ancestors traditions, societal mores, and general
policies, as distinct from written laws.
on his own Or "by his own accord." Identifies a class of
initiative papal documents, administrative papal bulls.
From Gerhard Gerhards' (1466–1536) [better
to milk a male
known as Erasmus] collection of annotated
goat
Adagia (1508). Attempting the impossible.
"Part of a comic definition of woman" from
the Altercatio Hadriani Augusti et Secundi.
woman is
[73]
 Famously quoted
man's ruin
by Chauntecleer in Geoffrey
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.
Say much in
few words
from many
peoples, Motto of Saskatchewan
strength
a multitude of
the wise is the From the Vulgate, Wisdom of Solomon
health of the 6:24. Motto of the University of Victoria.
world
Conciseness. The term "mipmap" is formed
using the phrase's abbreviation "MIP"; motto
much in little of Rutland, a county in central England.
Latin phrases are often multum in parvo, conveying
much in few words.
the world
grows old
Ascribed to Roman satirist Petronius. Also
in Augustine of Hippo's De Civitate Dei
the world contra Paganos (5th century AD), Sebastian
wants to be Franck's Paradoxa Ducenta
deceived Octoginta (1542), and in James Branch
Cabell's 1921 novel Figures of Earth.[74][75][76]
[77]
the world Ascribed to Roman satirist Petronius. Also
wants to be in Augustine of Hippo's De Civitate Dei
deceived, so let contra Paganos (5th century AD) as "si
 mundus vult decipi, decipiatur" ("if the
world will be gulled, let it be gulled"), and
only the first part, "mundus vult decipi" ("the
it be deceived world wants to be deceived"), in Sebastian
Franck's Paradoxa Ducenta
Octoginta (1542) and in James Branch
Cabell's Figures of Earth (1921).[74][75][76][77]
this one
defends and the
munit haec et altera vincit Motto of Nova Scotia.
other one
conquers
the law that
mutata lex non perit does not evolve Motto of Seneca the Younger
dies
after changing
mutatis mutandis what needed to "with the appropriate changes"
be changed
change but the
Horace, Satires, I. 1. 69. Preceded by Quid
mutato nomine de te fabula name, and the
rides? ("Why do you laugh?"; see Quid
narratur story is told of
rides).
yourself

N[edit]

Latin Translation Notes

First recorded by John of Salisbury in the

twelfth century and attributed to Bernard of
nanos gigantum
Dwarfs standing on the Chartres. Also commonly known by the
humeris
shoulders of giants letters of Isaac Newton: "If I have seen
insidentes
further it is by standing on the shoulders of
giants".

nascentes When we are born we die,

morimur finisque our end is but the pendant
ab origine pendet of our beginning

nasciturus pro
The unborn is deemed to
iam nato habetur, Refers to a situation where an unborn child
have been born to the
quotiens de is deemed to be entitled to certain
extent that his own
commodis eius inheritance rights.
inheritance is concerned
agitur

Pseudo-explanation for why a liquid will

natura abhorret climb up a tube to fill a vacuum, often given
nature abhors vacuum
a vacuo before the discovery of atmospheric
pressure.
natura artis The name of the zoo in the centre
Nature is the teacher of art
magistra of Amsterdam; short: "Artis".

Cf. Aristotle: "οὐθὲν γάρ, ὡς φαμέν, μάτην

natura nihil ἡ φύσις ποιεῖ" (Politics I 2, 1253a9)
nature does nothing in vain
frustra facit and Leucippus: "Everything that happens
does so for a reason and of necessity."

That is, the natural world is not sentimental

natura non
nature is not saddened or compassionate. Derived by Arthur
contristatur
Schopenhauer from an earlier source.

Shortened form of "sicut natura nil facit per

nature does not make a
natura non facit
leap, thus neither does the
saltum ita nec lex
law
saltum ita nec lex" (just as nature does
nothing by a leap, so neither does the law),
referring to both nature and the legal system
moving gradually.

A famous aphorism of Carl Linnaeus stating
that all organisms bear relationships on all
natura non facit
nature makes no leaps sides, their forms changing gradually from
saltus
one species to the next. From Philosophia
Botanica  (1751).

Sir Isaac Newton's famous quote, defining

foundation of all modern sciences. Can be
natura valde Nature is exceedingly
found in his Unpublished Scientific Papers
simplex est et sibi simple and harmonious
of Isaac Newton: A selection from the
consona with itself
Portsmouth Collection in the University
Library, Cambridge, 1978 edition[78]

Based on Servius' commentary

naturalia non
What is natural is not dirty on Virgil's Georgics (3:96): "turpis non est
sunt turpia
quia per naturam venit."

You must take the basic nature of something

naturam expellas You may drive out Nature
into account.
furca, tamen with a pitchfork, yet she
– Horace, Epistles, Book I, epistle X, line
usque recurret. still will hurry back
24.

navigare necesse to sail is necessary; to live Attributed by Plutarch to Gnaeus Pompeius

est, vivere non est is not necessary Magnus, who, during a severe storm,
necesse commanded sailors to bring food from
Africa to Rome. Translated from Plutarch's
 Greek "πλεῖν ἀνάγκη, ζῆν οὐκ ἀνάγκη".

Also nec plus ultra or non plus ultra. A

descriptive phrase meaning the best or most
extreme example of something. The Pillars
of Hercules, for example, were literally
the nec plus ultra of the ancient
Mediterranean world. Holy Roman
Emperor Charles V's heraldic emblem
ne plus ultra nothing more beyond reversed this idea, using a depiction of this
phrase inscribed on the Pillars – as plus
ultra, without the negation. The Boston
Musical Instrument Company engraved ne
plus ultra on its instruments from 1869 to
1928 to signify that none were better. Non
plus ultra is the motto of the Spanish
exclave Melilla.

Never give dangerous tools to someone who

do not give a sword to a
ne puero gladium is untrained to use them or too immature to
boy
understand the damage they can do.

ne supra
a shoemaker should not
crepidam sutor see Sutor, ne ultra crepidam
judge beyond the shoe
iudicaret

line from the Roman

satirist Persius inscribed on the boulder to
the right of Sir John Suckling in the painting
ne te quaesiveris do not seek outside
of the aforementioned subject by Sir
extra yourself
Anthony Van Dyck (ca. 1638) and invoked
by Ralph Waldo Emerson at the opening of
his essay Self-Reliance (1841)

They are not afraid of difficulties. Less

literally "Difficulties be damned." Motto
for 27th Infantry Regiment (United
Nec aspera They are not terrified of the
States) and the Duke of Lancaster's
terrent rough things
Regiment. Nec = not; aspera = rough
ones/things; terrent = they terrify / do terrify
/ are terrifying.

Nec deus intersit, That a god not intervene, "When the miraculous power of God is
nisi dignus unless a knot show up that necessary, let it be resorted to: when it is not
vindice nodus be worthy of such an necessary, let the ordinary means be used."
(inciderit) untangler From Horace's Ars Poetica as a caution
 against deus ex machina.

Do not get distracted. Motto for Bishop

nec dextrorsum, Neither to the right nor to Cotton Boys' School and the Bishop Cotton
nec sinistrorsum the left Girls' School, both located in Bangalore,
India.

nec spe, nec metu without hope, without fear

Refers to the Burning Bush of Exodus 3:2.

nec tamen and yet it was not
Motto of many Presbyterian churches
consumebatur consumed
throughout the world.

nec temere nec Motto of the Dutch 11th Air Manoeuvre

neither reckless nor timid
timide Brigade and the city of Gdańsk, Poland

Without permission,
nec vi, nec clam,
without secrecy, without The law of adverse possession
nec precario
interruption

neca eos omnes, alternate rendition of Caedite eos. Novit

kill them all, God will
Deus suos enim Dominus qui sunt eius. by Arnaud
know his own
agnoscet Amalric

necesse est aut

you must either imitate or Seneca the Younger, Epistulae morales ad
imiteris aut
loathe the world Lucilium, 7:7
oderis

necessitas etiam
need makes even the timid
timidos fortes Sallust, The Conspiracy of Catiline, 58:19
brave
facit

Less literally, "without dissent". Used

nemine with no one speaking especially in committees, where a matter
contradicente (ne against may be passed nem. con., or unanimously,
m. con., N.C.D.)
or with unanimous consent.

nemo contra
No one against God except From Goethe's autobiography From my
Deum nisi Deus
God himself Life: Poetry and Truth, p. 598
ipse
nemo dat quod no one gives what he does Thus, "none can pass better title than they
non habet not have have"

nobody is above the law;

nemo est supra
or nemo est supra leges,
legem
nobody is above the laws

Nemo igitur vir

No great man ever existed
magnus sine
who did not enjoy some From Cicero's De Natura Deorum, Book 2,
aliquo adflatu
portion of divine chapter LXVI, 167[79]
divino umquam
inspiration
fuit

Legal principle that no individual can

nemo iudex in no man shall be a judge in
preside over a hearing in which he holds a
causa sua his own cause
specific interest or bias

Also translated to "no rest for the wicked."

peace visits not the guilty
nemo malus felix Refers to the inherent psychological issues
mind
that plague bad/guilty people.

Motto of the Order of the Thistle, and

consequently of Scotland, found stamped on
the milled edge of certain British pound
nemo me impune No one provokes me with sterling coins. It is the motto of the
lacessit impunity Montressors in the Edgar Allan Poe short
story "The Cask of Amontillado". Motto of
the San Beda College Beta Sigma
Fraternity.

nemo mortalium
No mortal is wise at all
omnibus horis The wisest may make mistakes.
times
sapit

nemo nisi per

No one learns except by Used to imply that one must like a subject in
amicitiam
friendship order to study it.
cognoscitur

Concept present in all four Gospels

nemo propheta in no man is a prophet in his
(Matthew 13:57; Mark 6:4; Luke 4:24; John
patria (sua) own land
4:44).

nemo saltat Nobody dances sober The short and more common form of Nemo
 enim fere saltat sobrius, nisi forte insanit,
"Nobody dances sober, unless he happens to
sobrius
be insane," a quote from Cicero (from the
speech Pro Murena).

A maxim banning mandatory self-

incrimination. Near-synonymous
with accusare nemo se debet nisi coram
Deo. Similar phrases include: nemo tenetur
armare adversarium contra se (no one is
bound to arm an opponent against himself),
meaning that a defendant is not obligated to
in any way assist the prosecutor to his own
no one is bound to accuse detriment; nemo tenetur edere instrumenta
nemo tenetur se
himself (the right to contra se (no one is bound to produce
ipsum accusare
silence) documents against himself, meaning that a
defendant is not obligated to provide
materials to be used against himself (this is
true in Roman law and has survived in
modern criminal law, but no longer applies
in modern civil law); and nemo tenere
prodere se ipsum (no one is bound to betray
himself), meaning that a defendant is not
obligated to testify against himself.

neque semper
nor does Apollo always Horace, Carmina 2/10:19-20. The same
arcum tendit
keep his bow drawn image appears in a fable of Phaedrus.
Apollo

Ne quid nimis Nothing in excess

nervos belli, In war, it is essential to be able to purchase

Endless money forms the
pecuniam supplies and to pay troops (as Napoleon put
sinews of war
infinitam it, "An army marches on its stomach").

That is, in law, irrelevant and/or

nihil ad rem nothing to do with the point
inconsequential.

nihil boni sine nothing achieved without Motto of Palmerston North Boys' High
labore hard work School

In law, a declination by a defendant to

nihil dicit he says nothing
answer charges or put in a plea.
nihil enim
nothing dries sooner than a
lacrima citius Pseudo-Cicero, Ad Herrenium, 2/31:50
tear
arescit

Adapted from Terence's Heauton
Timorumenos (The Self-Tormentor), homo
nihil humanum nothing human is alien to
sum humani a me nihil alienum puto ("I am
mihi alienum me
a human being; nothing human is strange to
me"). Sometimes ending in est.

The guiding principle of empiricism, and

accepted in some form
nihil in intellectu nothing in the intellect
by Aristotle, Aquinas, Locke, Berkeley,
nisi prius in sensu unless first in sense
and Hume. Leibniz, however, added nisi
intellectus ipse (except the intellect itself).

Or nothing to excess. Latin translation of the

nihil nimis nothing too inscription of the Temple of Apollo at
Delphi.

Or just "nothing new". The phrase exists in

two versions: as nihil novi sub sole (nothing
new under the sun), from the Vulgate, and
as nihil novi nisi commune
nihil novi nothing of the new consensu (nothing new unless by the
common consensus), a 1505 law of
the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and
one of the cornerstones of its Golden
Liberty.

A notation, usually on a title page,

indicating that a Roman Catholic censor has
nihil obstat nothing prevents reviewed the book and found nothing
objectionable to faith or morals in its
content. See also imprimatur.

Motto of the Kingdom of Romania, while

nihil sine Deo nothing without God ruled by the Hohenzollern-
Sigmaringen dynasty (1878–1947).

nihil ultra nothing beyond Motto of St. Xavier's College, Calcutta

nil admirari be surprised at nothing Or "nihil admirari". Cicero, Tusculanae

Disputationes (3,30), Horace, Epistulae (1,6
 ,1), and Seneca, Epistulae morales ad
Lucilium, (8,5). Motto of the Fitzgibbon
family. See John FitzGibbon, 1st Earl of
Clare

nothing must be despaired

nil desperandum That is, "never despair".
at

nil igitur fieri de nothing, therefore, we must

From Lucretius' De rerum natura (On the
nilo posse confess, can be made from
Nature of Things), I.205
fatendumst nothing

Nil igitur mors Death, therefore, is nothing From Lucretius' De rerum natura (On the
est ad nos to us Nature of Things), III.831

From Horace's Odes. Motto of Rathkeale

nil mortalibus nothing is impossible for
College, New Zealand and Brunts School,
ardui est humankind
England.

Short for nil nisi bonum de mortuis

(about the dead say)
nil nisi bonum
nothing unless (it is) good
dicere. That is, "Don't speak ill of anyone
who has died". Also "Nil magnum nisi
bonum" (nothing is great unless good),
motto of St Catherine's School,
Toorak, Pennant Hills High School and Petit
Seminaire Higher Secondary School.

nil nisi malis

no terror, except to the bad Motto of The King's School, Macclesfield
terrori

nil per os, Medical shorthand indicating that oral foods

rarely non per nothing through the mouth and fluids should be withheld from the
os (n.p.o.) patient.

nil satis nisi nothing [is] enough unless Motto of Everton F.C., residents
optimum [it is] the best of Goodison Park, Liverpool.

nil sine labore nothing without labour Motto of many schools

nil sine numine nothing without the divine Or "nothing without providence". State

will motto of Colorado, adopted in 1861.
 Probably derived from Virgil's Aeneid Book
II, line 777, "non haec sine numine divum
eveniunt" (these things do not come to pass
without the will of Heaven). See
also numen.

nil volentibus Nothing [is] arduous for

Nothing is impossible for the willing
arduum the willing

That is, "everything is in vain without God".

Summarized from Psalm 127 (126
Vulgate), nisi Dominus aedificaverit domum
in vanum laboraverunt qui aedificant eam
nisi Dominus if not the Lord, [it is] in nisi Dominus custodierit civitatem frustra
frustra vain vigilavit qui custodit (unless the Lord builds
the house, they work on a useless thing who
build it; unless the Lord guards the
community, he keeps watch in vain who
guards it); widely used motto.

Irascetur aliquis: tu contra beneficiis

prouoca; cadit statim simultas ab altera parte
deserta; nisi paria non pugnant. (If any one
is angry with you, meet his anger by
nisi paria non
it takes two to make a fight returning benefits for it: a quarrel which is
pugnant
only taken up on one side falls to the
ground: it takes two men to fight.) Seneca
the Younger, De Ira (On Anger): Book 2,
cap. 34, line 5.

In England, a direction that a case be

brought up to Westminster for trial before a
single judge and jury. In the United States, a
nisi prius unless previously
court where civil actions are tried by a
single judge sitting with a jury, as
distinguished from an appellate court.

From Ovid's Amores, III.4:17. It means that

when we are denied of something, we will
nitimur in eagerly pursue the denied thing. Used
We strive for the forbidden
vetitum by Friedrich Nietzsche in his Ecce Homo to
indicate that his philosophy pursues what is
forbidden to other philosophers.

nobis bene, Good for us, Bad for no Inscription on the

nemini male one old Nobistor [de] gatepost that
 divided Altona and St. Pauli

That is, "whether unwillingly or willingly".

Sometimes rendered volens nolens, aut
nolens aut volens or nolentis volentis.
nolens volens unwilling, willing Similar to willy-nilly, though that word is
derived from Old English will-he nil-
he ([whether] he will or [whether] he will
not).

Commonly translated "touch me not".

According to the Gospel of John, this was
noli me tangere do not touch me
said by Jesus to Mary Magdalene after
his resurrection.

That is, "Don't upset my calculations!" Said

by Archimedes to a Roman soldier who,
noli turbare
Do not disturb my circles! despite having been given orders not to,
circulos meos
killed Archimedes at the conquest
of Syracuse, Sicily.

From The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret

nolite te Atwood – the protagonist (Offred) finds the
bastardes Don't let the bastards grind
phrase inscribed on the inside of her
carborundorum you down
wardrobe. One of many variants
(Dog Latin)
of Illegitimi non carborundum.

A legal motion by a prosecutor or

to be unwilling to other plaintiff to drop legal charges, usually
nolle prosequi
prosecute in exchange for a diversion program or out-
of-court settlement.

That is, "no contest". A plea that can be

entered on behalf of a defendant in a court
that states that the accused doesn't admit
nolo contendere I do not wish to contend
guilt, but will accept punishment for a
crime. Nolo contendere pleas cannot be used
as evidence in another trial.

nomen amicitiae the name of friendship lasts

sic, quatenus just so long as it is Petronius, Satyricon, 80.
expedit, haeret profitable

nomen dubium doubtful name A scientific name of unknown or doubtful

 application.

nomen est omen the name is a sign Thus, "true to its name".

nomen Thus, the name or person in question is

I do not know the name
nescio (N.N.) unknown.

A purported scientific name that does not

fulfill the proper formal criteria and
nomen nudum naked name
therefore cannot be used unless it is
subsequently proposed correctly.

According to some roman this sentence was

non auro, sed
said by Marcus Furius Camillus to Brennus,
ferro, Not gold, but iron redeems
the chief of the Gauls, after he demanded
recuperanda est the native land
more gold from the citizens of the recently
patria
sacked Rome in 390 BC.

Motto of Republic of Ragusa, inscribed over

non bene pro toto
liberty is not well sold for the gates of St. Lawrence Fortress.
libertas venditur
all the gold From Gualterus Anglicus's version
auro
of Aesop's fable "The Dog and the Wolf".

A legal principle forbidding double

non bis in idem not twice in the same thing
jeopardy.

non canimus
surdis, we sing not to the deaf; the
Virgil, Eclogues 10:8
respondent trees echo every word
omnia silvae

Also known as the "questionable cause" or

non causa pro "false cause". Refers to any logical
not the cause for the cause
causa fallacy where a cause is incorrectly
identified.

See compos mentis. Also rendered non

compos sui (not in control of
non compos himself). Samuel Johnson, author of the first
not in control of the mind
mentis English dictionary, theorized that the
word nincompoop may derive from this
phrase.
 Used to explain scientific phenomena and
religious advocations, for example
in medieval history, for rulers to issue a
'Non Constat' decree, banning the worship
of a holy figure. In legal context,
non constat it is not certain
occasionally a backing for nulling
information that was presented by
an attorney. Without any tangible proof,
Non constat information is difficult to argue
for.

Motto of São Paulo city, Brazil. See

non ducor, duco I am not led; I lead
also pro Brasilia fiant eximia.

a doctrine in contract law that allows a

signing party to escape performance of the
agreement. A claim of "non est factum"
means that the signature on the contract was
non est factum it is not [my] deed
signed by mistake, without knowledge of its
meaning, but was not done so negligently. A
successful plea would make the contract
void ab initio.

non est princeps

the prince is not above the
super leges, sed
laws, but the law is above Pliny the Younger, Panegyricus 65:1.
leges supra
the prince.
principem

Motto of the Society of Antiquaries of

non extinguetur shall not be extinguished London accompanying their Lamp of
knowledge emblem

non facias malum you should not make evil in More simply, "don't do wrong to do right".
ut inde fiat order that good may be The direct opposite of the phrase "the ends
bonum made from it justify the means".

Virgil, Aeneid, 4:647, of the sword with

which Dido will commit suicide. "Not for so
dire an enterprise design’d." (Dryden trans.;
1697)[80] "A gift asked for no use like this."
non hos
A gift sought for no such (Mackail trans.; 1885).[81] "Ne'er given for an
quaesitum munus
purpose end so dire." (Taylor trans.; 1907)[82] "A gift
in usus
not asked for use like this!" (Williams
trans.; 1910).[83] Quoted by Francis Bacon of
the civil law, "not made for the countries it
governeth".
non impediti
unencumbered by the
ratione motto of radio show Car Talk
thought process
cogitationis

non in legendo
the laws depend not on
sed in
being read, but on being
intelligendo leges
understood
consistunt

Also "it is not clear" or "it is not evident". A

sometimes controversial decision handed
non liquet it is not proven
down by a judge when they feel that the law
is not complete.

Motto of the University of Western

non loqui sed
not talk but action Australia's Engineering faculty student
facere
society.

Motto of Anderson Junior College,

non mihi solum not for myself alone
Singapore.

Motto of Wellesley College and Shimer

non ministrari not to be served, but to
College (from Matthew 20:28 in
sed ministrare serve
the Vulgate).

non multa sed Motto of the Daniel Pearl Magnet High

not quantity but quality
multum School.

Non nobis
Not to us (oh) Lord Christian hymn based on Psalm 115.
Domine

non nobis nati 'Born not for ourselves' Motto of St Albans School (Hertfordshire)

Appears in Cicero's De Officiis Book

1:22 in the form non nobis solum nati
sumus (we are not born for ourselves alone).
non nobis solum not for ourselves alone
Motto of Lower Canada College, Montreal
and University College, Durham University,
and Willamette University.

non numerantur, they are not counted, but Old saying. Paul Erdős (1913–1996), in The
 Man Who Loved Only Numbers by Paul
sed ponderantur weighed
Hoffman [84]

A judgment notwithstanding verdict, a legal

non obstante not standing in the way of motion asking the court to reverse the jury's
veredicto a verdict verdict on the grounds that the jury could
not have reached such a verdict reasonably.

non olet it doesn't smell See pecunia non olet.

non omnia not everyone can do

Virgil, Eclogues 8:63 (and others).
possumus omnest everything

Horace, Carmina 3/30:6. "Not all of me will

non omnis die", a phrase expressing the belief that a
I shall not all die
moriar part of the speaker will survive beyond
death.

non plus ultra nothing further beyond the ultimate. See also 'ne plus ultra'

non possumus not possible

non possunt
not everyone can occupy (It is impossible always to excel) Decimus
primi esse omnes
the first rank forever Laberius.
omni in tempore

non progredi est to not go forward is to go

regredi backward

A judgment in favor of a defendant when

non prosequitur he does not proceed the plaintiff failed to take the necessary
steps in an action within the time allowed.

non scholae sed [We learn] An inversion of non vitae sed scholae now
vitae not for school but for life used as a school motto
non qui parum
It is not he who has little,
habet, set qui Seneca the Younger, Epistulae morales ad
but he who wants more,
plus cupit, Lucilium, 2:6.
who is the pauper.
pauper est

Used in the sense "what matters is not who

says it but what he says" – a warning
non quis sed quid not who but what against ad hominem arguments; frequently
used as motto, including that
of Southwestern University.

In general, a comment which is absurd due

to not making sense in its context (rather
than due to being inherently nonsensical or
non sequitur it does not follow
internally inconsistent), often used in
humor. As a logical fallacy, a conclusion
that does not follow from a premise.

Possibly derived from

a Vulgate mistranslation of the Book of
Jeremiah. Commonly used in literature
non serviam I will not serve
as Satan's statement of disobedience to God,
though in the original context the quote is
attributed to Israel, not Satan.

A slogan used by many schools and

non sibi Not for self
universities.

Engraved on the doors of the United States

non sibi, sed
Not for self, but for country Naval Academy chapel; motto of
patriae
the USS Halyburton (FFG-40).

Not for one's self but for A slogan used by many schools and
non sibi, sed suis
one's own universities.

non sibi, sed A slogan used by many schools and

Not for one's self but for all
omnibus universities.

non sic dormit,

Sleeps not but is awake Martin Luther on mortality of the soul.
sed vigilat

non silba, sed Not for self, but for others; A slogan used by the Ku Klux Klan
anthar; Deo
vindice God will vindicate

Or "I am not the kind of person I once was".

non sum qualis
I am not such as I was Expresses a change in the
eram
speaker. Horace, Odes 4/1:3.

non teneas
Also, "All that glitters is not
aurum totum Do not hold as gold all that
gold." Shakespeare in The Merchant of
quod splendet ut shines as gold
Venice.
aurum

It is possibly a reference to Psalm 23.

non timebo mala I will fear no evil
Printed on the Colt in Supernatural.

non vestra sed

Not yours but you Motto of St Chad's College, Durham.
vos

From a passage of occupatio in Seneca the

[We learn] Younger's moral letters to Lucilius,
non vitae sed
not for life but for schoolti [85]
 wherein Lucilius is given the argument
scholae
me that too much literature fails to prepare
students for life

From Martin Luther's "Invocavit Sermons"

Not by force, but by the wo
non vi, sed verbo
rd [of God]
preached in March, 1522, against
the Zwickau prophets unrest in Wittenberg;
[86]
 later echoed in the Augsburg
Confession as ...sine vi humana, sed
Verbo: bishops should act "without human
force, but through the Word".[87]

From Cicero, based on the Greek γνῶθι

σεαυτόν (gnothi seauton), inscribed on
the pronaos of the Temple of
Apollo at Delphi, according to the Greek
nosce te ipsum know thyself
periegetic writer Pausanias (10.24.1). A
non-traditional Latin rendering, temet
nosce (thine own self know), is translated
in The Matrix as "know thyself".

In statutory interpretation, when a word is

a word is known by the
noscitur a sociis ambiguous, its meaning may be determined
company it keeps
by reference to the rest of the statute.
noster nostri Literally "Our ours" Approximately "Our hearts beat as one."

Nota bene (NB,
mark well That is, "please note" or "note it well".
n.b. or )

From Virgil. Motto on the Great Seal of the

novus ordo
new order of the ages United States. Similar to Novus Ordo
seclorum
Mundi (New World Order).

nulla dies sine Not a day without a line Pliny the Elder attributes this maxim
linea drawn to Apelles, an ancient Greek artist.

nulla dies
No day shall erase you From Virgil's Aeneid, Book IX, line 447, on
umquam memori
from the memory of time the episode of Nisus and Euryalus.
vos eximet aevo

Refers to the legal principle that one cannot

be punished for doing something that is not
nulla poena sine
no penalty without a law prohibited by law, and is related to Nullum
lege
crimen, nulla poena sine praevia lege
poenali.

there is no question, there

nulla quaestio
is no issue

nulla tenaci invia For the tenacious, no road

Motto of the Dutch car builder Spyker.
est via is impassable

That is, "nothing". It has been theorized that

this expression is the origin
nullam rem
no thing born of Italian nulla, French rien,
natam
and Spanish and Portuguese nada, all with
the same meaning.

Motto of the Coldstream Guards and Nine

nulli secundus second to none Squadron Royal Australian Corps of
Transport and the Pretoria Regiment.

nullius in verba On the word of no man Motto of the Royal Society.

nullum crimen, Legal principle meaning that one cannot be
no crime, no punishment
nulla poena sine penalised for doing something that is not
without a previous penal
praevia lege prohibited by law; penal law cannot be
law
poenali enacted retroactively.

nullum magnum
There has been no great
ingenium sine
wisdom without an element
mixtura
of madness
dementiae fuit

nullum funus sine No Funeral Without a

Motto of the Guild of Funerary Violinists.
fidula Fiddle

The motto of the University of Wisconsin-

numen lumen God our light
Madison. The motto of Elon University.

A method to limit the number of students

numerus clausus closed number
who may study at a university.

nunc aut Motto of the Korps Commandotroepen,

now or never
nunquam Dutch elite special forces.

beginning of the Song of Simeon, from

nunc dimittis now you send
the Gospel of Luke.

Carpe-Diem-type phrase from the Odes of

Horace, Nunc est bibendum, nunc pede
nunc est
now is the time to drink libero pulsanda tellus (Now is the time to
bibendum
drink, now the time to dance footloose upon
the earth).

Something that has retroactive effect, is

nunc pro tunc now for then
effective from an earlier date.

nunc scio quid sit

now I know what love is From Virgil, Eclogues VIII.
amor

nunquam minus
never less alone than when
solus quam cum
alone
solus
nunquam non never unprepared, ever
frequently used as motto
paratus ready, always ready

nunquam
never forget
obliviscar

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Latin Translation Notes

O God I Love
O Deus ego amo te attributed to Saint Francis Xavier
You

The farmers
O fortunatos would count
nimium sua si themselves lucky,
from Virgil in Georgics, 458
bona norint, if only they knew
agricolas how good they
had it

attributed (in Tacitus, Annales, III, 65) to

the Roman Emperor Tiberius, in disgust at the
o homines ad Men ready to be
servile attitude of Roman senators; said of those
servitutem paratos slaves!
who should be leaders but instead slavishly follow
the lead of others

O tempora, o Oh, the times! Oh, also translated "What times! What customs!";
mores! the morals! from Cicero, Catilina I, 2

O tyrant Titus
O Tite tute Tati Tatius, what
from Quintus Ennius, Annales (104), considered an
tibi tanta tyranne terrible calamities
example of a Latin tongue-twister
tulisti you brought onto
yourself!

The obedience of
Obedientia civium
the citizens makes Motto of Dublin
urbis felicitas
us a happy city

obiit (ob.) one died "He/she died", inscription on gravestones; ob. also

sometimes stands for obiter (in passing or
 incidentally)

The old woman

obit anus, abit
dies, the burden is Arthur Schopenhauer
onus
lifted

in law, an observation by a judge on some point of

law not directly relevant to the case before him, and
a thing said in thus neither requiring his decision nor serving as a
obiter dictum
passing precedent, but nevertheless of persuasive authority.
In general, any comment, remark or observation
made in passing

Forget private Roman political saying which reminds that common

obliti privatorum,
affairs, take care good should be given priority over private matters
publica curate
of public ones for any person having a responsibility in the State

the truth being

obscuris vera
enveloped by from Virgil
involvens
obscure things

the obscure by
obscurum per An explanation that is less clear than what it tries to
means of the more
obscurius explain; synonymous with ignotum per ignotius
obscure

with a twisted
obtorto collo unwillingly
neck

oculus
right eye Ophthalmologist shorthand
dexter (O.D.)

oculus
left eye
sinister (O.S.)

oderint dum let them hate, so favorite saying of Caligula, attributed originally
metuant long as they fear to Lucius Accius, Roman tragic poet (170 BC)

odi et amo I hate and I love opening of Catullus 85; the entire poem reads, "odi
et amo quare id faciam fortasse requiris / nescio
sed fieri sentio et excrucior" (I hate and I love. Why
do I do this, you perhaps ask. / I do not know, but I
 feel it happening to me and I am burning up.)

I hate the unholy

odi profanum
rabble and keep Horace, Carmina III, 1
vulgus et arceo
them away

odium name for the special hatred generated

theological hatred
theologicum in theological disputes

(pour) oil on the from Erasmus' (1466–1536) collection of

oleum camino
fire annotated Adagia

or "everything unknown appears magnificent" The

source is Tacitus: Agricola, Book 1, 30 where the
every unknown
omne ignotum pro sentence ends with 'est'. The quotation is found
thing [is taken] for
magnifico in Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes short
great
story "The Red-Headed League" (1891) where the
'est' is missing.

omne initium every beginning is

difficile est difficult

omne vivum ex every living thing foundational concept of modern biology, opposing

ovo is from an egg the theory of spontaneous generation

Omnes homines All men are

sunt asini vel donkeys or men a sophisma proposed and solved by Albert of
homines et asini and donkeys are Saxony (philosopher)
sunt asini donkeys

omnes vulnerant,
postuma all [the hours]
necat or omnes wound, last one usual in clocks, reminding the reader of death
feriunt, ultima kills
necat

motto for Mount Lilydale Mercy College, Lilydale,

omnia cum deo all with God
Victoria, Australia

omnia dicta everything said or "everything sounds more impressive when said in
fortiora si dicta [is] stronger if Latin"; a more common phrase with the same
 meaning is quidquid Latine dictum sit altum
Latina said in Latin
videtur (whatever said in Latin, seems profound)

Thou hast ordered

omnia in mensura
all things in
et numero et
measure, and Book of Wisdom, 11:21
pondere
number, and
disposuisti
weight.

Omnia mea All that is mine I

is a quote that Cicero ascribes to Bias of Priene
mecum porto carry with me

everything
omnia mutantur, Ovid (43 BC – 17 AD), Metamorphoses, book XV,
changes, nothing
nihil interit line 165
perishes

all things to all

omnia omnibus 1 Corinthians 9:22
men

if all (the words of Ovid, Metamorphoses, book XIII, lines 733–4: "si

si omnia ficta
poets) is fiction non omnia vates ficta"

omnia vincit amor love conquers all Virgil (70 BC – 19 BC), Eclogue X, line 69

everything [is]
omnia munda
pure to the pure from The New Testament
mundis
[men]

all things are

omnia
presumed to be
praesumuntur
lawfully done,
legitime facta in other words, "innocent until proven guilty"
until it is shown
donec probetur in
[to be] in the
contrarium
reverse

Every man for

omnis vir enim sui
himself!

omnibus idem the same to all motto of Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft, usually
accompanied by a sun, which shines for (almost)
 everyone

There is slaughter
omnibus locis fit
everywhere (in Julius Caesar's The Gallic War, 7.67
caedes
every place)

every translation is a corruption of the original; the

omnis traductor every translator is
reader should take heed of unavoidable
traditor a traitor
imperfections

omnis vir tigris everyone a tiger motto of the 102nd Intelligence Wing

miscellaneous collection or assortment; "gatherum"

omnium gatherum gathering of all is English, and the term is used often used
facetiously

onus probandi burden of proof

burden of burden of a party to adduce evidence that a case is

onus procedendi
procedure an exception to the rule

opera omnia all works collected works of an author

opera posthuma posthumous works works published after the author's death

act of doing scholastic phrase, used to explain that there is no

operari sequitur
something follows possible act if there is not being: being is absolutely
esse
the act of being necessary for any other act

opere citato (op. in the work that used in academic works when referring again to the
cit.) was cited last source mentioned or used

doing what you believe is morally right through

opere et veritate in action and truth
everyday actions

opere laudato (op.   See opere citato

laud.)
 leading the way
operibus anteire to speak with actions instead of words
with deeds

a snake in the
ophidia in herba any hidden danger or unknown risk
grass

opinio juris sive an opinion of law a belief that an action was undertaken because it
necessitatis or necessity was a legal necessity; source of customary law

fine embroidery, especially used to describe church

opus anglicanum English work
vestments

Opus Dei The Work of God Catholic organisation

This principle of the Benedictine monasteries reads

in full: "Ora et labora (et lege), Deus adest sine
ora et labora pray and work mora." "Pray and work (and read), God is there
without delay" (or to keep the rhyme: "Work and
pray, and God is there without delay")

"Sancta Maria, mater Dei, ora pro nobis

ora pro nobis pray for us
pecatoribus"; Brazilian name for Pereskia aculeata

by praying, by
orando laborando motto of the Rugby School
working

oratio recta direct speech

expressions from Latin grammar
oratio obliqua indirect speech

from Satires of Juvenal (Book IV/10), referring

to Alexander the Great; James Bond's adopted
the world does not
family motto in the novel On Her Majesty's Secret
suffice or the
orbis non sufficit Service; it made a brief appearance in the film
world is not
adaptation of the same name and was later used as
enough
the title of the nineteenth James Bond film, The
World Is Not Enough.

orbis unum one world seen in The Legend of Zorro

 out of chaos,
ordo ab chao one of the oldest mottos of Craft Freemasonry.[88]
comes order

(Let us pray), one Popular salutation for Roman Catholic clergy at the
(oremus) pro for the other; let beginning or ending of a letter or note. Usually
invicem us pray for each abbreviated OPI. ("Oremus" used alone is just "let
other us pray").

orta recens quam newly risen, how

Motto of New South Wales
pura nites brightly you shine

P[edit]

Latin Translation Notes

"With all due respect to", "with due deference

to", "by leave of", "no offence to", or "despite
Ablative form of (with respect)". Used to politely acknowledge
pace
peace someone with whom the speaker or writer
disagrees or finds irrelevant to the main
argument.

pace tua with your peace Thus, "with your permission".

Pacem in terris Peace on Earth

agreements must Also "contracts must be honoured". Indicates

pacta sunt servanda
be kept the binding power of treaties.

no reward
palma non sine pulvere Also "dare to try"; motto of numerous schools.
without effort

He who has Loosely, "achievement should be rewarded" (or,

palmam qui meruit
earned the palm, "let the symbol of victory go to him who has
ferat
let him bear it. deserved it"); frequently used motto

panem et circenses bread and From Juvenal, Satire X, line 81. Originally

circuses described all that was needed for emperors to
placate the Roman mob. Today used to describe
any entertainment used to distract public
 attention from more important matters.

The petty thief is

parvus pendetur fur,
hanged, the big
magnus abire videtur
thief gets away.

From "Si vis pacem para bellum": if you want

peace, prepare for war—if a country is ready
for war, its enemies are less likely to attack.
Usually used to support a policy of peace
para bellum prepare for war through strength (deterrence). In antiquity,
however, the Romans viewed peace as the
aftermath of successful conquest through war,
so in this sense the proverb identifies war as the
means through which peace will be achieved.

to prepare for
parare Domino plebem
God a perfect motto of the St. Jean Baptiste High School
perfectam
people

forgive the it is ungenerous to hold resentment toward the

parce sepulto
interred dead. Quote from the Aeneid, III 13-68.

A public policy requiring courts to protect

parent of the
parens patriae the best interests of any child involved in a
nation
lawsuit. See also Pater Patriae.

pari passu with equal step Thus, "moving together", "simultaneously", etc.

The mountains
said of works that promise much at the outset
parturiunt montes, are in labour, a
but yield little in the end (Horace, Ars
nascetur ridiculus mus ridiculous mouse
poetica 137) – see also The Mountain in Labour
will be born.

It does not shine

Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, 1/6:34 – see
parum luceat [being darkened
also lucus a nonlucendo
by shade].

Implies that the weak are under the protection

the small under
parva sub ingenti of the strong, rather than that they are
the huge
inferior. Motto of Prince Edward Island.
 When you are
Motto of Barnard Castle School, sometimes
steeped in little
parvis imbutus translated as "Once you have accomplished
things, you shall
tentabis grandia tutus small things, you may attempt great ones
safely attempt
safely".
great things.

Less literally, "throughout" or "frequently".

Said of a word, fact or notion that occurs
here and there,
passim several times in a cited text. Also used
everywhere
in proofreading, where it refers to a change that
is to be repeated everywhere needed.

Or "master of the house". The eldest male in a

family, who held patria potestas ("paternal
power"). In Roman law, a father had enormous
father of the power over his children, wife, and slaves,
pater familias
family though these rights dwindled over time. Derived
from the phrase pater familias, an Old
Latin expression preserving the archaic
-as ending for the genitive case.

A more direct translation would be

Pater Omnipotens Father Almighty
"omnipotent father".

father of the Also rendered with the gender-neutral parens

Pater Patriae
nation patriae ("parent of the nation").

Father, I have The traditional beginning of a Roman

pater peccavi
sinned Catholic confession.

Similar to "quality over quantity"; though there

pauca sed bona few, but good may be few of something, at least they are of
good quality.

Said to be one of Carl Gauss's favorite

pauca sed matura few, but ripe quotations. Used in The King and I by Rodgers
and Hammerstein.

Former motto of Latymer Upper School in

slowly therefore
paulatim ergo certe London (the text latim er is concealed in the
surely
words)

pax aeterna eternal peace A common epitaph

 A euphemism for the United States of America
Pax Americana American Peace and its sphere of influence. Adapted from Pax
Romana.

A euphemism for the British Empire. Adapted

Pax Britannica British Peace
from Pax Romana

Used as a wish before the Holy Communion in

Pax Christi Peace of Christ the Catholic Mass, also the name of the peace
movement Pax Christi

Used in the Peace and Truce of God movement

pax Dei peace of God
in 10th-century France

Like the vast majority of inhabitants of the

ancient world, the Romans
practiced pagan rituals, believing it important to
Pax Deorum Peace of the gods
achieve a state of Pax Deorum (The Peace of
the gods) instead of Ira Deorum (The Wrath of
the gods).

lord or master; used as a form of address when

Pax, Domine peace, lord
speaking to clergy or educated professionals

Motto of St. Francis of Assisi and,

consequently, of his monastery in Assisi;
peace and the
pax et bonum understood by Catholics to mean 'Peace and
good
Goodness be with you,' as is similar in the
Mass; translated in Italian as pace e bene.

pax et justitia peace and justice Motto of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

pax et lux peace and light Motto of Tufts University and various schools

Pax Europaea European Peace euphemism for Europe after World War II

Pax Hispanica Spanish Peace Euphemism for the Spanish Empire;

specifically can mean the twenty-three years of
 supreme Spanish dominance in Europe
(approximately 1598–1621). Adapted from Pax
Romana.

Used to exemplify the desired state of peace on

pax in terra peace on earth
earth

Peace to those Used as an inscription over the entrance of

Pax intrantibus, salus who enter, health buildings (especially homes, monasteries, inns).
exeuntibus to those who Often benedicto habitantibus (Blessings on
depart. those who abide here) is added.

If the mother is peaceful, then the family is

peace of mothers,
pax matrum, ergo pax peaceful. The inverse of the Southern United
therefore peace of
familiarum States saying, "If mama ain't happy, ain't
families
nobody happy."

period of peace and prosperity in Asia during

Pax Mongolica Mongolian Peace
the Mongol Empire

peace is the Silius Italicus, Punica (11,595); motto of

pax optima rerum
greatest good the university of Kiel

period of relative prosperity and lack of conflict

Pax Romana Roman Peace
in the early Roman Empire

period of peace in East Asia during times of

Pax Sinica Chinese Peace
strong Chinese hegemony

peace be with you

pax tecum
(singular)

Legend states that when

Pax tibi, Marce, Peace to you, the evangelist went to the
Evangelista meus. Hic Mark, my lagoon where Venice
requiescet corpus Evangelist. Here would later be founded,
tuum. will rest your an angel came and said
body. this.[89] The first part is
depicted as the note in
the book shown opened
by the lion of St Mark's
Basilica, Venice;
registered trademark of
the Assicurazioni
 Generali, Trieste.[90]

A common farewell. The "you" is plural ("you

peace [be] with all"), so the phrase must be used when speaking
pax vobiscum
you to more than one person; pax tecum is the form
used when speaking to only one person.

Telegraph message and pun from Charles

Napier, British general, upon completely
subjugating the Indian province of Sindh in
peccavi I have sinned
1842 ('I have Sindh'). This is, arguably, the
most terse military despatch ever sent. The story
is apocryphal.

According to Suetonius' De vita Caesarum,

when Emperor Vespasian was challenged by his
son Titus for taxing the public lavatories, the
money doesn't emperor held up a coin before his son and asked
pecunia non olet
smell whether it smelled or simply said non olet ("it
doesn't smell"). From this, the phrase was
expanded to pecunia non olet, or rarely aes non
olet ("copper doesn't smell").

if you know how

to use money,
pecunia, si uti scis,
money is your Written on an old Latin tablet in downtown
ancilla est; si nescis,
slave; if you Verona (Italy).
domina
don't, money is
your master

punishment That is, retribution comes slowly but surely.

pede poena claudo
comes limping From Horace, Odes, 3, 2, 32.

pendent opera the work hangs

From the Aeneid of Virgil, Book IV
interrupta interrupted

By, through, by
per See specific phrases below
means of

through Joining sentence of the conspirators in the

per angusta ad augusta difficulties to drama Hernani by Victor Hugo (1830). The
greatness motto of numerous educational establishments.

per annum (pa.) each year Thus, "yearly"—occurring every year

per ardua through adversity Motto of the British RAF Regiment

through difficulty Through hardship, great heights are reached;

per ardua ad alta
to heights frequently used motto

Motto of the Royal, Royal Australian and Royal

New Zealand Air Forces, the U. S. State of
through adversity Kansas and of several schools. The phrase is
per ardua ad astra
to the stars used by Latin Poet Virgil in the Aeneid; also
used in H. Rider Haggard's novel The People of
the Mist.

From Seneca the Younger; frequently used

through hardships
per aspera ad astra motto, sometimes as ad astra per aspera ("to
to the stars
the stars through hardships")

"Per head", i.e., "per person", a ratio by the

per capita by heads
number of persons. The singular is per caput.

through the small

per capsulam That is, "by letter"
box

through the
per contra Or "on the contrary" (cf. a contrario)
contrary

through the cross Motto of St John Fisher Catholic High School,
per crucem vincemus
we shall conquer Dewsbury

through the cross,

Per Crucem Crescens Motto of Lambda Chi Alpha
growth

through the Legal term meaning "by the court", as in a per

per curiam
senate curiam decision

through the
per definitionem Thus, "by definition"
definition

per diem (pd.) by day Thus, "per day". A specific amount of money an

organization allows an individual to spend per
 day, typically for travel expenses.

through right or
per fas et nefas By fair means or foul
wrong

fearless through
per fidem intrepidus
faith

per literas regias

by letters patent;
per lit. reg.
of academic degrees: awarded by letters patent
per regias literas by royal letters
from the King/Queen, rather than by a
per reg. lit.
University[91][92]
etc.

Motto of the Royal Marines and (with small

by sea and by
per mare per terram difference) of Clan Donald and the Compagnies
land
Franches de la Marine

per mensem (pm.) by month Thus, "per month", or "monthly"

what can be done

per multum cras, cras,
today should not
crebro dilabitur aetas
be delayed

through the
per os (p.o.) Medical shorthand for "by mouth"
mouth

Used of a certain place that can be traversed or

per pedes by feet reached by foot, or to indicate that one is
travelling by foot as opposed to by a vehicle

Also rendered per procurationem. Used to

indicate that a person is signing a document on
behalf of another person. Correctly placed
per through the before the name of the person signing, but often
procura (p.p.) or (per agency placed before the name of the person on whose
pro)
behalf the document is signed, sometimes
through incorrect translation of the alternative
abbreviation per pro. as "for and on behalf of".

per quod by reason of In a UK legal context: "by reason of which" (as

 opposed to per se which requires no reasoning).
which In American jurisprudence often refers to a
spouse's claim for loss of consortium.

through the
per rectum (pr) Medical shorthand; see also per os
rectum

a modern parody of per aspera ad astra,

originating and most commonly used in Russia,
via rectum to the meaning that the path to success took you
per rectum ad astra
stars through most undesirable and objectionable
places or environments; or that a found solution
to a complex problem is extremely convoluted.

per risum multum by excessive

poteris cognoscere laughter one can
stultum recognise the fool

Also "by itself" or "in itself". Without referring

to anything else, intrinsically, taken without
per se through itself
qualifications etc. A common example
is negligence per se. See also malum in se.

Used in wills to indicate that each "branch" of

per stirpes through the roots the testator's family should inherit equally.
Contrasted with per capita.

through unity, Motto of Texas A&M University Corps of

per unitatem vis
strength Cadets

through truth,
per veritatem vis Motto of Washington University in St. Louis
strength

Frequently used motto; not from Latin but from

per volar sunata [sic]
born to soar Dante's Purgatorio, Canto XII, 95, the Italian
phrase "per volar sù nata".

Be patient and
Perfer et obdura; dolor tough; some day
From Ovid, Amores, Book III, Elegy XI
hic tibi proderit olim this pain will be
useful to you.
periculum in mora danger in delay

perinde [well-disciplined] Phrase written by St. Ignatius of Loyola in

ac [si] cadaver [essent] like a corpse his Constitutiones Societatis Iesu (1954)

perita manus mens skilled hand, Motto of RMIT University in Melbourne,

exculta cultivated mind Australia

from Virgil's Aeneid IV 114; in Vergil's context:

perge sequar advance, I follow
"proceed with your plan, I will do my part."

Danger is my Motto of the Foreign Legion Detachment in

Pericula ludus
pleasure Mayotte

thing in perpetual A musical term; also used to refer to

perpetuum mobile
motion hypothetical perpetual motion machines

Perseverantia et Fide Perseverance and Motto of Bombay Scottish School, Mahim,

in Deo Faith in God India

An unwelcome, unwanted or undesirable

person. In diplomatic contexts, a person rejected
person not by the host government. The reverse, persona
persona non grata
pleasing grata ("pleasing person"), is less common, and
refers to a diplomat acceptable to the
government of the country to which he is sent.

Begging the question, a logical fallacy in which

request of the
petitio principii a proposition to be proved is implicitly or
beginning
explicitly assumed in one of the premises

pia desideria pious longings Or "dutiful desires"

Or "dutiful deceit". Expression from Ovid; used

pia fraus pious fraud to describe deception which serves Church
purposes

pia mater pious mother Or "tender mother". Translated into Latin

from Arabic. The delicate innermost of the three
 membranes that cover the brain and spinal cord.

Freedom is made
Pietate et doctrina tuta safe through
Motto of Dickinson College
libertas character and
learning

Thus, "he painted this" or "she painted this".

pinxit one painted Formerly used on works of art, next to the
artist's name.

Latin proverb, attributed by Erasmus in

[you] teach a fish his Adagia to Greek origin (Diogenianus, Ἰχθὺν
piscem natare doces
to swim νήχεσθαι διδάσκεις); corollary Chinese idiom
(班門弄斧)

placet it pleases expression of assent

plene scriptum fully written

I.e., it is difficult to concentrate on mental tasks

after a heavy meal. The following variant is also
plenus venter non A full belly does
attested: plenus si venter renuit studere
studet libenter not like studying
libenter (the belly, when full, refuses to study
willingly).

A full belly
plenus venter facile de
readily discusses Hieronymus, Epistulæ 58,2
ieiuniis disputat
fasting.

The first-person plural pronoun when used by

pluralis majestatis plural of majesty an important personage to refer to himself or
herself; also known as the "royal we"

pluralis modestiae plural of modesty

Frequently found on Roman funerary

plus minusve (p.m.v.) more or less inscriptions to denote that the age of a decedent
is approximate
 National motto of Spain and a number of other
plus ultra further beyond
institutions

Life was spared with a thumb tucked inside a

goodwill decided
pollice compresso closed fist, simulating a sheathed weapon.
by compressed
favor iudicabatur Conversely, a thumb up meant to unsheath your
thumb
sword.

Used by Roman crowds to pass judgment on a

with a turned defeated gladiator. The type of gesture used is
pollice verso
thumb uncertain. Also the name of a famous painting
depicting gladiators by Jean-Léon Gérôme.

Polonia Restituta Rebirth of Poland

Any obstacle that stupid people find hard to

pons asinorum bridge of asses cross. Originally used of Euclid's Fifth
Proposition in geometry.

Or "Supreme Pontiff". Originally an office in

the Roman Republic, later a title held by Roman
Emperors, and later a traditional epithet of
the pope. The pontifices were the most
Greatest High important priestly college of the religion in
Pontifex Maximus
Priest ancient Rome; their name is usually thought to
derive from pons facere ("to make a bridge"),
which in turn is usually linked to their religious
authority over the bridges of Rome, especially
the Pons Sublicius.

Thus, to be able to be made into part of a

force of the retinue or force. In common law, a sheriff's
posse comitatus
county[93] right to compel people to assist law
enforcement in unusual situations.

They can because Inscription on the back of Putney medals,

possunt quia posse
they think they awarded to boat race winning Oxford blues.
videntur
can From Virgil's Aeneid Book V line 231.

after it or by Causality between two phenomena is not

post aut propter
means of it established (cf. post hoc, ergo propter hoc)

post cibum (p.c.) after food Medical shorthand for "after meals" (cf. ante

 cibum)

post coitum After sex After sexual intercourse

After sexual
intercourse every
post coitum omne Or: triste est omne animal post coitum, praeter
animal is sad,
animal triste est sive mulierem gallumque. Attributed to Galen of
except the cock
gallus et mulier Pergamum.[94]
(rooster) and the
woman

Refers to an action or occurrence that takes

place after the event that is being discussed
(similar in meaning to post factum). More
specifically, it may refer to a person who is
post eventum after the event
recounting an event long after it took place,
implying that details of the story may have
changed over time. (Some sources attribute this
expression to George Eliot.)

post factum after the fact Not to be confused with ex post facto.

post festum after the feast Too late, or after the fact

after this, A logical fallacy where one assumes that one

post hoc ergo propter
therefore because thing happening after another thing means that
hoc
of this the first thing caused the second.

The period from noon to midnight (cf. ante

post meridiem (p.m.) after midday
meridiem)

Usually rendered postmortem. Not to be

post mortem (pm) after death
confused with post meridiem

The phrase is used in legal terminology in the

Post mortem after the author's context of intellectual property rights, especially
auctoris (p.m.a.) death copyright, which commonly lasts until a certain
number of years after the author's death.

post nubila phoebus after the clouds, Motto of the University of Zulia, Venezuela, as
 the sun well as Hartford, Connecticut

out of darkness,
post nubes lux Motto of Cranfield University
light

after “late Refers to the time after any meal. Usually

post prandial
breakfast” rendered postprandial.

A postscript. Used to mark additions to a letter,

after what has
post scriptum (p.s.) after the signature. Can be extended to post post
been written
scriptum (p.p.s.), etc.

post tenebras lux,

after darkness, [I
or post tenebras spero from Vulgata, Job 17:12; frequently used motto
hope for] light
lucem

we grow in the
postera crescam laude esteem of future Motto of the University of Melbourne
generations

There can be only

potest solum unum Highlander
one

praemia virtutis honours are the

 
honores rewards of virtue

Common catch phrase of the fictional character

praemonitus forewarned is
"Captain Blood" from the novel Captain Blood
praemunitus forearmed
(novel)

Lead in order to
praesis ut prosis ne ut
serve, not in order Motto of Lancaster Royal Grammar School
imperes
to rule.

praeter legem after the law Legal terminology, international law

Prague, Head of
Praga Caput Regni Motto of Prague from Middle Ages
the Kingdom
Praga Caput Rei Prague, Head of
Motto of Prague from 1991
publicae the Republic

Prague, Mother
Praga mater urbium Motto of Prague from 1927
of Cities

Prague, the
Praga totius Bohemiae mistress of the
Former motto of Prague
domina whole of
Bohemia

Pretium Laborum Non No mean reward

Motto of the Order of the Golden Fleece
Vile for labour

Motto of Burnley Football Club;

from Ovid's Metamorphoses, 4.739
(Latin)/English): "The Tale
The prize and the
pretiumque et causa of Perseus and Andromeda": resoluta catenis
cause of our
laboris incedit virgo, pretiumque et causa
labour
laboris. ("freed of her chains the virgin
approaches, cause and reward of the
enterprise.")

Used to designate evidence in a trial which is

prima facie at first sight suggestive, but not conclusive, of something
(e.g., a person's guilt)

prima luce at dawn Literally "at first light"

I am a primate;
nothing about A sentence by the American
primas sum: primatum
primates is anthropologist Earnest Hooton and the slogan of
nil a me alienum puto
outside of primatologists and lovers of the primates.
my bailiwick

Or "first thing able to be moved"; see primum

primum mobile first moving thing
movens

primum movens prime mover Or "first moving one". A

common theological term, such as in
the cosmological argument, based on the
assumption that God was the first entity to
"move" or "cause" anything. Aristotle was one
 of the first philosophers to discuss the
"uncaused cause", a hypothetical originator—
and violator—of causality.

A medical precept. Often falsely attributed to

the Hippocratic Oath, though its true source is
probably a paraphrase
from Hippocrates' Epidemics, where he wrote,
primum non nocere first, to not harm
"Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell
the future; practice these acts. As to diseases,
make a habit of two things: to help, or at least to
do no harm."

Position of the Ecumenical Patriarch in

the Eastern Orthodox Church, position of
first among
primus inter pares the President of the Swiss Confederation among
equals
the members of the Federal Council, and a title
of the Roman Emperors (cf. princeps).

principles prove;
principia probant non Fundamental principles require no proof; they
they are not
probantur are assumed a priori.
proved

resist the
principiis obsta (et
beginnings (and Ovid, Remedia Amoris, 91
respice finem)
consider the end)

principium psychological term: the self-formation of the

Individuation
individuationis personality into a coherent whole

A legal principle that older laws take

prior tempore potior earlier in time,
precedence over newer ones. The inverse
iure stronger in law
principle is known as lex posterior.

For altars and The motto of the Royal Queensland Regiment,

pro aris et focis
hearths and many other regiments.

Often abbreviated pro bono. Work undertaken

for the public voluntarily at no expense, such as public
pro bono publico
good services. Often used of a lawyer's work that is
not charged for.

pro Brasilia fiant let exceptional Motto of São Paulo state, Brazil.

 things be made
eximia
for Brazil

For God, home

pro Deo Domo Patria Motto of the University of Mary Washington
and country

For God and

pro Deo et Patria Frequently used motto
Country

for (one’s own) serving the interests of a given perspective or

pro domo (sua)
home or house for the benefit of a given group.

pro Ecclesia, pro For Church, For Motto of Baylor University, a private Christian
Texana Texas Baptist university in Waco, Texas.

Motto of the originally Irish Muldoon family

and of several schools, such as the Diocesan
for faith and
pro fide et patria College (Bishops) in Cape Town, South Africa,
fatherland
and All Hallows High School in the Bronx,
New York.

Or "as a matter of form". Prescribing a set form

pro forma for form
or procedure, or performed in a set manner.

for glory and

pro gloria et patria Motto of Prussia
fatherland

Request of a state court to allow an out-of-state

pro hac vice for this occasion
lawyer to represent a client.

It is part of the Rite of Consecration of

pro multis for many the wine in Western Christianity tradition, as
part of the Mass.

Frequently used in taxonomy to refer to part of

pro parte in part
a group.

pro patria for country Pro Patria Medal: for operational service
(minimum 55 days) in defence of the Republic
South Africa or in the prevention or suppression
 of terrorism; issued for the Border War
(counter-insurgency operations in South West
Africa 1966–89) and for campaigns in Angola
(1975–76 and 1987–88). Motto of The Royal
Canadian Regiment, Royal South Australia
Regiment, Hurlstone Agricultural High School.

watchful for the

pro patria vigilans Motto of the United States Army Signal Corps.
country

for the people and

pro populo et gloria Motto of HMS  Westminster
glory

to defend oneself in court without counsel;

pro per for self abbreviation of propria persona. See also: pro
se.

pro rata for the rate i.e., proportionately.

Medical shorthand for "as the occasion arises"

or "as needed". Also "concerning a matter
having come into being". Used to describe a
for a thing that
pro re nata (PRN, prn) meeting of a special Presbytery or Assembly
has been born
called to discuss something new, and which was
previously unforeseen (literally: "concerning a
matter having been born").

for king and the

pro rege et lege Found on the Leeds coat of arms.
law

for king, the law

pro rege, lege et grege Found on the coat of arms of Perth, Scotland.
and the people

to defend oneself in court without counsel.

pro se for oneself
Some jurisdictions prefer, "pro per".

pro scientia atque for knowledge motto of Stuyvesant High School in New York
sapientia and wisdom City

pro scientia et patria for science and motto of the National University of La Plata
 nation

for study and

pro studio et labore
work

Denotes something that has only been partially

fulfilled. A philosophical term indicating the
pro tanto for so much
acceptance of a theory or idea without fully
accepting the explanation.

what shall we
pro tanto quid The motto of the city of Belfast; taken from
give in return for
retribuemus the Vulgate translation of Psalm 116.
so much

for the time Denotes a temporary current situation;

pro tempore
(being) abbreviated pro tem.

probatio pennae testing of the pen Medieval Latin term for breaking in a new pen

Traditionally inscribed above a city gate or

I am open for
probis pateo above the front entrance of a dwelling or place
honest people
of learning.

To Accomplish
prodesse quam
Rather Than To motto of Miami University
conspici
Be Conspicuous

"by one's own

propria manu (p.m.)
hand"

to destroy the
That is, to squander life's purpose just in order
propter vitam vivendi reasons for living
to stay alive, and live a meaningless life.
perdere causas for the sake of
From Juvenal, Satyricon VIII, verses 83–84.
life

Protection draws
protectio trahit
allegiance, and Legal maxim, indicating that reciprocity of
subjectionem, et
allegiance draws fealty with protection
subjectio protectionem
protection
 launch forward
provehito in altum motto of Memorial University of Newfoundland
into the deep

proxime accessit he came next the runner-up

Used in formal correspondence to refer to the

in the following
proximo mense (prox.) next month. Used with ult. ("last month")
month
and inst. ("this month").

pulchrum est Beauty is for the from Friedrich Nietzsche's 1889 book Twilight

paucorum hominum few of the Idols

we are dust and

pulvis et umbra sumus From Horace, Carmina book IV, 7, 16.
shadow

Thus, the essential or most notable point. The

punctum saliens leaping point
salient point.

purificatus non purified, not

consumptus consumed

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Latin Translation Notes

Thus: "by definition"; variant of per

definitionem; sometimes used in German-
qua definitione by virtue of definition
speaking countries. Occasionally
misrendered as "qua definitionem".

as far as the world Motto of the Royal Netherlands Marine

qua patet orbis
extends Corps

do not take away

quae non posuisti, ne
what you did not put Plato, Laws
tollas
in place

quae non prosunt what alone is not Ovid, Remedia amoris

singula multa iuvant useful helps when
 accumulated

frequently used as motto; taken

quaecumque sunt vera whatsoever is true
from Philippians 4:8 of the Bible

quaecumque vera doce teach me whatsoever motto of St. Joseph's College,

me is true Edmonton at the University of Alberta

Or "you might ask..." Used to suggest

doubt or to ask one to consider whether
quaere to seek
something is correct. Often introduces
rhetorical or tangential questions.

quaerite primum seek ye first the Also quaerite primo regnum dei;

regnum Dei kingdom of God frequently used as motto

Or "What a craftsman dies in me!"

As what kind of artist
qualis artifex pereo Attributed to Nero in Suetonius' De vita
do I perish?
Caesarum

Qualitas potentia nostra Quality is our might motto of Finnish Air Force

quam bene non how well, not how motto of Mount Royal University,
quantum much Calgary, Canada

quam bene vivas it is how well you live

Seneca, Epistulae morales ad Lucilium CI
referre (or refert), non that matters, not how
(101)
quam diu long

I.e., "[while on] good behavior." So for

example the Act of Settlement
1701 stipulated that judges' commissions
are valid quamdiu se bene
as long as he shall
quamdiu (se) bene gesserint (during good behaviour). (Notice
have behaved
gesserit the different singular, "gesserit", and
well (legal Latin)
plural, "gesserint", forms.) It was from
this phrase that Frank Herbert extracted
the name for the Bene Gesserit sisterhood
in the Dune novels.

quantocius quantotius the sooner, the better or, as quickly as possible

 medical shorthand for "as much as you
quantum libet (q.l.) as much as pleases
wish"

medical shorthand for "as much as

quantum sufficit (qs) as much as is enough
needed" or "as much as will suffice"

medical shorthand; also quaque die (qd),

"every day", quaque mane (qm), "every
quaque hora (qh) every hour
morning", and quaque nocte (qn), "every
night"

An action of trespass; thus called, by

reason the writ demands the person
wherefore he broke
quare clausum fregit summoned to answer to wherefore he
the close
broke the close (quare clausum fregit), i.e.
why he committed such a trespass.

quater in die (qid) four times a day medical shorthand

Whom the gods

quem deus vult perdere,
would destroy, they
dementat prius
first make insane

Other translations of diligunt include

"prize especially" or "esteem".
From Plautus, Bacchides, IV, 7, 18. In this
quem di diligunt he whom the gods
comic play, a sarcastic servant says this to
adulescens moritur love dies young
his aging master. The rest of the sentence
reads: dum valet sentit sapit ("while he is
healthy, perceptive and wise").

from the Summoner's section of Chaucer's

questio quid iuris I ask what law? General Prologue to The Canterbury
Tales, line 648

qui audet adipiscitur Who Dares Wins The motto of the SAS, of the British Army

qui bene cantat bis orat he who sings well from St. Augustine of Hippo's
praises twice commentary on Psalm 73, verse 1: Qui
 enim cantat laudem, non solum laudat,
sed etiam hilariter laudat ("He who sings
praises, not only praises, but praises
joyfully")

common misspelling of the Latin

qui bono who with good
phrase cui bono ("who benefits?")

Motto of the University of Chester. A less

he that teacheth, on
qui docet in doctrina literal translation is "Let those who teach,
teaching
teach" or "Let the teacher teach".

qui habet aures audiendi he who has ears to "He that hath ears to hear, let him
audiat hear shall hear hear"; Mark Mark 4:9

qui me tangit, vocem who touches me,

common inscription on bells
meam audit hears my voice

Thus, silence gives consent. Sometimes

qui tacet consentire he who is silent is accompanied by the proviso "ubi loqui
videtur taken to agree debuit ac potuit", that is, "when he ought
to have spoken and was able to".

As set forth in the "Property Law"

Who is first in point
qui prior est tempore casebook written by Jesse Dukeminier,
of time is stronger in
potior est jure which is generally used to teach first year
right
law students.

Generally known as 'qui tam,' it is the

qui tam pro domino rege he who brings an
quam pro se ipso in hac action for the king as
parte sequitur well as for himself
technical legal term for the unique
mechanism in the federal False Claims
Act that allows persons and entities with
evidence of fraud against federal programs
or contracts to sue the wrongdoer on
behalf of the Government.

he who wants
qui totum vult totum
everything loses Attributed to Publilius Syrus
perdit
everything

qui transtulit sustinet he who transplanted Or "he who brought us across still
still sustains supports us", meaning God. State
motto of Connecticut. Originally written
 as sustinet qui transtulit in 1639.

because he should
quia suam uxorem etiam wish even his wife to
suspicione vacare vellet be free from
suspicion
Attributed to Julius
Caesar by Plutarch, Caesar 10. Translated
loosely as "because even the wife of
Caesar may not be suspected". At the feast
of Bona Dea, a sacred festival for females
only, which was being held at the Domus
Publica, the home of the Pontifex
Maximus, Caesar, and hosted by his
second wife, Pompeia, the notorious
politician Clodius arrived in disguise.
Caught by the outraged noblewomen,
Clodius fled before they could kill him on
the spot for sacrilege. In the ensuing trial,
allegations arose that Pompeia and
Clodius were having an affair, and while
Caesar asserted that this was not the case
and no substantial evidence arose
suggesting otherwise, he nevertheless
divorced, with this quotation as
explanation.

What's happening? What's going on?

quid agis What are you doing?
What's the news? What's up?

In the Vulgate translation
of John 18:38, Pilate's question
to Jesus (Greek: Τί ἐστιν ἀλήθεια;). A
quid est veritas What is truth?
possible answer is an anagram of the
phrase: est vir qui adest, "it is the man
who is here."

What of the new out less literally, "What's new from Africa?";
quid novi ex Africa
of Africa? derived from an Aristotle quotation

Commonly shortened to quidnunc. As a

noun, a quidnunc is a busybody or a
quid nunc What now? gossip. Patrick Campbell worked for The
Irish Times under
the pseudonym "Quidnunc".

quid pro quo what for what Commonly used in English, it is also
translated as "this for that" or "a thing for
a thing". Signifies a favor exchanged for a
favor. The traditional Latin expression for
this meaning was do ut des ("I give, so
 that you may give").

Why do you laugh?

Quid rides?
Change but the name,
Mutato nomine de te Horace, Satires, I. 1. 69.
and the story is told
fabula narratur.
of yourself.

Or "anything said in Latin sounds

profound". A recent ironic Latin phrase to
poke fun at people who seem to use Latin
whatever has been
quidquid Latine dictum phrases and quotations only to make
said in Latin seems
sit altum videtur themselves sound more important or
deep
"educated". Similar to the less
common omnia dicta fortiora si dicta
Latina.

don't move settled

quieta non movere
things

Commonly associated with Plato who in

the Republic poses this question; and
from Juvenal's On Women, referring to the
practice of having eunuchs guard women
Quis custodiet ipsos Who will guard the and beginning with the word sed ("but").
custodes? guards themselves? Usually translated less literally, as "Who
watches the watchmen?" This translation
is a common epigraph, such as of
the Tower Commission and Alan
Moore's Watchmen comic book series.

quis leget haec? Who will read this?

motto of Northern Ireland and of

quis separabit? Who will separate us?
the Order of St Patrick

Usually translated "Who is like unto

God?" Questions who would have the
audacity to compare himself to a Supreme
quis ut Deus Who [is] as God?
Being. It is a translation of the Hebrew
name 'Michael' = Mi cha El Who like God
‫ אל‬/‫כ‬/‫מי‬ Hebrew: ‫( מִי ָכאֵל‬right to left).

quo errat demonstrator where the prover errs A pun on "quod erat demonstrandum"
 where the fates bear
quo fata ferunt motto of Bermuda
us to

Quod verum tutum what is true is right motto of Spier's School

From Cicero's first speech In Catilinam to

the Roman Senate regarding the
For how much conspiracy of Catiline: Quo usque tandem
quousque tandem?
longer? abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra? ("For
how much longer, Catiline, will you abuse
our patience?").

Title of the series finale of Aaron Sorkin's

Quo Vadimus? Where are we going?
TV dramedy Sports Night

According to Vulgate translation
of John 13:36, Saint
Peter asked Jesus Domine, quo
quo vadis? Where are you going?
vadis? ("Lord, where are you going?").
The King James Version has the
translation "Lord, whither goest thou?"

whithersoever you
quocunque jeceris stabit motto of the Isle of Man
throw it, it will stand

quod abundat non what is abundant It is no problem to have too much of

obstat doesn't hinder something.

Things done in a hurry are more likely to

what is done quickly,
quod cito fit, cito perit fail and fail quicker than those done with
perishes quickly
care.

The abbreviation is often written at the

bottom of a mathematical proof.
quod erat what was to be Sometimes translated loosely into English
demonstrandum (Q.E.D.) demonstrated as "The Five Ws", W.W.W.W.W., which
stands for "Which Was What We
Wanted".

quod erat which was to be done Or "which was to be constructed". Used in

faciendum (Q.E.F.) translations of Euclid's Elements when
there was nothing to prove, but there was
something being constructed, for example
 a triangle with the same size as a given
line.

quod est (q.e.) which is

quod est necessarium est what is necessary is

licitum lawful

what is asserted
If no grounds have been given for an
quod gratis asseritur, without reason may
assertion, then there are no grounds
gratis negatur be denied without
needed to reject it.
reason

If an important person does something, it

does not necessarily mean that everyone
what is permitted
quod licet Iovi, non licet can do it (cf. double standard). Iovi (also
to Jupiter is not
bovi commonly rendered Jovi) is
permitted to an ox
the dative form of Iuppiter ("Jupiter" or
"Jove"), the chief god of the Romans.

Thought to have originated with

Elizabethan playwright Christopher
Marlowe. Generally interpreted to mean
quod me nutrit me what nourishes me that that which motivates or drives a
destruit destroys me person can consume him or her from
within. This phrase has become a popular
slogan or motto for pro-
ana websites, anorexics and bulimics.

what nature does not Refers to the Spanish University of

quod natura non dat
give, Salamanca does Salamanca, meaning that education
Salmantica non praestat
not provide cannot substitute the lack of brains.

A well-known satirical lampoon left

quod non fecerunt What the barbarians
attached to the ancient "speaking"
barbari, fecerunt did not do, the
statue of Pasquino on a corner of
Barberini Barberini did
the Piazza Navona in Rome, Italy.[95]

What has happened has happened and it

cannot be changed, thus we should look
quod periit, periit What is gone is gone
forward into the future instead of being
pulled by the past.
 What I have written I
quod scripsi, scripsi Pilate to the chief priests (John 19:22)
have written.

i.e. "You must thoroughly understand that

Whatever you hope to which you hope to supplant". A caution
quod supplantandum,
supplant, you will against following a doctrine of Naive
prius bene sciendum
first know thoroughly Analogy when attempting to formulate a
scientific hypothesis.

Used after a term, phrase, or topic that

should be looked up elsewhere in the
quod vide (q.v.) which see current document, book, etc. For more
than one term or phrase, the plural is quae
vide (qq.v.).

More colloquially: "Do whatever He

[Jesus] tells you to do." Instructions of
Quodcumque dixerit Whatever He tells
Mary to the servants at the Wedding at
vobis, facite. you, that you shall do.
Cana. (John 2:5). Also the motto of East
Catholic High School.

quomodo vales How are you?

the number of members whose presence is

quorum of whom required under the rules to make any given
meeting constitutional

Those whom true

quos amor verus tenuit
love has held, it will Seneca
tenebit
go on holding

as many heads, so "There are as many opinions as there are

quot capita tot sensus
many perceptions heads" – Terence

Or "there are as many opinions as there

quot homines tot as many men, so
are people", "how many people, so many
sententiae many opinions
opinions"

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Latin Translation Notes

 Or "greed is the root of all evil". Theme of
radix malorum est the root of evils is
"The Pardoner's Tale" from The Canterbury
cupiditas desire
Tales.

An extraordinary or unusual thing.

rare bird (very rare From Juvenal's Satires: rara avis in terris
rara avis (rarissima avis)
bird) nigroque simillima cygno ("a rare bird in the
lands, and very like a black swan").

rari nantes in gurgite Rare survivors in

Virgil, Aeneid, I, 118
vasto the immense sea

The legal, moral, political, and social

reasoning for the
ratio decidendi principles used by a court to compose a
decision
judgment's rationale.

ratio legis reasoning of law A law's foundation or basis.

by reason of Also "Jurisdiction Ratione Personae" the

ratione personae
his/her person personal reach of the courts jurisdiction.[96]

Or "according to the soil". Assigning

by account of the
ratione soli property rights to a thing based on its
ground
presence on a landowner's property.

confirmed and
ratum et consummatum in Canon law, a consummated marriage
completed

in Canon law, a confirmed but

ratum tantum confirmed only unconsummated marriage (which can be
dissolved super rato)

re [in] the matter of More literally, "by the thing". From

the ablative of res ("thing" or
"circumstance"). It is a common
misconception that the "Re:" in
correspondence is an abbreviation
for regarding or reply; this is not the case
for traditional letters. However, when used
in an e-mail subject, there is evidence that it
functions as an abbreviation
of regarding rather than the Latin word
for thing. The use of Latin re, in the sense of
 "about", "concerning", is English usage.

The doctrine that treaty obligations hold

with matters only as long as the fundamental conditions
rebus sic stantibus
standing thus and expectations that existed at the time of
their creation hold.

recte et fortiter Upright and Strong Motto of Homebush Boys High School

Upright and Also "just and faithful" and "accurately and

recte et fideliter
Faithful faithfully". Motto of Ruyton Girls' School

A common debate technique, and a method

of proof in mathematics and philosophy, that
proves the thesis by showing that its
opposite is absurd or logically untenable. In
general usage outside mathematics and
leading back to the philosophy, a reductio ad absurdum is a
reductio ad absurdum
absurd tactic in which the logic of an argument is
challenged by reducing the concept to its
most absurd extreme. Translated
from Aristotle's "ἡ εις άτοπον απαγωγη" (hi
eis atopon apagogi, "reduction to the
impossible").

A term coined by German-American

political philosopher Leo Strauss to
leading back to humorously describe a fallacious argument
reductio ad Hitlerum
Hitler that compares an opponent's views to those
held by Adolf Hitler or the Nazi Party.
Derived from reductio ad absurdum.

An argument that creates an infinite series of

causes that does not seem to have a
beginning. As a fallacy, it rests upon
Aristotle's notion that all things must have a
cause, but that all series of causes must have
leading back to the a sufficient cause, that is, an unmoved
reductio ad infinitum
infinite mover. An argument which does not seem to
have such a beginning becomes difficult to
imagine. If it can be established, separately,
that the chain must have a start, then a
reductio ad infinitum is a valid refutation
technique.

reformatio in peius change to worse A decision from a court of appeal is

 amended to a worse one. With certain
exceptions, this is prohibited at the Boards
of Appeal of the European Patent
Office by case law.

you made me a
Regem ego comitem me
Count, I will make Motto of the Forbin family [fr]
comes regem
you a King

From "Reginam
occidere nolite
timere bonum est si
omnes consentiunt
Written by John of Merania, bishop
ego non
of Esztergom, to Hungarian nobles planning
contradico", a
the assassination of Gertrude of Merania.
Reginam occidere sentence whose
The queen was assassinated as the plotters
meaning is highly
saw the bishop's message as an
dependent on
encouragement.
punctuation: either
the speaker wishes
a queen killed or
not.[97]

State motto of Arkansas, adopted in 1907.

Originally rendered in 1864 in the
regnat populus the people rule
plural, regnant populi ("the peoples rule"),
but subsequently changed to the singular.

Kingdom of Mary,
Regnum Mariae Patrona
the Patron of Former motto of Hungary.
Hungariae
Hungary

Concept used in psychoanalysis by Sándor

regressus ad uterum return to the womb
Ferenczi and the Budapest School.

You have touched

rem acu tetigisti the point with a i.e., "You have hit the nail on the head"
needle

Lit: "Repeated things help". Usually said as

a jocular remark to defend the speaker's (or
repeating does
repetita iuvant writer's) choice to repeat some important
good
piece of information to ensure reception by
the audience.
 repetition is the
repetitio est mater
mother of
studiorum
study/learning

requiem aeternam eternal rest

Or "may he/she rest in peace". A

benediction for the dead. Often inscribed on
let him/her rest in tombstones or other grave markers. "RIP" is
requiescat in pace (R.I.P.)
peace commonly mistranslated as "Rest In Peace",
though the two mean essentially the same
thing.

Motto of the University of Sheffield,

to learn the causes
rerum cognoscere causas the University of Guelph, and London
of things
School of Economics.

a firm resolve does Used in the 1985 film American

res firma mitescere
not know how to Flyers where it is colloquially translated as
nescit
weaken "once you got it up, keep it up".

A phrase used in law representing the belief

that certain statements are made naturally,
spontaneously and without deliberation
during the course of an event, they leave
little room for
res gestae things done
misunderstanding/misinterpretation upon
hearing by someone else ( i.e. by the witness
who will later repeat the statement to the
court) and thus the courts believe that such
statements carry a high degree of credibility.

A phrase from the common

the thing speaks for law of torts meaning that negligence can be
res ipsa loquitur
itself inferred from the fact that such an accident
happened, without proof of exactly how.

A matter which has been decided by a court.

Often refers to the legal concept that once a
res judicata judged thing matter has been finally decided by the
courts, it cannot be litigated again (cf. non
bis in idem and double jeopardy).

res, non verba "actions speak From rēs ("things, facts") the plural of rēs
 ("a thing, a fact") + nōn ("not") + verba
louder than ("words") the plural of verbum ("a word").
words", or "deeds, Literally meaning "things, not words" or
not words" "facts instead of words" but referring to that
"actions be used instead of words".

Goods without an owner. Used for things or

beings which belong to nobody and are up
res nullius nobody's property for grabs, e.g., uninhabited and uncolonized
lands, wandering wild animals, etc.
(cf. terra nullius, "no man's land").

Pertaining to the
res publica source of the word republic
state or public

look behind, look i.e., "examine the past, the present and
respice adspice prospice
here, look ahead future". Motto of CCNY.

i.e., "have regard for the end" or "consider

the end". Generally a memento mori, a
warning to remember one's death. Motto
look back at the of Homerton College, Cambridge, Trinity
respice finem
end College, Kandy, Georgetown
College in Kentucky , Turnbull High
School, Glasgow, and the London Oratory
School.

Regarded as a legal maxim in agency law,

referring to the legal liability of the principal
with respect to an employee. Whereas a
hired independent contractor acting
let the superior
respondeat superior tortiously may not cause the principal to be
respond
legally liable, a hired employee acting
tortiously will cause the principal (the
employer) to be legally liable, even if the
employer did nothing wrong.

restitutio ad (or in) restoration to Principle behind the awarding of damages in

integrum original condition common law negligence claims

resurgam I shall arise ‘I shall rise again’, expressing Christian

faith in resurrection at the Last Day. It
appears, inter alia, in Charlotte
Brontë's Jane Eyre, as the epitaph written on
Helen Burns's grave; in a poem of Emily
Dickinson: Poems (1955) I. 56 ("Arcturus"
 is his other name), I slew a worm the other
day — A ‘Savant’ passing by Murmured
‘Resurgam’ — ‘Centipede’! ‘Oh Lord—how
frail are we’!; and in a letter of Vincent van
Gogh.[98] The OED gives "1662 J. Trapp
Annotations Old & New Testament I. 142
Howbeit he had hope in his death, and might
write Resurgam on his grave" as its earliest
attribution in the English corpus.

An utterance by the Delphic oracle recorded

by Eusebius of Caesarea in Praeparatio
Restrain your
evangelica, VI-5, translated from the Greek
retine vim istam, falsa strength, for if you
of Porphyry (c.f. E. H. Gifford's translation)
enim dicam, si coges compel me I will [99]
 and used by William Wordsworth as a
tell lies
subtitle for his ballad "Anecdote for
Fathers".

Latin motto that appears on the crest of

king even of
rex regum fidelum et the Trinity Broadcasting
faithful kings
Network of Paul and Jan Crouch.

The rigidity of corpses when chemical

reactions cause the limbs to stiffen about 3–
4 hours after death. Other signs of death
rigor mortis stiffness of death
include drop in body temperature (algor
mortis, "cold of death") and discoloration
(livor mortis, "bluish color of death").

Can you help An ironic or rueful commentary, appended

risum teneatis, amici?
laughing, friends? following a fanciful or unbelievable tale.

laughter is
risus abundat in ore excessive and inappropriate laughter
abundant in the
stultorum signifies stupidity.
mouth of fools

Unconquered Inspirational motto inscribed on the Statue

Roma invicta
Rome of Rome.

In Roman Catholic ecclesiology, doctrinal

Rome has spoken,
Roma locuta, causa finita matters are ultimately decided by the
the case is closed
Vatican.

Romanes eunt domus People called An intentionally garbled Latin phrase

 from Monty Python's Life of Brian. Its
Romans they go
intended meaning is "Romans, go home!", in
the house
Latin Romani ite domum.

drop down ye
rorate coeli a.k.a. The Advent Prose.
heavens

redder than the

rosa rubicundior, lilio
rose, whiter than
candidior, omnibus
the lilies, fairer From Veni, veni, venias (Carmina Burana).
formosior, semper in te
than all things, I do
glorior
ever glory in thee

She who has

Rosam quae meruit ferat earned the rose Motto from Sweet Briar College
may bear it

Generally used to refer to a haven of peace

A countryside in
rus in urbe and quiet within an urban setting, often a
the city
garden, but can refer to interior decoration.

S[edit]

Latin Translation Notes

saltus in leap in a leap in logic, by which a necessary part of an

demonstrando explaining equation is omitted.

a stronghold (or
a Roman Silver Age maxim. Also the school motto
salus in arduis refuge) in
of Wellingborough School.
difficulties

the welfare of From Cicero's De Legibus, book III, part III, sub. VIII.
salus populi the people is to Quoted by John Locke in his Second Treatise, On Civil
suprema lex esto be the highest Government, to describe the proper organization of
law government. Also the state motto of Missouri.

Refers to two expressions that can be interchanged

salva veritate with truth intact without changing the truth value of the statements in
which they occur.
 Savior of the Christian epithet, usually referring to Jesus. The title of
Salvator Mundi
World paintings by Albrecht Dürer and Leonardo da Vinci.

Used as a reservation on statements of financial

salvo errore et save for error
accounts. Often now given in English "errors and
omissione (s.e.e.o.) and omission
omissions excluded" or "e&oe".

Addressing
oneself to
salvo honoris
someone whose
titulo (SHT)
title is
unknown.|

literally, "holy seat". Refers to the Papacy or the Holy

Sancta Sedes Holy Chair
See.

sancta simplicitas holy innocence Or "sacred simplicity".

sancte et in a holy and Also sancte sapienter (holiness, wisdom), motto of

sapienter wise way several institutions, notably King's College London

sanctum referring to a more sacred and/or guarded place, within

Holy of Holies
sanctorum a lesser guarded, yet also holy location.

From Horace's Epistularum liber primus, Epistle II,

line 40. Made popular in Kant's essay Answering the
sapere aude dare to know Question: What Is Enlightenment? defining the Age of
Enlightenment. The phrase is common usage as a
university motto.

sapiens qui wise is he who

Motto of Malvern College, England
prospicit looks ahead

From Plautus. Indicates that something can be

understood without any need for explanation, as long
enough for the as the listener has enough wisdom or common sense.
sapienti sat
wise Often extended to dictum sapienti sat est ("enough has
been said for the wise", commonly translated as "a
word to the wise is enough").

sapientia et wisdom and Motto of Fordham University, New York. Motto of

doctrina learning Hill House School Doncaster, England.

One of the mottos of the Ateneo schools in the

sapientia et wisdom and Philippines.[100]
eloquentia eloquence
Motto of the Minerva Society

sapientia et wisdom and Motto of Christchurch Girls' High School, New

veritas truth Zealand.
wisdom and
sapientia et virtus Motto of the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
virtue
sapientia ianua wisdom is the Motto of the Wirral Grammar School for Boys,
vitae gateway to life Bebington, England.
sapientia melior wisdom is better Motto of University of Deusto, Bilbao, San Sebastián,
auro than gold Spain.
sapientia, pax, Wisdom, Peace, Motto of Universidad de las Américas, Puebla,
fraternitas Fraternity Cholula, Mexico.
sapientia potentia wisdom is Motto of the House of Akeleye, Sweden, Denmark,
est power Czechoslovakia.
That which has
sat celeriter fieri
been done well One of the two favorite saying of Augustus. The other
quidquid fiat satis
has been done is "festina lente".[101]
bene
quickly enough
By/From/With
scientia ac labore knowledge and Motto of several institutions
labour
knowledge,
scientia, aere unknown origin, probably adapted from Horace's ode
more lasting
perennius III (Exegi monumentum aere perennius).
than bronze
religion and
scientia cum
knowledge Motto of St Vincent's College, Potts Point
religione
united
scientiae cedit The sea yields
Motto of the United States Coast Guard Academy.
mare to knowledge
scientiae et For science and
Motto of University of Latvia
patriae fatherland
knowledge and
scientia et labor motto of Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería
work
scientia et knowledge and
motto of Illinois Wesleyan University
sapientia wisdom
knowledge is
scientia imperii the adornment
Motto of Imperial College London
decus et tutamen and protection
of the Empire
scientia ipsa knowledge Stated originally by Sir Francis Bacon in Meditationes
potentia est itself is power Sacrae (1597), which in modern times is often
paraphrased as scientia est potestas or scientia potentia
 est (knowledge is power).
scientia, labor, science, labour,
Motto of the Free University of Tbilisi.
libertas liberty
conquering
scientia vincere Motto of several institutions, such as the Free
darkness by
tenebras University of Brussels (Vrije Universiteit Brussel).
science
it is permitted to that is to say; to wit; namely; in a legal caption, it
scilicet (sc. or ss.)
know provides a statement of venue or refers to a location.
scio I know
I know that I
scio me nihil scire
know nothing
knowledge
scire quod motto of now defunct publisher Small, Maynard &
which is worth
sciendum Company
having
as translated by Philip Francis.
scribimus indocti Each desperate
From Horace, Epistularum liber secundus (1, 117)
doctique poemata blockhead dares [102]
 and quoted in Fielding's Tom Jones; lit: "Learned or
passim to write
not, we shall write poems without distinction."
scuto amoris by the shield of
The motto of Skidmore College
divini God's love
seculo seculorum forever and ever
But the same
sed ipse spiritus Spirit intercedes
postulat pro incessantly for
Romans 8:26
nobis, gemitibus us, with
inenarrabilibus inexpressible
groans
But on earth,
sed terrae
worse things Virgil, Aeneid 6:84.
graviora manent
await
with the seat The "seat" refers to the Holy See; the vacancy refers to
sede vacante
being vacant the interregnum between two popes.
sedes apostolica apostolic chair Synonymous with Sancta Sedes.
seat (i.e. Used in biological classification to indicate that there is
sedes incertae location) no agreement as to which higher order grouping
uncertain a taxon should be placed into. Abbreviated sed. incert.
sedet,
seat, be seated a Virgi's verse, means when you stop trying, then you
aeternumque
forever lose
sedebit
once in a year Concept expressed by various authors, such
semel in anno
one is allowed as Seneca, Saint Augustine and Horace. It became
licet insanire
to go crazy proverbial during the Middle Ages.
semper ad always towards
Motto of several institutions
meliora better things
Motto of the 45th Infantry Division (United States) and
semper anticus always forward its successor, the 45th Infantry Brigade Combat Team
(United States)
semper apertus always open Motto of University of Heidelberg
 Motto of Carl Jacobsen and name of a line of beers
semper ardens always burning
by Danish brewery Carlsberg.
personal motto of Elizabeth I, appears above her royal
coat of arms. Used as motto of Elizabeth College,
Guernsey, Channel Islands, which was founded by
semper eadem ever the same
Elizabeth I, and of Ipswich School, to whom Elizabeth
granted a royal charter. Also the motto of the City of
Leicester and Prince George's County.
Motto of the K.A.V. Lovania Leuven and the House of
semper excelsius always higher
Wrigley-Pimley-McKerr[103]
Motto of several institutions, e.g. United States Marine
semper fidelis always faithful
Corps
semper fortis always brave Unofficial motto of the United States Navy
semper idem always the same Motto of Underberg
semper in We're always in
excretia sumus the manure;
Lord de Ramsey, House of Lords, 21 January 1998[104]
solim profundum only the depth
variat varies.
always
semper instans Motto of 846 NAS Royal Navy
threatening
always
semper invicta Motto of Warsaw
invincible
the necessity of
semper necessitas
proof always
probandi
lies with the Latin maxim often associated with the burden of proof
incumbit ei qui
person who lays
agit
charges
semper liber always free Motto of the city of Victoria, British Columbia
Motto of several institutions, e.g. United States Coast
semper paratus always prepared
Guard
semper primus always first Motto of several US military units
Motto of the island of Sint Maarten, of King City
semper always
Secondary School in King City, Ontario, Canada and
progrediens progressing
of Fairfax High School (Fairfax, Virginia)
A phrase deriving from the Nadere
Reformatie movement in the seventeenth
century Dutch Reformed Church and widely but
informally used
always in need in Reformed and Presbyterian churches today. It refers
semper
of being to the conviction of certain
reformanda
reformed Reformed Protestant theologians that the church must
continually re-examine itself in order to maintain its
purity of doctrine and practice. The term first appeared
in print in Jodocus van Lodenstein, Beschouwinge van
Zion (Contemplation of Zion), Amsterdam, 1674.[105]
semper sursum always aim high Motto of Barrow-in-Furness, England. Motto of St.
Stephen School, Chandigarh, India. Motto of St.
Joseph's College, Allahabad, India. Motto of
Palmerston North Girls' High School, Palmerston
North, New Zealand. Motto of Vancouver Technical
 Secondary School, Vancouver, British Columbia,
Canada. Motto of 865 Dartmouth Kiwanis Royal
Canadian Air Cadet Squadron, Dartmouth, Nova
Scotia, Canada.
Motto of several institutions including the US Air
Force Auxiliary (Civil Air Patrol), the city of San
semper vigilans always vigilant
Diego, California, and the Providence, Rhode Island
Police Department.
semper vigilo always vigilant The motto of the Scottish Police Forces, Scotland.
The official name of the Roman Republic. "SPQR" was
Senatus The Senate and
carried on battle standards by the Roman legions. In
Populusque the People of
addition to being an ancient Roman motto, it remains
Romanus (SPQR) Rome
the motto of the modern city of Rome.
with the broad,
sensu lato or general, Less literally, "in the wide sense".
meaning
sensu stricto cf. "with the tight
Less literally, "in the strict sense".
stricto sensu meaning"
in the fuller In biblical exegesis, the deeper meaning intended by
sensus plenior
meaning God, not intended by the human author.
In an effort to understand why things may be
happening contrary to expectations, or even in
alignment with them, this idiom suggests that keeping
follow the track of where money is going may show the basis for
sequere pecuniam
money the observed behavior. Similar in spirit to the
phrase cui bono (who gains?) or cui prodest (who
advances?), but outside those phrases' historically legal
context.
Sermo Tuus Thy Word Is motto of the General Theological Seminary, Cornelius
Veritas Est Truth Fontem Esua
those who are
sero venientes
late are poorly
male sedentes
seated
sero venientibus those who are
ossa late get bones
Keeper of the
servabo fidem I will keep the faith.
faith
The answer of St. Michael the Archangel to the non
serviam, "I will not serve" of Satan, when the angels
serviam I will serve
were tested by God on whether they will serve an
inferior being, a man, Jesus, as their Lord.
servus servorum servant of the
A title for the Pope.
Dei servants of God
From Horace's Ars Poetica, "proicit ampullas et
words sesquipedalia verba" ("he throws down his high-flown
sesquipedalia
a foot and a half language and his foot-and-a-half-long words"). A self-
verba
long referential jab at long words and needlessly elaborate
language in general.
Si comprehendis if you Augustine of Hippo, Sermo 117.3.5; PL 38, 663
[,] non est Deus understand
 [something], it
is not God
si dormiam If I sleep, I may
Motto of HMS Wakeful (H88)
capiar be caught
Si monumentum If you seek (his)
from the epitaph on Christopher Wren's tomb in St
requiris monument, look
Paul's Cathedral.
circumspice around you
If you can't
Si non oscillas, Inscribed on a plaque above the front door of the
swing, don't
noli tintinnare Playboy mansion in Chicago.
ring
si omnes... ego if all ones... not
non I
if we deny
From Christopher Marlowe's The Tragical History of
si peccasse having made a
Doctor Faustus, where the phrase is translated "if we
negamus fallimur mistake, we are
say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and
et nulla est in deceived, and
there's no truth in us." (cf. 1 John 1:8 in the New
nobis veritas there's no truth
Testament)
in us
si quaeris if you seek a Said to have been based on the tribute to
peninsulam delightful architect Christopher Wren in St Paul's Cathedral,
amoenam peninsula, look London: si monumentum requiris, circumspice (see
circumspice around above). State motto of Michigan, adopted in 1835.
si quid novisti if you can better
rectius istis, these principles,
candidus imperti; tell me; if not, Horace, Epistles I :6, 67–68
si nil, his utere join me in
mecum. following them
This quote is often attributed to the Latin philosopher
Boethius of the late fifth and early sixth centuries. It
If you had kept translates literally as, "If you had been silent, you
si tacuisses, your silence, would have remained a philosopher." The phrase
philosophus you would have illustrates a common use of the subjunctive verb mood.
mansisses stayed a Among other functions it expresses actions contrary to
philosopher fact. Sir Humphrey Appleby translated it to the PM as:
"If you'd kept your mouth shut we might have thought
you were clever."
A common beginning for ancient Roman letters. An
abbreviation of si vales bene est ego valeo,
si vales if you are well,
alternatively written as SVBEEV. The practice fell out
valeo (SVV) I am well (abbr)
of fashion and into obscurity with the decline in Latin
literacy.
This is often attributed to the Roman
If you want to
si vis amari ama philosopher Seneca, found in the sixth of his letters to
be loved, love
Lucilius.
From Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus, De Re
Militari. Origin of the name parabellum for
if you want
si vis pacem, para some ammunition and firearms, such as the Luger
peace, prepare
bellum Parabellum. (Similar to igitur qui desiderat pacem,
for war
praeparet bellum and in pace ut sapiens aptarit idonea
bello.)
sic thus Or "just so". States that the preceding quoted material
 appears exactly that way in the source, despite any
errors of spelling, grammar, usage, or fact that may be
present. Used only for previous quoted text; ita or
similar must be used to mean "thus" when referring to
something about to be stated.
More specifically, So run, that ye may obtain, 1
sic currite ut
Run to win Corinthians 24. Motto of Divine Word
comprehendatis
University, Madang, Papua New Guinea.
sic et non thus and not More simply, "yes and no".
we gladly feast
sic gorgiamus
on those who
allos subjectatos Mock-Latin motto of The Addams Family.
would subdue
nunc
us
sic infit so it begins
From Virgil, Aeneid book IX, line 641. Possibly the
thus you shall
sic itur ad astra source of the ad astra phrases. Motto of several
go to the stars
institutions, including the Royal Canadian Air Force.
greatness from
sic parvis magna small Motto of Sir Francis Drake
beginnings
Thus here and
sic passim Used when referencing books; see passim.
there
Thus has it
sic semper erat, et always been,
sic semper erit and thus shall it
ever be
Attributed to Brutus at the time of Julius Caesar's
thus assassination and to John Wilkes Booth at the time
sic semper
always to tyrant of Abraham Lincoln's assassination; whether it was
tyrannis
s actually said at either of these events is disputed. State
motto of Virginia, adopted in 1776.
A reminder that all things are fleeting. During Papal
coronations, a monk reminds the Pope of his mortality
by saying this phrase, preceded by pater sancte ("holy
thus passes the
sic transit gloria father") while holding before his eyes a burning paper
glory of the
mundi illustrating the passing nature of earthly glories. This is
world
similar to the tradition of a slave in a Roman
triumphs whispering memento mori in the ear of the
celebrant.
use [what is] Or "use your property in such a way that you do not
sic utere tuo ut
yours so as not damage others'". A legal maxim related to property
alienum non
to harm [what ownership laws, often shortened to simply sic
laedas
is] of others utere ("use it thus").
Or "such is life". Indicates that a circumstance, whether
sic vita est thus is life
good or bad, is an inherent aspect of living.
Though the
constellations
sidere mens
change, the Latin motto of the University of Sydney.
eadem mutato
mind is
universal
signetur (sig) or (S/ let it be labeled Medical shorthand
)
Sign of the Motto of the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian
signum fidei
Faith Schools.
Latinization of the English expression "silence is
silentium est silence is
golden". Also Latinized as silentium est
aureum golden
aurum ("silence is gold").
similar things
are taken care of "like cures like" and "let like be cured by like"; the first
similia similibus by similar form ("curantur") is indicative, while the second form
curantur things ("curentur") is subjunctive. The indicative form is
found in Paracelsus (16th century), while the
similia similibus let similar subjunctive form is said by Samuel Hahnemann,
curentur things be taken founder of homeopathy, and is known as the law of
care of by similars.
similar things
similar
Used as a general rule in chemistry; "like dissolves
similia similibus substances will
like" refers to the ability of polar or non polar solvents
solvuntur dissolve similar
to dissolve polar or non polar solutes respectively.[106]
substances
simplex sigillum simplicity is the
expresses a sentiment akin to Keep It Simple, Stupid
veri sign of truth
sincere et sincere and
Motto of the Order of the Red Eagle
constanter constant
Used in bibliographies to indicate that the date of
sine anno (s.a.) without a year
publication of a document is unknown.
Originally from old common law texts, where it
indicates that a final, dispositive order has been made
in the case. In modern legal context, it means there is
sine die without a day
nothing left for the court to do, so no date for further
proceedings is set, resulting in an "adjournment sine
die".
without anger
sine ira et studio Thus, impartially. From Tacitus, Annals 1.1.
and fondness
without
sine honoris titulo Addressing oneself to someone whose title is unknown.
honorary title
without labour
sine labore non
there will be no
erit panis in ore
bread in mouth
Used in bibliographies to indicate that the place of
sine loco (s.l.) without a place
publication of a document is unknown.
sine metu "without fear" Motto of Jameson Irish Whiskey
"without a Used in bibliographies to indicate that the publisher of
sine nomine (s.n.)
name" a document is unknown.
Without
sine poena nulla Refers to the ineffectiveness of a law without the
penalty, there is
lex means of enforcement
no law
sine prole Without Frequently abbreviated to "s.p." or "d.s.p." (decessit
offspring sine prole – "died without offspring") in genealogical
 works.
Without
sine prole
surviving Without surviving offspring (even in abstract terms)
superstite
children
sine timore aut Without Fear or St.George's School, Vancouver, British Columbia,
favore Favor Canada motto
without which Used to denote something that is an essential part of
sine qua non
not the whole. See also condicio sine qua non.
without
sine remediis
remedies Inscription on a stained glass in the conference hall of a
medicina debilis
medicine is pharmaceutical mill in Kaunas, Lithuania.
est
powerless
without
sine scientia ars Motto of The International Diving Society, and motto
knowledge, skill
nihil est of Oxford University Medical Students' Society
is nothing
I cease the Phrase, used to cease the activities of the Sejm upon
sisto activitatem
activity the liberum veto principle
may it be
sit nomine digna worthy of the Motto of Rhodesia
name
let honour Motto of the Brisbane Boys' College (Brisbane,
sit sine labe decus
stainless be Australia).
may the earth Commonly used on gravestones, often contracted as
sit tibi terra levis
be light to you S.T.T.L., the same way as today's R.I.P.
may there be
sit venia verbo forgiveness for Similar to the English idiom "pardon my French".
the word
sol iustitiae sun of justice,
Motto of Utrecht University.
illustra nos shine upon us
the sun shines
sol lucet omnibus Petronius, Satyricon Lybri 100.
on everyone
the sun rules
sol omnia regit Inscription near the entrance to Frombork Museum
over everything
The material principle of the Protestant
Reformation and one of the five solas, referring to the
sola fide by faith alone
Protestant claim that the Bible teaches that men
are saved by faith even without works.
It is credited to Paracelsus who expressed the classic
sola dosis facit the dose makes toxicology maxim "All things are poison and nothing is
venemum the poison without poison; only the dose makes a thing not a
poison."
A motto of the Protestant Reformation and one of
the five solas, referring to the Protestant claim
sola gratia by grace alone
that salvation is an unearned gift (cf. ex gratia), not a
direct result of merit.
the only good
sola lingua bona
language is a Example of dog Latin humor.
est lingua mortua
dead language
 The formal principle of the Protestant Reformation and
by scripture one of the five solas, referring to the Protestant idea
sola scriptura
alone that the Bible alone is the ultimate authority, not
the Pope or tradition.
sola nobilitat virtue alone
virtus ennobles
solamen miseris
misery loves From Christopher Marlowe's The Tragical History of
socios habuisse
company Doctor Faustus.
doloris
A motto of the Protestant Reformation and one of
the five solas, referring to the idea that God is the
creator of all good things and deserves all the praise for
soli Deo glory to God them. Johann Sebastian Bach often signed his
gloria (S.D.G.) alone manuscripts with the abbreviation S.D.G. to invoke this
phrase, as well as with AMDG (ad maiorem Dei
gloriam). The motto of the MasterWorks Festival, an
annual Christian performing arts festival.
A motto of the Protestant Reformation and one of
the five solas, referring to the Protestant claim that the
solus Christus Christ alone Bible teaches that Jesus is the only mediator between
God and mankind. Also rendered solo Christo ("by
Christ alone").
solus ipse I alone
solvitur it is solved by The problem is solved by taking a walk, or by simple
ambulando walking experiment.
your lot is cast
Spartam nactus from Euripides's Telephus, Agamemnon to Menelaus.
in Sparta, be a
es; hanc exorna [107]
credit to it
specialia
special departs
generalibus
from general
derogant
species nova new species Used in biological taxonomy
speculum mirror of
speculorum mirrors
the hope of the
spem gregis from Virgil's Eclogues
flock
he has restored
spem reduxit Motto of New Brunswick.
hope
I hope for better
spero meliora
things
spes bona good hope Motto of University of Cape Town.
Refers to Revelation 3:21, "To him that overcometh
hope conquers will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also
spes vincit
(overcomes) the overcame, and am set down with my Father in his
thronum
throne throne." On the John Winthrop family tombstone,
Boston, Massachusetts.
spiritus mundi spirit of the From The Second Coming (poem) by William Butler
world Yeats. Refers to Yeats' belief that each human mind is
linked to a single vast intelligence, and that this
 intelligence causes certain universal symbols to appear
in individual minds. The idea is similar to Carl Jung's
concept of the collective unconscious.
Refers to The Gospel of Saint John 3:8, where he
mentions how Jesus told Nicodemus "The wind blows
the spirit
wherever it wants, and even though you can hear its
spiritus ubi vult spreads
noise, you don't know where it comes from or where it
spirat wherever it
goes. The same thing happens to whomever has been
wants
born of the Spirit." It is the motto of Cayetano Heredia
University[108]
Loosely "splendour without diminishment" or
splendor sine brightness
"magnificence without ruin". Motto of British
occasu without setting
Columbia.
The motto of the Jungle Patrol in The Phantom. The
phrase actually violates Latin grammar because of a
stamus contra we stand against mistranslation from English, as the
malo by evil preposition contra takes the accusative case. The
correct Latin rendering of "we stand against evil"
would be "stamus contra malum".
with a standing
stante pede "Immediately".
foot
to stand by the
stare decisis To uphold previous rulings, recognize precedent.
decided things
There is a day
stat sua cuique
[turn] for Virgil, Aeneid, X 467
dies
everybody
statim (stat) "immediately" Medical shorthand used following an urgent request.[109]
Motto of Cork City, Ireland. Adapted
statio bene fide A safe harbour from Virgil's Aeneid (II, 23: statio male fida carinis,
carinis for ships "an unsafe harbour") but corrupted for unknown
reasons to "fide".
The current condition or situation. Also status quo
the situation in ante ("the situation in which [things were] before"),
status quo
which referring to the state of affairs prior to some upsetting
event (cf. reset button technique).
status quo ante the state before
A common term in peace treaties.
bellum the war
Marginal mark in proofreading to indicate that
stet let it stand something previously deleted or marked for deletion
should be retained.
let the fortune First part of the motto of Harrow School, England, and
stet fortuna
of the house inscribed upon Ricketts House, at the California
domus
stand Institute of Technology.
From Christopher Marlowe's The Tragical History of
stipendium the reward of Doctor Faustus. (See Rom 6:23, "For the wages of sin
peccati mors est sin is death is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ
Jesus our Lord.")
strenuis ardua the heights yield
Motto of the University of Southampton.
cedunt to endeavour
stricto sensu cf. with the tight Less literally, "in the strict sense".
sensu stricto meaning
A title given to Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor.
the wonder of More literally translated "the bewilderment of the
stupor mundi
the world world", or, in its original, pre-Medieval sense, "the
stupidity of the world".
Legal term when a court takes up a motion on its own
by its own initiative, not because any of the parties to the case has
sua sponte
accord made the motion. The regimental motto of the 75th
Ranger Regiment of the U.S. Army.
Commonly abbreviated sa, it is used in citing annals,
sub anno under the year
which record events by year.
Motto of the University of Adelaide, Australia. Refers
The Light
sub cruce lumen to the figurative "light of learning" and the Southern
Under the Cross
Cross constellation, Crux.
Also, "under the sky", "in the open air", "out in the
under the wide open" or "outdoors". Ablative "divo" does not
sub divo
open sky distinguish divus, divi, a god, from divum, divi, the
sky.
Used in citations to refer to the end of a book, page,
sub finem toward the end etc., and abbreviated 's.f.' Used after the page number
or title. E.g., 'p. 20 s.f. '
under cold
sub Iove frigido At night; from Horace's Odes 1.1:25
Jupiter
Said of a case that cannot be publicly discussed until it
sub judice under a judge
is finished. Also sub iudice.
Commonly rendered subpoena. Said of a request,
usually by a court, that must be complied with on pain
of punishment. Examples include subpoena duces
tecum ("take with you under penalty"), a
sub poena under penalty
court summons to appear and produce tangible
evidence, and subpoena ad testificandum ("under
penalty to testify"), a summons to appear and give oral
testimony.
"In secret", "privately", "confidentially", or "covertly".
In the Middle Ages, a rose was suspended from the
ceiling of a council chamber to indicate that what was
said in the "under the rose" was not to be repeated
outside. This practice originates in Greek mythology,
sub rosa under the rose
where Aphrodite gave a rose to her son Eros, and he, in
turn, gave it to Harpocrates, the god of silence, to
ensure that his mother's indiscretions—or those of the
gods in general, in other accounts—were kept under
wraps.
"in the name of", "under the title of"; used in legal
sub nomine (sub under the name citations to indicate the name under which the litigation
nom.)
continued.
sub silentio under silence implied but not expressly stated.
sub specie under the sight Thus, "from eternity's point of view".
aeternitatis of eternity From Spinoza, Ethics.
sub specie Dei under the sight "from God's point of view or perspective".
 of God
Name of the oldest extant hymn to
sub tuum Beneath thy
the Theotokos (Blessed Virgin Mary). Also "under
praesidium compassion
your protection". A popular school motto.
Under the shade National Motto of Belize, referring to the shade of
Sub umbra floreo
I flourish the mahogany tree.
sub verbo; sub Under the word or heading, as in a dictionary;
voce abbreviated s.v.
Raised from the Motto of King Edward VII and Queen Mary School,
sublimis ab unda
waves Lytham
subsiste stop speaking
sermonem statim immediately
Cut down, we
Succisa virescit grow back Motto of Delbarton School
stronger
One doesn't sing
Sudetia non
on the Sudeten Saying from Hanakia
cantat
Mountains
sui generis Of its own kind In a class of its own.
Of one's own Capable of responsibility. Has both legal and
sui iuris
right ecclesiastical use. Commonly rendered sui juris.
A gravestone inscription to remind the reader of the
I am what you inevitability of death (cf. memento mori). Also
sum quod eris
will be rendered fui quod sis ("I have been what you are")
and tu fui ego eris ("I have been you, you will be I").
sum quod sum I am what I am from Augustine's Sermon No. 76.[110]
with highest
summa cum laude
praise
sum or totality It refers to the final authority of power in government.
summa potestas
of power For example, power of the Sovereign.
summa Literally "sum of sums". When a short conclusion is
all in all
summarum rounded up at the end of some elaboration.
the supreme Literally "highest good". Also summum malum ("the
summum bonum
good supreme evil").
From Cicero (De officiis, I, 10, 33). An acritical
application of law, without understanding and respect
of laws's purposes and without considering the overall
supreme law,
summum ius, circumstances, is often a means of supreme injustice. A
supreme
summa iniuria similar sentence appears
injustice
in Terence (Heautontimorumenos, IV, 5): Ius
summum saepe summa est malitia ("supreme justice
is often out of supreme malice (or wickedness)").
published [cost Found in self-published academic books of the 17th to
sumptibus
of printing paid] 19th century. Often preceded by Latin name of city in
auctoris
by author which the work is published.
sunt lacrimae there are tears From Virgil, Aeneid. Followed by et mentem mortalia
rerum for things tangunt ("and mortal things touch my
mind"). Aeneas cries as he sees Carthaginian temple
 murals depicting the deaths of the Trojan War. See
also hinc illae lacrimae.
sunt omnes unum they are all one
Children are
sunt pueri pueri,
children, and
pueri puerilia anonymous proverb
children do
tractant
childish things
Used in the context of titles of nobility, for instance
in one's own
suo jure where a wife may hold a title in her own right rather
right
than through her marriage.
Also rendered suo moto. Usually used when a court of
law, upon its own initiative, (i.e., no petition has been
upon one's own
suo motu filed) proceeds against a person or authority that it
initiative
deems has committed an illegal act. It is used chiefly
in South Asia.[citation needed]
Knowledge
suos cultores
crowns those The motto of Syracuse University, New York.
scientia coronat
who seek her
On the firm
super firmum
foundation of The motto of Ursinus College, Pennsylvania.
fundamentum dei
God
Where Thomas More accused the reformer, Martin
super fornicam on the lavatory
Luther, of going to celebrate Mass.
superbia in
pride in battle Motto of Manchester City F.C.
proelia
I surpass
supero omnia A declaration that one succeeds above all others.
everything
to belch before From Erasmus' collection of annotated Adagia (1508):
surdo oppedere
the deaf a useless action.
surgam I shall rise Motto of Columbia University's Philolexian Society.
Lift up your
sursum corda
hearts
Thus, don't offer your opinion on things that are
outside your competence. It is said that the Greek
painter Apelles once asked the advice of a cobbler on
Cobbler, no
sutor, ne ultra how to render the sandals of a soldier he was painting.
further than the
crepidam When the cobbler started offering advice on other parts
sandal!
of the painting, Apelles rebuked him with this phrase in
Greek, and it subsequently became a popular Latin
expression.
to render to
suum cuique One of Justinian I's three basic precepts of law. Also
every man his
tribuere shortened to suum cuique ("to each his own").
due
s.v. Abbreviation for sub verbo or sub voce (see above).

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Latin Translation Notes

tabula congratulatory
A list of congratulations.
gratulatoria tablet

Thus, "blank slate". Romans used to write on wax-

covered wooden tablets, which were erased by
tabula rasa scraped tablet scraping with the flat end of the stylus. John
Locke used the term to describe the human mind at
birth, before it had acquired any knowledge.

talis qualis just as such "Such as it is" or "as such".

taliter qualiter somewhat

from St Mark's gospel 10:14 "talium (parvuli) est

for of such (little enim regnum Dei"; similar in St
talium Dei
children) is the Matthew's gospel 19:14 "talium est enim regnum
regnum
kingdom of God caelorum" ("for of such is the kingdom of heaven");
motto of the Cathedral School, Townsville.

Said in 1697 by Johann Bernoulli about Isaac

tanquam ex we know the lion Newton's anonymously submitted solution to
ungue leonem by his claw Bernoulli's challenge regarding the Brachistochrone
curve.

tarde To the late are left

venientibus ossa the bones

Te occidere
They can kill you, The motto of the fictional Enfield Tennis Academy in
possunt sed te
but they cannot eat the David Foster Wallace novel Infinite Jest.
edere non
you, it is against Translated in the novel as "They can kill you, but the
possunt nefas
the law. legalities of eating you are quite a bit dicier".
est

technica Technology
Motto of Technical University of Madrid
impendi nationi impulses nations

temet nosce know thyself A reference to the Greek γνῶθι σεαυτόν (gnothi

seauton), inscribed on the pronaos of the Temple of
Apollo at Delphi, according to the Greek periegetic
 writer Pausanias (10.24.1). Rendered also with nosce
te ipsum, temet nosce ("thine own self know") appears
in The Matrix translated as "know thyself".

Literally "Heroic Times"; refers to the period between

tempora heroica Heroic Age the mythological Titanomachy and the (relatively)
historical Trojan War.

16th century variant of two classical lines of

tempora the times are
Ovid: tempora labuntur ("time labors", Fasti)
mutantur et nos changing, and we
and omnia mutantur ("everything
mutamur in illis change in them
changes", Metamorphoses). See entry for details.

Also "time, that devours all things", literally: "time,

tempus edax time, devourer of gluttonous of things", edax: adjectival form of the
rerum all things verb edo to eat. From Ovid, Metamorphoses, 15, 234-
236.

From Virgil's Georgics (Book III, line 284), where it

Time flees. appears as fugit inreparabile tempus. A
tempus fugit
Time flies. common sundial motto. See also tempus volat, hora
fugit below.

"Tempus Rerum Imperator" has been adopted by the

tempus rerum time, commander
Google Web Accelerator project. It is shown in the
imperator of all things
"About Google Web Accelerator" page.

tempus vernum spring time Name of song by popular Irish singer Enya

tempus volat, time flies, the hour

hora fugit flees

tendit in ardua virtue strives for

Appears in Ovid's Epistulae ex Ponto
virtus what is difficult

Suetonius attributes this to Julius Caesar, from when

teneo te Africa I hold you, Africa!
Caesar was on the African coast.

The way must be

tentanda via motto for York University
tried
ter in die (t.i.d.) thrice in a day Medical shorthand for "three times a day".

terminat hora The hour finishes

Phrase concluding Christopher Marlowe's play Doctor
diem; terminat the day; the author
Faustus.[111]
auctor opus. finishes his work.

In archaeology or history, refers to the date before

which an artefact or feature must have been deposited.
Used with terminus post quem (limit after which).
terminus ante
limit before which Similarly, terminus ad quem (limit to which) may also
quem
refer to the latest possible date of a non-punctual event
(period, era, etc.), while terminus a quo (limit from
which) may refer to the earliest such date.

terra australis unknown southern

First name used to refer to the Australian continent
incognita land

terra firma solid earth Often used to refer to the ground

terra incognita unknown land

Latin name of Newfoundland (island portion of

Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador,
terra nova new land
capital- St. John's), also root of French name of same,
Terre-Neuve

That is, no man's land. A neutral or uninhabited area,

terra nullius land of none or a land not under the sovereignty of any recognized
political entity.

Or "let them give light to the world". An allusion

to Isaiah 6.3: plena est omnis terra gloria eius ("the
whole earth is full of his glory"). Sometimes
mistranslated as "they will illuminate the lands" based
let them illuminate
terras irradient on mistaking irradiare for a future indicative third-
the lands
conjugation verb, whereas it is actually
a present subjunctive first-conjugation verb. Motto
of Amherst College; the college's original mission was
to educate young men to serve God.

tertium non no third A logical axiom that a claim is either true or false,
datur (possibility) is with no third option.
 given

1. Something that cannot be classified into either of

two groups considered exhaustive; an intermediate
tertium quid a third something
thing or factor. 2. A third person or thing of
indeterminate character.

testis unus, one witness is not A law principle expressing that a single witness is not
testis nullus a witness enough to corroborate a story.

textus receptus received text

Tibi cordi We consecrate to

The inscription found on top of the central door of the
immaculato your immaculate
Minor Basilica of the Immaculate Conception,
concredimus heart and entrust
otherwise known as the Manila Cathedral in the
nos ac to you (Mary) for
Philippines
consecramus safekeeping

Danaos being a term for the Greeks.

In Virgil's Aeneid, II, 49, the phrase is said
by Laocoön when warning his fellow Trojans against
accepting the Trojan Horse. The full original quote
timeo Danaos et I fear Greeks even
is quidquid id est timeo Danaos et dona
dona ferentes if they bring gifts
ferentis, quidquid id est meaning "whatever it is"
and ferentis being an archaic form of ferentes.
Commonly mistranslated "Beware of Greeks bearing
gifts".

timidi mater A coward's mother

proverb
non flet does not weep

Refrain originating in the response to the seventh

lesson in the Office of the Dead. In the Middle Ages,
timor mortis the fear of death
this service was read each day by clerics. As a refrain,
conturbat me confounds me
it appears also in other poems and can frequently be
found inscribed on tombs.

toto cælo by whole heaven as far apart as possible; utterly.

Offering one's life in total commitment to another. The

totus tuus totally yours motto was adopted by Pope John Paul II to signify his
love and servitude to Mary the Mother of Jesus.
 Literally "beneficial passage." Mentioned in "The
Seamy Side of History" (L'envers de l'histoire
transire to travel along
contemporaine, 1848), part of La Comédie humaine,
benefaciendo while doing good
by Honoré de Balzac, and Around the World in Eighty
Days by Jules Verne.

Used to express the belief in the transfer of imperial

translatio
transfer of rule authority from the Roman Empire of antiquity to the
imperii
Medieval Holy Roman Empire.

It takes three to have a valid group; three is the

tres faciunt three makes
minimum number of members for an organization or a
collegium company
corporation.

A decree by the medieval Church that all feuds should

be cancelled during the Sabbath—effectively from
treuga Dei Truce of God
Wednesday or Thursday night until Monday. See
also Peace and Truce of God.

tria juncta in Three joined in

Motto of the Order of the Bath
uno one

Triste est omne Every animal is

animal post sad after coitus
coitum, præter except the human
mulierem female and the
gallumque rooster

tu autem But Thou, O Lord, Phrase said at the end of biblical readings in the
Domine have mercy upon liturgy of the medieval church. Also used in brief, "tu
miserere nobis us autem", as a memento mori epitaph.

Defence of the
tuitio fidei et
faith and Motto of the Association of Canadian Knights of the
obsequium
assistance to the Sovereign and Military Order of Malta.[112]
pauperum
poor

Thus, "what you are, I was; what I am, you will be.".
I was you; you
tu fui ego eris A memento mori gravestone inscription to remind the
will be me
reader that death is unavoidable (cf. sum quod eris).

tu ne cede malis, you should not From Virgil, Aeneid, 6, 95. "Ne cede malis" is the
sed contra give in to evils,
 but proceed ever
audentior ito more boldly motto of The Bronx.
against them

The logical fallacy of attempting to defend one's

tu quoque you too position merely by pointing out the same weakness in
one's opponent.

tu stultus es you are stupid Motto for the satirical news organization, The Onion

Found on the Great Seal on the flag of the state

tuebor I will protect
of Michigan.

A tunic is closer to
tunica propior
the body than a
est pallio
cape

turris fortis God is my strong

Motto of the Kelly Clan
mihi Deus tower

tutum te robore I will give you

Motto of the Clan Crawford
reddam safety by strength

tuum est It's up to you Motto of the University of British Columbia

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Latin Translation Notes

Or "utmost good faith" (cf. bona fide). A legal maxim

uberrima most abundant
of insurance contracts requiring all parties to deal in good
fides faith
faith.

ubertas et fertility and

Motto of Tasmania.
fidelitas faithfulness

ubi amor, ibi where [there is]

dolor love, there [is]
 pain

where [it is] well,

ubi bene, ibi Or "Home is where it's good"; see also ubi panis ibi
there [is] the
patria patria.
fatherland

ubi caritas et where there is

amor, Deus charity and love,
ibi est God is there

where [there is]

ubi dubium,
doubt, there [is] Anonymous proverb.
ibi libertas
freedom

Where [there is] a

ubi jus, ibi
right, there [is] a
remedium
remedy

where [there is] Similar to "you catch more bees with honey than with
ubi mel, ibi
honey, there [are] vinegar"—treat people nicely and they will treat you
apes
bees nicely in return.

where [there is]

ubi libertas. Or "where there is liberty, there is my
liberty, there [is]
ibi patria country". Patriotic motto.
the fatherland

where you are

ubi nihil From the writings of the Flemish philosopher Arnold
worth nothing,
vales, ibi Geulincx; also quoted by Samuel Beckett in his first
there you will
nihil velis published novel, Murphy.
wish for nothing

Thus, there can be no judgment or case if no one charges

ubi non where [there is]
a defendant with a crime. The phrase is sometimes
accusator, ibi no accuser, there
parodied as "where there are no police, there is no speed
non iudex [is] no judge
limit".

where there is
ubi panis ibi
bread, there is my
patria
country
 where there is
ubi pus, ibi
pus, there
evacua
evacuate it

when, in a true Or "whereas, in reality..." Also rendered ubi,

ubi, re vera
thing revera ("when, in fact" or "when, actually").

ubi societas, if there's a society,

By Aristotle.
ibi ius law will be there

ubi
solitudinem They make a
from a speech by Calgacus reported/constructed
faciunt desert and call it
by Tacitus, Agricola, ch. 30.
pacem peace
appellant

Nostalgic theme of poems yearning for days gone by.

ubi sunt? where are they? From the line ubi sunt, qui ante nos fuerunt? ("Where are
they, those who have gone before us?").

Motto of the Royal Engineers, Royal Artillery and most

other Engineer or Artillery corps within the armies of the
British Commonwealth (for example, the Royal
Australian Engineers, Royal Canadian Engineers, Royal
New Zealand Engineers, Royal Canadian Artillery, Royal
ubique, quo everywhere, Australian Artillery, Royal New Zealand Artillery).
fas et gloria where right and Interunit rivalry often leads to the sarcastic translation
ducunt glory leads of ubique to mean all over the place in a derogative
sense.

Motto of the American Council on Foreign Relations,

where the translation of ubique is often given
as omnipresent, with the implication of pervasive hidden
influence.[113]

ultima ratio last method The last resort. Short form for the
the final argument metaphor "The Last Resort of
the last resort (as Kings and Common Men" referring
force) to the act of declaring war; used in
the names the French sniper
rifle PGM Ultima Ratio and the
fictional Reason weapon
system. Louis XIV of
France had Ultima Ratio
Regum ("last argument of kings")
cast on the cannons of his armies;
motto of the American 1st
Battalion 11th Marines; motto of
 the French Fourth Artillery
Regiment; motto of
Swedish Artilleriregementet. Also,
the Third Battery of the
French Third Marine Artillery
Regiment has the motto Ultima
Ratio Tribuni.
Used in formal correspondence to refer to the previous
ultimo
in the last month month. Used with inst. ("this month") and prox. ("next
mense (ult.)
month").
"Without authority". Used to describe an action done
without proper authority, or acting without the rules. The
ultra vires beyond powers
term will most often be used in connection with appeals
and petitions.
No one is
ultra posse
obligated beyond
nemo
what he is able to
obligatur
do.
From Gerhard Gerhards' (1466–1536) [better known as
Erasmus] collection of annotated Adagia (1508). Latin
ululas (to send) owls to
translation of a classical Greek proverb. Generally means
Athenas Athens
putting large effort in a necessarily fruitless enterprise.
Compare "selling coal to Newcastle".
A single example of something positive does not
una hirundo one swallow does
necessarily mean that all subsequent similar instances will
non facit ver not make summer
have the same outcome.
Less literally, "the only safe bet for the vanquished is to
expect no safety". Preceded by moriamur et in media
una salus the only safety for arma ruamus ("let us die even as we rush into the midst of
victis nullam the conquered is battle") in Virgil's Aeneid, book 2, lines 353–354. Used
sperare to hope for no in Tom Clancy's novel Without Remorse, where
salutem safety character John Clark translates it as "the one hope of the
doomed is not to hope for safety". It was said several
times in "Andromeda" as the motto of the SOF units.
unitas, unity, justice,
Motto of Vilnius.
iustitia, spes hope
unitas per unity through
Motto for the St. Xavier's Institution Board of Librarians.
servitiam service
uniti
united we build Motto of the Mississippi Makerspace Community
aedificamus
Used in criticism of inconsistent pleadings, i.e. "one
uno flatu in one breath cannot argue uno flatu both that the company does not
exist and that it is also responsible for the wrong."
uno sumus
we are one of soul Motto of Stedelijk Gymnasium Leiden
animo
unus
one of many An average person.
multorum
Unus papa One pope in Motto of the Czech Brewery in Rakovník.[114]
Romae, unus Rome, one port in
portus Ancona, one
Anconae, tower in
una turris
Cremonae, Cremona, one
una ceres beer in Rakovník
Raconae
to the city and the Meaning "To Rome and the World". A standard opening
Urbi et Orbi circle [of the of Roman proclamations. Also a traditional blessing by
lands] the pope.
urbs in horto city in a garden Motto of the City of Chicago.
usque ad Often used in reference to battle, implying a willingness
to the very end
finem to keep fighting until you die.
usus est
practice is the best In other words, practice makes perfect. Also sometimes
magister
teacher. translated "use makes master."
optimus
ut aquila
As an eagle
versus Motto of the Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine
towards the sky
coelum
Also rendered with quando ("when") in place of quoniam.
From a book by Suetonius (Vit. Tib., 2.2) and Cicero (De
Natura Deorum, 2.3). The phrase was said by Roman
ut biberent so that they might admiral Publius Claudius Pulcher right before the battle of
quoniam esse drink, since they Drepana, as he threw overboard the sacred chickens
nollent refused to eat which had refused to eat the grain offered them—an
unwelcome omen of bad luck. Thus, the sense is, "if they
do not perform as expected, they must suffer the
consequences". He lost the battle disastrously.
ut so that they may
Motto of Boston College High School.
cognoscant te know You.
though the power
ut desint
be lacking, the
vires, tamen
will is to be From Ovid, Epistulae ex Ponto (III, 4, 79).
est laudanda
praised all the
voluntas
same
as has been said;
ut dicitur
as above
ut incepit as she began
Poetically, "Loyal she began, loyal she remains." Motto
fidelis sic loyal, so she
of Ontario.
permanet persists
ut infra as below
ut in
that in all things,
omnibus
God may be Motto of the Order of Saint Benedict
glorificetur
glorified
Deus.
ut mare quod to sea and into
Motto of USNS Washington Chambers
ut ventus wind
ut omnes te that all may know
Motto of Niagara University
cognoscant you
ut omnes That they all may
Motto of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany
unum sint be one
ut prosim that I may serve Motto of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State
 University
ut
proverbium you know what
Lit: As the old proverb says...
loquitur they say...
vetus...
ut res magis that the matter
valeat quam may have effect
pereat rather than fail[115]
Or "as on the back side"; thus, "as on the previous page"
ut retro as backwards
(cf. ut supra).
ut Roma as Rome falls, so
cadit, sic [falls] the whole
omnis terra world
A traditional brocard. The full form is Interest reipublicae
so there might be
ut sit finis ut sit finis litium, "it is in the government's interest that
an end of
litium there be an end to litigation." Often quoted in the context
litigation
of statutes of limitation.
ut supra as above
Robert Hooke's expression of his discovery of his law of
ut tensio sic as the extension, linear elasticity. Also: Motto of École Polytechnique de
vis so the force Montréal. Motto of the British Watch and Clockmaker's
Guild.
utilis in usefulness in Comes from 2 Timothy 4:11. Motto of Camberwell Girls
ministerium service Grammar School.
Also translated as "that the two may be one." Motto found
in 18th century Spanish dollar coins. Motto
utraque
both into one of Georgetown University.From the Vulgate, Eph.
unum
2:14, Ipse enim est pax nostra, qui fecit utraque unum,
"For he is our peace, who hath made both one."
utrinque Motto of The British Parachute Regiment. Motto of the
ready for anything
paratus Belize National Coast Guard.

V[edit]

Latin Translation Notes

vacate et scire Be still and know. Motto of the University of Sussex

From the Vulgate, Proverbs 6:6. The full

vade ad formicam go to the ant quotation translates as "Go to the ant, you
sluggard; consider its ways and be wise!"[Pro 6:6]

A vade-mecum or vademecum is an item one

vade mecum go with me
carries around, especially a handbook.
 An exhortation to Satan to be gone, often
a Roman Catholic response to temptation. From
a popular Medieval Roman
Catholic exorcism formula, derived from the
vade retro Satana go back, Satan rebuke of Jesus Christ to St. Peter, as quoted in
the Vulgate, Mark 8:33: vade retro me
Satana ("get behind Me, Satan").[Mark 8:33] The
phrase "vade retro" ("go back") is also
in Terence's Formio, I, 4, 203.

strongly and
valenter volenter Motto of HMS Valorous (L00)
willingly

Attributed by Livy to Brennus, the chief of

the Gauls, stated with his demand for more gold
vae victis woe to the conquered
from the citizens of the sacked city of Rome in
390 BC.

vanitas vanitatum vanity of vanities; Or more simply: "vanity, vanity, everything

omnia vanitas everything [is] vanity vanity". From the Vulgate, Ecclesiastes 1:2;12:8.

A purported prediction stated as if it was made

vaticinium ex prophecy from the
before the event it describes, while in fact being
eventu event
made thereafter.

Summary of alternatives, e. g., "this action turns

vel non or not upon whether the claimant was the deceased's
grandson vel non."

Non-literally, "where there is a will, there is a

to be willing is to be way". It is the motto of Hillfield, one of the
velle est posse
able founding schools of Hillfield Strathallan
College.

Rendered by Robert Graves in I, Claudius as "as

quick as boiled asparagus". Ascribed
velocius quam faster to Augustus by Suetonius in The Twelve
asparagi than asparagus can Caesars, Book 2 (Augustus), para. 87. It refers
coquantur be cooked to anything done very quickly. A very common
variant is celerius quam asparagi
cocuntur ("faster than asparagus  [is]  cooked").

velut arbor aevo as a tree with the Motto of the University of Toronto, Canada
 passage of time

The message supposedly sent by Julius Caesar to

I came, I saw, I the Roman Senate to describe his battle
veni, vidi, vici
conquered against King Pharnaces II of Pontus near Zela in
47 BC.

venturis ventis to the coming winds Motto of Brasília, the capital of Brazil

vera causa true cause

verba docent words instruct, This refers to the relevance of illustrations, for
exempla trahunt illustrations lead example in preaching.

Taking the words out of someone's mouth,

verba ex ore words from mouth speaking exactly what the other colloquist
wanted to say.

words are to be
verba ita sunt
understood such that
intelligenda ut res I. e., when explaining a subject, it is important to
the subject matter
magis valeat quam clarify rather than confuse.
may be more
pereat
effective than wasted

not to speak words in

verba vana aut A Roman Catholic religious precept, being Rule
vain or to start
risui non loqui 56 of the Rule of Saint Benedict.
laughter

verba volant, words fly away, Quotation from a famous speech of Caius Titus
scripta manent writings remain in the ancient Roman Senate.

The phrase refers to perfect transcription or

verbatim word for word
quotation.

verbatim et word for word and

literatim letter by letter

Verbi Divini servant of the Divine A phrase denoting a priest. Cf. "Verbum
minister Word Dei" infra.
verbi gratia for example Literally, "for the sake of a word".
(v. gr. or v. g.)

Verbum Dei Word of God See religious text.

verbum Domini The word of the Lord

lucerna pedibus [is] a light for our Motto of the University of Groningen
nostris feet

verbum Domini
the word of the Lord
manet in Motto of the Lutheran Reformation
endures forever
aeternum (VDMA)

A phrase denoting that the listener can fill in the

verb. sap. a word to the wise [is
omitted remainder, or enough is said. It is the
verbum sap. sufficient]
truncation of "verbum sapienti sat[is] est".

A word that floats in the air, on which everyone

verbum volitans flying word is thinking and is just about to be imposed.[citation
needed]

veritas truth Motto many educational institutions

veritas aequitas truth [and] justice

veritas, bonitas,
truth, goodness,
pulchritudo, Motto of Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan
beauty, [and] sanctity
sanctitas

The de iure motto of Harvard University, United

veritas Christo et truth for Christ and States, which dates to its foundation; it is often
ecclesiae church shortened to veritas to remove its original
religious meaning.

veritas cum
truth with liberty Motto of Winthrop University
libertate

Motto of Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate

veritas curat truth cures
Medical Education and Research
 the truth of God
veritas Dei vincit Motto of the Hussites
conquers

veritas Domini the truth of the Lord

manet in aeternum remains for eternity

One of the mottos of the Lyceum of the

veritas et fortitudo truth and fortitude
Philippines University

Motto of the University of Pittsburgh, Methodist

veritas et virtus truth and virtue
University, and Mississippi College

veritas, fides, truth, faith, [and]

Motto of Dowling Catholic High School
sapientia wisdom

Motto of Bishop Wordsworth's School and St

veritas in caritate truth in charity
Munchin's College

veritas, iustitia, truth, justice, [and]

Motto of the Free University of Berlin
libertas liberty

veritas liberabit truth shall liberate Motto of Xavier University – Ateneo de

vos you Cagayan

A common, non-literal translation is "truth

veritas lux mea truth [is] my light enlightens me"; motto of Seoul National
University, South Korea

veritas numquam
truth never expires by Seneca the Younger
perit

veritas odit moras truth hates delay by Seneca the Younger

veritas omnia A quotation from a letter of Jan Hus; frequently

truth conquers all
vincit used as a motto
veritas, unitas, truth, unity, [and]
Motto of Villanova University, United States
caritas love

Cf. "veritas omnia vincit" supra. Motto on

the standard of the presidents
veritas vincit truth conquers
of Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic, and
of the Scottish Clan Keith

Veritas. Virtus. Truth. Virtue.

Motto of the University of Szeged, Hungary
Libertas. Liberty.

Another plausible translation is "truth is the

veritas vitæ truth is the teacher of mistress of life". It is the unofficial motto of
magistra life the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras and is
inscribed in its tower.

veritas vos truth will liberate you Motto of Johns Hopkins University, United
liberabit [all] States

veritate duce advancing with truth Motto of the University of Arkansas, United

progredi leading States

[in] veritate et Motto of Catholic Junior College, Singapore; St.

in truth and charity
caritate Xavier's School, and Hazaribagh, India

Motto of Sydney Boys High School. It is

alternatively rendered "virtute et veritate" ("with
veritate et virtute with truth and virtue virtue and truth"), which is the motto of Walford
Anglican School for Girls and Pocklington
School.

Alternatively, "I loved truth"; motto of Bryn

veritatem dilexi I esteemed truth
Mawr College

veritatem fratribus to bear witness to

Motto of Xaverian Brothers High School
testari truth in fraternity

veritatem Motto of the Clandestine Service of the United

to know truth
cognoscere States Central Intelligence Agency
 nothing [is] truer
vero nihil verius Motto of Mentone Girls' Grammar School
than truth

A variation of the campaign slogan of then-

Senator Barack Obama, which was
vero possumus yes, we can superimposed on a variation of the Great Seal of
the United States during the US presidential
campaign of 2008.[116]

Literally, "in the direction [of]". It is erroneously

used in English for "against", probably as the
versus (vs) or (v.) towards truncation of "adversus", especially in reference
to two opponents, e. g., the parties to litigation or
a sports match.

vestigia nulla Never a backward

Motto of Wanganui Collegiate School
retrorsum step

The word denotes the right to unilaterally forbid

or void a specific proposal,
veto I forbid
especially legislation. It is derived from
ancient Roman voting procedures.

Latin legal phrase denoting a question that is

often debated or considered, but is not generally
vexata quaestio vexed question
settled, such that contrary answers may be held
by different persons.

Authored by Dante Alighieri in Canto

XXXIV of the Inferno, the phrase is an allusion
vexilla regis forth go the banners
to and play upon the Latin Easter hymn Vexilla
prodeunt inferni of the king of Hell
Regis. The phrase is repeatedly referenced in the
works of Walter M. Miller, Jr..

A legal phrase regarding contracts that indicates

vi coactus under constraint
agreement made under duress.

Alternatively, "strength and courage"; motto of

vi et animo with heart and soul
the Ascham School

vi veri universum by the power of truth, Magickal motto of Aleister Crowley.

vivus vici I, while living, have
conquered the
 universe

The word denotes "by way of" or "by means of",

via by the road/way
e. g., "I will contact you via email".

This phrase describes a compromise between

via media middle road/way two extremes or the radical center political
position.

the Way, the Truth, Words of Jesus Christ in John 14:6; motto of

via, veritas, vita
[and] the Life many institutions

viam sapientiae I will show you the

Motto of DePaul University
monstrabo tibi way of wisdom

The word refers to one who acts in the place of

another. It is used as a separate word or as a
vice in place of
hyphenated prefix, e. g., "Vice President" and
"Vice-Chancellor".

For other uses, see Vice Versa

(disambiguation).

Thus, "the other way around", "conversely", et

cetera. Historically and in British
vice versa English, vice is pronounced as two syllables, but
with position turned
versa vice in American English the singular syllable
pronunciation is almost universal. Classical
Latin pronunciation dictates that the letter "c" is
only a hard sound, like "k". Moreover, the letter
"v", when consonantal, represents /w/;
hence WEE-keh  WEHR-sah.[117]

victoria aut mors victory or death Similar to "aut vincere aut mori".

victoria concordia victory comes from

Motto of Arsenal F.C.
crescit harmony

the victorious cause Authored by Lucan in Pharsalia, 1, 128. The

victrix causa diis
pleased the gods, but dedicatory inscription on the south face of the
placuit sed victa
the conquered cause Confederate Memorial in Arlington National
Catoni
pleased Cato Cemetery, Virginia, United States.
vide "see" or "refer to" The word is used in scholarly citations.

vide infra (v. i.) see below The word is used in scholarly works.

The word is used in scholarly works to refer to

vide supra (v. s.) see above previous text in the same document. It is
sometimes truncated to "supra".

"namely", "that is to A contraction of "videre licet" ("it is permitted to

videlicet (viz.)
say", or "as follows" see"), vide infra.

video et taceo I see and keep silent Motto of Queen Elizabeth I of England

video meliora I see and approve of

From the Metamorphoses Book 7, 20-1 of Ovid,
proboque the better, but I
being a summary of the experience of akrasia.
deteriora sequor follow the worse

The statement of Caspar Hofmann [de] after

video sed non I see it, but I do not
being shown proof of the circulatory
credo believe it
system by William Harvey.

"it is permitted to
videre licet see" or "one may The phrase is used in scholarship.
see"

vim promovet promotes one's innate Motto of the University of Bristol, derived

insitam power from Horace, Ode 4, 4.

A partial quotation of Romans 12:21; motto

overcome evil with
vince malum bono of Old Swinford Hospital and Bishop Cotton
good
School in Shimla

vincere est vivere to conquer is to live Motto of Captain John Smith

you know [how] to According to Livy, a colonel in the cavalry

vincere scis
win, Hannibal; you stated this to Hannibal after victory in the Battle
Hannibal victoria
do not know [how] to of Cannae in 216 BC, meaning that Hannibal
uti nescis
use victory should have marched on Rome immediately.
vincit omnia
truth conquers all University of Mindanao
veritas

he conquers who First attributed to the Roman scholar and

vincit qui patitur
endures satirst Persius; frequently used as a motto.

Motto of many educational institutions,

including the Philadelphia High School for
Girls and North Sydney Boys High School. It is
he (she) conquers alternatively rendered as bis vincit qui se
vincit qui se vincit who conquers vincit ("he (she) who prevails over himself
himself (herself) (herself) is twice victorious"). It is also the motto
of the Beast in Disney's film Beauty and the
Beast, as seen inscribed in the castle's stained
glass window near the beginning of the film.

The phrase denotes that a thing is legally

binding. "A civil obligation is one which has a
vinculum juris the chain of the law
binding operation in law, vinculum juris."
(Bouvier's Law Dictionary (1856), "Obligation")

vinum et musica wine and music Asterix and Caesar's Gift; it is a variation of
laetificant cor gladden the heart "vinum bonum laetificat cor hominis".

vinum regum, rex the wine of kings, the The phrase describes Hungarian Tokaji wine,
vinorum king of wines and is attributed to King Louis XIV of France.

A caveat regarding trusting someone against his

viperam sub ala a viper nursed at the
inherent nature; the moral of Aesop's fable The
nutricare bosom
Farmer and the Viper.

vir prudens non [a] wise man does

contra ventum not urinate [up]
mingit against the wind

Motto of the US collegiate fraternity Lambda

vir quisque vir every man a man
Chi Alpha.

A quotation from Vergil's Aeneid, Book 4, 175,

Vires acquirit she gathers strength
which in the original context refers to Pheme.
eundo as she goes
Motto on the Coat of arms of Melbourne
Viribus Unitis with united forces Motto of the house of Habsburg-Lorraine

the manly thing is

virile agitur Motto of Knox Grammar School
being done

"act manfully" or Motto of Marist College Ashgrove and other

viriliter age
"act courageously" institutions

Motto of St Muredach's College and the PAREF

viriliter agite act in a manly way
Southridge School for Boys

viriliter agite estote act manfully, be

Motto of Culford School
fortes strong

virtue and [hard]

virtus et labor
work

virtus et scientia virtue and knowledge Common motto

A principle derived from the ethical theory

virtue stands in the of Aristotle. Idiomatically, "good practice lies in
virtus in media stat
middle the middle path" between two extremes. It is
disputed whether media or medio is correct.

that which virtue

virtus junxit mors
unites, let not death
non separabit
separate

virtus laudata greatness increases

Motto of the Berkhamsted School
crescit with praise

Motto of the Duke of Westminster, inscribed at

his residence in Eaton, and the motto
virtus non stemma valor, not garland
of Grosvenor Rowing Club and Harrow County
School for Boys

virtus sola virtue alone [is]

Motto of Christian Brothers College, St Kilda
nobilitas noble
virtus tentamine strength rejoices in Motto of Hillsdale College, Michigan, United
gaudet the challenge States

virtue united [is]

virtus unita fortior State motto of Andorra
stronger

virtute duce led by virtue

led by virtue,
virtute duce comite
accompanied by
fortuna
[good] fortune

Alternatively, "by manliness and weapons".

The State motto of Mississippi, United States.
virtute et armis by virtue and arms The phrase was possibly derived from the motto
of Lord Gray de Wilton, virtute non armis
fido ("I trust in virtue, not in arms").

by virtue and
virtute et industria Motto of Bristol, United Kingdom
industry

virtute et veritate by virtue and truth Motto of Pocklington School

vis legis the power of the law

force majeure,
vis major
superior force

visio dei vision of a god

The phrase denotes a previous life, generally

vita ante acta a life done before
believed to be the result of reincarnation.

Motto of the University of Notre Dame, Indiana,

Mary, [our] life,
United States, which is derived from the Roman
vita, dulcedo, spes sweetness, [and]
Catholic hymn to the Blessed Virgin
hope
Mary titled Salve Regina.
vita incerta, mors life is uncertain, More simply, "the most certain thing in life is
certissima death is most certain death".

The phrase is a quotation from the preface of the

vita mutatur, non life is changed, not
first Roman Catholic rite of the Mass for the
tollitur taken away
Dead.

Hence the term "decessit vita patris" (d. v. p) or

during the life of the
vita patris "died v. p.", which is seen in genealogical works
father
such as Burke's Peerage.

the shortness of life This is a wistful refrain that is sometimes used

vita summa brevis
prevents us from ironically. It is derived from the first line
spem nos vetat
entertaining far-off of Horace's Ode 1. It was later used as the title of
incohare longam
hopes a short poem of Ernest Dowson.

A quotation from the poem of Lucretius, De

rerum natura, Book 2, 77-9. The ordinary
spelling "vitae" in two syllables had to be
vitai lampada they hand on the
changed to "vitaï" in three syllables to satisfy the
tradunt torch of life
requirements of the poem's dactylic hexameters.
Motto of the Sydney Church of England
Grammar School and others.

vitam amplificare
mankind [who]
hominibus Motto of East Los Angeles College, California,
extends the life of the
hominesque United States
community
societati

The phrase denotes an oral, as opposed to

viva voce living voice
written, examination of a candidate.

vivat crescat may it live, grow,

floreat [and] flourish

The acclamation is ordinary translated as "long

vivat rex may the king live live the king!". In the case of a queen, "vivat
regina" ("long live the queen").

A curious translation of the pun on "vivat rex",

long live the king,
vivat rex, curat lex found in Westerham parish church in Kent,
guardian of the law
England.
 live remembering
vive memor leti Authored by Persius. Cf. "memento mori".
death

The phrase suggests that one should live life to

live so that you may
vive ut vivas the fullest and without fear of the possible
live
consequences.

vivere est cogitare to live is to think Authored by Cicero. Cf. "cogito ergo sum".

Authored by Seneca the Younger in Epistle 96,

5. Cf. the allegory of Miles Christianus based on
vivere militare est to live is to fight
"militia est vita hominis" from the Vulgate, Book
of Job 7:1.

Alternatively, "called and even not called, God

vocatus atque non
called and not called, approaches". Attributed to the Oracle at Delphi.
vocatus Deus
God will be present Motto of Carl Jung, and inscribed in his home
aderit
and grave.

Alternatively, "to him who consents, no harm is

done". The principle is used in the law
volenti non fit to one willing, no
of torts and denotes that one can not be held
injuria harm is done
liable for injuries inflicted on another who
consented to the act that injured him.

volo non fugia I fly but do not flee Motto of HMS  Venetia[118]

you are the salt of the A famous biblical sentence proclaimed by Jesus
vos estis sal terrae
earth Christ.

The phrase denotes an independent, minority

votum separatum separate vow
voice.

Or traditionally, "the voice of one crying in the

wilderness". A quotation of
the voice of one
vox clamantis in the Vulgate, Isaiah 40:3, and quoted by St. John
clamoring in the
deserto the Baptist in Mark 1:3 and John 1:23). Motto
desert
of Dartmouth College, Hanover, New
Hampshire, United States.

vox nihili voice of nothing The phrase denotes a useless or ambiguous

 statement.

The phrase denotes a brief interview of a

common person that is not previously arranged,
vox populi voice of the people
e. g., an interview on a street. It is sometimes
truncated to "vox pop."

the voice of the

vox populi, vox Dei people [is] the voice In the opinion of the majority of the people.
of God

By extension, and in common morality,

humanity can change their attitudes, but they
vulpes pilum the fox changes his will hardly change their objectives or what they
mutat, non mores fur, not his habits have set themselves to achieve. Ascribed
to Titus by Suetonius in the eighth book (chapter
16) of The Twelve Caesars.

Footnotes[edit]
1. ^ Assertions, such as those by Bryan A.
Garner in Garner's Modern English Usage,[33] that "eg"
and "ie" style versus "e.g.," and "i.e.," style are two poles
of British versus American usage are not borne out by
major style guides and usage dictionaries, which
demonstrate wide variation. To the extent anything
approaching a consistent general conflict can be
identified, it is between American and British news
companies' different approaches to the balance between
clarity and expediency, without complete agreement on
either side of the Atlantic, and with little evidence of
effects outside journalism circles, e.g. in book publishing
or academic journals.
There is no consistent British style. For example, The
Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors has "e.g." and
"i.e." with points (periods);[34] Fowler's Modern English
Usage takes the same approach,[35] and its newest edition
is especially emphatic about the points being retained.
[36]
 The Oxford Guide to Style (also republished in Oxford
Style Manual and separately as New Hart's Rules) also
has "e.g." and "i.e.";[37] the examples it provides are of the
short and simple variety that often see the comma
dropped in American usage as well. None of those works
prescribe specifically for or against a comma following
these abbreviations, leaving it to writers' own judgment.
Some specific publishers, primarily in news journalism,
drop one or both forms of punctuation as a matter
of house style. They seem more frequently to be British
than American (perhaps owing to the AP Stylebook being
treated as a de facto standard across most American
newspapers, without a UK counterpart). For example, The
Guardian uses "eg" and "ie" with no punctuation,
  while The Economist uses "eg," and "ie," with commas
[38]

and without points,[39] as does The Times of London.[40] A

2014 revision to New Hart's Rules states that it is now
"Oxford style" to not use a comma
after e.g. and i.e. (which retain the points), "to avoid
double punctuation".[41] This is a rationale it does not apply
to anything else, and Oxford University Press has not
consistently imposed this style on its publications that
post-date 2014, including Garner's Modern English
Usage.
By way of US comparison, The New York Times uses
"e.g." and "i.e.", without a rule about a following comma –
like Oxford usage in actual practice.[42] The Chicago
Manual of Style prefers "e.g.," and "i.e.,". However, it says
of this entire class of expressions, including long phrases
like "in other words" and "for example", that they are
"traditionally" or "usually" followed by a comma, not that
they must be, nor does it draw any dialectal distinctions
on the matter[43] (despite usually making American versus
British assertions throughout). The AP
Stylebook preserves both types of punctuation for these
abbreviations.[44]
"British" and "American" are not accurate as stand-ins
for Commonwealth and North American English more
broadly; actual practice varies even among national
publishers. The Australian government's Style Manual for
Authors, Editors and Printers preserves the points in the
abbreviations, but eschews the comma after them (it
similarly drops the title's serial comma before "and", which
most UK and many US publishers would retain). [45] Editing
Canadian English by the Editors' Association of
Canada uses the periods and the comma;[46] so does A
Canadian Writer's Reference.[47] The government
publication The Canadian Style uses the periods but not
the comma.[48]
Style guides are generally in agreement that both
abbreviations are preceded by a comma or used inside a
parenthetical construction, and are best confined to the
latter and to footnotes and tables, rather than used in
running prose.

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