Колекция от събрани и подредени по азбучен ред латински сентенции в оргинал, както и превод на английски.
Постинги в блога от Януари, 2007 г.
02.01.2007 18:01 -
Сентенции с начална буква "V"
Vacca foeda - Stupid cow |
Vacca, vacca, vacca - Cow, cow, cow |
Vade in pace - Go in peace (Roman way of saying goodbye) |
Vade mecum - Come with me. A constant companion |
Vae victis! - Woe to the conquered! (vanquished) (Livy) |
Vagans - Cruising |
Vah! Denuone Latine loquebar? Me ineptum. Interdum modo elabitur - Oh! Was I speaking Latin again? Silly me. Sometimes it just sort of slips out |
Vale - Farewell |
vale(te)! - Farewell! |
Valui ad satanam in computatrum meum invocandum - I succeeded in summoning satan into my computer |
Vanitas vanitatvm, omnis vanitas - Vanity of vanities, all is vanity |
Varia lecto (v.l.) - Variant reading |
Variatio delectat - There"s nothing like change! (Cicero) |
Variorum - Of various people |
Velle est posse - To be willing is to be able |
Veneris - Friday |
Veni vidi duci - I came, I saw, I calculated |
veni vidi vici - I came, I saw, I conquered (Julius Caesar"s report of victory in 47 B.C. over Pharnaces, king of Pontus) |
Veni, Vidi, volo in domum redire - I came, I saw, I want to go home |
Venienti occurrite morbo - Meet the misfortune as it comes. (Persius) |
Venire facias - You must make come |
Ventis secundis, tene cursum - Go with the flow |
Ventis secundis, tene/tenete cursum - The winds being favorable, hold the course |
Verba de futuro - Words about the future |
Verba movent, exempla trahunt - Words move people, examples draw/compel them. Deeds, not words, give the example |
Verba volant, (littera) scripta manet - Words fly away, the written (letter) remains |
Verbatim - Exactly as said |
Verbatim et litteratim - Word for word and letter for letter |
Verbum sapienti satis est (verb. sap.) - A word to the wise is sufficient. Enough said |
verbum sat sapienti - A word is enough for a wise man. |
Veritas Lux Mea - The truth enlightens me / The truth is my light |
Veritas numquam perit - Truth never perishes. (Seneca) |
Veritas odit moras - Truth hates delay. (Seneca) |
Veritas vincit - Truth conquers |
veritas vos liberabit - The truth shall make you free |
Verso - Reverse |
Versus - Against |
Verum et factum convertuntur - The true and the made are interchangeable. One can know with certainty only what he have created himself |
Verveces tui similes pro ientaculo mihi appositi sunt - I have jerks like you for breakfast |
Vesanum poetam qui sapiunt fugiunt - Anyone with a brain flees a versifying poet |
Vescere bracis meis - Eat my shorts |
Vestigia terrent - The footprints frighten me. (Horace) |
Vestis virum reddit - The clothes make the man. (Quintilianus) |
Veto - I forbid |
Vi et armis - By force and arms |
Via - By way of |
Via Crucis - The Way of the Cross |
Via Dolorosa - The Way of Sorrow |
Via Lactea - The Milky Way |
Via media - A middle way or course |
Vice - In place of |
Vice versa - In reverse order |
vice versa - The terms being reversed |
victis honor - Honour to the vanquished |
Victoria Regina (VR) - Queen Victoria |
Victoria Regina et Imperatrix (VRI) - Victoria, Queen and Empress |
Victoria, non praeda - Victory, not loot |
Victurus te saluto - He who is about to win salutes you |
Vide - See |
Vide et credere - See and believe |
Vide ut supra - See the above |
videlicet - That is to say namely |
Videlicet (viz.) - That is to say; To wit; Namely |
Video meliora proboque deteriora sequor - I see the better way and approve it, but I follow the worse way |
Videre est credere - Seeing is believing |
Videtis quantum scelus contra rem publicam vobis nuntiatum sit? - How great an evil do you see that may have been announced by you against the Republic? (Cicero) |
Vidistine nuper imagines moventes bonas? - Seen any good movies lately? |
Vigilando, agendo, bene consulendo, prospera omnia cedunt - By watching, by doing, by counsulting well, these things yield all things prosperous. (Sallust) |
Vincere est totum - To win is everything |
Vincit omnia amor - Love conquers all |
Vincit omnia veritas - Truth conquers all |
Vincit qui se vincit - He conquers who conquers himself |
Vinculum unitatis - The bond of unity |
Vinum bellum iucunumque est, sed animo corporeque caret - It"s a nice little wine, but it lacks character and depth |
Vinum et musica laetificant cor - Wine and music gladden the heart |
Vir bonus, dicendi peritus - A good man, skilled in speaking. (definition of an orator) (Cato the Elder) |
Vir prudens non contra ventum mingit - A wise man does not urinate against the wind |
Vir sapit qui pauca loquitur - That man is wise who talks little (know when to hold your tongue) |
Vires acquirit eundo - It gains strength by going / as it goes. (Virgil) |
virginibus puerisque - For girls and boys |
Virginibus puerisque - For maidens and youths |
Virgo intacta - Intact virgin |
Viri sunt viri - Men are slime |
Virtus in medio stat - Virtue stands in the middle |
Virtute et armis - By courage and by arms |
Virtvs probata florescit - Manly excellence in trial flourished |
Virtvtis fortvna comes - Good luck is the companion of courage |
Virum mihi, Camena, insece versutum - Tell me, O Muse, of the skillful man. (Livius Andronicus) |
Virus - Poison or slime |
Vis comica - Sense of humour |
Vis consili expers mole ruit sua - Brute force bereft of wisdom falls to ruin by its own weight. (Discretion is the better part of valor) (Horace) |
Vis inertiae - The power of inertia - why things never change |
Vis maior - Higher force |
Vis medicatrix naturae - The healing power of nature |
Visa - Things seen |
Visne saltare? - Do you want to dance? |
Visne saltare? Viam Latam Fungosam scio - Do you want to dance? I know the Funky Broadway |
Vita brevis, ars lunga - Life is short, art is long |
Vita contin git. Vive com eo - Life happens. Live with it |
Vita luna! - Crazy life! |
Vita mutatur, non tollitur - Life is changed, not taken away |
vita non est vivere sed valere vita est - Life is more than merely staying alive |
Vita sine libris mors est - Life without books is death |
Vitam impendere vero - To risk one"s life for the truth |
Vitam regit fortuna, non sapientia - Fortune, not wisdom, rules lives. (Cicero) |
Vitanda est improba siren desidia - One must avoid that wicked temptress, Laziness. (Horace) |
Vitanda est improba siren desidia - One must steer clear of the wicked temptress, Laziness. (Horace) |
Vitiis nemo sine nascitur - No-one is born without faults. (Horace) |
viva voce - By the living voice (orally). |
Viva voce - With living voice |
Vivat regina - Long live the queen |
Vivat rex - Long live the king |
Vivat, crescat, floreat! - May he/she/it live, grow, and flourish! |
Vive hodie - Live today (not tomorrow) |
Vive vt vivas - Live that you may live |
Vivere commune est, sed non commune mereri - Everybody lives; not everybody deserves to |
Vivere disce, cogita mori - Learn to live; Remember death. (sundial inscription) |
Vivos voco, mortuos plango - I call the living, I mourn the dead. (church bell inscription) |
Vix ulla tam iniqua pax, quin bello vel aequissimo sit potior - Scarcely is there any peace so unjust that it is better than even the fairest war. (Erasmus) |
Vixere fortes ante agamemnona - Brave men lived before Agamemnon. (heroism exists even if it"s not recorded) |
Vixit - He/she has lived |
Vltima ratio regvm - The final argument of kings. (motto of Louis XIV on his cannon) |
Vltra vires - Beyond [one"s] authority outside the jurisdiction |
Volens et potens - Willing and able |
Volente Deo - God willing |
Volenti non fit iniuria - A person who consents does not suffer injustice |
Volo anaticulam cumminosam meam! - I want my rubber ducky! |
Volo, non valeo - I am willing but unable |
Volvptates commendat rarior vsvs - Infrequent use commends pleasure. (moderation in all things) |
Vos vestros servate, meos mihi linquite mores - You cling to your own ways and leave mine to me. (Petrarch) |
Vox clamantis in deserto - Voice crying in the desert. (voice in the wilderness unheeded warning, an opinion not in the mainstream |
vox et praeterea nihil - A voice and nothing more |
Vox populi - The voice of the people |
Vox populi, vox Dei - The voice of the people is the voice of God. (Public opinion is obligatory) |
Vrbi et orbi - To the city and to the world. (preface of Papal documents) |
Vulnerant omnes, ultima necat - Every (hour) wounds, the last kills. (sundial inscription) |
Vulpem pilum mutat, non mores - A fox may change its hair, not its tricks. (People change behaviour but not their aims) |
Vultus est index animi - The face is the index of the soul/mind |
02.01.2007 18:01 -
Сентенции с начална буква "U"
Uberrimae fidei - Of the utmost good faith |
Ubi amor, ibi oculus - Where love is, there is insight |
Ubi bene, ibi patria - Where you feel good, there is your home |
Ubi concordia, ibi victoria - Where is the unity, there is the victory. (Publius Syrus) |
Ubi dubium ibi libertas - Where there is doubt, there is freedom |
Ubi est mea anaticula cumminosa? - Where’s my rubber ducky? |
Ubi fumus, ibi ignis - Where there"s smoke, there"s fire |
Ubi maior, minor cessat - The weak (minor) capitulates before the strong (major) |
Ubi mel ibi apes - Where honey, there bees, i.e., if you want support, you must offer something in return |
Ubi revera (Ubi re vera) - When, in reality |
Ubi spiritus est cantus est - Where there is spirit there is song |
Ubi sunt? - Where are they (the good old days)? |
Ubi supra - Where (cited) above |
Ubicumque homo est, ibi benefici locus est - Wherever there is a man, there is a place of/for kindness/service |
Ubique - Everywhere |
Ultima ratio - Ultimate sanction |
Ultima ratio regum - The final argument of kings. (Inscription on French canons in the times of Louis XIV.) |
Ultima Thule - The most distant Thule |
ultima thule - The utmost limit |
Ultimo (ult.) - Of the previous month |
Ultimus Romanorum - The last of the Romans |
Ultra posse nemo obligatur - No one is obligated beyond what he is able to do |
ultra vires - Beyond ones powers |
Ultra vires - Beyond the powers or legal authority |
Un idea perplexi na - The idea is strange to us |
Una hirundo non facit ver - One Swallow does not make Summer. (Horace) |
Una salus victis nullam sperare salutem - The one safety for the vanquished is to abandon hope of safety knowing there is no hope can give one the courage to fight and win |
Una voce - With one voice, unanimously |
Unitam logica falsa tuam philosophiam totam suffodiant! - May faulty logic undermine your entire philosophy! |
Unitas mirabile vinculum - The wonderful bond of unity |
Uno Ab Alto - One over all (US Air Force Motto) |
Unum necessarium - The one necessary |
Unus multorum - One of many. (Horace) |
Urbanus et instructus - A gentleman and a scholar |
Urbem lateritiam invenit, marmoream reliquit - He found a city [Rome] of bricks and left a city of marble. (Augustus) |
Urbi et orbi - To the city [Rome] and to the globe - a blessing of the pope |
Ut ameris, ama! - To be loved, love! |
Ut desint vires, tamen est laudanda voluntas - Although the power is lacking, the will is commendable. (Ovid) |
Ut dictum (ut dict.) - As directed |
Ut humiliter opinor - In my humble opinion |
Ut incepit fidelis sic permanet - As loyal as she began, so she remains |
Ut infra - As below |
Ut sementem feceris, ita metes - As you sow, so shall you reap. (Cicero) |
Ut si! - As if! |
Ut sit magna, tamen certe lenta ira deorum est - The wrath of the gods may be great, but it certainly is slow |
Ut supra (ut sup.) - As above |
Uti foro - To play the market |
Uti possidetis - As you possess |
Uti, non abuti - To use, not abuse |
Utile et dulce - Useful and pleasant |
Utinam barbari spatium proprium tuum invadant! - May barbarians invade your personal space! |
Utinam coniurati te in foro interficiant! - May conspirators assassinate you in the mall! |
Utinam populus romanus unam cervicem haberet! - If only the Roman people had one neck! |
Uva uvam videndo varia fit - A grape changes color in seeing another grape. A bad/good friend makes you a bad/good person |
02.01.2007 18:00 -
Сентенции с начална буква "T"
Tabula rasa - A clean slate. Person that knows nothing |
Tacet - Silence |
Tam diu minime visu! - Long time, no see! |
Tam exanimis quam tunica nehru fio - I am as dead as the nehru jacket |
Tamdiu discendum est, quamdiu vivas - We should learn as long as we may live. (We live and learn.) (Seneca Philosophus) |
Tamquam alter idem - As if a second self. (Cicero) |
Tanta stultitia mortalium est - What fools these mortals be |
Tantum eruditi sunt liberi - Only the educated are free. (Epictetus) |
Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum - So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds. (Lucretius) |
Tarditas et procrastinatio odiosa est - Delay and procrastination is hateful. (Cicero) |
Te audire non possum. Musa sapientum fixa est in aure - I can"t hear you. I have a banana in my ear |
Te capiam, cunicule sceleste! - I"ll get you, you wascally wabbit! |
Te Deum - Thee, God [we praise] |
Te igitur - Thee, therefore |
Te nosce - Know thyself |
Te precor dulcissime supplex! - Pretty please with a cherry on top! |
Tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis - The times change, and we change with them. (John Owen) |
Tempore - In the time of |
Tempus edax rerum - Time is the devourer of things (time flies) |
tempus fugit - Time flies |
Tempus fugit, non autem memoria - Time flies, but not memory |
Tempus incognitum - Time unknown |
Tempus neminem manet - Time waits for no one |
Tempus omnia sed memorias privat - Time deprives all but memories |
Ter in die (t.i.d.) - Three times a day |
tera incognita - An unknown land |
Terminus a quo - The end from which |
Terminus ad quem - The end to which |
Terra firma - Solid ground |
Terra incognita - Unknown land |
Terra nullius - Uninhabited land |
tertium quid - A third something |
Tetigisti acu - You have hit the nail on the head. (Plautus) |
Theatrum mundi - The theatre of the world |
Tibi gratias agimus quod nihil fumas - Thank you for not smoking |
Timendi causa est nescire - Ignorance is the cause of fear. (Seneca) |
Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes - I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts. (Virgil) |
Timor mortis conturbat me - The fear of death confounds me |
Tintinnuntius meus sonat! - There goes my beeper! |
Tolerabiles ineptiae - Bearable absurdities |
Totidem verbis - In so many words |
Totum dependeat - Let it all hang out |
Trahimur omnes laudis studio - We are all led on by our eagerness for praise. (Cicero) |
Transire suum pectus mundoque potiri - To overcome one"s human limitations and become master of the universe |
Transit umbra, lux permanet - Shadow passes, light remains (On a sun dial) |
Tu autem - You, also |
Tu fui, ego eris - What you are, I was. What I am, you will be. (This is found on graves and burial sites) |
tu ne cede malis sed contra audentior ito - Yield not to misfortunes, but advance all the more boldly against them |
Tu quoque - You likewise |
tu quoque - You too |
Tu quoque Brute, file mi! - You too Bruto, my son! (Caesar"s last words) |
Tu stupidus es - You are dumb |
Tu, rattus turpis! - You dirty rat! |
Tua mater tam antiquior ut linguam latine loquatur - Your mother is so old she speaks Latin |
Tua toga suspina est - Your toga is backwards |
Tuis pugis pignore! - You bet your bippy! |
Tum podem extulit horridulum - You are talking shit |
02.01.2007 17:59 -
Сентенции с начална буква "S"
Saepe creat molles aspera spina rosas - Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses. (Ovid) |
Saepe ne utile quidem est scire quid futurum sit - Often it is not even advantageous to know what will be. (Cicero) |
Saepe stilum vertas - May you often turn the stylus (You should make frequent corrections.) |
Salus populi suprema lex - The safety of the people is the supreme law. (Cicero) |
Salva veritate - With truth preserved |
Salve - Hello |
Salve (plural salvete) - Hail; welcome |
Salve sis - May you be well |
Salve veritate - Saving the truth |
Salve(te) - Greetings! |
salve(te)! - Hello! |
Sanctum sanctorum - The holy of holies |
Sane ego te vocavi. Forsitan capedictum tuum desit - I did call. Maybe your answering machine is broken |
sanun es?- Are you in your senses? |
Sapere aude! - Dare to be wise! (Horace) |
Sapiens nihil affirmat quod non probat - A wise man states as true nothing he does not prove (don"t swear to anything you don"t know firsthand) |
Sartor resartus - The tailor patched |
Sat sapienti - Enough for a wise man. (Plautus) |
Satis - Enough |
satis verborum - Enough of words |
Satius est impunitum relinqui facinus nocentis, quam innocentem damnari - It is better that a crime is left unpunished than that an innocent man is punished. (Corpus Iuris Civilis) |
Saturni - Saturday |
Scala Caeli - The ladder of heaven |
Scala naturae - The ladder of nature |
Scandalum magnatum - Scandal of magnates |
Schola cantorum - School of singers |
Scientia est potentia - Knowledge is power |
Scientia non habet inimicum nisp ignorantem - Science has no enemies but the ignorants |
Scilicet (sc.) - That is to say |
Scio cur summae inter se dissentiant! Numeris Romanis utor! - I know why the numbers don"t agree! I use Roman numerals! |
Scio me nihil scire - I know that I know nothing. Certain knowledge cannot be obtained. (Socrates) |
Scire tuum nihil est, nisi te scire hoc sciat alter - Your knowledge is nothing when no one else knows that you know it |
Sciri facias - Cause (him) to know |
scisne latine? - Do you know Latin? |
Scito te ipsum - Know yourself |
Scribere est agere - To write is to act |
Sculpsit - He/she engraved it |
Sed quis custodiet ipsos custodes? - Who watches the watchmen? (Juvenal) |
Sedit qui timuit ne non succederet - He who feared he would not succeed sat still. (For fear of failure, he did nothing.) (Horace) |
semper fidelis - Always faithful (Motto of the United States Marine Corps) |
Semper fidelis - Always faithful (US Marines Motto) |
Semper Gumby - Always flexible (United States Air Forces, Europe, Contracting squadron motto) |
Semper idem - Always the same thing. (Cicero) |
Semper inops quicumque cupit - Whoever desires is always poor. (Claudian) |
Semper Letteris Mandate - Always get it in writing! |
Semper paratus - Always prepared |
semper paratus - Always ready (Motto of the United States Coast Guard) |
Semper paratus - Always ready (US Coast Guard Motto) |
Semper Primus - Always first (US Army Pathfinder motto) |
Semper superne nitens - Always striving upwards |
Semper ubi sub ubi ubique - Always wear underwear everywhere |
Senatus Populusque Romanus (SPQR) - The Senate and the Roman people |
Sensu lato - Broadly speaking |
Sensu stricto - Strictly speaking |
Sensu stricto, nullo metro compositum est - Strictly speaking, it doesn"t rhyme |
Sentio aliquos togatos contra me conspirare - I think some people in togas are plotting against me |
Sequens (seq.) - The following (one) |
Sequens mirabitur aetas - The following age will be amazed |
Sequentia (seqq.) - The following (ones) |
Seriatim - One after another in order |
Serva me, servabo te - Save me and I will save you. (Petronius Arbiter) |
Si Deus pro nobis quis contra nos - If God is with us who is against us |
Si fallatis officium, quaestor infitias eat se quicquam scire de factis vestris - If you fail, the secretary will disavow all knowledge of your activities |
Si fecisti nega! - If you did it, deny it (stonewall!) |
Si finis bonus est, totum bonum erit - If the end is good, everything will be good (all"s well that ends well) |
Si fractum non sit, noli id reficere - If it ain"t broke, don"t fix it |
Si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes - Essentially it says, "if you can read this, you"re overeducated." |
Si hoc non legere potes tu asinus es - If you can"t read this, you"re an ass |
Si minor plus est ergo nihil sunt omnia - If less is more, then nothing is everything |
Si monumentum requiris circumspice - If you seek a monument, look around |
Si post fata venit gloria non propero - If glory comes after death, I"m not in a hurry (if one must die to be recognised, I can wait) |
Si sapis, sis apis - If you are wise, be a bee |
Si tacuisses, philosophus manisses - If you had kept quiet, you would have remained a philosopher. (Boethius) |
Si tu id aeficas, ei venient. Ager somnia - If you build it, they will come |
si vales, bene est, ego valeo - If you are sound, that is well; I"m sound (OR: if you are well, that is well, I am well) |
Si vis amari, ama - If you wish to be loved, love. (Seneca) |
Si vis pacem, para bellum - If you want peace, prepare for the war. (Vegetius) |
Sic - Thus, just so |
sic - Yes. |
Sic ad nauseam - And so on to the point of causing nausea |
Sic erat in fatis - So it was fated |
Sic faciunt omnes - Everyone is doing it |
Sic friatur crustum dulce - That"s the way the cookie crumbles |
Sic itur ad astra - Such is the path to the stars (i.e. gain reputation) (Vergil) |
Sic passim - Thus everywhere |
Sic semper tyrannis - Thus always to tyrants - a statement often accompanying a regicide |
sic transit gloria mundi - So passes away earthly glory, So passes the glory of the world |
sic vis pacem para bellum - If you want peace prepare war |
Sic volo, sic iubeo - I want this, I order this. (Juvenalis) |
Silent enim leges inter arma - Laws are silent in times of war. (Cicero) |
Simia quam similis, turpissimus bestia, nobis! - How like us is that very ugly beast the monkey. (Cicero) |
Simplex munditiis - Unaffected by manners. (Horace) |
Simpliciter - Naturally; without qualification |
Sine cura - Without a care |
sine die - Without a day being appointed |
Sine ira et studio - Without anger or bias. (Tacitus) |
Sine loco (sl) - Without place |
Sine nobilitatis - Without nobility (SNOB) |
Sine prole (sp) - Without issue |
Sine qua non - Something/someone indispensable |
sine qua non - Without which not an indispensable condition |
Sine sole sileo - Without the sun I"m silent. (sundial inscription) |
Siste, viator - Wait, traveler - inscription on Roman tombstones |
Sit tibi terra levis - May the earth be light upon you - tombstone inscription |
Sobria inebrietas - Sober intoxication |
Sol omnibus lucet - The sun shines upon us all. (Petronius) |
Sola lingua bona est lingua mortua - The only good language is a dead language |
Solitudinem fecerunt, pacem appelunt - They made a desert and called it peace. (Tacitus) |
Solum potestis prohibere ignes silvarum - Only you are can prevent forest fires |
Sona si latine loqueris - Honk if you speak Latin |
Sotto voce - In soft voice |
Spectaculorum procedere debet - The show must go on |
Spectatvm venivnt, venivnt spectentvr vt ipsae - They come to see, they come that they themselves be seen "to see and be seen |
Spemque metumque inter dubiis - Hover between hope and fear. (Vergil) |
Spero melior - I hope for better things |
Spero nos familiares mansuros - I hope we"ll still be friends |
Spiritus asper - Rough breathing |
Spiritus lenis - Smooth breathing |
Splendide mendax - Splendidly false. (Horace) |
Splendor sine occasu - Splendour without end |
Stabat Mater - The mother was standing |
Stare decisis - To stand by things decided |
Status quo - The current state of being |
status quo - The state in which things as they are now |
Stercus accidit - Shit happens |
stet - Let it stand (Do not delete) |
Struit insidias lacrimis cum femina plorat - When a woman weeps, she is setting traps with her tears. (Dionysius Cato) |
Studium discendi voluntate quae cogi non potest constat - Study depends on the good will of the student, a quality which cannot be secured by compulsion |
Stultior stulto fuisti, qui tabellis crederes! - Idiot of idiots, to trust what is written! |
stultorum calami carbones moenia chartae - Chalk is the pen of fools, walls (their) paper (No Graffiti please. Apparently, graffiti is nothing new). |
Stultorum infinitus est numerus - Infinite is the number of fools. (Bible) |
Stultum est timere quod vitare non potes - It is foolish to fear that which you cannot avoid. (Publilius Syrus) |
Stultus est sicut stultus facit - Stupid is as stupid does |
Sua cuique voluptas - Everyone has his own pleasures |
Sub dio - Under the open sky |
Sub iudice - Under a judge, Before a court |
sub judice - Under consideration |
Sub lite - In dispute |
Sub poena - Under penalty of law |
sub rosa - Under the rose (privately). Secretly or in confidence |
Sub secreto - In secret |
Sub silentio - In silence |
Sub sole nihil novi est - There"s nothing new under the sun |
sub specie - Under the appearance of |
Sub voce (sv) - Under the voice |
Subucula tua apparet - Your slip is showing |
suggestio falsi - A suggestion of something false |
Suggestio veri, suggestio falsi - An intimation of truth, an intimation of falcity |
Sui generis - Of his/her/its kind |
Sui iuris - Of one"s own right |
sul generis - Of its own kind peculiar |
Sum, ergo edo - I am, therefore I eat |
Summa cum laude - With highest honor |
Summam scrutemur - Let"s look at the bottom line |
summum bonum - The chief good |
Summum bonum - The highest good |
Summum ius, summa iniuria - The extreme law is the greatest injustice. (Cicero) |
sumptus censum ne superet - Let not your spending exceed your income - (Live within your means) |
Sunt lacrimae rerum et mentem mortalia tangunt - These are the tears of things, and our mortality cuts to the heart. (Vergil) |
Sunt pueri pueri, puerilia tractant - Children are children, (therefore) children do childish things |
Suntne vacci laeti - Are your cows happy? |
Suo jure - In one"s rightful place |
Suos cuique mos - Everyone has his customs. (Gellius) |
Supra - Above or on an earlier page |
sursum corda - Lift up your hearts |
Suum cuique pulchrum est - To each his own is beautiful. (Cicero) |
Svi generis - Of its own kind unique |
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Radicitus, comes! - Really rad, dude! |
Radix lecti - Couch potato |
Radix omnium malorum est cupiditas - The love of money is the root of all evil. Avarice is the problem, money itself is not evil |
Raptus regaliter - Royally screwed |
Rara avis - A rare bird, i.e. An extraodinary or unusual thing. (Juvenal) |
Ratio decidendi - The reason for the decision |
Ratio et consilium propriae ducis artes - Reason and deliberation are the proper skills of a general |
Ratio legis est anima legis - The reason of the law is the soul of the law |
Re - Concerning |
Re vera, cara mea, mea nil refert - Frankly my dear, I don"t give a damn |
Re vera, potas bene - Say, you sure are drinking a lot |
Recedite, plebes! Gero rem imperialem! - Stand aside plebians! I am on imperial business! |
Recto - On the right |
Redde Caesari quae sunt Caesaris - Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar"s |
Redivivus - Come back to life |
Redolet lvcernam - [it] smells of the lamp - critical remark that one worked too hard on something |
Reductio ad absurdum - Reduction to the absurd. (proving the truth of a proposition by proving the falsity of all its alternatives) |
reductio ad absurdum - The reducing of a position to a logical absurdity |
Referendum - Something to be referred |
Regina - Queen |
Regnat non regitur qui nihil nisi quod vult facit - He is a king and not a subject who does only what he wishes. (Syrus) |
Regnat populus - Let the People rule |
Relata refero - I tell what I have been told. (Herodotos) |
Religious loci - The (religious) spirit of the place |
Rem tene, verba sequentur - Keep to the subject and the words will follow. (Cato Senior) |
Repetitio est mater memoriae/ studiorum/ - Repetition is the mother of memory/studies |
repetitio est mater studiorum. - Repetition is the mother of studies. |
Requiescat in pace - Let him/her rest in peace. (May he/she rest in peace) |
requiescat in pace - May he/she rest in peace |
Requiescat in pace (RIP) - May he/she rest in peace |
Rerum concordia discors - The concord of things through discord. (Horace) |
Res firma mitescere nescit - A firm resolve does not know how to weaken |
Res gestae - Things done |
Res in cardine est - The matter is on a door hinge things are balanced on a knife"s edge |
Res inter alios - A matter between others it"s not our busines |
Res ipsa loquitur - The thing speaks for itself |
Res judicata - Thing already judged upon |
Res melius evinissent cum coca - Things go better with Coke |
Res publica - The public thing |
Res severa est verum gaudium - True joy is a serious thing. (Seneca) |
Res tantum valet quantum vendi potest - A thing is worth only what someone else will pay for it |
Respice finem - Look to the end |
Respice post te, mortalem te esse memento - Look around you, remember that you are mortal. (Tertullianus) |
respice, adspice, prospice - Examine the past, examine the present, examine the future (look to the past, the present, the future) |
respondeat superior - Let the superior answer (a supervisor must take responsibility for the quality of a subordinate"s work) |
Resurgam - I shall rise again |
Revelare pecunia! - Show me the money! |
Revera linguam latinam vix cognovi - I don’t really know all that much Latin |
Rex - King |
Rex non potest peccare - The king cannot sin |
Rex regnant sed non gubernat - The king reigns but does not govern |
Rident stolidi verba Latina - Fools laugh at the Latin language. (Ovid) |
Ridentem dicere verum quid vetat? - What prevents me from speaking the truth with a smile? (Horace) |
Rigor mortis - The rigidity of death |
Risu inepto res ineptior nulla est - There is nothing more foolish than a foolish laugh. (Catullus) |
Risus abundat in ore stultorum - Abundant laughs in the mouth of the foolish - too much hilarity means foolishness |
Roma locuta est. Causa finita est - Rome has spoken. The cause is finished |
Romani ite domus - Yankee go home! (Monty Phyton"s The Life of Brian) |
Romani quidem artem amatoriam invenerunt - You know, the Romans invented the art of love |
Rosa rubicundior, lilio candidior, omnibus formosior, semper in te glorior - Redder than the rose, whiter than the lilies, fairer than everything, I will always glory in thee |
ruat coelum - Let the heaven fall |
Rumores volant. / Rumor volat - Rumors fly. / Rumor flies |
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Qua - In so far as |
Quad nesciunt eos non interficiet - What they don"t know won"t kill them |
Quae nocent, saepe docent - What hurts, often instructs. One learns by bitter/adverse experience |
Quae vide (qqv) - See these things |
Quaere - (You might) ask. Used to introduce questions, usually rhetorical or tangential questions |
Quaere verum - Seek the truth |
Qualem blennum! - What a doofus! |
Qualem muleirculam! - What a bimbo! |
Qualis pater talis filius - As is the father, so is the son; like father, like son |
Quam bene vivas refert, non quam diu - The important thing isn"t how long you live, but how well you live. (Seneca) |
Quam se ipse amans-sine rivale! - Himself loving himself so much-without a rival! (Cicero) |
Quam terribilis est haec hora - How fearful is this hour |
Quandam - Formally |
Quando omni flunkus moritatus - When all else fails play dead |
Quandoquidem inter nos sanctissima divitiarum maiestas, esti funesta pecunia templo nondum habitas - Among us, the god most revered is Wealth, but so far it has no temple of its own |
Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari? - How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? |
Quantum meruit - As much as he/she deserved |
Quantum sufficit (qs) - As much as suffices |
Quaque mane (qm) - Every morning |
Quaque nocte (qn) - Every night |
Quasi - As if |
Quater in die (Q.I.D) - Take four times a day |
quem di diligunt, adolescens moritur - Whom the gods love die young (only the good die young) |
Quemadmodum possums scire utrum vere simus an solum sentiamus nos esse? - How are we to know whether we actually exist or only think we exist? |
Quemadmoeum gladis nemeinum occidit, occidentis telum est - A sword is never a killer, it"s a tool in the killer"s hands. (Seneca) |
qui audet adipiscitur - S/he who dares wins (or: s/he who wins dares) |
Qui bene cantat, bis orat - He who sings well, prays twice |
Qui bono? - Who benfits? |
Qui dedit benificium taceat; narret qui accepit - Let him who has done a good deed be silent; let him who has received it tell it. (Seneca) |
Qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum - Let him who wishes for peace prepare for war. (Vegetius) |
Qui docet discit - He who teaches learns |
Qui dormit, non peccat - One who sleeps doesn"t sin |
Qui habet aures audiendi audiat - He who has ears, let him understand how to listen |
Qui ignorabat, ignorabitur - One who is ignorant will remain unnoticed |
Qui me amat, amet et canem meum - Love me, love my dog |
Qui multum habet, plus cupit - He who has much desires more. (Seneca) |
Qui nimium probat, nihil probat - One who proves too much, proves nothing |
Qui non est hodie cras minus aptus erit - He who is not prepared today will be less so tomorrow. (Ovid) |
Qui omnes insidias timet in nullas incidit - He who fears every ambush falls into none. (Pubilius Syrus) |
Qui potest capere capiat - Let him accept it who can. Freely: If the shoe fits, wear it |
Qui pro innocente dicit, satis est eloquens - He who speaks for the innocent is eloquent enough. (Publius Syrus) |
qui scribit bis legit - He who writes reads twice |
qui tacet consentire - Who is silent gives consent. |
Qui tacet consentire videtur - He that is silent is thought to consent |
Qui tacet, consentit - Silence gives consent |
Qui vir odiosus! - What a bore! |
Qui vivat atque floreat ad plurimos annos - May he live and flourish for many years |
Qui vult dare parva non debet magna rogare - He who wishes to give little shouldn"t ask for much |
Quia natura mutari non potest idcirco verae amicitiae sempiternae sunt - Since nature cannot change, true friendships are eternal. (Horace) |
Quid agis, medice? - What"s up, Doc? |
Quid est illa in auqua? - What"s that in the water? |
quid ni? - why not? |
Quid Novi - What"s New? |
Quid nunc - What now?! (a nosy busybody) |
Quid pro quo - Something for something. i.e. A favor for a favor |
Quid quid latine dictum sit, altum videtur - Anything said in Latin sounds profound |
Quid rides? Mutato nomine de te fabula narratur - Why do you laugh? Just change the name and the tale is told of you. (Horace) |
Quidnunc? Or Quid nunc? - What now? As a noun, a quidnunc is a busybody or a gossip |
Quidquid agis, prudenter agas et respice finem! - Whatever you do, do cautiously, and look to the end |
Quidquid id est, timeo Danaos et dona ferentes - Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks, even bearing gifts. (Vergil) |
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur - Anything said in Latin sounds profound |
Quidvis Recte Factum Quamvis Humile Praeclarum - Whatever is rightly done, however humble, is noble |
Quieta non movere - Not to move (things lying) quiet |
Quinon proficit deficit - He who does not advance, go backwards |
Quique amavit, cras amet - May he love tomorrow who has never loved before; |
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? - Who shall keep watch over the guardians? (Luvenalis) |
quis custodiet ipsos custodes? - Who will watch the watchers themselves? |
Quis separabit? - Who shall separate us? |
Quis, quid, ubi, quibus auxiliis, cur, quomodo, quando? - Who, what, where, with what, why, how, when? |
Quisque comoedum est - Everybody is a comedian |
Quo ad hoc - As much as this (to this extent) |
Quo animo? - With what spirit? (or intent?) |
Quo fas et gloria docunt - Where right and glory lead |
Quo iure? - By what law? |
Quo signo nata es? - What"s your sign? |
Quo usque tandem abutere, catilina, patientia nostra? - How long will you abuse our patience, Catiline? (Cicero) |
Quo vadis? - Where are you going? / Whither goest thou? |
Quod bonum, felix faustumque sit! - May it be good, fortunate and prosperous! (Cicero) |
Quod differtur, non aufertur - That which is postponed is not dropped. Inevitable is yet to happen. (Sir Thomas More) |
quod erat demonstrandum - Which was to be proved |
Quod erat demonstrandum (QED) - Which was to be demonstrated |
Quod erat faciendum (QEF) - Which was to be done |
Quod erat in veniendum - Which was to be found |
Quod est (qe) - Which is |
Quod foetet? - What"s that bad smell? |
Quod incepimus conficiemus - What we have begun we shall finish |
Quod licet Iovi non licet bovi - What Jupiter (supreme God) is allowed to do, cattle (people) are not |
quod me nutrit me destruit. - What nurishes me also destroys me. |
Quod minimum specimen in te ingenii? - What microscopic evidence of wit can be found in you? |
Quod natura non sunt turpia - What is natural cannot be bad |
Quod vide (qv) - See this thing |
Quomodo cogis comas tuas sic videri? - How do you get your hair to do that? |
Quomodo vales - How are you? |
Quorum - Of whom |
Quos amor verus tenuit, tenebit - True love will hold on to those whom it has held. (Seneca) |
quot homines tot sententiac - So many men so many options |
Quot homines, tot sententiae - As many men, so many opinions. / There are as many opinions as there are men/people |
Qvae nocent docent - Things that hurt, teach. School of Hard Knocks |
Qvaerenda pecvnia primvm est, virtvs post nvmmos - Money is the first thing to be sought [then] virtue after wealth |
Qvalis artifex pereo - Such an artist dies in me - Emperor Nero"s famous last words |
Qvalis pater talis filivs - Like father like son. The apple doesn"t fall too far from the tree |
Qvandoqve bonvs dormitat homervs - Sometimes [even the] good Homer sleeps. You win some, you lose some |
Qvi bene amat bene castigat - Who loves well castigates well. Spare the rod and spoil the child |
Qvi desiderat pacem praeparat bellvm - Who desires peace [should] prepare [for] war |
Qvi docent discit - He who teaches, learns. (George Bernard Shaw) |
Qvi fvgiebat rvrsvs proeliabitvr - He who has fled will do battle once more. He who fights and runs away may live to fight another day |
Qvi me amat, amat et canem meam - Who loves me loves my dog as well. Love me love my dog |
Qvi nescit dissimlare nescit regnare - He who doesn"t know how to lie doesn"t know how to rule |
Qvid novi? - What"s new? "What"s up?" |
Qvod cibvs est aliis, aliis est wenenum - What is food to some is poison to others. One man"s meat is another poison |
Qvod cito acqviritvr cito perit - [that] which is quickly acquired [is] quickly lost. Eeasy come, easy go |
Qvod erat demonstrandvm - [that] which has been demonstrated - a statement of logical proof, especially in mathematics and law, abbreviated Q.E.D |
Qvod vive (q.v) - Which see - a scholarly cross-reference |
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Pace - Be at peace |
pace - By leave of |
Pace tua - With your consent |
Pacta sunt servanda - Agreements are to be kept. (Cicero) |
Pactum serva - Keep the faith |
Pallida mors - Pale Death. (Horace) |
Palmam qui meruit ferat - Let him who has earned it bear the reward |
Panem et circenses - Bread and circuses. Food and games to keep people happy. (Juvenalis) |
panem et circenses - Give us bread and circenses (games at the Circus) (request of the roman people) |
Par pare refero - I return like for like tit for tat retaliation |
Parens patriae - Parent of the country |
Pares cvm paribvs - Like persons with like persons. Birds of a feather flock together |
Pari passu - With equal pace - moving together |
pari passu - With equal pace together |
Pars maior lacrimas ridet et intus habet - You smile at your tears but have them in your heart. (Martialis) |
Particeps criminis - Partner in crime |
parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus - Mountains will be in labour, and an absurd mouse will be born (all that work and nothing to show for it) |
parva leves capiunt animas - Small things occupy light minds (small things amuse small minds) |
Parva scintilla saepe magnam flamam excitat - The small sparkle often initiates a large flame |
Passim - All through |
Pater familias - Father of the family |
Pater historiae - The father of history |
Pater Noster - Our Father (The first words of the Lord"s Prayer in Latin) |
Pater patriae - Father of the country |
Patria est communis omnium parens - Our native land is the common parent of us all. (Cicero) |
Patris est filius - He is his father"s son |
Paucis verbis - In a few words |
Paucis verbis, quid est deconstructionismus? - What, in a nutshell, is deconstructionism? |
Pavesco, pavesco - I"m shaking, I"m shaking |
Pavpertas omnivm artivm repertrix - Poverty [is the] inventor of all the arts necessity is the mother of invention |
Pax - Peace |
Pax et bonum! - Peace and salvation! |
Pax tecum - May peace be with you (Singular) |
Pax vobiscum - May peace be with you (Plural) |
Peccatum tacituritatis - Sin of silence |
peccavi - I have sinned |
Peculium - Property |
Pecunia in arbotis non crescit - Money does not grow on trees |
Pecunia non olet - Money has no smell. Money doesn"t stink. (don"t look a gift horse in the mouth) (Vespasianus) |
Pecvniate obedivnt omnia - All things obey money. Money makes the world go round |
Pede poena claudo - Punishment comes limping. Retribution comes slowly, but surely. (Horace) |
Pendente lite - While a suit is pending |
Penetalia mentis - The innermost recesses of the mind. Heart of hearts |
Per accidens - By Accident |
Per angusta in augusta - Through difficulties to great things |
Per annum (p.a.) - Yearly |
per aspera ad astra! - Through difficulties to the stars! |
Per capita - Per head |
Per cent (per centum) - Per hundred |
Per contra - On the contrary |
Per diem - Per day; daily allowance |
Per fas et nefas - Through right or wrong |
Per impossibile - As is impossible a way to qualify a proposition that cannot ever be true |
Per mensem - Monthly |
Per procurationem (per pro) - By delegation to |
Per se - By or in itself |
Per varios usus artem experientia fecit - Through different exercises practice has brought skill. (Manilius) |
Perfer et obdura; dolor hic tibi proderit olim - Be patient and tough; some day this pain will be useful to you. (Ovid) |
Periculum in mora - There is danger in delay. (Livy) |
perio - I"m lost. |
Perpetuo vincit qui utitur clementia - He is forever victor who employs clemency. (Syrus) |
Perpetuum mobile - Perpetual motion |
Perscriptio in manibus tabellariorum est - The check is in the mail |
Persona (non) grata - (un)welcome person |
Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes - Flatterers are the worst type of enemies |
Pessimus inimicorum genus, laudantes - The worst kind of enemies, those who can praise. (Tacitus) |
Petitio principii - An assumption at the start |
Philosophum non facit barba! - The beard does not define a philosopher. (Plutarch) |
Pictor ignotus - Painter unknown |
pinxit - He painted this |
Pinxit - He/she painted it |
Pistrix! Pistrix! - Shark! Shark! |
Placebo - I will please. Medical expression for remedies with no medical effect, which improve one"s medical condition only because one believes they do |
Placet - It pleases |
Pleno iure - With full authority |
Pluralitas non est ponenda sine neccesitate - Entities should not be multiplied unnecessarily |
Plusque minusque - More or less |
Plvres crapvla qvam gladivs - Drunkeness [kills] more than the sword. As true today on the road as it ever was |
Poeta fit, non nascitur - A poet is made, he is not born |
Poeta nascitur, non fit - The poet is born, not made |
Poli, poli, di umbuendo - Slowly, Slowly we will get there |
Pone ubi sol non lucet! - Put it where the sun don"t shine! |
Posse (posse comitatus) - The power of the country |
possunt quia posse videntur - They can because they seem to be able to (they can do it because they think they can do it - the power of positive thinking) |
Possunt quia posse videntur - They can because they think they can |
Post bellum - After the war |
Post coitem - After sexual intercourse |
Post factum - After the fact |
Post hoc - After this |
post hoc propter hoc - After this, therefore because of this (false reasoning) |
Post meridiem (p.m.) - After midday |
Post mortem - After death. (nowadays, the autopsy performed by a coroner) |
Post obitum - After death |
Post partum - After childbirth |
Post proelia praemia - After the battles come the rewards |
Post scriptum (ps) - After what has been written |
Post tenebras lux - After the darkness, light |
Postatem obscuri lateris nescitis - You do not know the power of the dark side |
Potes currere sed te occulere non potes - You can run, but you can"t hide |
Potest ex casa magnus vir exire - A great man can come from a hut. (Seneca) |
Potestatem obscuri lateris nescis - You don"t know the power of the dark side. (Star Wars) |
Potius Mori Quam Foedar - Death Before Dishonor (Massachusetts Maritime Academy Honor Guard Motto) |
potius mori quam foedari - Rather to die than to be dishonoured (death before dishonour) |
Potius sero quam numquam - It"s better late than never. (Livy) |
praemonitus pramunitus - Forewarned, forearmed |
Praetio prudentia praestat - Prudence supplies a reward |
Prehende uxorem meam, sis! - Take my wife, please! |
Prescriptio in manibus tabellariorium est - The check is in the mail |
Pret toujours pret - Ready, Always Ready (304TH Signal Battalion Motto) |
Pretium iustum est - The Price is Right |
Prima facie - At first sight; on the face of it. (in law, an obvious case that requires no further proof) |
prima facie - On the first view |
Primum mobile - Prime mover |
primum non nocere - Above all do no harm/ First do not harm |
Primum non nocere - The first thing is to do no harm (Hippocratic oath) |
Primum viveri deinde philosophari - Live before you philosophize, or Leap before you look |
primus inter pares - First among equals |
Principiis obsta - Resist the beginnings |
Pro bono publico - For the public good |
Pro di immortales! - Good Heavens! |
Pro et contra - For and against |
Pro forma - As a matter of formality |
Pro hac vice - For this occaision |
Pro memoria - For a memorial |
Pro nunc - For now |
Pro opportunitate - As circumstances allow |
Pro patria - For one"s country |
Pro rata - In proportion to the value. (per hour for example) |
Pro re nata (prn) - For an occasion as it arises |
Pro se - On one"s own behalf |
Pro tanto - So far |
Pro tempore (pro tem.) - For the time being |
Probae esti in segetem sunt deteriorem datae fruges, tamen ipsae suaptae enitent - A good seed, planted even in poor soil, will bear rich fruit by its own nature. (Accius) |
Probatum est - It has been proved |
Probitas laudatur et alget - Honesty is praised and left in the cold. (Juvenal) |
Promotor fidei - Promoter of the faith |
Promoveatur ut amoveatur - Let him be promoted to get him out of the way |
Propino fibi salutem! - Cheers! |
proprium humani ingenii est odisse quem laeseris - It is human nature to hate a person whom you have injured |
proxime accessit - He came next |
Proxime accessit - He/she came close |
Proximo (prox.) - Of the next month |
Proximus sum egomet mihi - I am closest to myself. (Charity begins at home.) (Terence) |
Pueri pueri, pueri puerilia tractant - Children are children, (therefore) children do childish things |
Pulvis et umbra sumus - We are dust and shadow. (Horace) |
Purgamentum init, exit purgamentum - Garbage in, garbage out |
Puri sermonis amator - A lover of pure speech. (Terence) |
Puris omnia pura - To the pure all things are pure |
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O curas hominum! O quantum est in rebus inane! - Ah, human cares! Ah, how much futility in the world! (Lucilius) |
O di immortales! - Good heavens! (uttered by Cicero on the Senate floor) |
O diem praeclarum! - Oh, what a beautiful day! |
O praeclarum custodem ovium lupum! - An excellent protector of sheep, the wolf! (Cicero) |
O quam cito transit gloria mundi! - O how quickly passes the glory of the world! |
O sancta simplicitas! - Oh, holy simplicity! (Jan Hus) |
o si sic omnia - Oh would that all had been done or said thus |
O tempora, O mores! - O the times, O the customs! (Cicero) |
O! Plus! Perge! Aio! Hui! Hem! - Oh! More! Go on! Yes! Ooh! Ummm! |
Obesa cantavit - The fat lady has sung |
obiit - He or she died |
Obiit (ob.) - He/she died |
Obiter (ob.) - In passing |
obiter dictum - A thing said by the way |
Obiter dictum - Something said in passing - parenthetical remark |
Oblitus sum perpolire clepsydras! - I forgot to polish the clocks! |
Obscurum per obscurius - The obscure by means of the more obscure |
Obsta principiis - Resist the beginnings - Nip it in the bud |
Occasio aegre offertur, facile amittitur - Opportunity is offered with difficulty, lost with ease. (Publius Syrus) |
Occasio facit furem - Opportunity makes a thief |
Oderint dum metuant - Let them hate provided that they fear. (Seneca) |
Odi et amo - I hate (her), and I love (her) (Catullus) |
Odium theologicum - Theological hatred. (a special name for the hatred generated in theological disputes) |
Olevm addere camino - To pour fuel on the stove adding gasoline to a fire |
Olevm perdisti - You have lost oil you"ve wasted your time on this criticism for a misallocation of resources |
Olim - Formerly |
Olim habeas eorum pecuniam, numquam eam reddis: prima regula quaesitus - Once you have their money, you never give it back: the 1st rule of acquisiton |
Omne ignotum pro magnifico est - We have great notions of everything unknown. (Tacitus) |
Omne initium est difficile - Every beginning is difficult |
Omne trium perfectum - Everything that comes in threes is perfect |
Omne tvlit pvnctvm qvi miscvit vtile dvlci - [he] has gained every point who has combined [the] useful [with the] agreeable |
Omnes aequo animo parent ubi digni imperant - All men cheerfully obey where worthy men rule. (Syrus) |
Omnes deteriores svmvs licentia - Too much freedom debases us |
Omnes lagani pistrinae gelate male sapiunt - All frozen pizzas taste lousy |
Omnes una manet nox - The same night awaits us all. (Horace) |
Omnes vulnerant, ultima necat - All (hours) wound, the last kills. (inscription on solar clocks) |
omnia causa fiunt - Everything happens for a reason |
Omnia iam fient quae posse negabam - Everything which I used to say could not happen will happen now. (Ovid) |
Omnia mea mecum porto - All that is mine, I carry with me. (Cicero) |
Omnia mihi lingua graeca sunt - It"s all Greek to me |
Omnia mors aequat - Death equals all things |
Omnia munda mundis - Everything is pure to pure ones |
omnia mutantur nos et mutamur in illis - All things change, and we change with them |
Omnia mutantur, nihil interit - Everything changes, nothing perishes. (Ovid) |
Omnia mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis - All things are changing, and we are changing with them |
Omnia vincit amor - Love conquers all |
Omnia vincit amor; et nos cedamus amori - Love conquers all things; let us too surrender to love. (Vergil) |
Omnium gatherum - Assortment |
Omnium rerum principia parva sunt - Everything has a small beginning. (Cicero) |
Onus probandi - The burden of proof |
Opere citato (op. cit.) - In the work just quoted |
Optimis parentibus - To my excellent parents. A common dedication in a book |
Optimus magister, bonus liber - The best teacher is a good book |
Opus Dei - The work of God |
Ora et labora - Pray and labor. (St. Benedict) |
Ora pro nobis - Pray for us |
Oratvr fit, poeta nascitvr - An orator is made [but] a poet is born |
Orbes volantes exstare - Flying saucers are real |
Orbiter dictum/dicta - Said by the way (miscellaneous remarks) |
Orcae ita - Pretty straightforward |
Ore rotundo - With full voice |
Osculare pultem meam! - Kiss my grits! |
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Nam et ipsa scientia potestas es - Knowledge is power. (Sir Francis Bacon) |
Nascentes morimur - From the moment we are born, we begin to die |
Natale solum - Native soil |
Natura abhorret a vacua - Nature abhors a vacuum |
Natura in minima maxima - Nature is the greatest in the smallest things |
Natura nihil fit in frustra - Nature does nothing in vain |
Natura, artis magistra - Nature, the mistress of art |
Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque recurret - You can drive nature out with a pitchfork but she always comes back |
Navigare necesse est - To sail is necessary |
Ne auderis delere orbem rigidum meum! - Don"t you dare erase my hard disk! |
Ne cede malis - Yield not to evils |
Ne feceris ut rideam - Don"t make me laugh |
Ne humanus crede - Trust no human |
Ne nimium - Not too much |
Ne plus ultra - No further. Impassable obstacle |
ne plus ultra - Nothing further perfection |
Ne quid nimis - Nothing in excess. (Terence) |
Nec laudas nisi mortuos poetas: tanti non est, ut placeam, perire - If only dead poets are praised, I"d rather go unsung |
Nec mortem effugere quisquam nec amorem potest - No one is able to flee from death or love |
Nec possum tecum vivere, nec sine te - I am able to live / I can live neither with you, nor without you. (Martial) |
Nec verbum verbo curabis reddere fidus interpres - As a true translator you will take care not to translate word for word. (Horace) |
Necesse est multos timeat quem multi timent - He must fear many, whom many fear. (Laberius) |
Necessitatis non habet legem - Necessity knows no law |
Negotium populo romano melius quam otium committi - The Roman people understand work better than leisure |
Nemine contradicente (nem. con.) - With no one speaking in opposition. Unanimously |
Nemine dissentiente (nem. diss.) - With no one disagreeing |
Nemo ante mortem beatus - Nobody is blessed before his death. We never know what is future preparing for us! |
Nemo autem regere potest nisi qui et regi - Moreover, there is no one who can rule unless he can be ruled. (Seneca) |
nemo dat quod non habet - No one gives what he does not have. |
Nemo gratis mendax - No man lies freely. A person with no reason to lie is telling the truth |
Nemo hic adest illius nominis - There is no one here by that name |
Nemo liber est qui corpori servit - No one is free who is a slave to his body |
Nemo malus felix - No bad man is lucky. (Juvenal) |
Nemo me impune lacessit - No one provokes me with impunity. (motto of the Kings of Scotland) |
Nemo nisi mors - Nobody except death (will part us). (Inscription in the wedding ring of the Swedish Queen Katarina Jagellonica.) |
Nemo propheta in patria sua - No one is considered a prophet in his hometown/homeland |
Nemo repente fuit turpissimus - No one ever became thoroughly bad in one step. (Juvenal) |
Nemo risum praebuit, qui ex se coepit - Nobody is laughed at, who laughs at himself. (Seneca) |
Nemo saltat sobrius - No man dances sober |
Nemo saltat sobrius nisi forte insanit - Nobody dances sober unless he"s insane |
Nemo sine vitio est - No one is without fault. (Seneca the Elder) |
Nemo surdior est quam is qui non audiet - No man is more deaf than he who will not hear |
Nemo timendo ad summum pervenit locum - No man by fearing reaches the top. (Syrus) |
Nervos belli, pecuniam. (Nervus rerum.) - The nerve of war, money. (The nerve of things.) (Cicero) |
Nescio quid dicas - I don"t know what you"re talking about |
Neutiquam erro - I am not lost |
Nihil - Nothing |
Nihil ad rem - Nothing to do with the point |
Nihil agere delectat - It is pleasant to do nothing. (Cicero) |
Nihil aliud scit necessitas quam vincere - Necesssity knows nothing else but victory. (Syrus) |
Nihil curo de ista tua stulta superstitione - I"m not interested in your dopey religious cult |
Nihil declaro - I have nothing to declare |
Nihil est ab omni parte beatum - Nothing is good in every part. (Horace) |
Nihil est incertius volgo - Nothing is more uncertain than the (favour of the) crowd. (Cicero) |
Nihil est miserum nisi cum putes - Nothing is unfortunate if you don"t consider it unfortunate. (Boethius) |
Nihil est--In vita priore ego imperator romanus fui - That"s nothing--in a previous life I was a Roman Emperor |
Nihil obstat - Nothing stands in the way |
Nihil sub sole novum - Nothing new under the sun |
Nihil tam munitum quod non expugnari pecunia possit - No fort is so strong that it cannot be taken with money. (Cicero) |
Nil actum reputa si quid superest agendum - Don"t consider that anything has been done if anything is left to be done. (Lucan) |
nil admirari - To admire nothing (to be superior and self satisfied) |
Nil admirari - To admire nothing. (Horace) |
Nil agit exemplum, litem quod lite resolvit - Not much worth is an example that solves one quarrel with another. (Horace) |
nil desperandum - Never despair |
Nil desperandum! - Never despair! (Horace) |
Nil homini certum est - Nothing is certain for man. (Ovid) |
Nil Sine Numine - Nothing without providence |
Nill illigitimi carborundum - Do not let the bastards get you down |
Nisi - Unless |
Nisi credideritis, non intelligetis - Unless you will have believed, you will not understand. (St. Augustine) |
Nisi prius - Unles previously |
nolens volens - Whether he will or not |
Nolens volens - Whether one likes it or not; willing or unwilling |
Noli equi dentes inspicere donati - Do not look a gift horse in the mouth. (St. Jerome) |
noli intrare - Do not enter /keep out. |
Noli me tangere! - Don"t touch me! (Versio Vulgata) |
Noli me vocate. Ego te vocabo - Don"t call me. I"ll call you |
Noli nothis permittere te terere - Don’t let the bastards get you down |
noli perturbare - Do not disturb |
Noli simul flare sobereque - Don"t whistle and drink at the same time |
Noli turbare circulos meos! - Don"t upset my calculations! (Archimedes) |
Nolite id cogere, cape malleum majorem - Don"t force it, get a bigger hammer |
Nolle prosequi - Do not pursue |
nolle prosequi - To be unwilling to prosecute |
Nolo contendere - I do not wish to contend |
Nomen est omen - The name is the sign |
Nomen] salutem plurimam dicit - [Name] sends many greetings (an official hello) |
Nomina stultorum parietibus haerent - The names of foolish persons adhere to walls (Fools names and fools faces are often seen in public places.) |
Nominatim - By name |
Non bis in idem - Not twice for the same thing |
Non calor sed umor est qui nobis incommodat - It"s not the heat, it"s the humidity |
Non compos mentis - Not in possession of one"s senses |
non compus mentis - Not of sound mind |
Non curo. Si metrum non habet, non est poema - I don"t care. If it doesn"t rhyme, it isn"t a poem |
Non erravi perniciose! - I did not commit a fatal error! |
Non est ad astra mollis e terris via - There is no easy way from the earth to the stars. (Seneca) |
Non est ei similis - There is no one like him |
Non est mea culpa - It"s not my fault |
Non est vivere sed valere vita est - Life is not being alive but being well (life is more than just being alive) |
Non Gradus Anus Rodentum! - Not Worth A Rats Ass! |
Non ignara mals, miseris svccvrrere disco - No stranger to misfortune [myself] I learn to relieve the sufferings [of others |
Non illigitamus carborundum - Don"t let the bastards grind you down |
Non licet - It is not allowed |
Non liquet - It is not clear |
Non mihi, non tibi, sed nobis - Not for you, not for me, but for us |
Non mortem timemus, sed cogitationem mortis - We do not fear death, but the thought of death. (Seneca) |
Non multa, sed multum - Not many, but much. (Meaning, not quantity but quality.) (Plinius) |
Non nobis, Domine - Not unto us, O Lord |
Non omne quod licet honestum est - Not everything that is permitted is honest. (Corpus Iuris Civilis) |
Non omne quod nitet aurum est - Not all that glitters is gold |
Non omnes qui habemt citharam sunt citharoedi - Not all those who own a musical instrument are musicians. (Bacon) |
Non omnia possumus omnes - Not all of us are able to do all things (We can"t all do everything.) (Virgil) |
Non omnis moriar - Not all of me will die. (Horace) |
Non placet - It does not please |
Non plaudite. Modo pecuniam jacite - Don"t applaud. Just throw money |
Non plus ultra! (Nec plus ultra!) - Nothing above that! |
Non prosequitur - He does not proceed |
Non quis, sed quid - Not who, but what |
Non rape me si placet - Please don"t rob me |
Non scholae sed vitae discimus - We do not learn for school, but for life. (Seneca) |
Non semper erit aestas - It will not always be summer (be prepared for hard times) |
Non sequitur - It does not follow |
Non serviam - I will not serve |
Non sibi sed patriae! - Not for self, but country (US Navy Motto) |
Non sibi sed suis - Not for one"s self but for one"s people |
Non sibi, sed patriae - Not for you, but for the fatherland |
Non sum pisces - I am not a fish |
Non sum qualis eram - I am not what / of what sort I was (I"m not what I used to be.) |
Non teneas aurum totum quod splendet ut aurum - Do not take as gold everything that shines like gold |
Non timetis messor - Don"t Fear the Reaper |
Non uno die roma aedificata est - Rome was not built in one day (either) |
Non ut edam vivo, sed vivam edo - I do not live to eat, but eat to live. (Quintilianus) |
Non vereor ne illam me amare hic potuerit resciscere; quippe haud etiam quicquam inepte feci - I don"t think anyone knows I love the girl; I haven"t done anything really silly yet |
Non, mihi ignosce, credo me insequentem esse - No, excuse me, I believe I"m next |
Nonne amicus certus in re incerta cernitur? - A friend in need is a friend in deed. (our equivalent) |
Nonne de novo eboraco venis? - You"re from New York, aren"t you? |
Nonne macescis? - Have you lost weight? |
nosce te ipsum - Know thyself |
Nosce te ipsum - Know thyself. (Inscription at the temple of Apollo in Delphi.) |
nota bene - Note well |
Nota bene (nb.) - Note well. Observe carefully |
Novus homo - A new Man; a man who was the first in his family to be elected to an office |
Novus ordo seclorum - A new order for the ages. (appears on the U.S. one-dollar bill) |
Nulla avarita sine poena est - There is no avarice without penalty. (Seneca) |
Nulla dies sine linea - Not a day without a line. Do something every day! (Apeles, Greek painter) |
Nulla regula sine exceptione - There is no rule/law without exception |
Nulla res carius constat quam quae precibus empta est - Nothing is so expensive as that which you have bought with pleas. (Seneca) |
Nulla vit melior quam bona - There"s no life better than a good life |
Nulli expugnabilis hosti - Conquered By No Enemy. (motto of Gibraltar) |
Nulli secundus - Second to none |
nulli secundus /nulli secunda - Second to none |
Nullius in verba - (Rely) on the words on no one (Horace) |
Nullo metro compositum est - It doesn"t rhyme |
nullo modo - No way. |
Nullum crimen sine lege, nulla poena sine lege - No crime and no punishment without a (pre-existing) law |
Nullum est iam dictum quod non dictum sit prius - Nothing is said that hasn"t been said before. (Terence) |
Nullum Gratuitum Prandium - There is no free lunch! |
Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae - There is no one great ability without a mixture of madness |
Nullum saeculum magnis ingeniis clausum est - No generation is closed to great talents. (Seneca) |
Nullus est instar domus - There is no place like home |
Nullus est liber tam malus ut non aliqua parte prosit - There is no book so bad that it is not profitable on some part. (Pliny the Younger) |
Numen - Divine power |
Numero pondere et mensura Deus omnia condidit - God created everything by number, weight and measure. (Isaac Newton) |
Numerus clausus - A restricted number |
Nummus americanus - Greenback. ($US) |
Numquam aliud natura, aliud sapientia dicit - Never does nature say one thing and wisdom say another |
Numquam non paratus - Never unprepared |
Numquam se minus solum quam cum solus esset - You are never so little alone as when you are alone. (Cicero) |
Nunc dimittis - Now let depart |
Nunc est bibendum - Now we must drink. (Horace) |
Nvdvm pactvm - A nude pact an invalid agreement a contract with illusory benefits or without consideration hence unenforceable |
Nvllvm qvod tetiget non ornavit - He touched none he did not adorn - not simply "the Midas touch", or "he left things better than he found them", but a tribute to a Renaissance man |
Nvnc avt nvnqvam - Now or never |
Nvnc dimittis - Now let [thy servant] depart - generally any permission to go, specifically to express one"s readiness to depart or die |
Nvnc pro tvnc - Now for then retroactive |
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Machina improba! Vel mihi ede potum vel mihi redde nummos meos! - You infernal machine! Give me a beverage or give me my money back! |
Maecenas atavis edite regibus - Maecenas, born of monarch ancestors. (Horace) |
Magister artis ingeniique largitor venter - Necessity is the mother of all invention |
Magister Artium (MA) - Master of arts |
Magister mundi sum! - I am the master of the universe! |
Magna charta - Great paper |
Magna cum laude - With high honor |
Magna res est vocis et silentii temperamentum - The great thing is to know when to speak and when to keep quiet |
Magnas inter oper inops - A pauper in the midst of wealth. (Horace) |
Magnificat - It magnifies |
Magnum bonum - A great good |
magnum opus - A great work |
Magnum opus - Great work, the major work of one"s life |
Magnus frater spectat te - Big Brother is watching you |
Maior risus, acrior ensis: quadragesima octava regula quaesitus - The bigger the smile, the sharper the knife: the 48th rule of acquisition |
Mala fide - In bad faith (something which is done fraudulently) |
male fide - With bad faith treacherously |
Male parta male dilabuntur - What has been wrongly gained is wrongly lost. (Ill-gotten gains seldom prosper.) (Cicero) |
male sanus (male sana) - Mad/inspired |
Malum consilium quod mutari non potest - It"s a bad plan that can"t be changed. (Publilius Syrus) |
Malum prohibitum - A prohibited wrong. A crime that society decides is wrong for some reason, not inherently evil |
Malum quidem nullum esse sine aliquo bono - There is, to be sure, no evil without something good. (Pliny the Elder) |
Manus in mano - Hand in hand |
Manus manum lavat - One hand washes the other. The favor for the favor. (Petronius) |
Mare clausum - A closed sea |
Mare liberum - An open sea |
Mare nostrum - Our sea. (Mediterranean) |
Margaritas ante porcos - Pearls before swine. To give something valuable to someone not respecting it |
Martis - Tuesday |
Mater - Mother |
Mater artium necessitas - Necessity is the mother of invention |
Mater dolorosa - Sorrowful mother. (Virgin Mary) |
Mater memento mori - Remember your mortality |
Mater tua criceta fuit, et pater tuo redoluit bacarum sambucus - Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries |
Materfamilias - Mother of family |
Materia medica - Medical matter |
Materiam superabat opus - The workmanship was better than the subject matter. (Ovid) |
Maxima debetur puero reverentia - We owe the greatest respect to a child |
Maximus in minimis - Great in little things |
Me fallit - I do not know |
Me iudice - I being judge; in my judgement |
Me oportet propter praeceptum te nocere - I"m going to have to hurt you on principle |
Me transmitte sursum, caledoni! - Beam me up, Scotty! |
Mea culpa - My mistake |
Mea maxima culpa - Through my very great fault |
Mea mihi conscientia pluris est quam omnium sermo - My conscience means more to me than all speech. (Cicero) |
Medice, cura te ipsum! - Physician, heal thyself! (Versio Vulgata) |
Medici graviores morbos asperis remediis curant - Doctors cure the more serious diseases with harsh remedies. (Curtius Rufus) |
Medicus curat, natura sanat - The physician treats, nature cures |
Medio tutissimus ibis - You will go safest in the middle. (Moderation in all things) (Ovid) |
Mei capilli sunt flagrantes - My hair is on fire |
Meliora cogito - I strive for the best |
Melitae amor - Love of Malta |
Melius est praevenire quam praeveniri - Better to forestall than to be forestalled |
Melius frangi quam flecti - It is better to break than to bend |
Melius tarde, quam nunquam - Better late than never |
Mellita, domi adsum - Honey, I"m home |
memento mori - Remember that you will die |
Memento vivere - A reminder of life (literally remember that you have to live) |
Memorabilia - Memorable things |
Memorandum - A note of; a thing to be remembered |
Memoria in aeterna - In everlasting remembrance |
Memoriter - From memory |
Mendacem memorem esse oportet - A liar needs a good memory. (Quintilianus) |
mendacem memorem esse oportet - It is fitting that a liar should be a man of good memory (liars should have good memories) |
Mens agitat molem - The mind moves the matter. (Vergil) |
Mens rea - Guilty mind |
Mens regnum bona possidet - An honest heart is a kingdom in itself. (Seneca) |
Mens sana in corpore sano - A sound mind in a sound body. (Juvenalis) |
Mens sibi conscia recti - A mind conscious of its rectitude |
meo periculo - At my own risk |
Mercurii - Wednesday |
Meum cerebrum nocet - My brain hurts |
meum et tuum - Mine and thine |
Meum pactum dictum - My word is my bond |
Mihi cura futuri - My concern is the future |
Mihi ignosce. Cum homine de cane debeo congredi - Excuse me. I"ve got to see a man about a dog |
Millennium (millennia) - A thousand year period |
minima maxima sunt - The smallest things are most important. |
Minime senuisti! - You haven"t aged a bit! |
Minus habens - Absentminded |
mirabile dictu - Wonderful to relate |
Mirabile dictu - Wonderful to say/relate. (Vergil) |
Mirabile visu - Wonderful to behold |
mirabile visu - Wonderful to see |
Miserere - Have mercy |
Missa solemnis - Solemn Mass. (high Mass) |
Mittimus - We send (to prison) |
Modus agendi - Manner of operation |
modus operandi - Plan of working |
Modus Operandi - Way of operating |
Modus operandi (m.o.) - Way of operating |
modus vivendi - A way of living |
Modus vivendi - Way of living |
Monstra mihi pecuniam! - Show me the money! |
Moratorium - A delay |
morituri te salutamus - We who are about to die salute you. |
Morituri te salutant - Those who are about to die salute you |
Mors ultima linea rerum est - Death is everything"s final limit. (Horace) |
Mors ultima ratio - Death is the final accounting |
Mortvi non mordant - Dead me don"t bite; Dead men tell no tale |
Motu proprio - Of one"s own initiative |
Mulier taceat in ecclesia - Let the woman be silent in church. (Paul) |
Multi famam, conscientiam pauci verentur - Many fear their reputation, few their conscience. (Pliny) |
Multis post annis - Many years later |
multum in parvo - Much in little (present standard for the pug dog breed includes this phrase) |
Multum in parvo - Much in little. (small but significant) |
Multun, non multa - Much, not many (quality not quantity) |
Mundus vult decipi - The world wants to be deceived |
Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur - The world wants to be deceived, so let it be deceived! |
Munit haec et altera vincit - One defends and the other conquers |
Mus uni non fidit antro - A mouse does not rely on just one hole. (Plautus) |
Musica delenit bestiam feram - Music soothes the savage beast |
mutantur omnia nos et mutamur in illis - All things change, and we change with them. |
Mutatis mutandis - The necessary changes having been made |
Mutatis mutandis - What was to be changed having been changed |
mutatis mutandis - With necessary changes |
Mutato nomine - The name being changed |
Mvlti svnt vocati, pavci vero electi - Many are called [but] few are chosen |
Mvndvs vvlt decipi - The world wishes to be deceived there"s a sucker born every minute |
Mvtatis mvtandis - The things that ought to have changed having been changed with the necessary substitutions having been made |
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Labera lege - Read my lips |
Labor omnia vincit - Work conquers all things. (Virgil) |
laborare est orare - Work is prayer |
Labra lege - Read my lips |
Lachryma Christi - Christ"s tears |
Lapsus alumni - Error made |
Lapsus calami - A slip of the pen |
Lapsus linguae - A slip of the tongue |
Lapsus memoriae - A slip of the memory |
Lapsus nivium! - Avalanche!! |
Lares et penates - Household gods |
Latet anguis in herba - A snake lies in the grass. (Vergil) |
Latine dictum - Spoken in Latin |
Latine loqui coactus sum - I have this compulsion to speak Latin |
Latro! fremo! - Woof woof! Grrrr! |
Laudant illa, sed ista legunt - Some (writing) is praised, but other is read. (Martialis) |
laudator temporis acti - One who praises past times |
Laudatores temporis acti - Praisers of time past |
Laus Deo - Praise be to God |
laus deo - Praise to god |
Lavdem virtvtis necessitati damvs - We give to necessity the praise of virtue finding the benefit in what"s needful |
Lectio brevior lectio potior - The shortest reading is the more probable reading |
Lector benevole - Kind reader |
Lectori Salutem (L.S.) - Greetings to the reader |
Legatus a latere - Advisor from the side |
Lege et lacrima - Read it and weep |
Legum servi sumus ut liberi esse possimus - We are slaves of the law so that we may be able to be free. (Cicero) |
Leve fit, quod bene fertur, onus - The burden is made light which is borne well. (Ovid) |
Lex clavatoris designati rescindenda est - The designated hitter rule has got to go |
Lex domicilii - The law of a person"s home country |
Lex fori - The law of the forum (country) |
Lex loci - The law of the place |
Lex malla, lex nulla - A bad law is no law. (St. Thomas Aquinas) |
lex non distinguitur nos non distinguere debemus - The law does not distinguish and so we ought not distinguish. |
Lex non scripta - The unwritten (common) law |
Lex scripta - The written law |
lex talionis - The law of retaliation |
Lex talionis - The law of revenge |
Libenter homines id quod volunt credunt - Men gladly believe that which they wish for. (Caesar) |
Liberae sunt nostrae cogitationes - Our thoughts are free. (Cicero) |
Liberate Te Ex Inferis - Save yourself from hell |
Libertas inaestimabilis res est - Liberty is a thing beyond all price. (Corpus Iuris Civilis) |
Liberum arbitrium - Free will |
Libra solidus denarius (L.S.D.) - Pounds, shillings, pence |
Licentia liquendi - Liberty of speaking |
Licentia poetica - Poetic licence. (Seneca) |
Licet - It is allowed |
Lingua franca - French tongue - the common or universal language |
Literati - Men of letters |
Litoralis - Beach bum |
Litterae humaniores - The humanities |
Loco citato (lc) - In the passage just quoted |
locum tenens - A deputy |
Locum tenens - One occupying the place (used as an English noun meaning "deputy") |
Locus classicus - The most authoritative source, Classical passage |
Locus delicti - The scene of the crime |
Locus desperatus - A hopeless passage |
Locus enim est principum generationis rerum - For place is the origin of things. (Roger Bacon) |
Locus in quo - The place in which something happens |
Locus poenitentiae - A place for repentance |
Locus sigilli (l.s.) - The place of the seal |
Locus standi - Place of standing |
Longo intervallo - After a long gap |
Loquitur (loq.) - He/she speaks |
Luctor et emergo - I struggle but I"ll survive |
Luke sum ipse patrem te - Luke, I am your father. (Star Wars) |
Lumen naturale - Natural light |
Lunae - Monday |
Lupus est homo homini - Man is wolf to man |
Lupus in fabula - The wolf in the tale (i.e. speak of the wolf, and he will come) (Terence) |
Lusus naturae - A freak of nature |
Lux et veritas - Light and Truth |
Lux mundi - The light of the world |
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Ibidem (Ib.) - In the same place. (in a book) |
Id certum est quod certum reddi potest - That is certain that can be made certain |
Id est (i.e.) - That is to say |
Id est mihi, id non est tibi! - It is mine, not yours! |
Id imperfectum manet dum confectum erit - It ain"t over until it"s over |
Id tibi praebet speciem lepidissimam! - It looks great on you! |
Idem - The same |
idem - The same. |
Idem quod (i.q.) - The same as |
Iesus Nazarenus Rex Iudaeorum (INRI) - Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews |
Ignis aurum probat, miseria fortes viros - Life is not a bowl of cherries, or, literally, Fire tests gold; adversity tests strong men |
Ignis fatuus - Foolish fire (will-o-the-wisp) |
ignis internum - The fire within |
Ignorantia juris neminem excusat - Ignorance of the law excuses no one |
Ignoratio elenchi - An ignorance of proof |
Ignotus (ign.) - Unknown |
Ille dolet vere, qui sine teste dolet - He mourns honestly who mourns without witnesses. (Martialis) |
Ille mi par esse deo videtur - He seems to me to be equal to a god. (Catullus) |
Illegitimis nil carborundum - Don"t let the bastards grind you down |
Illiud latine dici non potest - You can"t say that in Latin |
Illius me paenitet, dux - Sorry about that, chief |
Imitatores, servum pecus! - Imitators, you slavish crowd! (Horace) |
Imperator - Emperor |
Imperator/Imperatrix (Imp.) - Emperor/Empress |
Imperium - Absolute power |
Imperium et libertas - Empire and liberty. (Cicero) |
Imperium in imperio - An empire within an empire, i.e. A fifth column, a group of people within an nation"s territory who owe allegiance to some other leader |
Impossibilium nulla obligatio est - Nobody has any obligation to the impossible. (Corpus Iuris Civilis) |
Imprimatur - Let it be printed |
Imprimis - In first place |
In absentia - In one"s absence |
In actu - In practice |
In aere aedificare - Build (castles) in the air. (St. Augustine) |
In aeternum - For eternity |
In alio pediculum, in te ricinum non vides - You see a louse on someone else, but not a tick on yourself. (Petronius) |
In articulo mortis - At the moment of death |
In banco - On the bench |
in camera - In secret in a judges private room |
In capite - In chief |
In cavda venenvm - In the tail [is the] poison. Watch out for what you don"t see |
In curia - In court |
In dentibus anticis frustrum magnum spiniciae habes - You have a big piece of spinach in your front teeth |
In dubiis non est agendum - In dubious cases, you should not act |
In dubio - In doubt |
In dubio pro reo - In doubt in favor of the accused. If there is a doubt about guiltiness, the judgement has to be in favour of the accused |
In esse - In existence |
In excelsis - In the highest |
In extenso - At full length |
in extremis - At the point of death |
In extremis - In extremity |
In fine - At the end |
In flagrante delicto - In the very act of committing an offence |
In forma pauperis - In the form of a poor person; in a humble or abject manner |
In futuro - In the future |
In gremio legis - In the protection of the law |
In his ordo est ordinem non servare - In this case the only rule is not obeying any rules |
In hoc signo vinces - In this sign, you will be victorious. (Eusebios) |
In infinitum - To infinity; without end |
In libris libertas - In books (there is) freedom |
In limine - On the threshold, at the very outset |
In loco - In the place of |
In loco parentis - In the place of a parent |
In magnis et voluisse sat est - To once have wanted is enough in great deeds. (Propertius) |
In media res - In or into the middle of a sequence of events. (Horace) |
In medio stat virtus - Virtue stands in the middle. Virtue is in the moderate, not the extreme position. (Horace) |
In medio tutissimus ibis - In the middle of things you will go most safe. (Ovid) |
in memoriam - In memory to the memory |
In memoriam - To the memory of |
In necessariis unitas, in dubiis libertas, in omnibus caritas - In necessary things unity, in doubtful things liberty, in all things charity |
In nomine Domini - In the name of the Lord |
In nomine Patris et Filii et Spiritus Santi - In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit |
In nubibus - In the clouds |
In nuce - In a nutshell |
In omnia paratus - Prepared for all things |
In ovo - In the egg |
In pace - In peace |
In pace, ut sapiens, aptarit idonea bello - In peace, like a wise man, he appropriately prepares for war |
In pari materia - Of like kind |
In partibus infidelium - In parts inhabited by unbelievers |
In parvo - In miniature |
In perpetuum - For ever |
In personam - Against the person |
In pleno - In full |
In pontificalibus - In the proper vestments of a pope or cardinal |
in posse - In possibility |
In posterum - Till the next day |
In praesenti - At the present time |
In principio - In the beginning |
In propria persona - In person |
In puris naturalibus - Completely naked |
In quaestione versare - To be under investigation |
in re - In the matter of |
In re - Refering to |
In rem - Against the matter (property) |
In rerum natura - In the nature of things |
In saecvla saecvlorvm - For ages of ages forever |
In se - In itself |
In silico - By means of a computer simulation |
In silvam ne ligna feras - Don"t carry logs into the forest. (Horace) |
in situ - In its original position |
In situ - In position |
In specie - In kind; (a) in its own form and not in an equivalent (b) in coins and not in paper money |
In spiritu et veritate - In spirit and truth. (Versio Vulgata) |
in statu pupillari - In the state of being a ward |
In statu quo - In the same state |
In terrorem - As a warning; in order to terrify others |
In totidem verbis - In so many words |
In toto - As a whole, absolutely, Completely |
in toto - Entirely |
In transitu - In passing, on the way |
In usu - In use |
In utero - In the womb |
In vacuo - In a vacuum or empty space |
In vinculis etiam audax - In chains yet still bold (free) |
In vino veritas - The truth is in wine. (A drunk person tells the truth) |
in vino veritas - There is truth in wine (truth is told by him who has drunk wine) |
In virtute sunt multi ascensus - In excellence there are many degrees. (Cicero) |
In virtute sunt multi ascensus - There are many degrees in excellence. (Cicero) |
In vitro - In a test tube (literally glass) |
In vivo - In the living (thing) |
Incipit - Begin here |
Incredibile dictu - Incredible to say |
index expurgatorius - A list of forbidden |
Index librorum prohibitorum - Official list of forbidden books not to be read by Catholics |
Indulgentiam quaeso - I ask your indulgence |
Infinitus est numerus stultorum - Infinite is the number of fools |
Infra - Below, underneath |
infra dignitatem - Below ones dignity |
infra dignitatem - Undignified (beneath (our) dignity) |
Infra dignitatem (dig.) - Undignified; beneath one"s dignity |
Inhumanitas omni aetate molesta est - Inhumanity is harmful in every age. (Cicero) |
Iniqua nunquam regna perpetuo manent - Stern masters do not reign long. (Seneca Philosophus) |
Iniuria non excusat iniuriam - One wrong does not justify another |
Insanabile cacoethes scribendi - An incurable passion to write. (Juvenal) |
Insculpsit - He/she engraved it |
Instrumentum aeri temperando - Airconditioner |
Insula gilliganis - Gilligan"s Island |
integer vitae - Blameless of life |
Integer vitae scelerisque purus - Blameless of life and free from crime |
Intellectum valde amat - Love the intellect strongly. (St. Augustine) |
Intelligenti pauca - Few words suffice for he who understands |
Intelligo me intelligere - I understand that I understand. (St. Augustine) |
Inter arma silent leges - In time of war, laws are silent |
Inter caecos regnat strabo - Among blinds the squinting rules. (Erasmus) |
Inter caesa et porrecta - There"s many a slip twixt cup and lip |
Inter canum et lupum - Between a dog and a wolf |
Inter nos - Between ourselves |
Inter partes - Made between two parties |
Inter se - Between themselves |
Inter spem et metum - Between hope and fear |
Inter vivos - Between living (people) |
Inter vivos - Living |
Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum europe vincendarum - Sometimes I get this urge to conquer large parts of Europe |
Interfice errorem, diligere errantem - Kill the sin, love the sinner. (St. Augustine) |
Interregnvm - Period between rules anarchy, lawlessnes |
Intra muros - Within the walls |
Intra vires - Within the power |
Inventas vitam iuvat excoluisse per artes - Let us improve life through science and art. (Vergil) |
Iovis - Thursday |
Ipsa qvidem pretivm virtvs sibi - Virtue is its own reward |
Ipsa scientia potestas est - Knowledge itself is power. (Bacon) |
Ipsi dixit - He himself said it. (Cicero) |
Ipsissima verba - The exact words |
ipsissima verba - The very words |
Ipso facto - By that very fact |
ipso facto - In the fact itself |
Ipso iure - By operation of the law |
Ira furor brevis est - Anger is a brief insanity. (Horace) |
Ire fortiter quo nemo ante iit - To boldly go where no man has gone before. (Star Trek) |
Isso fede - This stinks |
Isto pensitaris? - You get paid for this crap? |
Ita erat quando hic adveni - It was that way when I got here |
Ita est - Yes./It is so |
Ite, misse est - Go, the Mass is finished |
Iubilate Deo - Rejoice in God |
Iunctis viribus - By united efforts |
Iure divino - By divine law |
Iure humano - By human law |
Ius civile - Civil law |
Ius gentium - The law of nations |
Ius primae noctis - The right of the first night |
Iustita omnibus - Justice for all |
Ivs est ars boni et aeqvi - Law is the art of the good and the just |
Ivs gentivm - Right of tribes law of nations |
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Habeas corpus - You must have the body, i.e. You must justify an imprisonment |
Habemus Papam - We have a pope. (used at the announcement of a new pope) |
Habetis bona deum - Have a nice day |
Hac lege - With this law |
Haec olim meminisse ivvabit - Time heals all things, i.e. Wounds, offenses |
Haec trutina errat - There is something wrong with this scale |
Hannibal ante portas! - Hannibal is at the doors! The enemy/danger is at the doors! |
Haud ignota loquor - I say things that are known |
Helluo librorum - A glutton for books (bookworm) |
Heu! Tintinnuntius meus sonat! - Darn! There goes my beeper! |
Heus, hic nos omnes in agmine sunt! - Hey, we"re all in line here! |
Hic et nunc - Here and now |
hic et ubique - Here and everywhere |
Hic habitat felicitas - Here dwells happiness |
Hic jacet (HJ) - Here lies. (written on gravestones or tombs) |
Hic jacet sepultus (HJS) - Here lies buried |
Hic puer est stultissimus omnium! - This boy is the stupidest of all! |
hinc illae lacrimae - Hence come those tears (Terence) |
Historia est vitae magistra - The history is the tutor of life |
Hoc erat in votis - This was among my prayers |
Hoc est in votis - This is in my prayers |
Hoc est verum et nihili nisi verum - This is the truth and nothing but the truth |
Hoc est vivere bis vita posse priore frvi - To live twice is to make useful profit from one"s past. Experience is the best teacher, so learn from it |
hoc genus omne - And all that sort of people |
Hoc natura est insitum, ut quem timueris, hunc semper oderis - It"s an innate thing to always hate the one we"ve learnt to fear |
Hoc tempore obsequium amicos, veritas odium parit - In these days friends are won through flattery, the truth gives birth to hate. (Terence) |
Hocine bibo aut in eum digitos insero? - Do I drink this or stick my fingers in it? |
Hodie mihi, cras tibi - Today for me, tomorrow for you |
Homines libenter quod volunt credunt - Men believe what they want to. (Terentius) |
Homines, dum docent, discunt - Men learn while they teach. (Seneca) |
Homo doctvs is se semper divitias habet - A learned man always has wealth within himself |
Homo homini lupus - Man is a wolf to man |
Homo nudus cum nuda iacebat - Naked they lay together, man and woman |
Homo praesumitur bonus donec probetur malus - One is innocent until proven guilty |
Homo proponit, sed Deus disponit - Man proposes, but God disposes |
Homo sum - I am a man |
Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto - I am human, therefore nothing human is strange to me |
Homo vitae commodatus non donatus est - Man has been lent to life, not given. (Pubilius Syrus) |
Honor virutis preamium - Honour is the reward of virtue |
Honores mutant mores - The honours change the customs. (Power corrupts) |
honoris causa - For the sake of honour |
Honoris causa (h.c.) - As in doctorate, an honorary degree |
Horas non numero nisi serenas - I count only the bright hours. (Inscription on ancient sundials) |
Horribile dictu - Horrible to tell |
Horror vacui - Fear of empty places |
Hostis hvmani generis - Enemy of the human race |
Huc accedit zambonis! - Here comes the Zamboni! |
Humum mandere - To bite the dust |
Hunc tu caveto - Beware of this man |
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gaudeamus igitur - So let us rejoice |
Gaudeamus igitur (iuvenes dum sumus) - Therefore, let us rejoice. (while we are young) |
Genius loci - The guardian spirit of the place |
Gens togata - The toga-clad race; the romans |
Genus irritabile vatum - The irritable race of poets. (Horace) |
Gladiator in arena consilium capit - The gladiator is formulating his plan in the arena (i.e., too late) (Seneca) |
Gloria - Glory |
Gloria filiorum patres - The glory of sons is their fathers |
Gloria in excelsis deo - Glory to God in the highest |
Gloria Patri - Glory to the Father |
Gloria virtutis umbra - Glory (is) the shadow of virtue |
Gloriosum est iniurias oblivisci - It is glorious to forget the injustice |
Gnothe seauton (Greek) - Know thyself |
Graeca sunt, non leguntur - It is Greek, you don"t read that |
Graecia capta ferum victorem cepit - Captive Greece conquered her savage victor. (Horace) |
Gramen artificiosum odi - I hate Astroturf |
Gratia placenti - For the sake of pleasing |
Graviora manent - Greater dangers await |
Gutta cavat lapidem, non vi sed saepe cadendo - The drop excavates the stone, not with force but by falling often. (Ovid) |
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fabas indulcet fames - hunger sweetens beans |
Fabas indulcet fames - Hunger sweetens the beans, or hunger makes everything taste good! |
faber est quisque fortunae suae - every man is architect of his own fortune |
Faber est suae quisque fortunae - Every man is the artisan of his own fortune. (Appius Claudius Caecus) |
Faber quisque fortunae suae - Each man (is) the maker of his own fortune |
Fabricati diem - Make my day |
fabula - a comedy or farce |
fabula Atellana - Atellan farce |
fabula crepidata - Roman tragedy based upon Creek models |
fabulae amatoriae - love stories, often with tragic plots |
fabulae palliatae - cloak comedy, as of Plautus and Terence |
Fac me cocleario vomere! - Gag me with a spoon! |
Fac ut nemo me vocet - Hold my calls |
fac ut sciam - make me know; make me aware |
Fac ut vivas - Get a life |
facere sacramentum - to take an oath |
facere totum - to do everything |
facies non omnibus una nec diversa tamen - the features are not the same in all respects, nor are they different (Ovid) |
facile est inventis addere - it is easy to add to things already invented |
facile largire de alieno - it is easy to be generous with things of another person |
facile omnes quom valemus recta consilia aegrotis damus - when we are healthy, we all have advice for those who are sick |
Facile princeps - Acknowledged leader |
facile princeps - easily first; number one in the field |
facilis descensus Averno - the descent to hell is easy (Virgil) |
Facilis descensvs averno - The descent to Avernus (Hell) it"s easy to fall, hard to rise |
Facilius est multa facere quam diu - It is easier to do many things than to do one for a long time. (Quintilianus) |
Facilius per partes in cognitionem totius adducimur - We are more easily led part by part to an understanding of the whole. (Seneca) |
facinus quos inquinant aequat - guilt equates all who share in guilt |
facio ut des - I do so that you may give |
facio ut facias - I do so that you may do |
facit indignatio versum - indignation produces verse (Juvenal) |
Facito aliquid operis, ut te semper diabolus inveniat occupatum - Always do something, so that the devil always finds you occupied. (St. Jerome) |
fact non verba - deeds not words; action not speeches |
facta armorum - facts of arms |
facta sunt potentiora verbis - facts are more powerful than words |
Facta, non verba - Deeds, not words (Actions speak louder than words) |
factotum - one who does everything; handyman |
Factum est - It is done |
factum est - it is done, it is complete |
Factum est illud, fieri infectum non potest - Done is done, it cannot be made undone. (Plautus) |
factum infectum fieri nequit - a thing done cannot be undone |
factum probandum - the fact of a case to be proved |
factum probans - facts tending to prove other facts |
faenum habet in cornu, longe fuge - he has hay on his horn, keep your distance (reference to a charging bull) (Horace) |
faex populi - the dregs of the people; the rabble (Cicero) |
Fallaces sunt rerum species - The appearances of things are deceptive. (Seneca) |
fallacia consequentis - fallacy of the consequence |
fallentis semitia vitae - the narrow path of a private life (Horace) |
falsa demonstratio - false designation; erroneous description |
falsa lectio - false reading; erroneous interpretation |
falsi crimem - the crime of falsification |
Falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus - False in one thing, false in all |
falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus - false in one thing, false in everything |
Falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus - Untrue in one thing, untrue in everything |
fama clamosa - noisy rumor; public scandal |
Fama crescit eundo - The rumour grows as it goes. (Vergil) |
fama mala quo non aliud velocius ullum - there is nothing swifter than an evil rumor (Virgil) |
Fama nihil est celerius - Nothing is swifter than rumor |
fama semper vivat - may his or her good name live forever |
Fama semper vivat - May his/her fame last forever |
fama volat - rumor flies (i.e., travels fast) (adapted from Virgil) |
Fama volat - The rumour has wings. (Vergil) |
famam extendere factis - to make known his fame by deeds (Virgil) |
Fames est optimus coquus - Hunger is the best cook |
fames optimum condimentum - hunger is the best seasoning |
familiares regis - persons of the king"s household |
famosus libellus - a slanderous or libelous letter |
fari quae sentiat - to say what one feels (Horace) |
Farrago fatigans! - Thuffering thuccotash! |
fas est et ab hoste doceri - it is right to learn even from an enemy |
Fas est et ab hoste doceri - It"s proper to learn even from an enemy. (Ovid) |
fasti - calendar of events |
Fata obstant - the Fates willed otherwise |
Fata viam invenient - the Fates will find a way |
Fata volentem docunt, nolentem trahunt - the Fates lead the willing and drag those who are unwilling |
fatua mulier - a foolish woman; a prostitute |
favete linguis - favor with your tongue; say nothing bad lest you displease the gods (Horace) |
Favete linguis - To keep a (religious) silence. (Horace) |
Fax mentis incedium gloriae - The passion of glory is the torch of the mind |
fecit - he or she made it |
Fecit (fec.) - Made by |
Feles mala! - Bad kitty! |
Feles mala! cur cista non uteris? stramentum novum in ea posui - Bad kitty! Why don"t you use the cat box? I put new litter in it |
felicitas habet multos amicos - prosperity has many friends |
feliciter - happily; fortunately |
Felis qvi nihil debet - Happy [is] he who owes nothing |
felix culpa - fortunate fault |
Felix culpa - Happy fault |
felix qui nihil debet - happy is he who owes nothing |
felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas - fortunate is he who understands the causes of things (Virgil) |
Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas - Happy is he who has been able to learn the causes of things. (Vergil) |
Feliz ano novo - Happy new year |
felo de se - one who kills himself doing an illegal act |
Felo de se - Suicide |
ferae naturae - wild beasts; undomesticated animals |
Fere libenter homines id quod volunt credunt - Men readily believe what they want to believe. (Caesar) |
ferrea non venerem sed praedam saecula laudant - the iron age celebrates not love but the acquisition of material possessions |
fervens - boiling |
fervens difficili bile tumet iecur - my liver (seat of passion) swells with burning wrath (Horace) |
fervet opus - the work boils (Virgil) |
fessus viator - tired traveler |
Festina lente - Make haste slowly |
festina lente - make haste slowly (Emperor Augustus) |
Fiat - Let it be done |
fiat Dei voluntas - may God"s will be done |
fiat experimentum in corpore - let one experiment on a body |
fiat haustus - let a draught be made let |
fiat justitia - let justice be done |
Fiat justitia (et ruat caelum) - Let justice be done. (though the heavens fall)" |
fiat justitia, ruat caelum - let justice be done, even though the heavens fall |
Fiat lux - Let there be light |
fiat lux - let there be light (Genesis) |
fiat mixtura - let a mixture be made |
fiat potio - let a portion be made |
fiat voluntas tua - Thy will be done (Gospel of Matthew) |
Fiat volvntas tua - Let Thy will [be done] (Biblical) |
ficta voluptatis causa sint proxima veris - fictions should approximate the truth in order to please |
fictilia - pottery |
fictilis - made of pottery |
fictio cedit veritati - fiction yields to the truth |
fide et amore - by faith and love |
fide et fortitudine - by fidelity and fortitude |
fide, non armis - by faith, not by arms |
Fidei defensor - Defender of the faith |
Fidei Defensor (F.D.) - defender of faith (motto of the sovereigns of England since I lenry VIII |
fidei est coticula crux - the Cross is the touchstone of faith |
fideli certa merces - to the faithful, reward is certain |
fidelis ad urnam - faithful to the urn; faithful until death |
fideliter - faithfully |
fides ante intellectum - faith before understanding |
fides et justitia - faith and justice |
fides et veritas - faith and truth |
fides facit fidem - faith creates faith |
fides non timet - faith does not fear |
fides probata coronat - approved faith confers a crown |
fides Punica - Punic faith; treacherous (Livy) |
Fides quaerens intellectum - Faith seeking understanding |
fides servanda est - faith must be kept |
fides, sed cui vide - trust, but watch out to whom |
Fidus Achates - Faithful Achates (friend) |
fidus Achates - faithful companion (Virgil) |
fidus et audax - faithful and courageous |
fieri facias - writ authorizing execution of a judgment |
figura causae - stylistic pattern of a speech - |
Filioque - And from the son |
filius - a son |
filius est pars patris - a son is part of the father |
Filius nullius - A bastard |
filius nullius - son of nobody; bastard |
filius populi - son of the people |
filius terrae - son of the earth; a serf |
Finem respice - Look to the end [before setting forth] |
finem respice - look to the end; consider the end |
Finis - The end |
Finis coronat opus - The ending crowns the work. (Ovid) |
finis coronat opus fit via vi flagrante bello flagrante delicto - the end crowns the work a way is made by force in the midst of the war in the heat of the crime |
Flagrante delicto - Literally while the crime is blazing. Caught red-handed, in the very act of a crime |
flagrante delicto - The very act |
flamma fumo est proxima - fire is very close to smoke |
Flamma fumo est proxima - Flame follows smoke. (Plautus) |
flat justitia ruat coelum - Let justice be done through the heavens fall |
flat lux - Let there be light |
floreat - Let it flourish |
Floreat regina regina - May it flourish. (motto of the City of Regina, Saskatchewan Canada) |
Floruit - Flourished |
Fluctuat nec mergitur - It is tossed by the waves but it does not sink |
Fons et origo - The source and origin |
Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit - Perhaps someday we will look back upon these things with joy |
Forsan miseros meliora sequentur - For those in misery perhaps better things will follow. (Virgil) |
fortasse - Maybe |
Fortes et liber - Strong and free. (Alberta) |
Fortes fortuna adiuvat - Fortune favors the brave. (Terence) |
fortes fortuna iuvat - Fortune favours the brave |
Fortes fortuna iuvat - Fortune favours the brave |
Fortiter fideliter forsan feliciter - Bravely, faithfully, perhaps successfully |
fortiter in re, suaviter in modo - Resolute/unhesitant in action, gentle in manner. |
Fortiter in re, suaviter in modo - Resolutely in action, gently in manner. (To do unhesitatingly what must be done but accomplishing it as inoffensively as possible) |
Fortitudine vincimus - By endurance we conquer |
Fortius quo fidelius - Strength through loyalty |
Fortuna amicos parat, inopia amicos probat - The fortune is preparing friends, the abundance is testing them |
Fortuna caeca est - Fortune is blind. (Cicero) |
Fortuna vitrea est; tum cum splendet frangitur - Fortune is glass; just when it gleams brightest it shatters |
Fortunatus sum! Pila mea de gramine horrido modo in pratum lene recta volvit! - Isn"t that lucky! My ball just rolled out of the rough and onto the fairway! |