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Translated into Latin from Baudelaire's L'art pour l'art. Motto of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. While symmetrical for the logo of MGM, the better word order in Latin is "Ars artis gratia". ars longa, vita brevis: art is long, life is short: Seneca, De Brevitate Vitae, 1.1, translating a phrase of Hippocrates that is often used out of context. The "art ...
In Inuktitut, the Inuit language of the eastern Canadian Arctic, the word kakiniit translates to the English word for tattoo [37]: 196 and the word tunniit means face tattoo. [34] Among the Inuit, some tattooed female faces and parts of the body symbolize a girl transitioning into a woman, coinciding with the start of her first menstrual cycle.
from Plautus, Persa IV.3–24; used by Russian hooligans as tattoo inscription facile princeps: easily the first: said of the acknowledged leader in some field, especially in the arts and humanities facilius est multa facere quam diu: It is easier to do many things, than one thing consecutively: Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 1/12:7
Hegseth also has the words “Deus Vult,” Latin for “God will it,” on his bicep. ... This tattoo is the first one Hegseth got while on vacation with his family, he told the Big Lead.
List of Latin phrases; List of Byzantine Greek words of Latin origin; List of Latin words with English derivatives; Latin obscenity; List of descriptive plant species epithets (A–H) List of descriptive plant species epithets (I–Z) List of Latin and Greek words commonly used in systematic names *
This is a list of Wikipedia articles of Latin phrases and their translation into English. To view all phrases on a single, lengthy document, see: List of Latin phrases (full) The list is also divided alphabetically into twenty pages:
Say much in few words: multis e gentibus vires: from many peoples, strength: Motto of Saskatchewan: multitudo sapientium sanitas orbis: a multitude of the wise is the health of the world: From the Vulgate, Wisdom of Solomon 6:24. Motto of the University of Victoria. multum in parvo: much in little: Conciseness.
Latin Translation Notes tabula gratulatoria: congratulatory tablet: A list of congratulations. tabula rasa: scraped tablet: Thus, "blank slate". Romans used to write on wax-covered wooden tablets, which were erased by scraping with the flat end of the stylus. John Locke used the term to describe the human mind at birth, before it had acquired ...