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glyph meaning N o. Seq. Name of month Glyph examples glyph meaning 1 Pop: mat 10 Yax: green storm 2 Woʼ: black conjunction 11 Sakʼ: white storm 3 Sip: red conjunction 12 Keh: red storm 4 Sotzʼ: bat 13 Mak: enclosed 5 Sek: death 14 Kʼankʼin: yellow sun 6 Xul: dog 15 Muwan: owl 7 Yaxkʼin: new sun 16 Pax: planting time 8 Mol: water 17 ...
whatever has been said in Latin seems deep: Or "anything said in Latin sounds profound". A recent ironic Latin phrase to poke fun at people who seem to use Latin phrases and quotations only to make themselves sound more important or "educated". Similar to the less common omnia dicta fortiora si dicta Latina. quieta non movere: don't move ...
Meaning from out of the depths of misery or dejection. From the Latin translation of the Vulgate Bible of Psalm 130, of which it is a traditional title in Roman Catholic liturgy. de re: about/regarding the matter
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 ...
Latin Translation Notes habeas corpus [we command] that you have the body [brought up] A legal term from the 14th century or earlier. Refers to a number of legal writs requiring a jailer to bring a prisoner in person (hence corpus) before a court or judge, most commonly habeas corpus ad subjiciendum ("that you have the body [brought up] for the purpose of subjecting [the case to examination]").
This is a list of Latin words with derivatives in English language. Ancient orthography did not distinguish between i and j or between u and v. [1] Many modern works distinguish u from v but not i from j. In this article, both distinctions are shown as they are helpful when tracing the origin of English words. See also Latin phonology and ...
A non-traditional Latin rendering, temet nosce (thine own self know), is translated in The Matrix as "know thyself". noscitur a sociis: a word is known by the company it keeps: In statutory interpretation, when a word is ambiguous, its meaning may be determined by reference to the rest of the statute. noster nostri: Literally "Our ours"
It is the Latin translation from John 1:36, when St. John the Baptist exclaimes "Ecce Agnus Dei!" ("Behold the Lamb of God!") upon seeing Jesus Christ. alea iacta est: the die has been cast: Said by Julius Caesar (Greek: ἀνερρίφθω κύβος, anerrhíphthō kýbos) upon crossing the Rubicon in 49 BC, according to Suetonius.