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The phrase is used on the US Naval Sea Cadet Nashville LPD-13 [2] unit crest. [3] The phrase is used by the 1-108th Field Artillery Regiment, the 28th Infantry Division, and the 56th Stryker Brigade Combat Team of the Pennsylvania National Guard. [4] The phrase is carved on the Chester Confederate Monument (1905) in Chester, South Carolina. [5]
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" referred to in the original aphorism was the craft of medicine, which took a lifetime ...
Derived from the phrase pater familias, an Old Latin expression preserving the archaic -as ending for the genitive case. Pater Omnipotens: Father Almighty: A more direct translation would be "omnipotent father". Pater Patriae: father of the nation: A Latin honorific meaning "Father of the Country", or more literally, "Father of the Fatherland ...
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:
Term used in contract law to specify terms that are voided or confirmed in effect from the execution of the contract. Cf. ex nunc. Ex turpi causa non oritur actio: ex nunc: from now on Term used in contract law to specify terms that are voided or confirmed in effect only in the future and not prior to the contract, or its adjudication. Cf. ex ...
Latin translation of a classical Greek proverb. Generally means putting large effort in a necessarily fruitless enterprise. Compare "selling coal to Newcastle". una hirundo non facit ver: one swallow does not make summer: A single example of something positive does not necessarily mean that all subsequent similar instances will have the same ...
a doctrine in contract law that allows a signing party to escape performance of the agreement. A claim of "non est factum" means that the signature on the contract was signed by mistake, without knowledge of its meaning, but was not done so negligently. A successful plea would make the contract void ab initio.
Deo et patriae: For God and country: Motto of Regis High School in New York City, New York, United States. Deo gratias: Thanks [be] to God: A frequent phrase in the Roman Catholic liturgy, used especially after the recitation of a lesson, the Last Gospel at Mass or as a response to Ite Missa Est / Benedicamus Domino. Deo juvante: with God's help