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  2. List of Latin phrases (N) - Wikipedia

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    ne plus ultra: nothing more beyond: Also nec plus ultra or non plus ultra. A descriptive phrase meaning the most extreme point, or the best form, of something. Most notably the Pillars of Hercules were in the geographic sense the nec plus ultra of the ancient Mediterranean world, before the discovery of the Americas.

  3. Teetotum - Wikipedia

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    A six-sided Chinese teetotum. In its earliest form, the body was square (in some cases via a stick through a regular six-sided die [3]), marked on the four sides by the letters A (Lat. aufer, take), indicating that the player takes one from the pool, D (Lat. depone, put down) when a fine has to be paid, N (Lat. nihil, nothing), and T (Lat. totum, all), when the whole pool is to be taken.

  4. Pars pro toto - Wikipedia

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    Pars pro toto (Latin for 'a part (taken) for the whole'; / ˌ p ɑːr z p r oʊ ˈ t oʊ t oʊ /; [1] Latin: [ˈpars proː ˈtoːtoː]), [2] is a figure of speech where the name of a portion of an object, place, or concept is used or taken to represent its entirety.

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    Pints and pickleball go hand-in-hand in Michelob Ultra’s Super Bowl spot. On Wednesday, Jan. 22, the beer brand released a 15-second ad teasing the competitive commercial with Willem Dafoe ...

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    Portland roared back for a 110-101 win, dropping the Pistons to 2-3, and it was the second loss in that miserable streak. On Monday, though, it was Cunningham’s team flexing muscle following a ...

  7. Totum pro parte - Wikipedia

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    Totum pro parte is Latin for "the whole for a part"; it refers to a kind of metonymy.The plural is tota pro partibus, "wholes for parts".In context of language, it means something is named after something of which it is only a part (or only a limited characteristic, not necessarily representative of the whole).

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  9. List of Latin phrases (Q) - Wikipedia

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    qui totum vult totum perdit: he who wants everything loses everything: Attributed to Publilius Syrus: qui transtulit sustinet: he who transplanted still sustains: Or "he who brought us across still supports us", meaning God. State motto of Connecticut. Originally written as sustinet qui transtulit in 1639. quia suam uxorem etiam suspicione ...