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The source of the word camera. Cane Nero magna bella Persica: Tell, oh Nero, of the great wars of Persia: Perfectly correct Latin sentence usually reported as funny from modern Italians because the same exact words, in today's dialect of Rome, mean "A black dog eats a beautiful peach", which has a ridiculously different meaning. canes pugnaces
List of Greek and Latin roots in English; List of Latin abbreviations; List of Latin and Greek words commonly used in systematic names; List of Latin words with English derivatives; List of Latin legal terms; List of medical roots, suffixes and prefixes; List of sundial mottos § Latin mottos; List of U.S. state and territory mottos
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 ...
few words suffice for him who understands: inter alia (i.a.) among other things: Term used in formal extract minutes to indicate that the minute quoted has been taken from a fuller record of other matters, or when alluding to the parent group after quoting a particular example. [citation needed] inter alios: among others
This page is one of a series listing English translations of notable Latin phrases, such as veni, vidi, vici and et cetera. Some of the phrases are themselves translations of Greek phrases, as ancient Greek rhetoric and literature started centuries before the beginning of Latin literature in ancient Rome. [1] This list covers the letter O.
In other words, "well-intentioned", "fairly". In modern contexts, often has connotations of "genuinely" or "sincerely". Bona fides is not the plural (which would be bonis fidebus), but the nominative, and means simply "good faith". Opposite of mala fide. bona notabilia: note-worthy goods
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 page is one of a series listing English translations of notable Latin phrases, such as veni, vidi, vici and et cetera. Some of the phrases are themselves translations of Greek phrases, as ancient Greek rhetoric and literature started centuries before the beginning of Latin literature in ancient Rome. [1] This list covers the letter P.