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or "everything unknown appears magnificent" The source is Tacitus: Agricola, Book 1, 30 where the sentence ends with 'est'. The quotation is found in Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes short story "The Red-Headed League" (1891) where the 'est' is missing. omne initium difficile est: every beginning is difficult: omne vivum ex ovo
an empire without an end: In Virgil's Aeneid, Jupiter ordered Aeneas to found a city from which would come an everlasting, never-ending empire, the endless (sine fine) empire. impossibilium nulla obligatio est: there is no obligation to do the impossible: Publius Juventius Celsus, Digesta L 17, 185. imprimatur: let it be printed
E.g. is often confused with i.e. (id est, meaning ' that is ' or ' in other words '). [12] Some writing styles give such abbreviations without punctuation, as ie and eg. [a] Exemplum virtutis: a model of virtue exercitus sine duce corpus est sine spiritu: an army without a leader is a body without a spirit
Egg – O (the letter O loosely resembles the shape of an egg) Elected – IN; Electricity – AC (alternating current), DC (direct current) Eleven – II (II looks similar to 11), or XI (Roman numerals) End of war – VE (Victory in Europe, the end of World War II) Energy – E, J (joule) Engagement - GIG
Also consuetudo est altera lex (custom is another law) and consuetudo vincit communem legem (custom overrules the common law); see also: Consuetudinary. consummatum est: It is completed. The last words of Jesus on the cross in the Latin translation of John 19:30. contemptus mundi/saeculi: scorn for the world/times: Despising the secular world.
This is a list of Latin words with derivatives in English (and other modern languages). 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.
Often abbreviated to L.S., used as opening words for a letter lege artis: according to the law of the art: Denotes that a certain intervention is performed in a correct way. Used especially in a medical context. The 'art' referred to in the phrase is medicine. legem terrae: the law of the land: leges humanae nascuntur, vivunt, et moriuntur
When est is a copula, it tends to be unemphatic and to be placed after a stronger word, or between two strong words: [130] hōrum omnium fortissimī sunt Belgae [131] "Of all these the most warlike are the Belgae." cuius pater Caesaris erat lēgātus [132] "whose father was a legate of Caesar" This strong word which est follows can also be the ...