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  2. Excelsior (Longfellow) - Wikipedia

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    Longfellow explained the repeated title as from the Latin, Scopus meus excelsior est ("my goal is higher"). [2] Biographer Charles Calhoun suggested the Alpine setting was an autobiographical reference to the poet's then-unsuccessful wooing of Frances Appleton, daughter of industrialist Nathan Appleton .

  3. List of Latin abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    [5] cwt. centum weight "hundredweight" [1] This is a mixture of Latin and English abbreviations. DG Dei gratia "by the grace of God" [1] A part of the monarch's title, it is found on all British and Canadian coins. DV Deo volente "God willing" ead. eadem "the same" (woman) See id. below. Eadem is pronounced with stress on the first e. et al.

  4. Crossword abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    Second – S or MO (moment) Secret service – SS; Secretary – PA (personal assistant) Section – OR (Other Ranks – a 'section' of the British Armed Forces) See – LO; Senior Service – RN (Royal Navy) Sergeant Major - SM; Setter – I, ME, ONE (meaning the setter of the crossword) Setter's – MY (meaning the setter of the crossword)

  5. List of Latin-script letters - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of letters of the Latin script. The definition of a Latin-script letter for this list is a character encoded in the Unicode Standard that has a script property of 'Latin' and the general category of 'Letter'. An overview of the distribution of Latin-script letters in Unicode is given in Latin script in Unicode.

  6. List of Latin-script alphabets - Wikipedia

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    The lists and tables below summarize and compare the letter inventories of some of the Latin-script alphabets.In this article, the scope of the word "alphabet" is broadened to include letters with tone marks, and other diacritics used to represent a wide range of orthographic traditions, without regard to whether or how they are sequenced in their alphabet or the table.

  7. List of Latin phrases (full) - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  8. List of Latin phrases (S) - Wikipedia

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    si vales valeo (SVV) if you are well, I am well (abbr) A common beginning for ancient Roman letters. An abbreviation of si vales bene est ego valeo, alternatively written as SVBEEV. The practice fell out of fashion and into obscurity with the decline in Latin literacy. si vis amari ama: If you want to be loved, love

  9. List of Latin-script digraphs - Wikipedia

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    nj is a letter in the Latin orthographies of Albanian, Slovenian and Serbo-Croatian. Ljudevit Gaj, a Croat, first used this digraph in 1830. In all of these languages, it represents the palatal nasal /ɲ/. For example, the Croatian and Serbian word konj "horse" is pronounced /koɲ/.