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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:
A phrase used by Thomas Hobbes to describe the state of nature: bellum Romanum: war as the Romans did it: All-out war without restraint as Romans practiced against groups they considered to be barbarians bellum se ipsum alet: war feeds itself: Biblia pauperum: Paupers' Bible: Tradition of biblical pictures displaying the essential facts of ...
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 *
Latin Translation Notes I, Vitelli, dei Romani sono belli: Go, O Vitellius, at the war sound of the Roman god: Perfectly correct Latin sentence usually reported as funny by modern Italians because the same exact words, in Italian, mean "Romans' calves are beautiful", which has a ridiculously different meaning. ibidem (ibid.) in the same place
The complete phrase is "de gustibus et coloribus non est disputandum" ("when we talk about tastes and colours there is nothing to be disputed"). Probably of Scholastic origin; see Wiktionary. de integro: again, a second time: de jure: by law "Official", in contrast with de facto; analogous to "in principle", whereas de facto is to "in practice ...
Of medieval origin, but often incorrectly attributed to Ovid. [14] ars gratia artis: art for the sake of art: 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
List of Latin phrases (L) List of Latin honorifics; List of phrases containing the word vitae; M. List of Latin phrases (M) N. List of Latin phrases (N) O.
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 L.