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by virtue of definition: Thus: "by definition"; variant of per definitionem; sometimes used in German-speaking countries. Occasionally misrendered as "qua definitionem". qua patet orbis: as far as the world extends: Motto of the Royal Netherlands Marine Corps: quae non posuisti, ne tollas: do not take away what you did not put in place: Plato, Laws
While porn stars may have no qualms about uttering filthy phrases during sex, many of us regular folk tend to blush at the mere thought of saying such words out loud. ... While talking about what ...
Grammatical abbreviations are generally written in full or small caps to visually distinguish them from the translations of lexical words. For instance, capital or small-cap PAST (frequently abbreviated to PST) glosses a grammatical past-tense morpheme, while lower-case 'past' would be a literal translation of a word with that meaning.
if you know how to use money, money is your slave; if you don't, money is your master: Written on an old Latin tablet in downtown Verona (Italy). pede poena claudo: punishment comes limping: That is, retribution comes slowly but surely. From Horace, Odes, 3, 2, 32. pendent opera interrupta: the works hang interrupted: From the Aeneid of Virgil ...
To form a question from a sentence which does not have such an auxiliary or copula present, the auxiliary verb do (does, did) needs to be inserted, along with inversion of the word order, to form a question (see do-support). For example:
Carpe is the second-person singular present active imperative of carpÅ "pick or pluck" used by Horace to mean "enjoy, seize, use, make use of". [2] Diem is the accusative of dies "day". A more literal translation of carpe diem would thus be "pluck the day [as it is ripe]"—that is, enjoy the moment.
Grammar rules may concern the use of clauses, phrases, and words. The term may also refer to the study of such rules, a subject that includes phonology, morphology, and syntax, together with phonetics, semantics, and pragmatics. There are, broadly speaking, two different ways to study grammar: traditional grammar and theoretical grammar.