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method of living or way of life: An accommodation between disagreeing parties to allow life to go on. A practical compromise. Monasterium sine libris est sicut civitas sine opibus: A monastery without books is like a city without wealth: Used in the Umberto Eco novel The Name of the Rose. Part of a much larger phrase: Monasterium sine libris ...
With the meaning "speak of the wolf, and he will come"; from Terence's play Adelphoe. lupus non mordet lupum: a wolf does not bite a wolf: lupus non timet canem latrantem: a wolf is not afraid of a barking dog: lux aeterna: eternal light: epitaph lux et lex: light and law: Motto of the Franklin & Marshall College and the University of North ...
A long time ago; from Gaius Lucilius, Satires VI, 284 a falsis principiis proficisci: to set forth from false principles: Legal phrase. From Cicero, De Finibus IV.53. a fortiori: from the stronger: i.e., "even more so" or "with even stronger reason". Often used to lead from a less certain proposition to a more evident corollary. a maiore ad minus
life is uncertain, death is most certain: More simply, "the most certain thing in life is death". vita mutatur, non tollitur: life is changed, not taken away: The phrase is a quotation from the preface of the first Roman Catholic rite of the Mass for the Dead. vita patris: during the life of the father
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:
He is famous for claiming to speak more than fifty languages, and for a time was listed in The Guinness Book of Records. It is unclear how many languages he can in fact speak. [219] Andrew Divoff (1955–), Venezuelan actor and producer. He speaks Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, French, Italian, English, German, and Russian. [220]
Vulgar Latin (in Latin, sermo vulgaris) is a blanket term covering vernacular usage or dialects of the Latin language spoken from earliest times in Italy until the latest dialects of the Western Roman Empire, diverging significantly after 500 AD, evolved into the early Romance languages, whose writings began to appear about the 9th century.
The spoken Latin that would later become Romanian diverged somewhat more from the other varieties, as it was largely separated from the unifying influences in the western part of the Empire. Spoken Latin began to diverge into distinct languages by the 9th century at the latest, when the earliest extant Romance writings begin to appear.