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  2. List of Latin words with English derivatives - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of Latin words with derivatives in English language.. 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.

  3. List of Latin phrases (full) - Wikipedia

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    Used before the anglicized version of a word or name. For example, "Terra Mariae, anglice, Maryland". animus in consulendo liber: a mind unfettered in deliberation: Motto of NATO: anno (an.) in the year: Also used in such phrases as anno urbis conditae (see ab urbe condita), Anno Domini, and anno regni. anno Domini (A.D.) in the year of our Lord

  4. List of Germanic and Latinate equivalents in English

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    This list contains Germanic elements of the English language which have a close corresponding Latinate form. The correspondence is semantic—in most cases these words are not cognates, but in some cases they are doublets, i.e., ultimately derived from the same root, generally Proto-Indo-European, as in cow and beef, both ultimately from PIE *gʷōus.

  5. List of Latin phrases (N) - Wikipedia

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    a word is known by the company it keeps: In statutory interpretation, when a word is ambiguous, its meaning may be determined by reference to the rest of the statute. noster nostri: Literally "Our ours" Approximately "Our hearts beat as one." nota bene (n.b.) mark well: That is, "please note" or "note it well". novus ordo seclorum: new order of ...

  6. Patent medicine - Wikipedia

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    This nostrum was the inspiration for Al Capp's "Kickapoo Joy Juice", featured in the comic strip, "Li'l Abner". Another benefit of claiming traditional native origins was that it was nearly impossible to disprove. A good example of this is the story behind Dr. Morse's Indian Root Pills, which was the mainstay of the Comstock patent medicine ...

  7. List of patent medicines - Wikipedia

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    E. W. Kemble's "Death's Laboratory" on the cover of Collier's (June 3, 1905). A patent medicine, also known as a proprietary medicine or a nostrum (from the Latin nostrum remedium, or "our remedy") is a commercial product advertised to consumers as an over-the-counter medicine, generally for a variety of ailments, without regard to its actual effectiveness or the potential for harmful side ...

  8. Nostrum - Wikipedia

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    Nostrum remedium, a Latin term for trademarked patent medicine. Air Nostrum, a regional airline based in Spain. Exultavit cor nostrum, a 13th Century papal bull. Mare Nostrum, a Latin nickname for the Mediterranean sea. Pascha Nostrum, an Easter hymn. Nostrum Oil & Gas, an oil and gas exploration and production company.

  9. Thesaurus - Wikipedia

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    Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. A modern english thesaurus. A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms ...