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Vita (electoral list), an Italian electoral list in the 2022 general election; Vita: Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment, an ethnographic study by João Biehl; Beta (letter) a.k.a. Vita (β), the second letter of the Greek alphabet; A vita (Latin for "life") is a hagiography, a biography praising the life of a Christian saint
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 ...
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: Hence the term "decessit vita patris" (d. v. p) or "died v. p.", which is seen in genealogical works such as Burke's Peerage.
Vitae is a Latin word, meaning or pertaining to life. Aqua vitae, archaic name for a concentrated aqueous solution of ethanol, distilled spirits; Arbor vitae (disambiguation), "tree of life" De Brevitate Vitae, work of Roman philosopher Seneca; Curriculum vitae or CV, summary of education and job experience, résumé
The singular form is never vita. Curriculum is already singular, vitae is genitive from vita, i.e., "of life", despite the plural-appearing vitae modifier. The true plural is curricula vitae. [5] cwt. centum weight "hundredweight" [1] This is a mixture of Latin and English abbreviations. DG Dei gratia "by the grace of God" [1]
This is a list of English words with derivatives in Latin (and other modern languages). 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. In this article, both distinctions are shown as they are helpful when tracing the origin of English words.
mors tua, vita mea: your death, my life: From medieval Latin, it indicates that battle for survival, where your defeat is necessary for my victory, survival. mors vincit omnia "death conquers all" or "death always wins" An axiom often found on headstones. morte magis metuenda senectus: old age should rather be feared than death: from Juvenal in ...
Thus, "by definition" ex vita discedo, tanquam ex hospitio, non tanquam ex domo: I depart from life as from an inn, not as from home: Cicero, Cato Maior de Senectute (On Old Age) 23 ex vivo: out of or from life: Used in reference to the study or assay of living tissue in an artificial environment outside the living organism. ex voto: from the vow