Crush your opponent with Latin Expressions

A

A bene placito - At one's pleasure

A capite ad calcem - From head to heel

A cappella - In church [style] - i.e. Vocal music only

A contrario - From a contrary position

A cruce salus - From the cross comes salvation

A Deo et Rege - From God and the King

A fortiori - With yet stronger reason

A fronte praecipitium a tergo lupi - A precipice in front, wolves behind (between a rock and a hard place)

A mari usque ad mare - From sea to sea (Motto of Canada)

A mensa et thoro - From board and bed (legal separation)

A pedibus usque ad caput - From feet to head

A posse ad esse - From possibility to actuality

A posteriori - From what comes after. Inductive reasoning based on observation, as opposed to deductive, or a priori

A priori - From what comes before

A verbis ad verbera - From words to blows

Ab absurdo - From the absurd (establishing the validity of your argument by pointing out the absurdity of your opponent's position)

Ab aeterno - From the beginning of time

Ab asino lanam - Wool from an ass, blood from a stone impossible

Ab hinc - From here on

Ab imo pectore - From the bottom of the chest. (from the heart) (Julius Caesar)

Ab incunabulis - From the cradle

Ab initio - From the beginning

Ab intestato - Having made no will

Ab origine - From the origin

Ab ovo usque ad mala - From the egg right to the apples (From start to finish) (Horace)

Ab ovo - From the egg

Ab urbe condita - From the foundation of the city. (Rome)

Ab/Ex uno disce omnes - From one person, learn all people

Abiit, excessit, evasit, erupit - He has left, absconded, escaped and disappeared

Absente reo - In absence of the defendant

Absit invidia - No offence intended

Absit omen - May the omen be absent. (may this not be an omen)

Absum! - I'm outta here!

Abusus non tollit usum - Wrong use does not preclude proper use

Abutebaris modo subjunctivo denuo - You've been misusing the subjunctive again

Abyssus abyssum invocat - Hell calls hell; one mistep leads to another

Accipere quam facere praestat injuriam - It is better to suffer an injustice than to do an injustice

Acta est fabula, plaudite! - The play is over, applaud! (Said to have been emperor Augustus' last words)

Acta non verba - Action not words

Acta sanctorum - Deeds of the saints

Actus reus - Wrongful act - as opposed to mens rea - the wrongful intention or guilty mind

Ad absurdum - To the point of absurdity

Ad acta - To archives. Not actual any more

Ad alta - To the summit

Ad astra per aspera - To the stars through difficulty

Ad astra - To the stars

Ad augusta per angusta - To high places by narrow roads

Ad captandum vulgus - To appeal to the crowd -- often used of politicians who make false or insincere promises appealing to popular interest

Ad clerum - To the clergy

Ad eundem gradum - To the same level

Ad eundem - Of admission to the same degree at a different university

Ad eundum quo nemo ante iit - To boldly go where no man has gone before

Ad fontes - To the sources (motto of Renaissance Humanism)

Ad fundum - To the bottom / To the end (said during a generic toast, like bottoms up!)

Ad hoc - For a particular purpose. (improvised, made up in an instant)

Ad hominem - Appealing to a person's physical and emotional urges, rather than her or his intellect

Ad honorem - In honour. Honour not baring any material advantage

Ad idem - Of the same mind

Ad infinitum - To infinity without end

Ad interim - For the meantime

Ad libitum (Acronym 'ad lib') - At one's pleasure

Ad Libitur - As Desired

Ad limina apostolorum - To the thresholds of the Apostles

Ad litem - For a lawsuit or action

Ad locum - At the place

Ad lucem - Towards the light (motto of the University of Lisbon)

Ad maiorem dei gloriam (AMDG) - For the greater glory of God

Ad multos annos - To many years!, i.e. Many happy returns!

Ad nauseum - To the point of making one sick

Ad perpetuam rei memoriam - For the perpetual remembrance of the thing

Ad praesens ova cras pullis sunt meliora - Eggs today are better than chickens tomorrow (a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush)

Ad referendum - Subject to reference

Ad rem - To the point

Ad valorem - By the value, e.g. Ad valorem tax

Ad vitam aeternam - For all time

Ad vitam paramus - We are preparing for life

Ad vitam - For life

Addendum - A thing to be added

Adeste Fideles - Be present, faithful ones

Adsum - Here! present!

Adversus incendia excubias nocturnas vigilesque commentus est - Against the dangers of fires, he (Augustus) conceived of the idea of night guards and watchmen

Adversus solem ne loquitor - Don't speak against the sun (don't waste your time arguing the obvious)

Advocatus diaboli - The devil's advocate

Aegrescit medendo - The disease worsens with the treatment. The remedy is worse than the disease

Aegri somnia - A sick man's dreams (Horace)

Aegroto, dum anima est, spes esse dicitur - It is said that for a sick man, there is hope as long as there is life

Aequam memento rebus in arduis servare mentem - Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even. (Horace)

Aeronavis abstractio a prestituto cursu - Hijacking

Aetatis (aet.) - Age

Aeternum vale - Farewell forever

Affidavit - A sworn written statement usable as evidence in court

Age quod agis - Do what you do well, pay attention to what you are doing

Age. Fac ut gaudeam - Go ahead. Make my day!

Agenda - Things to be done

Agnus Dei - The Lamb of God

Aio, quantitas magna frumentorum est - Yes, that is a very large amount of corn

Alea iacta est - The die has been cast. (Caesar)

Alias - Otherwise

Alibi - Elsewhere

Aliena nobis, nostra plus aliis placent - Other people's things are more pleasing to us, and ours to other people. (Publilius Syrus)

Alis volat propiis - She flies with her own wings (state motto of Oregon)

Alma Mater - Nourishing mother. (One's old school or university)

Alter ego - Other 'I' or 'Other Self'

Alter ipse amicus - A friend is another self

Alterum ictum faciam - I'm going to take a mulligan

Altissima quaeque flumina minimo sono labi - The deepest rivers flow with the least sound. (still waters run deep)

Alumnus - Nursling (former pupil)

Amantes sunt amentes - Lovers are lunatics

Amantium irae amoris integratio est - The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love. (Terence)

Amare et sapere vix deo conceditur - Even a god finds it hard to love and be wise at the same time

Amat victoria curam - Victory favors those who take pains

Amicitiae nostrae memoriam spero sempiternam fore - I hope that the memory of our friendship will be everlasting. (Cicero)

Amicule, deliciae, num is sum qui mentiar tibi? - Baby, sweetheart, would I lie to you?

Amicus certus in re incerta cernitur - A true friend is discerned during an uncertain matter

Amicus curiae - Friend of the court

Amicus humani generis - A friend of the human race (philanthropist)

Amicus verus est rara avis - A true friend is a rare bird

Amor animi arbitrio sumitur, non ponitur - We choose to love, we do not choose to cease loving. (Syrus)

Amor caecus est - Love is blind

Amor est vitae essentia - Love is the essence of life. (Robert B. Mackay)

Amor ordinem nescit - Love does not know order. (St. Jerome)

Amor patriae - Love of country

Amor platonicus - Platonic love

Amor tussisque non celantur - Love, and a cough, are not concealed. (Ovid)

Amor vincit omnia - Love conquers all. (Virgil)

Amoto quaeramus seria ludo - Joking aside, let us turn to serious matters. (Horace)

An nescis, mi fili, quantilla sapientia mundus regatur? - Don't you know then, my son, how little wisdom rules the world?

Anguis in herba - A snake in the grass. A treacherous person. (Vergil)

Anicularum lucubrationes - Old wives' tales

Animadvertistine, ubicumque stes, fumum recta in faciem ferri? - (At a barbeque) Ever noticed how wherever you stand, the smoke goes right into your face?

Animis opibusque parati - Prepared in minds and resources (ready for anything)

Animus facit nobilem - The spirit makes (human) noble

Anno (an.) - Year

Anno domini (AD) - In the year of the Lord

Anno hegirae (AH) - In the year of the hegira

Anno mundi - In the year of the world

Anno regni - In the year of reign

Anno urbis conditae (AUC) - From the year of founding of the city (Rome)

Annuit coeptis - God has favored us

Annus bisextus - Leap year

Annus horribilis - A horrible year

Annus mirabilis - Year of wonders

Ante litteram - Before the letter

Ante meridiem (a.m.) - Before midday

Ante mortem - Before death

Ante prandium (A.p.) - Before a meal

Ante - Before

Antebellum - Before the war

Antiquis temporibus, nati tibi similes in rupibus ventosissimis exponebantur ad necem - In the good old days, children like you were left to perish on windswept crags

Anulos qui animum ostendunt omnes gestemus! - Let's all wear mood rings!

Apage Satanas - Begone, Satan

Appareo Decet Nihil Munditia? - Is It Not Nifty?

Apudne te vel me? - Your place or mine?

Aqua fortis - Nitric acid

Aqua pura - Pure water

Aqua vitae - Water of life (brandy)

Aquila non captat muscas - The eagle doesn't capture flies (don't sweat the small things)

Arbiter elegantiae - Judge in matters of taste

Arcana imperii - Secrets of the empire

Arduum sane munus - A truly arduous task

Arguendo - For the sake of argument

Argumentum ad hominem - An argument against the man. Directing an argument against an opponent's character rather than the subject at hand

Argumentum ad ignorantiam - Arguing from ignorance

Armis Exposcere Pacem - They demanded peace by force of arms. (An inscription seen on medals)

Ars gratia artis - Art for art's sake. (motto of MGM)

Ars longa, vita brevis - Art (work) is long, but life is short

Ars sine scienta nihil est - Art without science is nothing. (I would also claim that the opposite is true)

Artium baccalaureus - Bachelor of Arts (BA)

Artium magister - Master of Arts (MA)

Ascendo tuum - Up yours

Asinus asinum fricat - The ass rubs the ass. (Conceited people flatter each other about qualities they do not possess)

Aspice, officio fungeris sine spe honoris amplioris - Face it, you're stuck in a dead end job

Aspirat primo Fortuna labori - Fortune smiles upon our first effort. (Virgil)

Assiduus usus uni rei deditus et ingenium et artem saepe vincit - Constant practice devoted to one subject often outdues both intelligence and skill. (Cicero)

Astra inclinant, non necessitant - The stars incline; they do not determine

Astra non mentiuntur, sed astrologi bene mentiuntur de astris - The stars never lie, but the astrologs lie about the stars

Aude sapere - Dare to know

Audaces fortuna iuvat - Fortune favors the bold. (Virgil)

Audere est facere - To dare is to do. (Motto of Tottenham Hotspur)

Audi et alteram partem - Hear the other side too

Audiatur et altera pars! - Let us hear the opposite side!

Audio, video, disco - I hear, I see, I learn

Auget largiendo - He increases by giving liberally

Aura popularis - The popular breeze. (Cicero)

Aurea mediocritas - The golden mean. (an ethical goal; truth and goodness are generally to be found in the middle.) (Horace)

Auribus tenere lupum - I hold a wolf by the ears. (I am in a dangerous situation and dare not let go.) (Terence)

Aurora australis - The Southern lights

Aurora borealis - The Northern lights

Aurora Musis amica - Dawn is friend of the muses. (Early bird catches the worm.)

Aut Caesar aut nihil - Caesar or nothing i.e., all or nothing

Aut disce aut discede - Either learn or leave

Aut insanit homo, aut versus facit - The fellow is either mad or he is composing verses. (Horace)

Aut viam inveniam aut faciam - I will either find a way or make one

Aut vincere aut mori - Either conquer or die

Auxilio ab alto - By help from on high

Avarus animus nullo satiatur lucro - A greedy mind is satisfied with no (amount of) gain

Ave atque vale - Hail and farewell. (Catullus)

Ave caesar! Morituri te salutamus - Hail Caesar! We who are about to die salute you. (gladiators before the fight)

B

Balaenae nobis conservandae sunt! - Save the whales!

Beata Virgo (Maria) - The Blessed Virgin (Mary)

Beatae memoriae - Of blessed memory

Beati pacifici - Blessed are the peacemakers

Beati pauperes spiritu - Blessed are the poor in spirit

Beati possidentes - The happy who possess. (possession is nine points of the law) (Euripides)

Beatus - The blessed one

Bella detesta matribus - Wars, the horror of mothers. (Horace)

Bella gerant alii - Let others wage war

Bellum omium contra omnes - Everyman's struggle against everyman. (Thomas Hobbes)

Belua multorum es capitum - The people are a many-headed beast

Bene legere saecla vincere - To read well is to master the ages. (Professor Isaac Flagg)

Bene qui latuit, bene vixit - One who lives well, lives unnoticed. (Ovid)

Bene, cum Latine nescias, nolo manus meas in te maculare - Well, if you don't understand plain Latin, I'm not going to dirty my hands on you

Bene - Good

Beneficium accipere libertatem est vendere - To accept a favour is to sell freedom. (Publilius Syrus)

Bibere venenum in auro - Drink poison from a cup of gold

Bis dat qui cito dat - He gives twice who quickly gives. (Publius Syrus)

Bis in die (bid) - Twice a day

Bis interimitur qui suis armis perit - He is doubly destroyed who perishes by his own arms. (Syrus)

Bis repetita placent - The things that please are those that are asked for again and again. (Horace)

Bis vincit qui se vincit in victoria - He conquers twice who in the hour of conquest conquers himself. (Syrus)

Bis vivit qui bene vivit - He lives twice who lives well

Bona fide - In good faith. i. e. well-intentioned, fairly

Bona fides (noun) - Honest intention

Bona fortuna - Good luck!

Bona officia - Good services's

Bonum commune communitatis - General welfare. Literally, common good of the community

Bonum commune hominis - Common good of man

Bonum vinum laetificat cor hominis - Good wine gladdens a person's heart

Bovina Sancta! - Holy cow!

Braccae illae virides cum subucula rosea et tunica Caledonia-quam elenganter concinnatur! - Those green pants go so well with that pink shirt and the plaid jacket!

Braccae tuae aperiuntur - Your fly is open

Brevior saltare cum deformibus mulieribus est vita - Life is too short to dance with ugly women

Brevior saltare cum deformibus viris est vita - Life is too short to dance with ugly men

Brevis esse latoro obscurus fio - When I try to be brief, I speak gobbledegook

Brevis ipsa vita est sed malis fit longior - Our life is short but is made longer by misfortunes. (Publilius Syrus)

Busillis - Baffling puzzle or difficult point

C

Cacoethes scribendi - An insatiable urge to write. (Juvenal)

Cadit quaestio - The question drops

Caeca invidia est - Envy is blind. (Livy)

Caeci caecos ducentes - Blind are led by the blind. Leaders are not more knowledgeable than the ones they lead

Caeli enarrant gloriam Dei - The heavens declare the glory of God

Caelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt - They change the sky, not their soul, who run across the sea. (Horace)

Caelum videre iussit, et erectos ad sidera tollere vultus - He bid them look at the sky and lift their faces to the stars. (Ovid)

Caesar si viveret, ad remum dareris - If Caesar were alive, you'd be chained to an oar

Camera obscvra - Hidden room - an early photographic or painting technique utilizing optical pinholes

Canis meus id comedit - My dog ate it

Canis timidus vehementius latrat quam mordet - A timid dog barks more violently than it bites. (Curtius Rufus)

Capillamentum? Haudquaquam conieci esse! - A wig? I never would have guessed!

Caro putridas es! - You're dead meat

Carpe Cerevisi - Seize the beer!

Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero - Seize the day, trust as little as possible in tomorrow. (Horace)

Carpe diem - Seize the day. (opportunity) (Horace)

Casus belli - An act used to justify war

Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam - I have a catapult. Give me all your money, or I will fling an enormous rock at your head

Casus belli - Event (that is the justification for, or the cause) of war

Causarum justia et misericordia - For the causes of justice and mercy

Causa mortis - Death Cause

Cave ab homine unius libri - Beware of anyone who has just one book. (Latin Epigram)

Cave canem, te necet lingendo - Beware of the dog, he may lick you to death

Cave canem - Beware of the dog

Cave cibum, valde malus est - Beware the food, it is very bad

Cave ne ante ullas catapultas ambules - If I were you, I wouldn't walk in front of any catapults

Cave quid dicis, quando, et cui - Beware what you say, when, and to whom

Cave - Beware!

Caveat emptor - Let the buyer beware. (He buys at his own risk)

Caveat venditor - Let the seller beware

Caveat - Let him/her beware

Cedant arma togae - Let arms yield to the toga. (Let violence give place to law)

Cedo maiori - I yield to a greater person

Certamen bikini-suicidus-disci mox coepit? - Does the Bikini-Suicide-Frisbee match start soon?

Certe, toto, sentio nos in kansate non iam adesse - You know, Toto, I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore

Certum est, quia impossibile - It is certain, because it is impossible. (Tertullianus)

Cetera desunt - The rest is missing

Ceteris paribus - All else being equal

Christus rex - Christ the King

Cineri gloria sera venit - Fame comes too late to the dead

Circa (c.) - Approximately

Clamo, clamatis, omnes clamamus pro glace lactis - I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream

Clara pacta, boni amici - Clear agreements, good friends

Codex Juris Canonici - Book of canon law

Cogita ante salis - Think before you leap, or look before you leap

Cogitationis poenam nemo patitur - Nobody should be punished for his thoughts

Cogito ergo doleo - I think therefore I am depressed

Cogito sumere potum alterum - I think I'll have another drink

Cogito, ergo sum - I think, therefore I am. (Reni Descartes)

Commodum ex iniuria sua nemo habere debet - No person ought to have advantage from his own wrong

Commune bonum - The common good

Commune periculum concordiam parit - Common danger brings forth harmony

Communi consilio - By common consent

Compos mentis - Of sound mind (and judgement)

Concordia discors - Discordant harmony

Concordia res parvae crescent - Work together to accomplish more

Conditio sine qua non - Condition without which not, or an essential condition or requirement

Confer (cf.) - Compare

Confiteor - I confess

Congregatio de Propaganda Fide - Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith

Coniecturalem artem esse medicinam - Medicine is the art of guessing. (Aulus Cornelius Celsus)

Coniunctis viribus - With united powers

Conlige suspectos semper habitos - Round up the usual suspects

Consensu omnium - By the agreement of all

Consensus audacium - An agreement of rash men. (a conspiracy) (Cicero)

Consuetudinis magna vis est - The force of habit is great. (Cicero)

Consule planco - In the consulship of Plancus (In the good old days) (Horace)

Consummatum est - It is completed (Christ's last words, John 19:30)

Contra felicem vix deus vires habet - Against a lucky man a god scarcely has power

Contra mundum - Against the world

Contraria contrariis curantur - The opposite is cured with the opposite. (Hippocrates)

Coram populo - In the presence of the people. (Horace)

Cornix cornici oculos non effodiet - A crow doesn't rip out the eyes of another crow

Cornucopia - Horn of plenty

Corpus christi - The body of Christ

Corpus delicti - The body of a crime. (The substance or fundamental facts of a crime)

Corpus Juris Canonici - The body of canon law

Corpus Juris Civilis - The body of civil law

Corpus vile - Worthless body

Corrigenda - A list of things to be corrected. (in a book)

Corripe Cervisiam - Seize the beer!

Corruptio optimi pessima - Corruption of the best is worst

Coruscantes disci per convexa caeli volantes - Flying saucers

Cotidiana vilescunt - Familiarity breeds contempt

Cotidie damnatur qui semper timet - The man who is constantly in fear is every day condemned. (Syrus)

Crapulam terriblem habeo - I have a terrible hangover

Cras amet qui nunquam amavit; Quique amavit, cras amet - May he love tomorrow who has never loved before

Credidi me felem vidisse! - I tought I taw a puddy tat!

Credite amori vera dicenti - Believe love speaking the truth. (St. Jerome)

Credo elvem etiam vivere - I believe Elvis lives

Credo nos in fluctu eodem esse - I think we're on the same wavelength

Credo quia absurdum - I believe it because it is absurd. (contrary to reason) (Tertullian)

Credo ut intelligam - I believe in order that I may understand. (St. Augustine)

Credula vitam spes fovet et melius cras fore semper dicit - Credulous hope supports our life, and always says that tomorrow will be better. (Tibullus)

Crescit amor nummi, quantum ipsa pecunia crevit - The love of wealth grows as the wealth itself grew. (Juvenalis)

Crescite et multiplicamini - Increase and multiply

Crimen falsi - Perjury

Crudelius est quam mori semper timere mortem - It is more cruel to always fear death than to die. (Seneca)

Crux - Puzzle

Cui bono? - For whose benefit is it? (a maxim sometimes used in the detection of crime) (Cicero)

Cui dono lepidum novum libellum? - To whom do I give my new elegant little book? (Catullus)

Cui malo? - Who suffers a detriment?

Cui peccare licet peccat minus - One who is allowed to sin, sins less. (Ovid)

Cuius regio, eius religio - He who rules, his religion

Cuiusvis hominis est errare; nullius nisi insipientis in errore perseverare - Any man can make a mistake; only a fool keeps making the same one

Cuivis dolori remedium est patientia - Patience is the cure for all suffer

Culpa - A sin

Culpam poena premit comes - Punishment closely follows crime as its companion. (Horace)

Cum catapultae proscriptae erunt tum soli proscript catapultas habebunt - When catapults are outlawed, only outlaws will have catapults

Cum grano salis - With a grain of salt. (Pliny the Elder?)

Cum homine de cane debeo congredi - Excuse me. I've got to see a man about a dog

Cum laude magnum - With great success

Cum laude - With praise

Cum tacent, clamant - When they remain silent, they cry out. (Their silence speaks louder than words) (Cicero)

Cum - With

Cur etiam hic es - Why are you still here?

Cura nihil aliud nisi ut valeas - Pay attention to nothing except that you do well. (Cicero)

Cura posterior - A later concern

Cura ut valeas - Take care

Curae leves loquuntur ingentes stupent - Slight griefs talk, great ones are speechless. (minor losses can be talked away, profound ones strike us dumb)

Curriculum vitae - The course of one's life

Cursum perficio - My journey is over, or I finish my journey

Custos morum - Guardian of morals

D

Da mihi basilia mille - Kiss me with a thousand kisses

Da mihi castitatem et continentiam, sed noli modo! - Make me chaste and pure, but not yet!

Da mihi sis bubulae frustrum assae, solana tuberosa in modo gallico fricta, ac quassum lactatum coagulatum crassum - Give me a hamburger, french fries, and a thick shake

Da mihi sis cerevisiam dilutam - I'll have a light beer

Da mihi sis crustum Etruscum cum omnibus in eo - I'll have a pizza with everything on it

Damnant quod non intellegunt - They condemn what they do not understand

Data et accepta - Expenditure and receipts

De asini vmbra disceptare - To argue about the shadow of an ass. (petty things for petty mind)

De bene esse - It shall be so, as long as it is well

De die in diem - From day to day

De duobus malis, minus est semper eligendum - Of two evils, the lesser must always be chosen (Thomas a Kempis)

De facto - Something that is automatically accepted

De gustibus non est disputandum - There's no accounting for taste

De inimico non loquaris sed cogites - Don't wish ill for your enemy; plan it

De integro - Repeat again from the start

De iure - By law. According to law

De minimis non curat praetor - The authority or king, or law does not care about trivial things

De minimis - With respect to trifles

De mortuis nil nisi bonum - Say nothing but good about the dead. (Chilon)

De nihilo nihil - Nothing comes from nothing. (Lucretius)

De novo - Anew

De profundis - Up from the depths (of misery)

De rervm natvra - On the nature of things. (title of Marcus Aurelius's magnum opus)

Decrevi - I have decreed

Dei gratia - By the grace of God

Delenda est carthago - Carthage must be destroyed

Dente lupus, cornu taurus petit - The wolf attacks with his fang, the bull with his horn. (Horace)

Deo adiuvante - With God's help

Deo favente - With God's favour

Deo gratias - [We give] thanks to God

Deo Optimo Maximo - To God, the Best, the Greatest

Deo vindice - God will prove us right. (motto of the Confederate States of America)

Deo volente - God willing

Desunt cetera - The rest is missing

Deus absconditus - A god who is hidden from man

Deus commodo muto consisto quem meus canis sententia existo - Which, in a very ham-fisted way, with generosity, comes close to being

Deus et natua non faciunt frusta - God and nature do not work together in vain

Deus ex machina - A contrived or artificial solution. (literally, 'a god from a machine')

Deus Misereatur - May God Have Mercy

Deus vobiscum - God be with you

Deus volent - (as) God will

Deus vult! - God wills it! (Slogan of the Crusades)

Di! Ecce hora! Uxor mea me necabit! - God, look at the time! My wife will kill me!

Diabolus fecit, ut id facerem! - The devil made me do it!

Dic mihi solum facta, domina - Just the facts, ma'am

Dictum sapienti sat est - A word to a wise person is sufficient

Die dulci freure - Have a nice day

Diem perdidi - I have lost a day (another day wasted) (Titus)

Dies felices - Happy Days

Dies Irae - Day of Wrath, or Judgment Day

Dies natalis - Birthday

Dies non - Business free day

Difficile est longum subito deponere amorem - It is difficult to suddenly give up a long love. (Catullus)

Difficile est saturam non scribere - It is hard not to write satire. (Juvenalis)

Difficile est tenere quae acceperis nisi exerceas - It is difficult to retain what you may have learned unless you should practice it. (Pliny the Younger)

Diis aliter visum - The Gods decided otherwise

Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium - Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. (Seneca)

Diligite justitiam, o judices terrae - Cherish justice, o judges of the earth

Dimidium facti qui coepit habet - Half is done when the beginning is done. (Horace)

Dira necessitas - The dire necessity. (Horace)

Discere docendo - To learn through teaching

Disiecti membra poetae - Limbs of a dismembered poet. (Horace)

Disjecta membra - The scattered remains

Divide et impera - Divide and conquer

Dixi - I have spoken. (I will say no more on the matter, and no one else may speak further)

Do ut des - I give so that you give back

Docendo discitur - It is learned by teaching. (Seneca)

Doli capax - Capable of crime

Domine, dirige nos - Lord, direct us

Domino optimo maximo - To the Lord, the best and greatest

Dominus illuminatio mea - The Lord is my light

Dominus providebit - The Lord will provide

Dominus tecum - May the Lord be with you (Singular)

Dominus vobiscum - May the Lord be with you (Plural)

Domus dulcis domus - Home sweet home

Donec eris felix, multos numerabis amicos - As long as you are fortunate, you will have many friends (when you are successful, everyone wants to be your friend)

Donna nobis pacem - Grant us peace

Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus - Never Tickle a Sleeping Dragon. (motto of Harry Potter's alma mater)

Dramatis personae - Characters of the play

Duc, sequere, aut de via decede - Lead, follow, or get out of the way

Ducator meus nihil agit sine lagunculae leynidae accedunt - My calculator does not work without batteries

Duco ergo sum - I calculate therefore I am

Dulce bellum inexpertis - War is sweet for those who haven't experienced it. (Pindaros)

Dulce est desipere in loco - It is sweet to relax at the proper time

Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori - It is sweet and glorious to die for one's country. (Horace)

Dulcius ex asperis - Through difficulty, sweetness

Dum excusare credis, accusas - When you believe you are excusing yourself, you are accusing yourself. (St. Jerome)

Dum inter homines sumus, colamus humanitatem - As long as we are among humans, let us be humane. (Seneca)

Dum spiramus tuebimur - While we breathe, we shall defend

Dum spiro, spero - While I breathe, I hope. (Cicero)

Dum tempus habemus, operemur bonum - While we have the time, let us do good

Dum vita est spes est - While life is, hope is. / While there is life there is hope

Dum vivimus, vivamus - While we live, let us live (Epicurean philosophy)

Dura lex, sed lex - The law is harsh, but it is the law

E

E contrario - From a contrary position

E pluribus unum - From many, one (motto of the USA)

E re nata - As circumstances dictate

E vestigio - From where one stands

Ecce homo - Behold the man

Ecce signum - Behold the proof

Editio princeps - First printed edition

Ego et rex meus - I and my King

Ego me bene habeo - With me all is well. (last words) (Burrus)

Ego nolo caesar esse - I don't want to be Caesar. (Florus)

Ego spem pretio non emo - I do not purchase hope for a price. (I do not buy a pig in a poke.)

Ego - Consciousness of one's own identity

Eheu fugaces labuntur anni - Alas, the fleeting years slip by. (Horace)

Eheu, litteras istas reperire non possum - Unfortunately, I can't find those particular documents

Eiusdem generis - Of the same kind

Elizabeth Regina/Eduardus Rex (E.R.) - Queen Elizabeth/King Edward

Emeritus - Honorary; by merit

Emitte lucem et veritatem - Send out light and truth

Ense et aratro - With sword and plow. (citizen-soldier, one who serves in war and peace)

Eo ipso - By that very act

Eo nomine - Under that name

Epistula non erubescit - A letter doesn't blush. (Cicero)

Eram quod es, eris quod sum - I was what you are, you will be what I am. (grave inscription)

Ergo bibamus - Therefore, let us drink

Ergo - Therefore

Errare humanum est - To err is human. / It is human to err. (Seneca)

Errata - A list of errors (in a book)

Erratum (errata) - Error (errors)

Escariorium lavator - Dishwashing machine

Esse est percipi - Being is perception. (It is a standard metaphysical) (Mauser)

Esse quam videri - To be, rather than to seem (state motto of North Carolina)

Est autem fides credere quod nondum vides; cuius fidei merces est videre quod credis - Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe. (St. Augustine)

Est deus in nobis - The is a god inside us

Est modus in rebus - There is a middle ground in things. (Horace)

Est queadam fiere voluptas - There is a certain pleasure in weeping. (Ovid)

Estne tibi forte magna feles fulva et planissima? - Do you by chance happen to own a large, yellowish, very flat cat?

Estne volumen in toga, an solum tibi libet me videre? - Is that a scroll in your toga, or are you just happy to see me?

Esto perpetua - Let it be forever

Esto perpetue - May you last for ever

Et alii/aliae - Other persons/things

Et cetera/etcetera (etc.) - And the rest

Et in arcadia ego - I, also, am in Arcadia

Et sequens (et seq.) - And the following

Et sequentes (et seq. Or seqq.) - And those that follow

Et sic de ceteris - And so to of the rest

Et tu, Brute - And you, Brutus

Et uxor (abbreviated et ux.) - And wife

Etiam capillus unus habet umbram - Even one hair has a shadow. (Publilius Syrus)

Eventus stultorum magister - Events are the teacher of the stupid persons. Stupid people learn by experience, bright people calculate what to do

Ex abrupto - Without preparation

Ex abundancia cordis, os loquitor - From the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks

Ex animo - From the heart (sincerely)

Ex ante - Before the event, beforehand. (economics: based on prior assumptions)

Ex cathedra - From the chair. With authority (without argumentation)

Ex cearulo - Out of the blue

Ex curia - Out of court

Ex dolo - Intentionally

Ex gratia - Purely as a favour

Ex hypothesi - From the hypothesis. (i.e. The one under consideration)

Ex libris - From the Library (of)

Ex luna, scientia - From the moon, knowledge. (motto of Apollo 13)

Ex mea sententia - In my opinion

Ex more - According to custom

Ex nilhilo nihil fit - Nothing comes from nothing

Ex officio - By virtue of his office

Ex opere operato - By the work having been worked

Ex parte - By only one party to a dispute in the absence of the other

Ex post facto - After the fact, or Retrospectively

Ex proprio motu - Voluntarily

Ex silentio - From silence. (from lack of contrary evidence)

Ex tempore - Off the cuff, without preparation

Ex uno disce omnes - From one person learn all persons. (From one we can judge the rest)

Ex vi termini - By definition

Ex voto - According to one's vow

Ex - Out of

Excelsior - Ever upward. (state motto of New York)

Exceptio probat regulam de rebus non exceptis - An exception establishes the rule as to things not excepted

Exceptis excipiendis - Excepting what is to be excepted

Excitabat fluctus in simpulo - He was stirring up billows in a ladle. (He was raising a tempest in a teapot) (Cicero)

Excusatio non petita, accusatio manifesta - He who excuses himself, accuses himself (qui s'excuse, s'accuse)

Exeat - Permission for a temporary absence

Exegi monumentum aere perennius - I have erected a monument more lasting than bronze. (Horace)

Exempli gratia (e.g) - For the sake of example

Exeunt omnes - All go out. (A common stage direction in plays)

Exeunt - They go out

Exit - He/she goes out

Exitus acta probat - The outcome proves the deeds. (the end justifies the means) (Ovid)

Experientia docet stultos - Experience teaches fools

Experientia docet - Experience is the best teacher

Experimentum crucis - Critical experiment

Expressio unius est exclusio alterius - The mention of one thing may exclude others

Extempore - Without premeditation

Exterioris pagina puella - Cover Girl

Extinctus amabitur idem - The same [hated] man will be loved after he's dead. How quickly we forget. (Horace)

Extra ecclesiam nulla salus - Outside the Church [there is] No Salvation. (A phrase of much disputed significance in Roman Catholic theology)

Extra territorium jus dicenti impune non paretur - The judgment (or the authority) of one who is exceeding his territorial jurisdiction is disobeyed with impunity

F

Fabas indulcet fames - Hunger sweetens the beans, or hunger makes everything taste good!

Faber est suae quisque fortunae - Every man is the artisan of his own fortune. (Appius Claudius Caecus)

Faber quisque fortunae suae - Each man (is) the maker of his own fortune

Fabricati diem - Make my day

Fac me cocleario vomere! - Gag me with a spoon!

Fac ut nemo me vocet - Hold my calls

Fac ut vivas - Get a life

Facile princeps - Acknowledged leader

Facilis descensvs averno - The descent to Avernus (Hell) it's easy to fall, hard to rise

Facilius est multa facere quam diu - It is easier to do many things than to do one for a long time. (Quintilianus)

Facilius per partes in cognitionem totius adducimur - We are more easily led part by part to an understanding of the whole. (Seneca)

Facito aliquid operis, ut te semper diabolus inveniat occupatum - Always do something, so that the devil always finds you occupied. (St. Jerome)

Facta, non verba - Deeds, not words. (Actions speak louder than words)

Factum est - It is done

Fallaces sunt rerum species - The appearances of things are deceptive. (Seneca)

Falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus - False in one thing, false in all

Fama crescit eundo - The rumour grows as it goes. (Vergil)

Fama nihil est celerius - Nothing is swifter than rumor

Fama semper vivat - May his/her fame last forever

Fama volat - The rumour has wings. (Vergil)

Fames est optimus coquus - Hunger is the best cook

Farrago fatigans! - Thuffering thuccotash!

Fas est et ab hoste doceri - It's proper to learn even from an enemy. (Ovid)

Favete linguis - To keep a (religious) silence. (Horace)

Fax mentis incedium gloriae - The passion of glory is the torch of the mind

Fecit (fec.) - Made by

Feles mala! cur cista non uteris? stramentum novum in ea posui - Bad kitty! Why don't you use the cat box? I put new litter in it

Feles mala! - Bad kitty!

Felis qvi nihil debet - Happy [is] he who owes nothing

Felix culpa - Happy fault

Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas - Happy is he who has been able to learn the causes of things. (Vergil)

Felo de se - Suicide

Fere libenter homines id quod volunt credunt - Men readily believe what they want to believe. (Caesar)

Festina lente - Make haste slowly

Fiat justitia (et ruat caelum) - Let justice be done. (though the heavens fall)"

Fiat lux - Let there be light

Fiat volvntas tua - Let Thy will [be done] (Biblical)

Fiat - Let it be done

Fide, non armis - By faith, not arms

Fidei defensor - Defender of the faith

Fides punica - Treachery. (Livy)

Fides quaerens intellectum - Faith seeking understanding

Fidus Achates - Faithful Achates (friend)

Filioque - And from the son

Filius nullius - A bastard

Finem respice - Look to the end [before setting forth]

Finis coronat opus - The ending crowns the work. (Ovid)

Finis - The end

Flagrante delicto - Literally while the crime is blazing. Caught red-handed, in the very act of a crime

Flamma fumo est proxima - Flame follows smoke. (there is no smoke without fire) (Plautus)

Floreat regina regina - May it flourish. (motto of the City of Regina, Saskatchewan Canada)

Floruit - Flourished

Fluctuat nec mergitur - It is tossed by the waves but it does not sink

Fons et origo - The source and origin

Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit - Perhaps someday we will look back upon these things with joy

Forsan miseros meliora sequentur - For those in misery perhaps better things will follow. (Virgil)

Fortes et liber - Strong and free. (Alberta)

Fortes fortuna adiuvat - Fortune favors the brave. (Terence)

Fortes fortuna iuvat - Fortune favours the brave

Fortiter fideliter forsan feliciter - Bravely, faithfully, perhaps successfully

Fortiter in re, suaviter in modo - Resolutely in action, gently in manner. (To do unhesitatingly what must be done but accomplishing it as inoffensively as possible)

Fortitudine vincimus - By endurance we conquer

Fortius quo fidelius - Strength through loyalty

Fortuna amicos parat, inopia amicos probat - The fortune is preparing friends, the abundance is testing them

Fortuna vitrea est; tum cum splendet frangitur - Fortune is glass; just when it gleams brightest it shatters

Fortuna caeca est - Fortune is blind. (Cicero)

Fortunatus sum! Pila mea de gramine horrido modo in pratum lene recta volvit! - Isn't that lucky! My ball just rolled out of the rough and onto the fairway!

Frangar non flectar - I am broken, I am not deflected

Frater, ave atque vale - Brother, hello and good-bye. (Catullus)

Fronti nulla fides - No reliance can be placed on appearance. (don't judge a book by its cover)

Frustra laborant quotquot se calculationibus fatigant pro inventione quadraturae circuli - Futile is the labor of those who fatigue themselves with calculations to square the circle. (Michael Stifel, 1544)

Fugit hora - The hour flies

Fugit inreparabile tempus - Irretrievable time flies. (Virgil)

Functus officio - Having discharged his duty and thus ceased to have any authority over a matter

Furnulum pani nolo - I don't want a toaster

G

Gaudeamus igitur (iuvenes dum sumus) - Therefore, let us rejoice. (while we are young)

Genius loci - The guardian spirit of the place

Gens togata - The toga-clad race; the romans

Genus irritabile vatum - The irritable race of poets. (Horace)

Gladiator in arena consilium capit - The gladiator is formulating his plan in the arena (i.e., too late) (Seneca)

Gloria filiorum patres - The glory of sons is their fathers

Gloria in excelsis deo - Glory to God in the highest

Gloria Patri - Glory to the Father

Gloria virtutis umbra - Glory (is) the shadow of virtue

Gloria - Glory

Gloriosum est iniurias oblivisci - It is glorious to forget the injustice

Gnothe seauton (Greek) - Know thyself

Graeca sunt, non leguntur - It is Greek, you don't read that

Gramen artificiosum odi - I hate Astroturf

Gratia placenti - For the sake of pleasing

Graecia capta ferum victorem cepit - Captive Greece conquered her savage victor. (Horace)

Graviora manent - Greater dangers await

Gutta cavat lapidem, non vi sed saepe cadendo - The drop excavates the stone, not with force but by falling often. (Ovid)

H

Habeas corpus - You must have the body, i.e. You must justify an imprisonment

Habemus Papam - We have a pope. (used at the announcement of a new pope)

Habetis bona deum - Have a nice day

Hac lege - With this law

Haec olim meminisse ivvabit - Time heals all things, i.e. Wounds, offenses

Haec trutina errat - There is something wrong with this scale

Hannibal ante portas! - Hannibal is at the doors! The enemy/danger is at the doors!

Haud ignota loquor - I say things that are known

Helluo librorum - A glutton for books. (bookworm)

Heu! Tintinnuntius meus sonat! - Darn! There goes my beeper!

Heus, hic nos omnes in agmine sunt! - Hey, we're all in line here!

Hic et nunc - Here and now

Hic habitat felicitas - Here dwells happiness

Hic jacet (HJ) - Here lies. (written on gravestones or tombs)

Hic jacet sepultus (HJS) - Here lies buried

Hic puer est stultissimus omnium! - This boy is the stupidest of all!

Hinc illae lacrimae - Hence these tears. (Terence)

Historia est vitae magistra - The history is the tutor of life

Hoc erat in votis - This was among my prayers

Hoc est in votis - This is in my prayers

Hoc est verum et nihili nisi verum - This is the truth and nothing but the truth

Hoc est vivere bis vita posse priore frvi - To live twice is to make useful profit from one's past. Experience is the best teacher, so learn from it

Hoc natura est insitum, ut quem timueris, hunc semper oderis - It's an innate thing to always hate the one we've learnt to fear

Hoc tempore obsequium amicos, veritas odium parit - In these days friends are won through flattery, the truth gives birth to hate. (Terence)

Hocine bibo aut in eum digitos insero? - Do I drink this or stick my fingers in it?

Hodie mihi, cras tibi - Today for me, tomorrow for you

Homines libenter quod volunt credunt - Men believe what they want to. (Terentius)

Homines, dum docent, discunt - Men learn while they teach. (Seneca)

Homo doctvs is se semper divitias habet - A learned man always has wealth within himself

Homo homini lupus - Man is a wolf to man

Homo nudus cum nuda iacebat - Naked they lay together, man and woman

Homo praesumitur bonus donec probetur malus - One is innocent until proven guilty

Homo proponit, sed Deus disponit - Man proposes, but God disposes

Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto - I am human, therefore nothing human is strange to me

Homo sum - I am a man

Homo vitae commodatus non donatus est - Man has been lent to life, not given. (Pubilius Syrus)

Honor virutis preamium - Honour is the reward of virtue

Honores mutant mores - The honours change the customs. (Power corrupts)

Honoris causa (h.c.) - As in doctorate, an honorary degree

Horas non numero nisi serenas - I count only the bright hours. (Inscription on ancient sundials)

Horribile dictu - Horrible to tell

Horror vacui - Fear of empty places

Hostis hvmani generis - Enemy of the human race

Huc accedit zambonis! - Here comes the Zamboni!

Humum mandere - To bite the dust

Hunc tu caveto - Beware of this man

I

Ibidem (Ib.) - In the same place. (in a book)

Id certum est quod certum reddi potest - That is certain that can be made certain

Id est (i.e.) - That is to say

Id est mihi, id non est tibi! - It is mine, not yours!

Id imperfectum manet dum confectum erit - It ain't over until it's over

Id tibi praebet speciem lepidissimam! - It looks great on you!

Idem quod (i.q.) - The same as

Idem - The same

Iesus Nazarenus Rex Iudaeorum (INRI) - Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews

Ignis aurum probat, miseria fortes viros - Life is not a bowl of cherries, or, literally, Fire tests gold; adversity tests strong men

Ignis fatuus - Foolish fire (will-o-the-wisp)

Ignorantia juris neminem excusat - Ignorance of the law excuses no one

Ignoratio elenchi - An ignorance of proof

Ignotus (ign.) - Unknown

Ille dolet vere, qui sine teste dolet - He mourns honestly who mourns without witnesses. (Martialis)

Ille mi par esse deo videtur - He seems to me to be equal to a god. (Catullus)

Illegitimis nil carborundum - Don't let the bastards grind you down

Illiud latine dici non potest - You can't say that in Latin

Illius me paenitet, dux - Sorry about that, chief

Imitatores, servum pecus! - Imitators, you slavish crowd! (Horace)

Imperator/Imperatrix (Imp.) - Emperor/Empress

Imperator - Emperor

Imperium et libertas - Empire and liberty. (Cicero)

Imperium in imperio - An empire within an empire, i.e. A fifth column, a group of people within an nation's territory who owe allegiance to some other leader

Imperium - Absolute power

Impossibilium nulla obligatio est - Nobody has any obligation to the impossible. (Corpus Iuris Civilis)

Imprimatur - Let it be printed

Imprimis - In first place

In absentia - In one's absence

In actu - In practice

In aere aedificare - Build (castles) in the air. (St. Augustine)

In aeternum - For eternity

In alio pediculum, in te ricinum non vides - You see a louse on someone else, but not a tick on yourself. (Petronius)

In articulo mortis - At the moment of death

In banco - On the bench

In camera - In private chamber

In capite - In chief

In cavda venenvm - In the tail [is the] poison. Watch out for what you don't see

In curia - In court

In dentibus anticis frustrum magnum spiniciae habes - You have a big piece of spinach in your front teeth

In distans - At a distance

In dubiis non est agendum - In dubious cases, you should not act

In dubio pro reo - In doubt in favor of the accused. If there is a doubt about guiltiness, the judgement has to be in favour of the accused

In dubio - In doubt

In esse - In existence

In excelsis - In the highest

In extenso - At full length

In extremis - In extremity

In fine - At the end

In flagrante delicto - In the very act of committing an offence

In forma pauperis - In the form of a poor person; in a humble or abject manner

In futuro - In the future

In gremio legis - In the protection of the law

In his ordo est ordinem non servare - In this case the only rule is not obeying any rules

In hoc signo vinces - In this sign, you will be victorious. (Eusebios)

In infinitum - To infinity; without end

In libris libertas - In books (there is) freedom

In limine - On the threshold, at the very outset

In loco parentis - In the place of a parent

In loco - In the place of

In magnis et voluisse sat est - To once have wanted is enough in great deeds. (Propertius)

In media res - In or into the middle of a sequence of events. (Horace)

In medias res - Into the midst of things

In medio stat virtus - Virtue stands in the middle. Virtue is in the moderate, not the extreme position. (Horace)

In medio tutissimus ibis - In the middle of things you will go most safe. (Ovid)

In memoriam - To the memory of

In necessariis unitas, in dubiis libertas, in omnibus caritas - In necessary things unity, in doubtful things liberty, in all things charity

In nomine Domini - In the name of the Lord

In nomine Patris et Filii et Spiritus Santi - In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit

In nubibus - In the clouds

In nuce - In a nutshell

In omnia paratus - Prepared for all things

In ovo - In the egg

In pace, ut sapiens, aptarit idonea bello - In peace, like a wise man, he appropriately prepares for war

In pace - In peace

In pari materia - Of like kind

In partibus infidelium - In parts inhabited by unbelievers

In parvo - In miniature

In perpetuum - For ever

In personam - Against the person

In pleno - In full

In pontificalibus - In the proper vestments of a pope or cardinal

in posse - In possibility

In posterum - Till the next day

In praesenti - At the present time

In principio - In the beginning

In propria persona - In person

In puris naturalibus - Completely naked

In quaestione versare - To be under investigation

In re - Refering to

In rem - Against the matter (property)

In rerum natura - In the nature of things

In saecvla saecvlorvm - For ages of ages forever

In se - In itself

In silico - By means of a computer simulation

In silvam ne ligna feras - Don't carry logs into the forest. (Horace)

In situ - In position

In specie - In kind; (a) in its own form and not in an equivalent (b) in coins and not in paper money

In spiritu et veritate - In spirit and truth. (Versio Vulgata)

In statu quo - In the same state

In terrorem - As a warning; in order to terrify others

In totidem verbis - In so many words

In toto - As a whole, absolutely, Completely

In transitu - In passing, on the way

In usu - In use

In utero - In the womb

In vacuo - In a vacuum or empty space

In vinculis etiam audax - In chains yet still bold (free)

In vino veritas - The truth is in wine. (A drunk person tells the truth)

In virtute sunt multi ascensus - There are many degrees in excellence. (Cicero)

In vitro - In a test tube (literally glass)

In vivo - In the living (thing)

Incipit - Begin here

Incredibile dictu - Incredible to say

Index librorum prohibitorum - Official list of forbidden books not to be read by Catholics

Indulgentiam quaeso - I ask your indulgence

Infinitus est numerus stultorum - Infinite is the number of fools

Infra dignitatem (dig.) - Undignified; beneath one's dignity

Infra - Below, underneath

Inhumanitas omni aetate molesta est - Inhumanity is harmful in every age. (Cicero)

Iniqua nunquam regna perpetuo manent - Stern masters do not reign long. (Seneca Philosophus)

Iniuria non excusat iniuriam - One wrong does not justify another

Insanabile cacoethes scribendi - An incurable passion to write. (Juvenal)

Insculpsit - He/she engraved it

Instrumentum aeri temperando - Airconditioner

Insula gilliganis - Gilligan's Island

Integer vitae scelerisque purus - Blameless of life and free from crime

Intellectum valde amat - Love the intellect strongly. (St. Augustine)

Intelligenti pauca - Few words suffice for he who understands

Intelligo me intelligere - I understand that I understand. (St. Augustine)

Inter alia - Among other things

Inter alios - Amongst other people

Inter arma silent leges - In time of war, laws are silent

Inter caecos regnat strabo - Among blinds the squinting rules. (Erasmus)

Inter caesa et porrecta - There's many a slip twixt cup and lip

Inter canum et lupum - Between a dog and a wolf

Inter nos - Between ourselves

Inter partes - Made between two parties

Inter se - Between themselves

Inter spem et metum - Between hope and fear

Inter vivos - Between living (people)

Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum europe vincendarum - Sometimes I get this urge to conquer large parts of Europe

Interfice errorem, diligere errantem - Kill the sin, love the sinner. (St. Augustine)

Interregnvm - Period between rules anarchy, lawlessnes

Intra muros - Within the walls

Intra vires - Within the power

Inventas vitam iuvat excoluisse per artes - Let us improve life through science and art. (Vergil)

Ipsa qvidem pretivm virtvs sibi - Virtue is its own reward

Ipsa scientia potestas est - Knowledge itself is power. (Bacon)

Ipsi dixit - He himself said it. (Cicero)

Ipsissima verba - The exact words

Ipso facto - By that very fact

Ipso iure - By operation of the law

Ira furor brevis est - Anger is a brief insanity. (Horace)

Ire fortiter quo nemo ante iit - To boldly go where no man has gone before. (Star Trek)

Isto pensitaris? - You get paid for this crap?

Ita erat quando hic adveni - It was that way when I got here

Ita est - Yes./It is so

Ite, misse est - Go, the Mass is finished

Iubilate Deo - Rejoice in God

Iunctis viribus - By united efforts

Iure divino - By divine law

Iure humano - By human law

Ius civile - Civil law

Ius gentium - The law of nations

Ius primae noctis - The right of the first night

Ivs est ars boni et aeqvi - Law is the art of the good and the just

Ivs gentivm - Right of tribes law of nations

J

Justitia omnibus - Justice for all

L

Labera lege - Read my lips

Labor omnia vincit - Work conquers all things. (Virgil)

Labra lege - Read my lips

Lachryma Christi - Christ's tears

Lapsus alumni - Error made

Lapsus calami - A slip of the pen

Lapsus linguae - A slip of the tongue

Lapsus memoriae - A slip of the memory

Lapsus nivium! - Avalanche!!

Lares et penates - Household gods

Latet anguis in herba - A snake lies in the grass. (Vergil)

Latine dictum - Spoken in Latin

Latine loqui coactus sum - I have this compulsion to speak Latin

Latro! fremo! - Woof woof! Grrrr!

Laudant illa, sed ista legunt - Some (writing) is praised, but other is read. (Martialis)

Laudatores temporis acti - Praisers of time past

Laus Deo - Praise be to God

Lavdem virtvtis necessitati damvs - We give to necessity the praise of virtue finding the benefit in what's needful

Lectori Salutem (L.S.) - Greetings to the reader

Lectio brevior lectio potior - The shortest reading is the more probable reading

Lector benevole - Kind reader

Legatus a latere - Advisor from the side

Lege atque lacrima - Read 'em and weep

Lege et lacrima - Read it and weep

Legum servi sumus ut liberi esse possimus - We are slaves of the law so that we may be able to be free. (Cicero)

Leve fit, quod bene fertur, onus - The burden is made light which is borne well. (Ovid)

Lex clavatoris designati rescindenda est - The designated hitter rule has got to go

Lex domicilii - The law of a person's home country

Lex fori - The law of the forum (country)

Lex loci - The law of the place

Lex malla, lex nulla - A bad law is no law. (St. Thomas Aquinas)

Lex non scripta - The unwritten (common) law

Lex scripta - The written law

Lex talionis - The law of revenge

Libenter homines id quod volunt credunt - Men gladly believe that which they wish for. (Caesar)

Liberae sunt nostrae cogitationes - Our thoughts are free. (Cicero)

Liberate te ex inferis - Save yourself from hell

Libertas inaestimabilis res est - Liberty is a thing beyond all price. (Corpus Iuris Civilis)

Liberum arbitrium - Free will

Libra solidus denarius (L.S.D.) - Pounds, shillings, pence

Licentia liquendi - Liberty of speaking

Licentia poetica - Poetic licence. (Seneca)

Licet - It is allowed

Lingua franca - French tongue - the common or universal language

Literati - Men of letters

Litoralis - Beach bum

Litterae humaniores - The humanities

Loco citato (lc) - In the passage just quoted

Locum tenens - One occupying the place (used as an English noun meaning 'deputy')

Locus classicus - The most authoritative source, Classical passage

Locus delicti - The scene of the crime

Locus desperatus - A hopeless passage

Locus enim est principum generationis rerum - For place is the origin of things. (Roger Bacon)

Locus in quo - The place in which something happens

Locus poenitentiae - A place for repentance

Locus sigilli (l.s.) - The place of the seal

Locus standi - Place of standing

Longo intervallo - After a long gap

Loquitur (loq.) - He/she speaks

Luctor et emergo - I struggle but I'll survive

Luke sum ipse patrem te - Luke, I am your father. (Star Wars)

Lumen naturale - Natural light

Lupus est homo homini - Man is wolf to man

Lupus in fabula - The wolf in the tale (i.e. Speak of the wolf, and he will come) (Terence)

Lusus naturae - A freak of nature

Lux et veritas - Light and Truth

Lux mundi - The light of the world

M

Machina improba! Vel mihi ede potum vel mihi redde nummos meos! - You infernal machine! Give me a beverage or give me my money back!

Maecenas atavis edite regibus - Maecenas, born of monarch ancestors. (Horace)

Magister artis ingeniique largitor venter - Necessity is the mother of all invention

Magister Artium (MA) - Master of arts

Magister mundi sum! - I am the master of the universe!

Magna charta - Great paper

Magna cum laude - With great honour or academic distinction

Magna res est vocis et silentii temperamentum - The great thing is to know when to speak and when to keep quiet

Magnas inter oper inops - A pauper in the midst of wealth. (Horace)

Magnificat - It magnifies

Magnum bonum - A great good

Magnum opus - Great work, the major work of one's life

Magnus frater spectat te - Big Brother is watching you

Maior risus, acrior ensis: quadragesima octava regula quaesitus - The bigger the smile, the sharper the knife: the 48th rule of acquisition

Mala fide - In bad faith (something which is done fraudulently)

Male parta male dilabuntur - What has been wrongly gained is wrongly lost. (Ill-gotten gains seldom prosper.) (Cicero)

Malum consilium quod mutari non potest - It's a bad plan that can't be changed. (Publilius Syrus)

Malum prohibitum - A prohibited wrong. A crime that society decides is wrong for some reason, not inherently evil

Malum quidem nullum esse sine aliquo bono - There is, to be sure, no evil without something good. (Pliny the Elder)

Manus in mano - Hand in hand

Manus manum lavat - One hand washes the other. The favor for the favor. (Petronius)

Mare clausum - A closed sea

Mare liberum - An open sea

Mare nostrum - Our sea. (Mediterranean)

Margaritas ante porcos - Pearls before swine. To give something valuable to someone not respecting it

Mater artium necessitas - Necessity is the mother of invention

Mater dolorosa - Sorrowful mother. (Virgin Mary)

Mater memento mori - Remember your mortality

Mater tua criceta fuit, et pater tuo redoluit bacarum sambucus - Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries

Mater - Mother

Materfamilias - Mother of family

Materia medica - Medical matter

Materiam superabat opus - The workmanship was better than the subject matter. (Ovid)

Maxima debetur puero reverentia - We owe the greatest respect to a child

Maximus in minimis - Great in little things

Me fallit - I do not know

Me iudice - I being judge; in my judgement

Me oportet propter praeceptum te nocere - I'm going to have to hurt you on principle

Me transmitte sursum, caledoni! - Beam me up, Scotty!

Mea culpa - Through my fault

Mea maxima culpa - Through my very great fault

Mea mihi conscientia pluris est quam omnium sermo - My conscience means more to me than all speech. (Cicero)

Medice, cura te ipsum! - Physician, heal thyself! (Versio Vulgata)

Medici graviores morbos asperis remediis curant - Doctors cure the more serious diseases with harsh remedies. (Curtius Rufus)

Medicus curat, natura sanat - The physician treats, nature cures

Medio tutissimus ibis - You will go safest in the middle. (Moderation in all things) (Ovid)

Mei capilli sunt flagrantes - My hair is on fire

Meliora cogito - I strive for the best

Melitae amor - Love of Malta

Melius est praevenire quam praeveniri - Better to forestall than to be forestalled

Melius frangi quam flecti - It is better to break than to bend

Melius tarde, quam nunquam - Better late than never

Mellita, domi adsum - Honey, I'm home

Memento mori - Remember that you must die

Memento vivere - A reminder of life (literally remember that you have to live)

Memorabilia - Memorable things

Memorandum - A note of; a thing to be remembered

Memoria in aeterna - In everlasting remembrance

Memoriter - From memory

Mendacem memorem esse oportet - A liar needs a good memory. (Quintilianus)

Mens agitat molem - The mind moves the matter. (Vergil)

Mens rea - Guilty mind

Mens regnum bona possidet - An honest heart is a kingdom in itself. (Seneca)

Mens sana in corpore sano - A sound mind in a sound body. (Juvenalis)

Mens sibi conscia recti - A mind conscious of its rectitude

Meum cerebrum nocet - My brain hurts

Meum pactum dictum - My word is my bond

Mihi cura futuri - My concern is the future

Mihi ignosce. Cum homine de cane debeo congredi - Excuse me. I've got to see a man about a dog

Millennium (millennia) - A thousand year period

Minime senuisti! - You haven't aged a bit!

Minus habens - Absentminded

Mirabile dictu - Wonderful to say/relate. (Vergil)

Mirabile visu - Wonderful to behold

Miserere - Have mercy

Missa solemnis - Solemn Mass. (high Mass)

Mittimus - We send (to prison)

Modus agendi - Manner of operation

Modus operandi (m.o.) - Way of operating

Modus vivendi - Way of living

Monstra mihi pecuniam! - Show me the money!

Moratorium - A delay

Morituri te salutant - Those who are about to die salute you

Mors ultima linea rerum est - Death is everything's final limit. (Horace)

Mors ultima ratio - Death is the final accounting

Mortvi non mordant - Dead me don't bite; Dead men tell no tale

Motu proprio - Of one's own initiative

Mulier taceat in ecclesia - Let the woman be silent in church. (Paul)

Multi famam, conscientiam pauci verentur - Many fear their reputation, few their conscience. (Pliny)

Multis post annis - Many years later

Multum in parvo - Much in little. (small but significant)

Multun, non multa - Much, not many (quality not quantity)

Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur - The world wants to be deceived, so let it be deceived!

Mundus vult decipi - The world wants to be deceived

Munit haec et altera vincit - One defends and the other conquers

Mus uni non fidit antro - A mouse does not rely on just one hole. (Plautus)

Musica delenit bestiam feram - Music soothes the savage beast

Mutatis mutandis - The necessary changes having been made

Mutato nomine - The name being changed

Mvlti svnt vocati, pavci vero electi - Many are called [but] few are chosen

Mvndvs vvlt decipi - The world wishes to be deceived there's a sucker born every minute

Mvtatis mvtandis - The things that ought to have changed having been changed with the necessary substitutions having been made

N

Nam et ipsa scientia potestas es - Knowledge is power. (Sir Francis Bacon)

Nascentes morimur - From the moment we are born, we begin to die

Natale solum - Native soil

Natura abhorret a vacua - Nature abhors a vacuum

Natura in minima maxima - Nature is the greatest in the smallest things

Natura nihil fit in frustra - Nature does nothing in vain

Natura, artis magistra - Nature, the mistress of art

Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque recurret - You can drive nature out with a pitchfork but she always comes back

Navigare necesse est - To sail is necessary

Ne auderis delere orbem rigidum meum! - Don't you dare erase my hard disk!

Ne cede malis - Yield not to evils

Ne feceris ut rideam - Don't make me laugh

Ne humanus crede - Trust no human

Ne nimium - Not too much

Ne plus ultra - No further. Impassable obstacle

Ne quid nimis - Nothing in excess. (Terence)

Nec laudas nisi mortuos poetas: tanti non est, ut placeam, perire - If only dead poets are praised, I'd rather go unsung

Nec mortem effugere quisquam nec amorem potest - No one is able to flee from death or love

Nec possum tecum vivere, nec sine te - I am able to live / I can live neither with you, nor without you. (Martial)

Nec verbum verbo curabis reddere fidus interpres - As a true translator you will take care not to translate word for word. (Horace)

Necesse est multos timeat quem multi timent - He must fear many, whom many fear. (Laberius)

Necessitas non habet legem - Necessity knows no law

Negotium populo romano melius quam otium committi - The Roman people understand work better than leisure

Nemine contradicente (nem. con.) - With no one speaking in opposition. Unanimously

Nemine dissentiente (nem. diss.) - With no one disagreeing

Nemo ante mortem beatus - Nobody is blessed before his death. We never know what is future preparing for us!

Nemo autem regere potest nisi qui et regi - Moreover, there is no one who can rule unless he can be ruled. (Seneca)

Nemo dat quod non habet - No one gives what he does not have

Nemo gratis mendax - No man lies freely. A person with no reason to lie is telling the truth

Nemo hic adest illius nominis - There is no one here by that name

Nemo liber est qui corpori servit - No one is free who is a slave to his body

Nemo malus felix - No bad man is lucky. (Juvenal)

Nemo me impune lacessit - No one provokes me with impunity. (motto of the Kings of Scotland)

Nemo nisi mors - Nobody except death (will part us). (Inscription in the wedding ring of the Swedish Queen Katarina Jagellonica)

Nemo propheta in patria sua - No one is considered a prophet in his hometown/homeland

Nemo repente fuit turpissimus - No one ever became thoroughly bad in one step. (Juvenal)

Nemo risum praebuit, qui ex se coepit - Nobody is laughed at, who laughs at himself. (Seneca)

Nemo saltat sobrius nisi forte insanit - Nobody dances sober unless he's insane

Nemo saltat sobrius - No man dances sober

Nemo sine iudex - No one is a judge of himself

Nemo sine vitio est - No one is without fault. (Seneca the Elder)

Nemo surdior est quam is qui non audiet - No man is more deaf than he who will not hear

Nemo timendo ad summum pervenit locum - No man by fearing reaches the top. (Syrus)

Nervos belli, pecuniam. (Nervus rerum.) - The nerve of war, money. (The nerve of things.) (Cicero)

Nescio quid dicas - I don't know what you're talking about

Neutiquam erro - I am not lost

Nihil ad rem - Nothing to do with the point

Nihil agere delectat - It is pleasant to do nothing. (Cicero)

Nihil aliud scit necessitas quam vincere - Necesssity knows nothing else but victory. (Syrus)

Nihil curo de ista tua stulta superstitione - I'm not interested in your dopey religious cult

Nihil declaro - I have nothing to declare

Nihil est ab omni parte beatum - Nothing is good in every part. (Horace)

Nihil est incertius volgo - Nothing is more uncertain than the (favour of the) crowd. (Cicero)

Nihil est miserum nisi cum putes - Nothing is unfortunate if you don't consider it unfortunate. (Boethius)

Nihil est--In vita priore ego imperator romanus fui - That's nothing--in a previous life I was a Roman Emperor

Nihil obstat - Nothing stands in the way

Nihil sub sole novum - Nothing new under the sun

Nihil tam munitum quod non expugnari pecunia possit - No fort is so strong that it cannot be taken with money. (Cicero)

Nihil - Nothing

Nil actum credens dum quid superesset agendum - Thinking nothing done, while anything was yet to do

Nil actum reputa si quid superest agendum - Don't consider that anything has been done if anything is left to be done. (Lucan)

Nil admirari - To admire nothing. (Horace)

Nil agit exemplum, litem quod lite resolvit - Not much worth is an example that solves one quarrel with another. (Horace)

Nil desperandum! - Never despair! (Horace)

Nil homini certum est - Nothing is certain for man. (Ovid)

Nil sine numine - Nothing without the Divine Will

Nill illigitimi carborundum - Do not let the bastards get you down

Nisi credideritis, non intelligetis - Unless you will have believed, you will not understand. (St. Augustine)

Nisi prius - Unles previously

Nisi - Unless

Nolens volens - Whether one likes it or not; willing or unwilling

Noli equi dentes inspicere donati - Do not look a gift horse in the mouth. (St. Jerome)

Noli me tangere! - Don't touch me! (Versio Vulgata)

Noli me voca, ego te vocabo - Don't call me. I'll call you

Noli nothis permittere te terere - Dont let the bastards get you down

Noli simul flare sobereque - Don't whistle and drink at the same time

Noli turbare circulos meos! - Don't upset my calculations! (Archimedes)

Nolite id cogere, cape malleum majorem - Don't force it, get a bigger hammer

Nolle prosequi - Do not pursue

Nolo contendere - I do not wish to contend

Nomen est omen - The name is the sign

Nomina stultorum parietibus haerent - The names of foolish persons adhere to walls (Fools names and fools faces are often seen in public places.)

Nominatim - By name

Non bis in idem - Not twice for the same thing

Non calor sed umor est qui nobis incommodat - It's not the heat, it's the humidity

Non compos mentis - Not in possession of one's senses

Non curo. Si metrum non habet, non est poema - I don't care. If it doesn't rhyme, it isn't a poem

Non erravi perniciose! - I did not commit a fatal error!

Non est ad astra mollis e terris via - There is no easy way from the earth to the stars. (Seneca)

Non est ei similis - There is no one like him

Non est mea culpa - It's not my fault

Non est vivere sed valere vita est - Life is not being alive but being well (life is more than just being alive)

Non Gradus Anus Rodentum! - Not Worth A Rats Ass!

Non ignara mals, miseris svccvrrere disco - No stranger to misfortune [myself] I learn to relieve the sufferings [of others

Non illigitamus carborundum - Don't let the bastards grind you down

Non licet - It is not allowed

Non liquet - It is not clear

Non mihi, non tibi, sed nobis - Not for you, not for me, but for us - the foundation of a good relationship

Non mortem timemus, sed cogitationem mortis - We do not fear death, but the thought of death. (Seneca)

Non multa, sed multum - Not many, but much. (Meaning, not quantity but quality) (Plinius)

Non nobis, Domine - Not unto us, O Lord

Non omne quod licet honestum est - Not everything that is permitted is honest. (Corpus Iuris Civilis)

Non omne quod nitet aurum est - Not all that glitters is gold

Non omnes qui habemt citharam sunt citharoedi - Not all those who own a musical instrument are musicians. (Bacon)

Non omnia moriar - Not all of me will die. (Horace)

Non omnia possumus omnes - Not all of us are able to do all things (We can't all do everything.) (Virgil)

Non omnis moriar - Not all of me will die. (his works would live forever) (Horace)

Non placet - It does not please

Non plaudite. Modo pecuniam jacite - Don't applaud. Just throw money

Non plus ultra! (Nec plus ultra!) - Nothing above that!

Non prosequitur - He does not proceed

Non quis, sed quid - Not who, but what

Non rape me si placet - Please don't rob me

Non scholae sed vitae discimus - We do not learn for school, but for life. (Seneca)

Non semper erit aestas - It will not always be summer (be prepared for hard times)

Non sequitur - It does not follow

Non serviam - I will not serve

Non sibi sed suis - Not for one's self but for one's people

Non sibi, sed patriae - Not for you, but for the fatherland

Non sum pisces - I am not a fish

Non sum qualis eram - I am not what / of what sort I was (I'm not what I used to be.)

Non teneas aurum totum quod splendet ut aurum - Do not take as gold everything that shines like gold

Non timetis messor - Don't Fear the Reaper

Non uno die roma aedificata est - Rome was not built in one day (either)

Non ut edam vivo, sed vivam edo - I do not live to eat, but eat to live. (Quintilianus)

Non vereor ne illam me amare hic potuerit resciscere; quippe haud etiam quicquam inepte feci - I don't think anyone knows I love the girl; I haven't done anything really silly yet

Non, mihi ignosce, credo me insequentem esse - No, excuse me, I believe I'm next

Nonne amicus certus in re incerta cernitur? - A friend in need is a friend in deed. (our equivalent)

Nonne de novo eboraco venis? - You're from New York, aren't you?

Nonne macescis? - Have you lost weight?

Nosce te ipsum - Know thyself. (Inscription at the temple of Apollo in Delphi.)

Nota bene (nb.) - Note well. Observe carefully

Novus homo - A new Man; a man who was the first in his family to be elected to an office

Novus ordo saeculorum - A new order of ages

Novus ordo seclorum - A new order for the ages. (appears on the U.S. one-dollar bill)

Nulla avarita sine poena est - There is no avarice without penalty. (Seneca)

Nulla dies sine linea - Not a day without a line. Do something every day! (Apeles, Greek painter)

Nulla regula sine exceptione - There is no rule/law without exception

Nulla res carius constat quam quae precibus empta est - Nothing is so expensive as that which you have bought with pleas. (Seneca)

Nulla vit melior quam bona - There's no life better than a good life

Nulli expugnabilis hosti - Conquered By No Enemy. (motto of Gibraltar)

Nulli secundus - Second to none

Nullius in verba - (Rely) on the words on no one. (Horace)

Nullo metro compositum est - It doesn't rhyme

Nullum crimen sine lege, nulla poena sine lege - No crime and no punishment without a (pre-existing) law

Nullum est iam dictum quod non dictum sit prius - Nothing is said that hasn't been said before. (Terence)

Nullum gratuitum prandium - There is no free lunch!

Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae - There is no one great ability without a mixture of madness

Nullum saeculum magnis ingeniis clausum est - No generation is closed to great talents. (Seneca)

Nullus est instar domus - There is no place like home

Nullus est liber tam malus ut non aliqua parte prosit - There is no book so bad that it is not profitable on some part. (Pliny the Younger)

Numen - Divine power

Numero pondere et mensura Deus omnia condidit - God created everything by number, weight and measure. (Isaac Newton)

Numerus clausus - A restricted number

Nummus americanus - Greenback. ($US)

Numquam aliud natura, aliud sapientia dicit - Never does nature say one thing and wisdom say another

Numquam non paratus - Never unprepared

Numquam se minus solum quam cum solus esset - You are never so little alone as when you are alone. (Cicero)

Nunc dimittis - Now let depart

Nunc est bibendum - Now we must drink. (Horace)

Nvdvm pactvm - A nude pact an invalid agreement a contract with illusory benefits or without consideration hence unenforceable

Nvllvm qvod tetiget non ornavit - He touched none he did not adorn - not simply 'the Midas touch', or 'he left things better than he found them', but a tribute to a Renaissance man

Nvnc avt nvnqvam - Now or never

Nvnc dimittis - Now let [thy servant] depart - generally any permission to go, specifically to express one's readiness to depart or die

Nvnc pro tvnc - Now for then retroactive

O

O curas hominum! O quantum est in rebus inane! - Ah, human cares! Ah, how much futility in the world! (Lucilius)

O di immortales! - Good heavens! (uttered by Cicero on the Senate floor)

O diem praeclarum! - Oh, what a beautiful day!

O praeclarum custodem ovium lupum! - An excellent protector of sheep, the wolf! (Cicero)

O quam cito transit gloria mundi! - O how quickly passes the glory of the world!

O sancta simplicitas! - Oh, holy simplicity! (Jan Hus)

O tempora, O mores! - Oh, the times! Oh, the morals! (Cicero)

O! Plus! Perge! Aio! Hui! Hem! - Oh! More! Go on! Yes! Ooh! Ummm!

Obesa cantavit - The fat lady has sung

Obiit (ob.) - He/she died

Obiter (ob.) - In passing

Obiter dictum - Something said in passing - parenthetical remark

Oblitus sum perpolire clepsydras! - I forgot to polish the clocks!

Obscurum per obscurius - The obscure by means of the more obscure

Obsta principiis - Resist the beginnings - Nip it in the bud

Occasio aegre offertur, facile amittitur - Opportunity is offered with difficulty, lost with ease. (Publius Syrus)

Occasio facit furem - Opportunity makes a thief

Oderint dum metuant - Let them hate provided that they fear. (Seneca)

Odi et amo - I hate (her), and I love (her) (Catullus)

Odium theologicum - Theological hatred. (a special name for the hatred generated in theological disputes)

Olevm addere camino - To pour fuel on the stove adding gasoline to a fire

Olevm perdisti - You have lost oil you've wasted your time on this criticism for a misallocation of resources

Olim habeas eorum pecuniam, numquam eam reddis: prima regula quaesitus - Once you have their money, you never give it back: the 1st rule of acquisiton

Olim - Formerly

Omne ignotum pro magnifico est - We have great notions of everything unknown. (Tacitus)

Omne initium est difficile - Every beginning is difficult

Omne trium perfectum - Everything that comes in threes is perfect

Omne tvlit pvnctvm qvi miscvit vtile dvlci - [he] has gained every point who has combined [the] useful [with the] agreeable

Omnes aequo animo parent ubi digni imperant - All men cheerfully obey where worthy men rule. (Syrus)

Omnes deteriores svmvs licentia - Too much freedom debases us

Omnes lagani pistrinae gelate male sapiunt - All frozen pizzas taste lousy

Omnes una manet nox - The same night awaits us all. (Horace)

Omnes vulnerant, ultima necat - All (hours) wound, the last kills. (inscription on solar clocks)

Omnia iam fient quae posse negabam - Everything which I used to say could not happen will happen now. (Ovid)

Omnia mea mecum porto - All that is mine, I carry with me. (My wisdom is my greatest wealth) (Cicero)

Omnia mihi lingua graeca sunt - It's all Greek to me

Omnia mors aequat - Death equals all things

Omnia munda mundis - Everything is pure to pure ones

Omnia mutantur nos et mutamur in illis - All things change, and we change with them

Omnia mutantur, nihil interit - Everything changes, nothing perishes. (Ovid)

Omnia mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis - All things are changing, and we are changing with them

Omnia vincit amor - Love conquers all

Omnia vincit amor; et nos cedamus amori - Love conquers all things; let us too surrender to love. (Vergil)

Omnium gatherum - Assortment

Omnium rerum principia parva sunt - Everything has a small beginning. (Cicero)

Onus probandi - The burden of proof

Opere citato (op. cit.) - In the work just quoted

Optimis parentibus - To my excellent parents. A common dedication in a book

Optimus magister, bonus liber - The best teacher is a good book

Opus Dei - The work of God

Ora et labora - Pray and work. (St. Benedict)

Ora pro nobis - Pray for us

Oratvr fit, poeta nascitvr - An orator is made [but] a poet is born

Orbes volantes exstare - Flying saucers are real

Orbiter dictum/dicta - Said by the way (miscellaneous remarks)

Orcae ita - Pretty straightforward

Ore rotundo - With full voice

Osculare pultem meam! - Kiss my grits!

P

Pace tua - With your consent

Pace - By leave of

Pacta sunt servanda - Agreements are to be kept. (Cicero)

Pactum serva - Keep the faith

Pallida mors - Pale Death. (Horace)

Palmam qui meruit ferat - Let him who has earned it bear the reward

Panem et circenses - Bread and circuses. Food and games to keep people happy. (Juvenalis)

Par pare refero - I return like for like tit for tat retaliation

Parens patriae - Parent of the country

Pares cvm paribvs - Like persons with like persons. Birds of a feather flock together

Pari passu - With equal pace - moving together

Pars maior lacrimas ridet et intus habet - You smile at your tears but have them in your heart. (Martialis)

Particeps criminis - Partner in crime

Parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus - Mountains will be in labour, and an absurd mouse will be born. (all that work and nothing to show for it)

Parva leves capiunt animas - Small things occupy light minds (small things amuse small minds)

Parva scintilla saepe magnam flamam excitat - The small sparkle often initiates a large flame

Passim - All through

Pater familias - Father of the family

Pater historiae - The father of history

Pater Noster - Our Father (The first words of the Lord's Prayer in Latin)

Pater patriae - Father of the country

Patria est communis omnium parens - Our native land is the common parent of us all. (Cicero)

Patris est filius - He is his father's son

Paucis verbis, quid est deconstructionismus? - What, in a nutshell, is deconstructionism?

Paucis verbis - In a few words

Pavesco, pavesco - I'm shaking, I'm shaking

Pavpertas omnivm artivm repertrix - Poverty [is the] inventor of all the arts necessity is the mother of invention

Pax et bonum! - Peace and salvation!

Pax tecum - May peace be with you (Singular)

Pax vobiscum - May peace be with you (Plural)

Pax - Peace

Peccatum tacituritatis - Sin of silence

Peccavi - I have sinned

Peculium - Property

Pecunia in arbotis non crescit - Money does not grow on trees

Pecunia non olet - Money has no smell. Money doesn't stink. (don't look a gift horse in the mouth) (Vespasianus)

Pecvniate obedivnt omnia - All things obey money. Money makes the world go round

Pede poena claudo - Punishment comes limping. Retribution comes slowly, but surely. (Horace)

Pendente lite - While a suit is pending

Penetalia mentis - The innermost recesses of the mind. Heart of hearts

Per accidens - By Accident

Per angusta in augusta - Through difficulties to great things

Per annum (p.a.) - Yearly

Per ardua ad astra - Through difficulties to the stars

Per aspera ad astra - Through the thorns to the stars

Per capita - Per head

Per cent (per centum) - Per hundred

Per contra - On the contrary

Per diem - Per day; daily allowance

Per fas et nefas - Through right or wrong

Per impossibile - As is impossible a way to qualify a proposition that cannot ever be true

Per mensem - Monthly

Per procurationem (per pro) - By delegation to

Per se - By or in itself

Per varios usus artem experientia fecit - Through different exercises practice has brought skill. (Manilius)

Perfer et obdura; dolor hic tibi proderit olim - Be patient and tough; some day this pain will be useful to you. (Ovid)

Periculum in mora - There is danger in delay. (Livy)

Perpetuo vincit qui utitur clementia - He is forever victor who employs clemency. (Syrus)

Perpetuum mobile - Perpetual motion

Perscriptio in manibus tabellariorum est - The check is in the mail

Persona (non) grata - (un)welcome person

Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes - Flatterers are the worst type of enemies

Pessimus inimicorum genus, laudantes - The worst kind of enemies, those who can praise. (Tacitus)

Petitio principii - An assumption at the start

Philosophum non facit barba! - The beard does not define a philosopher. (Plutarch)

Pictor ignotus - Painter unknown

Pinxit - He/she painted it

Pistrix! Pistrix! - Shark! Shark!

Placebo - I will please. Medical expression for remedies with no medical effect, which improve one's medical condition only because one believes they do

Placet - It pleases

Pleno iure - With full authority

Pluralitas non est ponenda sine neccesitate - Entities should not be multiplied unnecessarily

Plusque minusque - More or less

Plvres crapvla qvam gladivs - Drunkeness [kills] more than the sword. As true today on the road as it ever was

Poeta nascitur, non fit - The poet is born, not made

Poli, poli, di umbuendo - Slowly, Slowly we will get there

Pone ubi sol non lucet! - Put it where the sun don't shine!

Posse (posse comitatus) - The power of the country

Possunt quia posse videntur - They can because they think they can

Post bellum - After the war

Post coitem - After sexual intercourse

Post factum - After the fact

Post hoc ergo propter hoc - After this, therefore because of this

Post hoc - After this

Post meridiem (p.m.) - After midday

Post mortem - After death. (nowadays, the autopsy performed by a coroner)

Post obitum - After death

Post partum - After childbirth

Post proelia praemia - After the battles come the rewards

Post scriptum (ps) - After what has been written

Post tenebras lux - After the darkness, light

Postatem obscuri lateris nescitis - You do not know the power of the dark side

Potes currere sed te occulere non potes - You can run, but you can't hide

Potest ex casa magnus vir exire - A great man can come from a hut. (Seneca)

Potestatem obscuri lateris nescis - You don't know the power of the dark side. (Star Wars)

Potius mori quam foedari - Rather to die than to be dishonoured (death before dishonour)

Potius sero quam numquam - It's better late than never. (Livy)

Praemonitus, pramunitus - Forewarned, forearmed

Praetio prudentia praestat - Prudence supplies a reward

Prehende uxorem meam, sis! - Take my wife, please!

Prescriptio in manibus tabellariorium est - The check is in the mail

Pretium iustum est - The Price is Right

Prima facie - At first sight; on the face of it. (in law, an obvious case that requires no further proof)

Primum mobile - Prime mover

Primum non nocere - The first thing is to do no harm. (Hippocratic oath)

Primum viveri deinde philosophari - Live before you philosophize, or Leap before you look

Primus inter pares - First among equals

Principiis obsta - Resist the beginnings

Pro bono (pro bono publico) - For the good of the public

Pro di immortales! - Good Heavens!

Pro et contra - For and against

Pro forma - As a matter of formality

Pro hac vice - For this occaision

Pro memoria - For a memorial

Pro nunc - For now

Pro opportunitate - As circumstances allow

Pro patria - For one's country

Pro rata - In proportion to the value. (per hour for example)

Pro re nata (prn) - For an occasion as it arises

Pro se - On one's own behalf

Pro tanto - So far

Pro tempore (pro tem.) - For the time being

Probae esti in segetem sunt deteriorem datae fruges, tamen ipsae suaptae enitent - A good seed, planted even in poor soil, will bear rich fruit by its own nature. (Accius)

Probatum est - It has been proved

Probitas laudatur et alget - Honesty is praised and left in the cold. (Juvenal)

Promotor fidei - Promoter of the faith

Promoveatur ut amoveatur - Let him be promoted to get him out of the way

Propino fibi salutem! - Cheers!

Proprium humani ingenii est odisse quem laeseris - It is human nature to hate a person whom you have injured

Proxime accessit - He/she came close

Proximo (prox.) - Of the next month

Proximus sum egomet mihi - I am closest to myself. (Charity begins at home.) (Terence)

Pueri pueri, pueri puerilia tractant - Children are children, (therefore) children do childish things

Pulvis et umbra sumus - We are dust and shadow. (Horace)

Purgamentum init, exit purgamentum - Garbage in, garbage out

Puris omnia pura - To the pure all things are pure

Puri sermonis amator - A lover of pure speech. (Terence)

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Saepe creat molles aspera spina rosas - Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses. (Ovid)

Saepe ne utile quidem est scire quid futurum sit - Often it is not even advantageous to know what will be. (Cicero)

Saepe stilum vertas - May you often turn the stylus (You should make frequent corrections.)

Salus populi suprema lex - The safety of the people is the supreme law. (Cicero)

Salva veritate - With truth preserved

Salve (plural salvete) - Hail; welcome

Salve sis - May you be well

Salve veritate - Saving the truth

Salve(te) - Greetings!

Salve - Hello

Sanctum sanctorum - The holy of holies

Sane ego te vocavi. forsitan capedictum tuum desit - I did call. Maybe your answering machine is broken

Sapere aude! - Dare to be wise! (Horace)

Sapiens nihil affirmat quod non probat - A wise man states as true nothing he does not prove (don't swear to anything you don't know firsthand)

Sartor resartus - The tailor patched

Sat sapienti - Enough for a wise man. (Plautus)

Satis - Enough

Satius est impunitum relinqui facinus nocentis, quam innocentem damnari - It is better that a crime is left unpunished than that an innocent man is punished. (Corpus Iuris Civilis)

Scala Caeli - The ladder of heaven

Scala naturae - The ladder of nature

Scandalum magnatum - Scandal of magnates

Schola cantorum - School of singers

Scientia est potentia - Knowledge is power

Scientia non habet inimicum nisp ignorantem - Science has no enemies but the ignorants

Scilicet (sc.) - That is to say

Scio cur summae inter se dissentiant! Numeris Romanis utor! - I know why the numbers don't agree! I use Roman numerals!

Scio me nihil scire - I know that I know nothing. Certain knowledge cannot be obtained. (Socrates)

Scire tuum nihil est, nisi te scire hoc sciat alter - Your knowledge is nothing when no one else knows that you know it

Sciri facias - Cause (him) to know

Scito te ipsum - Know yourself

Scribere est agere - To write is to act

Scripsit - He/she wrote it

Sculpsit - He/she engraved it

Sed quis custodiet ipsos custodes? - Who watches the watchmen? (Juvenal)

Sedit qui timuit ne non succederet - He who feared he would not succeed sat still. (For fear of failure, he did nothing.) (Horace)

Semper fidelis - Always faithful

Semper idem - Always the same thing. (Cicero)

Semper inops quicumque cupit - Whoever desires is always poor. (Claudian)

Semper letteris mandate - Always get it in writing!

Semper paratus - Always prepared

Semper superne nitens - Always striving upwards

Semper ubi sub ubi ubique - Always wear underwear everywhere

Senatus Populusque Romanus (SPQR) - The Senate and the Roman people

Sensu lato - Broadly speaking

Sensu stricto - Strictly speaking

Sensu stricto, nullo metro compositum est - Strictly speaking, it doesn't rhyme

Sentio aliquos togatos contra me conspirare - I think some people in togas are plotting against me

Sequens (seq.) - The following (one)

Sequens mirabitur aetas - The following age will be amazed

Sequentia (seqq.) - The following (ones)

Seriatim - One after another in order

Serva me, servabo te - Save me and I will save you. (Petronius Arbiter)

Si Deus pro nobis quis contra nos - If God is with us who is against us

Si fallatis officium, quaestor infitias eat se quicquam scire de factis vestris - If you fail, the secretary will disavow all knowledge of your activities

Si fecisti nega! - If you did it, deny it (stonewall!)

Si finis bonus est, totum bonum erit - If the end is good, everything will be good (all's well that ends well)

Si fractum non sit, noli id reficere - If it ain't broke, don't fix it

Si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes - Essentially it says, 'if you can read this, you're overeducated.'

Si hoc non legere potes tu asinus es - If you can't read this, you're an ass

Si minor plus est ergo nihil sunt omnia - If less is more, then nothing is everything

Si monumentum requiris circumspice - If you seek a monument, look around

Si post fata venit gloria non propero - If glory comes after death, I'm not in a hurry (if one must die to be recognised, I can wait)

Si sapis, sis apis - If you are wise, be a bee

Si tacuisses, philosophus manisses - If you had kept quiet, you would have remained a philosopher. (Boethius)

Si tu id aeficas, ei venient. Ager somnia - If you build it, they will come

Si vis amari, ama - If you wish to be loved, love. (Seneca)

Si vis pacem, para bellum - If you want peace, prepare for the war. (Vegetius)

Sic ad nauseam - And so on to the point of causing nausea

Sic erat in fatis - So it was fated

Sic faciunt omnes - Everyone is doing it

Sic friatur crustum dulce - That's the way the cookie crumbles

Sic itur ad astra - Such is the path to the stars (i.e. Gain reputation) (Vergil)

Sic passim - Thus everywhere

Sic semper tyrannis - Thus always to tyrants - a statement often accompanying a regicide

Sic transit gloria mundi - So passes the glory of the world

Sic volo, sic iubeo - I want this, I order this. (Juvenalis)

Sic - Thus, just so

Silent enim leges inter arma - Laws are silent in times of war. (Cicero)

Simia quam similis, turpissimus bestia, nobis! - How like us is that very ugly beast the monkey. (Cicero)

Simplex munditiis - Unaffected by manners. (Horace)

Simpliciter - Naturally; without qualification

Sine cura - Without a care

Sine die - Without a day (indefinitely)

Sine ira et studio - Without anger or bias. (Tacitus)

Sine loco (sl) - Without place

Sine nobilitatis - Without nobility (SNOB)

Sine prole (sp) - Without issue

Sine qua non - Something/someone indispensable

Sine sole sileo - Without the sun I'm silent. (sundial inscription)

Siste, viator - Wait, traveler - inscription on Roman tombstones

Sit tibi terra levis - May the earth be light upon you - tombstone inscription

Sit vis vobiscum - May the Force be with you. (Star Wars)

Sobria inebrietas - Sober intoxication

Sol omnibus lucet - The sun shines upon us all. (Petronius)

Sola lingua bona est lingua mortua - The only good language is a dead language

Solitudinem fecerunt, pacem appelunt - They made a desert and called it peace. (Tacitus)

Solum potestis prohibere ignes silvarum - Only you are can prevent forest fires

Sona si latine loqueris - Honk if you speak Latin

Sotto voce - In soft voice

Spectaculorum procedere debet - The show must go on

Spectatvm venivnt, venivnt spectentvr vt ipsae - They come to see, they come that they themselves be seen 'to see and be seen

Spemque metumque inter dubiis - Hover between hope and fear. (Vergil)

Spero melior - I hope for better things

Spero nos familiares mansuros - I hope we'll still be friends

Spiritus asper - Rough breathing

Spiritus lenis - Smooth breathing

Splendide mendax - Splendidly false. (Horace)

Splendor sine occasu - Splendour without end

Stabat Mater - The mother was standing

Stare decisis - To stand by things decided

Status quo - The current state of being

Stercus accidit - Shit happens

Stet - Let it stand

Struit insidias lacrimis cum femina plorat - When a woman weeps, she is setting traps with her tears. (Dionysius Cato)

Studium discendi voluntate quae cogi non potest constat - Study depends on the good will of the student, a quality which cannot be secured by compulsion

Stultior stulto fuisti, qui tabellis crederes! - Idiot of idiots, to trust what is written!

Stultorum calami carbones moenia chartae - Chalk is the pen of fools, walls (their) paper No Graffiti please. Showing that graffiti is nothing new

Stultorum infinitus est numerus - Infinite is the number of fools. (Bible)

Stultum est timere quod vitare non potes - It is foolish to fear that which you cannot avoid. (Publilius Syrus)

Stultus est sicut stultus facit - Stupid is as stupid does

Sua cuique voluptas - Everyone has his own pleasures

Sub dio - Under the open sky

Sub iudice - Under a judge

Sub judice - Before a court

Sub lite - In dispute

Sub poena - Under penalty of law

Sub rosa - Under the rose. Secretly or in confidence

Sub secreto - In secret

Sub silentio - In silence

Sub sole nihil novi est - There's nothing new under the sun

Sub voce (sv) - Under the voice

Subucula tua apparet - Your slip is showing

Suggestio falsi - Suggestion of something false

Suggestio veri, suggestio falsi - An intimation of truth, an intimation of falcity

Sui generis - Of his/her/its kind

Sui iuris - Of one's own right

Sum, ergo edo - I am, therefore I eat

Summa cum laude - With highest honor

Summam scrutemur - Let's look at the bottom line

Summum bonum - The highest good

Summum ius, summa iniuria - The extreme law is the greatest injustice. (Cicero)

Sumptus censum ne superet - Let not your spending exceed your income (live within your means)

Sunt lacrimae rerum et mentem mortalia tangunt - These are the tears of things, and our mortality cuts to the heart. (Vergil)

Sunt pueri pueri, puerilia tractant - Children are children, (therefore) children do childish things

Suntne vacci laeti - Are your cows happy?

Suo iure - In one's own right

Suo jure - In one's rightful place

Suos cuique mos - Everyone has his customs. (Gellius)

Supra - Above or on an earlier page

Sursum corda - Lift up your hearts (to God)

Suum cuique pulchrum est - To each his own is beautiful. (Cicero)

Svi generis - Of its own kind unique

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Tabula rasa - A clean slate. Person that knows nothing

Tacet - Silence

Tam diu minime visu! - Long time, no see!

Tam exanimis quam tunica nehru fio - I am as dead as the nehru jacket

Tamdiu discendum est, quamdiu vivas - We should learn as long as we may live. (We live and learn.) (Seneca Philosophus)

Tamquam alter idem - As if a second self. (Cicero)

Tanta stultitia mortalium est - What fools these mortals be

Tantum eruditi sunt liberi - Only the educated are free. (Epictetus)

Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum - So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds. (Lucretius)

Tarditas et procrastinatio odiosa est - Delay and procrastination is hateful. (Cicero)

Te audire non possum. Musa sapientum fixa est in aure - I can't hear you. I have a banana in my ear

Te capiam, cunicule sceleste! - I'll get you, you wascally wabbit!

Te Deum - Thee, God [we praise]

Te igitur - Thee, therefore

Te nosce - Know thyself

Te precor dulcissime supplex! - Pretty please with a cherry on top!

Tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis - The times change, and we change with them. (John Owen)

Tempore - In the time of

Tempus edax rerum - Time is the devourer of things (time flies)

Tempus fugit, non autem memoria - Time flies, but not memory

Tempus fugit - Time flees

Tempus incognitum - Time unknown

Tempus neminem manet - Time waits for no one

Tempus omnia sed memorias privat - Time deprives all but memories

Ter in die (t.i.d.) - Three times a day

Terminus a quo - The end from which

Terminus ad quem - The end to which

Terra firma - Solid ground

Terra incognita - Unknown land

Terra nullius - Uninhabited land

Tertium quid - A third something

Tetigisti acu - You have hit the nail on the head. (Plautus)

Theatrum mundi - The theatre of the world

Tibi gratias agimus quod nihil fumas - Thank you for not smoking

Timendi causa est nescire - Ignorance is the cause of fear. (Seneca)

Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes - I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts. (Virgil)

Timor mortis conturbat me - The fear of death confounds me

Tintinnuntius meus sonat! - There goes my beeper!

Tolerabiles ineptiae - Bearable absurdities

Totidem verbis - In so many words

Totum dependeat! - Let it all hang out!

Trahimur omnes laudis studio - We are all led on by our eagerness for praise. (Cicero)

Transire suum pectus mundoque potiri - To overcome one's human limitations and become master of the universe

Transit umbra, lux permanet - Shadow passes, light remains (On a sun dial)

Tu autem - You, also

Tu fui, ego eris - What you are, I was. What I am, you will be. (This is found on graves and burial sites)

Tu ne cede malis sed contra audentior ito - Yield not to misfortunes, but advance all the more boldly against them

Tu quoque Brute, file mi! - You too Bruto, my son! (Caesar's last words)

Tu quoque - You likewise

Tu stupidus es - You are dumb

Tu, rattus turpis! - You dirty rat!

Tua mater tam antiquior ut linguam latine loquatur - Your mother is so old she speaks Latin

Tua toga suspina est - Your toga is backwards

Tuis pugis pignore! - You bet your bippy!

Tum podem extulit horridulum - You are talking shit

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Uberrimae fidei - Of the utmost good faith

Ubi amor, ibi oculus - Where love is, there is insight

Ubi bene, ibi patria - Where you feel good, there is your home

Ubi concordia, ibi victoria - Where is the unity, there is the victory. (Publius Syrus)

Ubi dubium ibi libertas - Where there is doubt, there is freedom

Ubi est mea anaticula cumminosa? - Wheres my rubber ducky?

Ubi fumus, ibi ignis - Where there's smoke, there's fire

Ubi maior, minor cessat - The weak (minor) capitulates before the strong (major)

Ubi mel ibi apes - Where honey, there bees, i.e., if you want support, you must offer something in return

Ubi revera (Ubi re vera) - When, in reality

Ubi spiritus est cantus est - Where there is spirit there is song

Ubi sunt? - Where are they (the good old days)?

Ubi supra - Where (cited) above

Ubicumque homo est, ibi benefici locus est - Wherever there is a man, there is a place of/for kindness/service

Ubique - Everywhere

Ultima ratio regum - The final argument of kings

Ultima ratio - Ultimate sanction

Ultima Thule - The most distant Thule

Ultimo (ult.) - Of the previous month

Ultimus Romanorum - The last of the Romans

Ultra posse nemo obligatur - No one is obligated beyond what he is able to do

Ultra vires - Beyond the powers or legal authority

Un idea perplexi na - The idea is strange to us

Una hirundo non facit ver - One Swallow does not make Summer. (Horace)

Una salus victis nullam sperare salutem - The one safety for the vanquished is to abandon hope of safety knowing there is no hope can give one the courage to fight and win

Una voce - With one's voice

Unitam logica falsa tuam philosophiam totam suffodiant! - May faulty logic undermine your entire philosophy!

Unitas mirabile vinculum - The wonderful bond of unity

Unum necessarium - The one necessary

Unus multorum - One of many. (Horace)

Urbanus et instructus - A gentleman and a scholar

Urbem lateritiam invenit, marmoream reliquit - He found a city [Rome] of bricks and left a city of marble. (Augustus)

Urbi et orbi - To the city [Rome] and to the globe - a blessing of the pope

Ut ameris, ama! - To be loved, love!

Ut desint vires, tamen est laudanda voluntas - Although the power is lacking, the will is commendable. (Ovid)

Ut dictum (ut dict.) - As directed

Ut humiliter opinor - In my humble opinion

Ut incepit fidelis sic permanet - As loyal as she began, so she remains

Ut infra - As below

Ut sementem feceris, ita metes - As you sow, so shall you reap. (Cicero)

Ut si! - As if!

Ut sit magna, tamen certe lenta ira deorum est - The wrath of the gods may be great, but it certainly is slow

Ut supra (ut sup.) - As above

Uti foro - To play the market

Uti possidetis - As you possess

Uti, non abuti - To use, not abuse

Utile et dulce - Useful and pleasant

Utinam barbari spatium proprium tuum invadant! - May barbarians invade your personal space!

Utinam coniurati te in foro interficiant! - May conspirators assassinate you in the mall!

Utinam populus romanus unam cervicem haberet! - If only the Roman people had one neck!

Uva uvam videndo varia fit - A grape changes color in seeing another grape. A bad/good friend makes you a bad/good person

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Vacca foeda - Stupid cow

Vacca, vacca, vacca - Cow, cow, cow

Vade in pace - Go in peace. (Roman way of saying goodbye)

Vade mecum - Come with me. A constant companion

Vae victis! - Woe to the conquered! (vanquished) (Livy)

Vagans - Cruising

Vah! Denuone Latine loquebar? Me ineptum. Interdum modo elabitur - Oh! Was I speaking Latin again? Silly me. Sometimes it just sort of slips out

Vale, lacerte! - See you later, alligator!

Vale - Farewell

Valui ad satanam in computatrum meum invocandum - I succeeded in summoning satan into my computer

Vanitas vanitatvm, omnis vanitas - Vanity of vanities, all is vanity

Varia lecto (v.l.) - Variant reading

Variatio delectat - There's nothing like change! (Cicero)

Variorum - Of various people

Velle est posse - To be willing is to be able

Veni vidi duci - I came, I saw, I calculated

Veni, vidi, vici - I came, I saw, I conquered. (Julius Caesar)

Veni, Vidi, Visa - I Came, I Saw, I Shopped

Veni, Vidi, volo in domum redire - I came, I saw, I want to go home

Venienti occurrite morbo - Meet the misfortune as it comes. (Persius)

Venire facias - You must make come

Ventis secundis, tene cursum - Go with the flow

Ventis secundis, tene/tenete cursum - The winds being favorable, hold the course

Verba de futuro - Words about the future

Verba movent, exempla trahunt - Words move people, examples draw/compel them. Deeds, not words, give the example

Verba volant, (littera) scripta manet - Words fly away, the written (letter) remains

Verbatim et litteratim - Word for word and letter for letter

Verbatim - Exactly as said

Verbum sapienti satis est (verb. sap.) - A word to the wise is sufficient. Enough said

Veritas Lux Mea - The truth enlightens me / The truth is my light

Veritas numquam perit - Truth never perishes. (Seneca)

Veritas odit moras - Truth hates delay. (Seneca)

Veritas vincit - Truth conquers

Veritas vos liberabit - The truth will set you free

Verso - Reverse

Versus - Against

Verum et factum convertuntur - The true and the made are interchangeable. One can know with certainty only what he have created himself

Verveces tui similes pro ientaculo mihi appositi sunt - I have jerks like you for breakfast

Vesanum poetam qui sapiunt fugiunt - Anyone with a brain flees a versifying poet

Vescere bracis meis - Eat my shorts

Vestigia terrent - The footprints frighten me. (Horace)

Vestis virum reddit - The clothes make the man. (Quintilianus)

Veto - I forbid

Vi et armis - By force and arms

Via Crucis - The Way of the Cross

Via Dolorosa - The Way of Sorrow

Via Lactea - The Milky Way

Via media - A middle way or course

Via - By way of

Vice versa - In reverse order

Vice - In place of

Victis honor - Honour to the vanquished

Victoria Imperatrix Regina (VIR) - Victoria, Empress and Queen

Victoria Regina (VR) - Queen Victoria

Victoria Regina et Imperatrix (VRI) - Victoria, Queen and Empress

Victoria, non praeda - Victory, not loot

Victurus te saluto - He who is about to win salutes you

Vide et credere - See and believe

Vide ut supra - See the above

Vide - See

Videlicet (viz.) - That is to say; To wit; Namely

Video meliora proboque deteriora sequor - I see the better way and approve it, but I follow the worse way

Videre est credere - Seeing is believing

Videtis quantum scelus contra rem publicam vobis nuntiatum sit? - How great an evil do you see that may have been announced by you against the Republic? (Cicero)

Vidistine nuper imagines moventes bonas? - Seen any good movies lately?

Vigilando, agendo, bene consulendo, prospera omnia cedunt - By watching, by doing, by counsulting well, these things yield all things prosperous. (Sallust)

Vincere est totum - To win is everything

Vincit omnia amor - Love conquers all

Vincit omnia veritas - Truth conquers all

Vincit qui se vincit - He conquers who conquers himself

Vinculum unitatis - The bond of unity

Vinum bellum iucunumque est, sed animo corporeque caret - It's a nice little wine, but it lacks character and depth

Vinum et musica laetificant cor - Wine and music gladden the heart

Vir bonus, dicendi peritus - A good man, skilled in speaking. (definition of an orator) (Cato the Elder)

Vir prudens non contra ventum mingit - A wise man does not urinate against the wind

Vir sapit qui pauca loquitor - It is a wise man who speaks little

Vir sapit qui pauca loquitur - That man is wise who talks little (know when to hold your tongue)

Vires acquirit eundo - It gains strength by going / as it goes. (Virgil)

Virginibus puerisque - For maidens and youths

Virgo intacta - Intact virgin

Viri sunt viri - Men are slime

Virtus in medio stat - Virtue stands in the middle

Virtute et armis - By courage and by arms

Virtvs probata florescit - Manly excellence in trial flourished

Virtvtis fortvna comes - Good luck is the companion of courage

Virum mihi, Camena, insece versutum - Tell me, O Muse, of the skillful man. (Livius Andronicus)

Virus - Poison or slime

Vis comica - Sense of humour

Vis consili expers mole ruit sua - Brute force bereft of wisdom falls to ruin by its own weight. (Discretion is the better part of valor) (Horace)

Vis inertiae - The power of inertia - why things never change

Vis maior - Higher force

Vis medicatrix naturae - The healing power of nature

Visa - Things seen

Visne saltare? Viam Latam Fungosam scio - Do you want to dance? I know the Funky Broadway

Visne saltare? - Do you want to dance?

Vita brevis, ars lunga - Life is short, art is long

Vita contin git. Vive com eo - Life happens. Live with it

Vita luna! - Crazy life!

Vita mutatur, non tollitur - Life is changed, not taken away

Vita non est vivere sed valere vita est - Life is more than merely staying alive

Vita sine libris mors est - Life without books is death

Vitam impendere vero - To risk one's life for the truth

Vitam regit fortuna, non sapientia - Fortune, not wisdom, rules lives. (Cicero)

Vitanda est improba siren desidia - One must avoid that wicked temptress, Laziness. (Horace)

Vitiis nemo sine nascitur - No-one is born without faults. (Horace)

Viva voce - With living voice

Vivat regina - Long live the queen

Vivat rex - Long live the king

Vivat, crescat, floreat! - May he/she/it live, grow, and flourish!

Vive hodie - Live today (not tomorrow)

Vive vt vivas - Live that you may live

Vivere commune est, sed non commune mereri - Everybody lives; not everybody deserves to

Vivere disce, cogita mori - Learn to live; Remember death. (sundial inscription)

Vivos voco, mortuos plango - I call the living, I mourn the dead. (church bell inscription)

Vix ulla tam iniqua pax, quin bello vel aequissimo sit potior - Scarcely is there any peace so unjust that it is better than even the fairest war. (Erasmus)

Vixere fortes ante agamemnona - Brave men lived before Agamemnon. (heroism exists even if it's not recorded)

Vixit - He/she has lived

Vltima ratio regvm - The final argument of kings. (motto of Louis XIV on his cannon)

Vltra vires - Beyond [one's] authority outside the jurisdiction

Volens et potens - Willing and able

Volente Deo - God willing

Volenti non fit iniuria - A person who consents does not suffer injustice

Volo anaticulam cumminosam meam! - I want my rubber ducky!

Volo, non valeo - I am willing but unable

Volvptates commendat rarior vsvs - Infrequent use commends pleasure. (moderation in all things)

Vos vestros servate, meos mihi linquite mores - You cling to your own ways and leave mine to me. (Petrarch)

Vox clamantis in deserto - Voice crying in the desert. (voice in the wilderness unheeded warning, an opinion not in the mainstream

Vox populi, vox Dei - The voice of the people is the voice of God. (Public opinion is obligatory)

Vox populi - The voice of the people

Vrbi et orbi - To the city and to the world. (preface of Papal documents)

Vulnerant omnes, ultima necat - Every (hour) wounds, the last kills. (sundial inscription)

Vulpem pilum mutat, non mores - A fox may change its hair, not its tricks. (People change behaviour but not their aims)

Vultus est index animi - The face is the index of the soul/mind