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NLE Sayings

9th Grade National Latin Exam focused on Sayings in Latin

Question	Answer
Festina Lente	Make haste slowly
Caveat Emptor	Buyer Beware
Ad infinitum	Without end
Ad nauseam	To the point of disgust
Alma mater	College (nourishing mother)
Ante bellum	Before the war
Ars artis gratia	Art for art's sake
Ars longa, vita brevis	Art is long, life is short
Bona fide	In good faith
Carpe diem	Seize ("pluck") the day
Cave canem	Beware of the dog
Corpus delicti	The facts (body) of a crime
Cum grano salis	With a grain of salt
De facto	In fact; actually
De jure	By right; legally
De mortuis nil nisi bonum	Speak only good of the dead
Errare est humanum	To err is human
Et tu, Brute!	Even you, Brutus!
Exit; exeunt	He goes out; they go out (stage directions)
Ex libris	From the books
Ex Officio	By the virtue of office
Ex post facto	Enacted after the fact; retroactive
Ex tempore	On the spur of the moment
In absentia	In absence
In hoc signo vince	By this sign you shall conquer
In loco parentis	In the place of a parent
In medias res	Into the midst of things
In memoriam	In the memory of; in memory
In re	In the matter of; concerning
In toto	In its entirety
Ipso facto	By the very fact itself
Lapsus linguae	A slip of the tongue
Mens sana in corpore sano	A sound mind in a sound body
Multum in parvo	Much in something small
Pater patriae	Father of his country
Pax vobiscum	Peace be with you
Per annum	By the year
Per capita	By heads; individually
Per diem	By the day
Per se	By itself; essentially
Persona non grata	An unwelcome person
Post mortem	After death
Prima facie	On first sight or appearance
pro and con(tra)	For and against
Pro bono publico	For the public welfare
Pro tempore	For the time being
Quid pro quo	Something for something
Semper fidelis	Always faithful
Semper paratus	Always prepared
Sic transit gloria mundi	Thus passes the glory of the world
Sine die	Indefinitely; with setting a day
Sine qua non	"Without which there is none" indispensable; a necessity
Status quo	The existing state of affairs
To Deum Laudamus	We praise thee, God
Tempus fugit	Time flies
Terra firma	Solid Ground
Terra incognita	Unknown land
Vade mecum	A constant companion (go with me)
Veni, vidi, vici	I came, I saw, I conquered
Verbatim	Word for word
Via	By way of
Vice versa	The other way around
Viva voce	By spoken word
Vox populi, vox Dei	The voice of the people is the voice of God
A.D.	Anno Domini = in the year of our Lord
ad lib.	ad libitum = at pleasure
a.m.	ante meridiem = before noon
c.f.	confer = compare
e.g.	exempli gratia = for example
et al.	et aliI (aliae, alia) = and others
etc.	et cetera = and the rest and so forth
ibid.	ibidem = in the same place
i.e.	id est = that is
M.D.	Medicinae Doctor = Doctor of Medicine
N.B.	nota bene = note well
op. cit.	opere citato = in the work cited
per cent	per centum = by the hundred
p.m.	post meridiem = after noon
pre tem.	pro tempore = for the time being
P.S.	post scriptum = postscript, written afterwards
q.v	quod vide = which see
viz.	videlicet (videre licet) = one may see, namely
vs.	versus = against
ad vitam aut ad culpam	to life or blame
"hoc habet" "Iugula" and "Ave, Imperator, nos morituri te salutamus?"	Exclamations that could be heard in ancient Roman amphitheaters.

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