Common Latin Sayings and translations
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| show | From first to last (literally, “from the egg to the apples,” meaning from the first course until dessert)
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| Ab urbe condita | show 🗑
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| show | To the man
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| show | To the point of disgust
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| Ad vitam aut ad culpam | show 🗑
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| show | Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world.
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| show | The die has been cast (Julius Caesar, crossing the Rubicon)
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| Alma mater | show 🗑
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| show | Love conquers all (Virgil)
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| show | In the year of our Lord
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| show | Before the war (War between the States)
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| Amor omnia vincit | show 🗑
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| Anno Domini, A.D. | show 🗑
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| show | Before the war (War between the States)
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| Ante meridiem (a.m.) | show 🗑
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| Aqua vitae | show 🗑
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| Arma virumque cano | show 🗑
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| show | Art for the sake of art (M.G.M.’s motto)
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| Ars longa, vita brevis | show 🗑
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| show | Either learn or leave
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| Ave atque vale | show 🗑
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| Ave atque vale in perpetuum | show 🗑
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| show | Hail, Caesar, we who are about to die, salute you!
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| show | Twice in a day
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| show | With good faith
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| show | Heaven and earth
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| Carpe crustulum | show 🗑
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| Carpe diem | show 🗑
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| show | Carthage must be destroyed! (Cato the Elder)
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| show | Let the buyer beware
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| Cave canem | show 🗑
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| Centum (C) | show 🗑
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| Cogito ergo sum | show 🗑
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| show | Compare
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| Confer (cf.) | show 🗑
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| Corpus delicti | show 🗑
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| Credenda/Agenda | show 🗑
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| Cum grano salis | show 🗑
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| show | Actually, in fact, in reality
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| De gustibus non est disputandum | show 🗑
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| Dei gratia | show 🗑
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| show | Do not speak ill of the dead (lit. of the dead, say nothing except what is good)
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| show | Thanks be to God
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| show | The wrath (anger) of God
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| show | While I breathe, I hope
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| Errare est humanum | show 🗑
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| Et alii (et al.) | show 🗑
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| show | And others
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| Et tu, Brute? | show 🗑
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| Exempli gratia (e.g.) | show 🗑
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| show | We spread our fame by our deeds
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| show | Make haste slowly
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| show | The toga-clad nation
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| Habeas corpus (ad subiciendum) | show 🗑
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| show | Hannibal at the gates!
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| Hic iacet… | show 🗑
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| Hodie Christus natus est | show 🗑
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| Ibidem (ibid.) | show 🗑
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| show | That is
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| show | Ignorance of the law excuses no one.
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| show | In this sign, you will conquer (words and cross appeared to Constantine before the battle of Milan, A.D. 312)
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| In loco parentis | show 🗑
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| Ipse dixit | show 🗑
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| show | By that very fact
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| show | Work conquers all (Virgil)
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| Lapsus linguae | show 🗑
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| show | Common law
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| show | Master of arts
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| show | A great work
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| Mater Italiae—Roma | show 🗑
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| show | My fault
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| show | A healthy mind in a healthy body
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| show | I am a soldier of Christ
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| show | A thousand
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| Mirabile dictum | show 🗑
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| show | Amazing to see
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| show | Nature does not make leaps
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| show | Do not trust the horse (i.e., don’t look a gift horse in the mouth—said by Laocoon the priest)
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| show | Never despair (no cause for despairing)
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| Nolo contendere | show 🗑
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| Nota bene (n.b.) | show 🗑
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| Novus ordo seclorum | show 🗑
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| Nunc aut numquam | show 🗑
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| show | Pray and work (St. Benedict)
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| O tempora, O mores! | show 🗑
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| show | The Roman peace
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| Pax vobiscum (sing: tecum) | show 🗑
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| show | Annually
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| Per diem | show 🗑
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| Per se | show 🗑
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| Persona non grata | show 🗑
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| Philosophiae doctor (Ph.D.) | show 🗑
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| show | After the middle of the day (afternoon)
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| show | After death
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| show | Written afterwards
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| Prima luce | show 🗑
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| Pro bono | show 🗑
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| Quid est (q.e.) | show 🗑
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| show | One thing for another
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| Quod erat demonstrandum | show 🗑
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| Quo modo | show 🗑
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| Quo vadis? | show 🗑
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| Quo vide (q.v.) | show 🗑
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| show | A rare bird
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| Repetitio mater studiorum | show 🗑
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| Requiescat in pace (R.I.P.) | show 🗑
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| Retro Satana | show 🗑
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| show | Fools laugh at the Latin language (Ovid)
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| Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus, Dominus Deus Sabaoth | show 🗑
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| show | Knowledge is power
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| show | Actually
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| Semper fidelis | show 🗑
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| Semper paratus | show 🗑
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| show | S.P.Q.R. The Senate and the People of Rome
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| Sic semper tyrannis! | show 🗑
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| show | So passes the glory of the world
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| show | The sign of the cross
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| show | Without a day set (e.g., “they adjourned sine die” means “they adjourned with a day set for another meeting”)
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| Si vales, valeo (S.V.V.) | show 🗑
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| show | The existing state of affairs (the way things are now)
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| Stupor mundi | show 🗑
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| Summa cum laude | show 🗑
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| Summum bonum | show 🗑
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| show | To each his own
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| Tempus fugit | show 🗑
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| show | Solid ground
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| show | Unknown territory
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| Tolle lege | show 🗑
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| Vade retro | show 🗑
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| Veni, vidi, vici | show 🗑
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| show | A word to the wise is enough (abbreviated: verbum sap A word to the wise)
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| Versus (vs.) | show 🗑
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| Vox populi, vox Dei. | show 🗑
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| E pluribus unum | show 🗑
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| show | We dare to defend our rights
Alabama
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| Ditat Deus | show 🗑
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| show | The people rule
Arkansas
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| Nil sine Numine | show 🗑
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| Qui Transtulit Sustinet | show 🗑
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| show | May she be perpetual
Idaho
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| Ad astra per aspera | show 🗑
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| Dirigo | show 🗑
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| show | By the sword she seeks peace but only under liberty
Massachusetts
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| show | If you seek a pleasant peninsula, look about you
Michigan
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| Virtute et armis | show 🗑
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| show | Let the welfare of the people be the supreme law
Missouri
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| show | It grows as it grows
New Mexico
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| show | Ever higher
New York
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| show | To be rather than to seem
North Carolina
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| show | Labor conquers all things
Oklahoma
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| show | While I breathe, I hope
South Carolina
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| Animis Opibusque Parati | show 🗑
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| Sic semper tyrannis | show 🗑
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| show | Mountaineers are always freemen
West Virginia
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| show | Justice to all
District of Columbia (Washington D.C.)
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