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  2. List of Latin phrases (full) - Wikipedia

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    Meaning: "serving at the pleasure of the authority or officer who appointed". A Mediaeval legal Latin phrase. durante munere: while in office: For example, the Governor General of Canada is durante munere the Chancellor and Principal Companion of the Order of Canada. dux: leader: dux bellorum: leader of wars

  3. List of Latin phrases - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of Wikipedia articles of Latin phrases and their translation into English. To view all phrases on a single, lengthy document, see: List of Latin phrases (full) The list is also divided alphabetically into twenty pages:

  4. List of Latin phrases (A) - Wikipedia

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    The original meaning was similar to "the game is afoot", but its modern meaning, like that of the phrase "crossing the Rubicon", denotes passing the point of no return on a momentous decision and entering into a risky endeavor where the outcome is left to chance. alenda lux ubi orta libertas: Let light be nourished where liberty has arisen

  5. List of Latin phrases (I) - Wikipedia

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    Latin Translation Notes I, Vitelli, dei Romani sono belli: Go, O Vitellius, at the war sound of the Roman god: Perfectly correct Latin sentence usually reported as funny by modern Italians because the same exact words, in Italian, mean "Romans' calves are beautiful", which has a ridiculously different meaning. ibidem (ibid.) in the same place

  6. List of Latin phrases (V) - Wikipedia

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    From a popular Medieval Roman Catholic exorcism formula, derived from the rebuke of Jesus Christ to St. Peter, as quoted in the Vulgate, Mark 8:33: vade retro me Satana ("get behind Me, Satan"). [3] The phrase "vade retro" ("go back") is also in Terence's Formio, I, 4, 203. vale: farewell: see also: ave atque vale: valenter volenter: strongly ...

  7. List of Latin phrases (L) - Wikipedia

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    Popular as a motto; derived from a phrase in Virgil's Eclogue (X.69: omnia vincit Amor – "Love conquers all"); a similar phrase also occurs in his Georgics I.145. laborare pugnare parati sumus: To work, (or) to fight; we are ready: Motto of the California Maritime Academy: labore et honore: By labour and honour: laboremus pro patria

  8. List of Latin phrases (M) - Wikipedia

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    Conciseness. The term "mipmap" is formed using the phrase's abbreviation "MIP"; motto of Rutland, a county in central England. Latin phrases are often multum in parvo, conveying much in few words. mundus senescit: the world grows old: mundus vult decipi: the world wants to be deceived: Ascribed to Roman satirist Petronius.

  9. Category:Latin words and phrases - Wikipedia

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    Lists of Latin phrases (27 P) M. Latin medical words and phrases (22 P) Memento mori (20 P) Latin mottos (101 P) N. Ancient Roman names (4 C, 6 P) Neo-Latin ...