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In meanings 2, 3, and 4, the spelling remains ped-in Commonwealth English words that begin with these letters. Not all derived words do; e.g., petard (a small bomb) is from meaning 4, and entered English from Middle French pétard for the same thing (originally literally meaning 'fart', it remains an uncommon Modern French word for 'firecracker').
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:
This list gives those most commonly encountered with Latin script. For a far more comprehensive list of symbols and signs, see List of Unicode characters. For other languages and symbol sets (especially in mathematics and science), see below
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to the foot of the letter: i.e., "exactly as it is written", "to the letter", or "to the very last detail" ad perpetuam memoriam: to the perpetual memory: Generally precedes "of" and a person's name, used to wish for someone to be remembered long after death ad pondus omnium (ad pond om) to the weight of all things: i.e., "considering ...
In classical Greek and Latin poetry a caesura is the juncture where one word ends and the following word begins within a foot. In contrast, a word juncture at the end of a foot is called a diaeresis. Some caesurae are expected and represent a point of articulation between two phrases or clauses.
Maskot/Getty Images. 6. Delulu. Short for ‘delusional,’ this word is all about living in a world of pure imagination (and only slightly detached from reality).
In the United States it was sometimes erroneously called "Bachelor of Legal Letters" to account for the double "L" (and therefore sometimes wrongly abbreviated as "L.L.B."). loc. cit. loco citato "(in) the place cited" Means in the same place (i.e., page or section) in an article, book or other reference work as was mentioned before.