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not the cause for the cause: Also known as the "questionable cause" or "false cause". Refers to any logical fallacy where a cause is incorrectly identified. non compos mentis: not in control of the mind: See compos mentis. Also rendered non compos sui (not in control of himself). Samuel Johnson theorized that the word nincompoop may derive from ...
si vales valeo (SVV) if you are well, I am well (abbr) A common beginning for ancient Roman letters. An abbreviation of si vales bene est ego valeo, alternatively written as SVBEEV. The practice fell out of fashion and into obscurity with the decline in Latin literacy. si vis amari ama: If you want to be loved, love
The normal English causative verb [3] or control verb used in periphrasis is make rather than cause. Linguistic terms are traditionally given names with a Romance root, which has led some to believe that cause is more prototypical. While cause is a causative, it carries some additional meaning (it implies direct causation) and is less common ...
Va', che te sia data lanzata catalana o che te sia dato stoccata co na funa, che non se perda lo sango, o che te vangano mille malanne, co l'avanzo e priesa e vento alla vela, che se ne perda la semmenta, guzzo, guitto, figlio de 'ngabellata, mariuolo!" This tirade could be translated from Neapolitan as follows:
Causa sui (pronounced [ˈkau̯.sa ˈsʊ.iː]; transl. cause of itself, self-caused) is a Latin term that denotes something that is generated within itself. Used in relation to the purpose that objects can assign to themselves, the concept was central to the works of Baruch Spinoza, Sigmund Freud, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Ernest Becker.
Statue of Gabriele D'Annunzio in Trieste. Forse che sì forse che no (Maybe Yes, Maybe No) [1] is a novel published in 1910 by Gabriele D'Annunzio.As all D'Annunzio's novels, Forse che sì forse che no echoes to a certain extent one of D'Annunzio's own experiences. [2]
Its name La Gi or Lagi [laː˧˧:ɣi˧˧] in Kinh language was originated from ladik [1] [laː˧˧:ɗɨt˧˥] in Cham language, which means "swamp" to reflect the situation of this area before the 1960s. Under the Republic of Vietnam regime, La Gi was the provincial capital of Bình Tuy province (present-day
Conditional clauses sometimes overlap in meaning with other types of clause, such as concessive ('although'), causal ('in view of the fact that'), or temporal ('whenever'). The conjunction sī is only rarely used in classical Latin to introduce indirect questions, although this usage is found in medieval Latin and is common in Greek and in ...