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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:
Translated into Latin from Baudelaire's L'art pour l'art. Motto of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. While symmetrical for the logo of MGM, the better word order in Latin is "Ars artis gratia". ars longa, vita brevis: art is long, life is short: Seneca, De Brevitate Vitae, 1.1, translating a phrase of Hippocrates that is often used out of context. The "art ...
Life is blood, shed and offered. The eagle's eye can face this dree. To beasts of chase the lie is proffered: Timor Mortis Conturbat Me. The beast of foot sings Holdfast only, For flesh is bruckle and foot is slee. Strength to the strong and the lordly and lonely. Timor Mortis Exultat Me.
This page is one of a series listing English translations of notable Latin phrases, such as veni, vidi, vici and et cetera. Some of the phrases are themselves translations of Greek phrases, as ancient Greek rhetoric and literature started centuries before the beginning of Latin literature in ancient Rome. [1] This list covers the letter S.
This page is one of a series listing English translations of notable Latin phrases, such as veni, vidi, vici and et cetera. Some of the phrases are themselves translations of Greek phrases, as ancient Greek rhetoric and literature started centuries before the beginning of Latin literature in ancient Rome. [1] This list covers the letter L.
method of living or way of life: An accommodation between disagreeing parties to allow life to go on. A practical compromise. Monasterium sine libris est sicut civitas sine opibus: A monastery without books is like a city without wealth: Used in the Umberto Eco novel The Name of the Rose. Part of a much larger phrase: Monasterium sine libris ...
union is strength, or unity is strength: Former motto of South Africa: ex vi termini: from the force of the term: Thus, "by definition" ex vita discedo, tanquam ex hospitio, non tanquam ex domo: I depart from life as from an inn, not as from home: Cicero, Cato Maior de Senectute (On Old Age) 23 ex vivo: out of or from life
This page is one of a series listing English translations of notable Latin phrases, such as veni, vidi, vici and et cetera. Some of the phrases are themselves translations of Greek phrases, as ancient Greek rhetoric and literature started centuries before the beginning of Latin literature in ancient Rome. [1] This list covers the letter I.