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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:
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" referred to in the original aphorism was the craft of medicine, which took a lifetime ...
words fly away, writings remain: verbatim: word for word: The phrase refers to perfect transcription or quotation. verbatim et literatim: word for word and letter by letter: verbi divini minister: servant of the Divine Word: A phrase denoting a priest. Cf. "Verbum Dei" infra. verbi gratia (v. gr. or v. g.) for example: Literally, "for the sake ...
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 ...
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
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.
The other is "festina lente" ("hurry slowly", i. e., if you want to go fast, go slow). [3] scientia ac labore: By/from/with knowledge and labour: Motto of several institutions scientia aere perennius: knowledge, more lasting than bronze: unknown origin, probably adapted from Horace's ode III (Exegi monumentum aere perennius). scientia cum religione
A non-traditional Latin rendering, temet nosce (thine own self know), is translated in The Matrix as "know thyself". noscitur a sociis: a word is known by the company it keeps: In statutory interpretation, when a word is ambiguous, its meaning may be determined by reference to the rest of the statute. noster nostri: Literally "Our ours"