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  2. List of Latin phrases (I) - Wikipedia

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    Literal translation by Cicero (in his De Natura Deorum 1.10) of the Greek αὐτὸς ἔφα, an invocation by Pythagoreans when appealing to the pronouncements of the master. ipsissima verba: the very words themselves "Strictly word for word" (cf. verbatim). Often used in Biblical Studies to describe the record of Jesus' teaching found in ...

  3. List of Latin phrases (S) - Wikipedia

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    Translation Notes saltus in demonstrando: leap in explaining: a leap in logic, by which a necessary part of an equation is omitted. salus in arduis: a stronghold (or refuge) in difficulties: a Roman Silver Age maxim. Also the school motto of Wellingborough School. salus populi suprema lex esto: the welfare of the people is to be the highest law

  4. List of calques - Wikipedia

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    A calque / k æ l k / or loan translation is a word or phrase borrowed from another language by literal, word-for-word (Latin: "verbum pro verbo") translation. This list contains examples of calques in various languages.

  5. Drawing up a comprehensive list of words in English is important as a reference when learning a language as it will show the equivalent words you need to learn in the other language to achieve fluency. A big list will constantly show you what words you don't know and what you need to work on and is useful for testing yourself.

  6. List of Latin phrases (M) - Wikipedia

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    Translation Notes Macte animo! Generose puer sic itur ad astra: Young, cheer up! This is the way to the skies. Motto of Academia da Força Aérea (Air Force Academy) of the Brazilian Air Force macte virtute sic itur ad astra: those who excel, thus reach the stars: or "excellence is the way to the stars"; frequent motto; from Virgil's Aeneid IX ...

  7. Synonym - Wikipedia

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    Synonym list in cuneiform on a clay tablet, Neo-Assyrian period [1] A synonym is a word, morpheme, or phrase that means precisely or nearly the same as another word, morpheme, or phrase in a given language. [2] For example, in the English language, the words begin, start, commence, and initiate are all synonyms of one another: they are ...

  8. Translation - Wikipedia

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    The concept of metaphrase (word-for-word translation) is an imperfect concept, because a given word in a given language often carries more than one meaning, and because a similar given meaning may often be represented in a given language by more than one word. Nevertheless, metaphrase and paraphrase may be useful as ideal concepts that mark the ...

  9. Thesaurus - Wikipedia

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    A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms, sometimes simply as lists of synonyms and antonyms.