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(English: O immortal gods! Men do not understand what a great revenue is thrift.) maior e longinquo reverentia: greater reverence from afar: When viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful. Tacitus, Annales 1.47: maiora premunt: greater things are pressing: Used to indicate that it is the moment to address more important, urgent, issues ...
Incunabula is commonly used in English to refer to the earliest stage or origin of something, and especially to copies of books that predate the spread of the printing press c. AD 1500. ab initio: from the beginning: i.e., "from the outset", referring to an inquiry or investigation. Ab initio mundi means "from the
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.
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
Basic translation from Japanese [3] English version of the game [4] [a] 機関士： 何者 （ なにもの ） かによって、 爆発物 （ ばくはつぶつ ） が 仕掛 （ しか ） けられたようです。 Engineer: It appears someone has planted explosives. Mechanic: Somebody set up us the bomb.
Believed to be the longest official one-word place name in the United States. Tweebuffelsmeteenskootmorsdoodgeskietfontein (44 letters) Farm in the North West province of South Africa: Afrikaans "The spring where two buffaloes were shot stone-dead with one shot". Notes: The longest one-word place name in Africa.
Industrial Workers of the World: An injury to one is an injury to all La Francophonie : égalité, complémentarité, solidarité (equality, complementarity, and solidarity). Liberal Party of the Philippines : Noon at Ngayon, Liberal Marangal (Past and present, honorable Liberal)
The term "world's fair" is commonly used in the United States, while the French term, Exposition universelle ("universal exhibition") is used in most of Europe and Asia; other terms include World Expo or Specialised Expo, with the word expo used for various types of exhibitions since at least 1958.