latin words used in english?

Luis G

Luis G

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I mean actual latin words not derived from latin.

I was having a conversation with Leslie and I said lingua franca, and it seems that it isn't used over there.

So far I know that you use:
id est (i.e.)
exempli grata (e.g.)

Are there any others?
 
most scientific terms are either latin or greek.

One of my favorites, occasionally used latin terms, is sub rosa

Means "Under the rose"...when private gardens were used for secret conversations and rendez-vous, protected from eaves-dropping by the 'roses thorns'. :)

 
Modus operandi
Lingua Franca
Me casa est su casa
persona non gratis

Thers more I just can't think of them right now.
 
Holy shit! I actually found a new thread that crystal scan hasn't come in and fucked up!

I think I need to print this out while I still can.
 
Luis G said:
I mean actual latin words not derived from latin.

I was having a conversation with Leslie and I said lingua franca, and it seems that it isn't used over there.

So far I know that you use:
id est (i.e.)
exempli grata (e.g.)

Are there any others?
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I'm ashamed. It took someone who's first language is not English to tell me the meaning of those abbreviations. I always thought i.e. was "in example" or something like that. I'm a freakin moron. :tardbang:
 
Inkara1 said:
Holy shit! I actually found a new thread that crystal scan hasn't come in and fucked up!

I think I need to print this out while I still can.
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Better do it quickly before he does come and fuck it up!
 
ad nauseam
ad valorem
addendum
affadavit
agenda
alias
alibi
alma mater
ante bellum
bona fide
caveat emptor
circa
coitus interruptus
confer
corpus christi
corpus delicti
cum laude
de facto
de jure
de oppresso liber
dues ex machina
dominus vobiscum
dramatis personae
e pluribus unum
emeritus
ergo
et cetera
et tu, Brute?
ex officio
excelsior
exit
facsimile
habeus corpus
in absentia
in flagrante delicto
in loco parentis
in memoriam
in toto
in vitro
ipso facto
magna cum laude
modus operandi
nolo contendere
non sequitur
pax romana
pax vobiscum
per annum
per capita
per se
persona non gratia
post facto
post meridiem
post mortem
post scriptum
prima facie
pro bono
pro rata
pro tempore
quid pro quo
quo vaids
Romani ite domum (thank you Monty Python)
salvator mundi
semper fidelis
sic semper tyrannis
sub poena
summa cum laude
tempis fugit
veni, vidi, vici
veritas
via
vice-versa
 
unclehobart said:
ad nauseam
ad valorem
addendum
affadavit
agenda
alias
alibi
alma mater
ante bellum
bona fide
caveat emptor
circa
coitus interruptus
confer
corpus christi
corpus delicti
cum laude
de facto
de jure
de oppresso liber
dues ex machina
dominus vobiscum
dramatis personae
e pluribus unum
emeritus
ergo
et cetera
et tu, Brute?
ex officio
excelsior
exit
facsimile
habeus corpus
in absentia
in flagrante delicto
in loco parentis
in memoriam
in toto
in vitro
ipso facto
magna cum laude
modus operandi
nolo contendere
non sequitur
pax romana
pax vobiscum
per annum
per capita
per se
persona non gratia
post facto
post meridiem
post mortem
post scriptum
prima facie
pro bono
pro rata
pro tempore
quid pro quo
quo vaids
Romani ite domum (thank you Monty Python)
salvator mundi
semper fidelis
sic semper tyrannis
sub poena
summa cum laude
tempis fugit
veni, vidi, vici
veritas
via
vice-versa
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Johnson, How to you conjugate the verb "to be". Ahh the good old days of learning Latin then being told that it was never a spoken language.
 
Lopan said:
Johnson, How to you conjugate the verb "to be". Ahh the good old days of learning Latin then being told that it was never a spoken language.
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It was spoken.
 
Not in Rome. It was a written languange for the elite (remember very few people read back then) It didn't become spoken until christianity was adopted as the main religion in 600 ad. Reference a book called Gracchi to Nero, it will tell you in there.
 
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