Latin POD/WOD List

"Ago gratias Ago gratias (tibi / vobis)"

"Ago gratias Ago gratias (tibi / vobis)"

• "Thanks" Thank you (one person) / (more than 1 person)"

Certe

surely

Quid est?

• What is it? / What is....?

Quis est?

• Who is it? / Who is.... ?

Sic

thus/so

Sol lucet

• The sun shines

Licetne mihi ire ad latrinam?

• Is it permitted for me to go to the bathroom?

Adsum-

I am present / I am here

Per annum

• Through the year / For each year / Yearly

Summā cum laude- With the highest praise

Veni, vidi, vici

• I came, I saw, I conquered (said by Julius Caesar)

Anno domini (A.D.)

In the year of the lord (how you tell time - we now say C.E. = Common Era)

Felicem diem (natalis)

• Happy birthday (literally, happy day of birth)

Per diem

• Through the day / For each day / Daily

Abest

• She/He (it) is absent / away

Pluit

it is raining

Lapsus linguae

• A slip of the tongue

Modus operandi (M.O.)-

The method of operating

Ningit

• It is snowing

Ad hoc

• For this reason (literally "Toward this" but you would use it to talk about a committee or something formed for a specific reason)

Cogito ego sum

• I think, therefore I am (quote by Rene Descartes)

Tabula rasa

• Blank Slate (quote by John Locke)

Festina lente

• Hurry slowly (meaning take your time)

Extra

• Above / beyond / outside the limits

Terra incognita

• unknown land

altitude

• the height

amicable

friendly

amorous

• loving, full of love

antebellum

• before the war (before the civil war)

bellicose

warlike

celestial

• heavenly

enunciate

• to announce clearly

feral

• wild, savage

introspection

• the act of looking within oneself

longevity

• the length of ones life

miserly

• stingy, mean spirited

multitude

-a crowd

narrate

• to chronicle events, to tell a story

provincial

• narrow-minded

pugilist

a fighter

pulchritude

• beauty

sacrosanct

• holy, unable to be violated

servile

overly submissive

tenuous

a weak grasp

verbatim

• word for word

virile

• manly

vital

• necessary for life

vision

• the ability to see

vocation

• a calling (could be a job or a religious lifestyle)

vulnerable

• able to be wounded

Mihi nomen est

• My name is / the name to me is

alea iacta est

• the die has been cast

amor omnia vincit

• love conquers all

bona fortuna

• good luck

carpe diem

• seize the day

cave canem

• beware of the dog

caveat emptor

• let the buyer beware

Quid est nomen tibi?

• What is your name / what is the name to you?

e pluribus unum

• one out of many

errare est humanum

• to err is human

Et cetera (etc.)

-And the rest (used in a list to indicate that there are other options)

Id est (i.e.)

That is (sets up an example)

Ita vero

-Yes (indeed)

minime-

no

labor omnia vincit

-work conquers all

mea culpa

-my bad

nota bene (N.B.)

-note well

nulli secundus

-second to none / a.k.a. the best

o tempora, o mores-

oh the times, oh the customs

Quid Agis?

-how are you?

Quid Novi?

-what's new?

Salve(te)

-Hi

senatus populusque Romanus (SPQR)

-the senate and the Roman people

tempus fugit

time flies

Vale(te)

goodbye