Quotes About Latin

Il miglior consiglio menzionato praticamente in tutti i trattati sulla peste è: Cito, longe fugeas et tarde redeas. Vale a dire: Presto, fuggi lontano e torna tardi. In altre parole, taglia la corda e stattene via più che puoi. E' il celebre "rimedio dei tre avverbi": prosto, lontano, tardi". In latino: Cito, Longe, Tarde.

Salv? ("Greetings!"), and WELCOME to the study of classical Latin, or what I affectionately call "The Mother Tongue"!

A gentleman need not know Latin, but he should at least have forgotten it.

The root of the word courage is cor—the Latin word for heart. In one of its earliest forms, the word courage had a very different definition than it does today. Courage originally meant "To speak one's mind by telling all one's heart." Over time, this definition has changed, and, today, courage is more synonymous with being heroic.

vulnerability is derived from the Latin word vulnerare, meaning "to wound." The definition includes "capable of being wounded" and "open to attack or damage." Merriam-Webster defines weakness as the inability to withstand attack or wounding. Just from a linguistic perspective, it's clear that these are very different concepts, and in fact, one could argue that weakness often stems from a lack of vulnerability

The word listen in Latin is audire. If we listen with full attention in which we are totally geared to listen, it's called ob-audire, and that's where the word obedience comes from. Jesus is the obedient one. That means he is total ear, totally open to the love of God. And if we are closed, and to the degree that we are closed, we are surdus. That is the Latin word for deaf. The more "deaf" we get, the more absurdus

Have courage," we often say to one another. Courage is a spiritual virtue. The word courage comes from the Latin word cor, which means "heart. A courageous act is an act coming from the heart. A courageous word is a word arising from the heart. The heart, however, is not just the place where our emotions are located. The heart is the centre of our being, the centre of all thoughts, feelings, passions, and decisions.

To use an obsolete Latin word, I might say, Ex Oriente lux; ex Occidente FRUX. From the East light; from the West fruit.

Far from being dominated by ideas from Paris and New York, Latin American artists were often the innovators. They were doing drip paintings in advance of Pollock, creating language art before the American conceptualists, and fashioning shaped canvases decades before Kelly or Stella.

Being a New Yorker, I used to dance to Latin music. There was a place called the Palladium on Broadway. And Tito Puente and Tito Rodriguez used to play. So I still have that in my blood.

Jason scratched his head. "You named him Festus? You know that in Latin, 'festus' means 'happy'? You want us to ride off to save the world on Happy the Dragon?

The word 'radical' derives from the Latin word for root. Therefore, if you want to get to the root of anything you must be radical. It is no accident that the word has now been totally demonized.

And, in fact, a crucial additional, and almost-always-overlooked, aspect of intelligence in living systems is that they possess the capacity to innovate behavior, that is, to generate unique solutions to the environmental challenges that face them. They have the ability, as the Latin root of the word indicates, to choose.

One historian has remarked that "the process by which the learning of the Islamic world was discovered, appropriated, colonised by Western scholars, and made widely accessible by means of translation into Latin, the international language of scholarship ... was one of the turning-points in the intellectual evolution of mankind."8

The word reformation comes from the Latin verb reformo, which means "to form again, mold anew, or revive." The Reformers did not see themselves as inventers, discoverers, or creators. Instead they saw their efforts as rediscovery. They

Curitiba is not a paradise. We have all the problems that most Latin American cities have. We have slums. We have the same difficulties, but the big difference is the respect given by people due to the quality of the services which are provided.

Eôsphoros, ' ????????' (pronunciation: eh-aw-s- fOR-aw s) is the Greek name for the Latin Lucifer, 'Dawn Bringer'; the planet Venus was known by this name along with Hesperos '???????', known in Latin as Vesperus, 'Evening Star'.

Impeccable comes from the Latin pecatus, which means "sin." The im in impeccable means "without," so impeccable means "without sin.

all languages that derive from Latin form the word compassion by combining the prefix meaning with (com-) and the root meaning suffering

In Miami, there's a Latin flavor, and I just love every bit of it.

In fact, "diet" comes from a Latin word which means "a way of life.")

It must be difficult for a Latin mind, even when illumined by the Holy Ghost, to accept hordes of non-practising Presbyterian highlanders, copulating G.I.s, and predatory Russians as more adequately defending Christian civilisation than the millions of Catholics who had fought against them.

Science is only a Latin word for knowledge

Demon" means "knowledge" in Greek. "Science" means "knowledge" in Latin. A jurisdictional dispute is exposed, even if we look no further.