Latim Expressions in English Language 1
Latim has influenced all the european languages, even the ones that still call themselves "pure" as English. Some of its expressions were absorved by the English language, becoming English itself:
ab incunabulis = from the cradle: from infancy
ab ovo usque ad mala = from soup to nuts: from beginning to end
absit invidia = let there be no envy or ill will
ab uno disce omnes = from one learn to know all
ab urbe condita = from the fouding of the city (Rome, founded 753 B.C.) - used by the Romans in reckoning dates
absus non tollit usum = abuse does not take away use, i.e. is not an argument agains proper use
ad arbitrium = at will: arbitrarily
ad astra per aspera = to the start by hard ways - motto of Kansas
ad extremum = to the extreme: at last
ad kanlendas Graecas = at the Greek calends: never (since the Greeks had no calends)
ad majorem Dei gloriam = to the greater glory of God = motto of the Society of Jesus
Ad patres = (gathered) to his fathers: deceased
ad unguem = to the fingernail: to a nicety: exactly (from the use of the fingernail to test the smoothness of marble)
ad utrumque paratus = prepared for either (event)
ad vivum = to the life
aegri somnia = a sick man's dreams
aequem servare mentem= to preserve a calm mind
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