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This page lists direct English
English language

English is a West Germanic language that originated in Anglo-Saxon England and has lingua franca status in many parts of the world as a result of the military, economic, scientific, political and cultural influence of the British Empire in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries and that of the United States from the mid 20th century onwa...
 translation
Translation

Translation is the hermeneutics of the Meaning of a text and the subsequent production of an Dynamic and formal equivalence text, likewise called a "translation," that communicates the same message in another language....
s of common Latin
Latin

Latin is an Italic language, historically spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. Through the Military history of the Roman Empire, Latin spread throughout the Mediterranean and a large part of Europe....
 phrases, such as veni vidi vici
Veni, vidi, vici

Veni, vidi, vici is a famous List of Latin phrases spoken by Julius Caesar in 47 BC. It translates as "I came, I saw, I conquered." Its form is classed as a tricolon and a hendiatris....
 and et cetera
Et cetera

Et cetera is a Latin expression that means "and other things," or "and so forth." It is taken directly from the Latin expression which literally means "and the rest " and is a transliteration of the Greek language "?a? ?te?a" ....
. Some of the phrases are themselves translations of Greek phrases
List of Greek phrases

List of Greek language Phrases/Proverbs...
, as Greek
Greek language

Greek is an Indo-European languages native to the southern Balkan peninsula, the language of the Greek people. It forms an independent branch within Indo-European....
 rhetoric and literature were highly regarded in ancient Rome
Ancient Rome

Ancient Rome was a civilization that grew out of a small agricultural community founded on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 10th century BC....
 when Latin rhetoric and literature were still maturing.

Be aware that the Latin letter i
I

I is the ninth Letter of the Latin alphabet. Its English language name is i ....
 can be used as either a vowel
Vowel

In phonetics, a vowel is a sound in spoken language, such as English ah! or oh! , pronounced with an open vocal tract so that there is no build-up of air pressure at any point above the glottis....
 or a consonant
Consonant

In articulatory phonetics, a consonant is a speech sound that is articulated with complete or partial closure of the upper vocal tract, the upper vocal tract being defined as that part of the vocal tract that lies above the larynx....
. When used as a consonant, it is often replaced by the letter j
J

J or j is a consonant in Esperanto orthography, representing a voiced postalveolar fricative , and is equivalent to the voiced postalveolar fricative, , or the voiced retroflex fricative, ....
, which was originally simply an orthographic "long i" that was used in initial positions and when it occurred between two other vowels.






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This page lists direct English
English language

English is a West Germanic language that originated in Anglo-Saxon England and has lingua franca status in many parts of the world as a result of the military, economic, scientific, political and cultural influence of the British Empire in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries and that of the United States from the mid 20th century onwa...
 translation
Translation

Translation is the hermeneutics of the Meaning of a text and the subsequent production of an Dynamic and formal equivalence text, likewise called a "translation," that communicates the same message in another language....
s of common Latin
Latin

Latin is an Italic language, historically spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. Through the Military history of the Roman Empire, Latin spread throughout the Mediterranean and a large part of Europe....
 phrases, such as veni vidi vici
Veni, vidi, vici

Veni, vidi, vici is a famous List of Latin phrases spoken by Julius Caesar in 47 BC. It translates as "I came, I saw, I conquered." Its form is classed as a tricolon and a hendiatris....
 and et cetera
Et cetera

Et cetera is a Latin expression that means "and other things," or "and so forth." It is taken directly from the Latin expression which literally means "and the rest " and is a transliteration of the Greek language "?a? ?te?a" ....
. Some of the phrases are themselves translations of Greek phrases
List of Greek phrases

List of Greek language Phrases/Proverbs...
, as Greek
Greek language

Greek is an Indo-European languages native to the southern Balkan peninsula, the language of the Greek people. It forms an independent branch within Indo-European....
 rhetoric and literature were highly regarded in ancient Rome
Ancient Rome

Ancient Rome was a civilization that grew out of a small agricultural community founded on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 10th century BC....
 when Latin rhetoric and literature were still maturing.

Be aware that the Latin letter i
I

I is the ninth Letter of the Latin alphabet. Its English language name is i ....
 can be used as either a vowel
Vowel

In phonetics, a vowel is a sound in spoken language, such as English ah! or oh! , pronounced with an open vocal tract so that there is no build-up of air pressure at any point above the glottis....
 or a consonant
Consonant

In articulatory phonetics, a consonant is a speech sound that is articulated with complete or partial closure of the upper vocal tract, the upper vocal tract being defined as that part of the vocal tract that lies above the larynx....
. When used as a consonant, it is often replaced by the letter j
J

J or j is a consonant in Esperanto orthography, representing a voiced postalveolar fricative , and is equivalent to the voiced postalveolar fricative, , or the voiced retroflex fricative, ....
, which was originally simply an orthographic "long i" that was used in initial positions and when it occurred between two other vowels. This medieval convention is most commonly preserved in Latin legal terminology—hence phrases like de iure are often spelled de jure. On this list, the more common form will be the one a phrase is listed under: thus, de jure is used instead of de iure, and alea iacta est instead of alea jacta est.

To view all six pages of phrases on a single, lengthy document, see:
  • List of Latin phrases (full)
    List of Latin phrases (full)

    This page lists direct English language translations of common Latin phrases, such as veni vidi vici and et cetera. Some of the phrases are themselves translations of List of Greek phrases, as Greek language rhetoric and literature reached its peak centuries before that of ancient Rome....


The list is also divided alphabetically into six pages:

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Lists

  • List of Latin abbreviations
    List of Latin abbreviations

    Latin was once the universal academic language in Europe. From the eighteenth century authors started using their mother tongue to write books, papers or proceedings....
  • List of Latin and Greek words commonly used in systematic names
    List of Latin and Greek words commonly used in systematic names

    This list of Latin and Greek words commonly used in systematic names is intended to help those unfamiliar with classical languages understand and remember the scientific names of organisms....
  • List of Latin words with English derivatives
    List of Latin words with English derivatives

    This is a list of Latin words with derivatives in English .Note that ancient orthography did not distinguish between i and j or between u and v....
  • List of legal Latin terms
    List of legal Latin terms

    A number of Latin terms are used in law terminology and legal maxims. This is a partial list of these "legal Latin" terms, which are wholly or substantially drawn from Latin....
  • List of English words from Latin verb forms
  • List of Greek phrases
    List of Greek phrases

    List of Greek language Phrases/Proverbs...
  • List of abbreviations used in medical prescriptions
    List of abbreviations used in medical prescriptions

    This is a list of abbreviations used in medical prescriptions. Its listing here does not mean such abbreviations should be used. See Medical prescription for discussion on the use of abbreviations....
  • List of medical roots, suffixes and prefixes
    List of medical roots, suffixes and prefixes

    This is a list of roots, suffixes, and prefixes used in medical terminology, their meanings, and their etymology. A few rules should be noted when using medical roots....
  • List of Latin phrases in A Canticle for Leibowitz
  • List of university mottos
    List of university mottos

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  • List of U.S. state mottos
    List of U.S. state mottos

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