Latin lover

[3615buck]

Do you sometimes use Latin in everyday English ?
We do in French.
I'm looking for Latin expressions such as :

- carpe diem
- mea culpa
- sine die
- ad vitam eternam
- mutatis mutandis
- pro deo
- alea jacta est
- a quia

 

[Czar]

al ecta vista I think it was, dices are thrown or something. Cant quite remember.

 

[3615buck]

Well, dices are thrown is the "alea jacta est" from my list

 

[The Dancing Peacock]

En vino, veritas

 

[Czar]

Then there was veni vidi vici ( I came, I saw, I conqured )... but could you translate what you have to english pleases.

 

[3615buck]

OK Czar, I'll try...

- carpe diem : enjoy the present moment, don't think of the future.
- mea culpa : It's my fault
- mea maxima culpa : It's my f... fault
- sine die : without fixing a new date
(when you carry over a meeting for example)
- ad vitam eternam : forever
- mutatis mutandis : more or less
- pro deo : for free
- alea jacta est : dices are thrown
- a quia : without knowing what to say next, with a mouth wide open
- in vino veritas : you see what people really are when they are drunk
- vade retro satanas : back off devil

 

[kranky]

quid pro quo = this for that
per diem = by the day
ad nauseum = to the point of disgust
ad infinitum = never-ending
et cetera = and the others
bona fide = in good faith
alma mater = term for college or high school you graduated from. Literally "nourishing mother"
caveat emptor = let the buyer beware

[edit] added translations [/edit]

 

[Czar]

Could people please post translations as well

 

[convex]

talk to the fish for a translation

 

[Czar]

The fish doesnt unterstand latin. Stupid fish

 

[chess9]

I'd like a latin lover, but Isla is married with 3 kids and I'm old enough to be her father.

 

[Wangel]

I wouldn't want a latin lover. How would we talk?

 

[Locutus of Board]

Now I learned a lot about you Wangel.

Who needs to talk?

 

[thebestMAX]

My favorite but not sure about the spelling.

Aut vinceti aut morti.

Had it on my boy racer for a while. It means "Either to conquer or to die"

 

[KingHam]

Mujer hominis este confusio.

KingHam

 

[Batti]

carpe sharpe - seize the wrinkly dog!