Latin in Use
Oral Latin:
Mirabile dictu - Wonderful to relate (refers to something surprising)
Salvus sis - May you be well
Gaudeamus - May we rejoyce
Expressions, Mottoes, Abbreviations:
Cogito ergo sum - I think, therefore I am
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Meaning thinking is proof of one’s own existence
Res ipsa loquitur - The matter speaks for itself
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The damage in an accident is already done/evident
In medias res - Into the middle of things, or Into the thick of it
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This phrase is a possible beginning to a story or play, which starts in the middle of a conflict and uses flashbacks to recount the past.
Dux femina facti - A woman led the exploit, or A woman was leader of the deed
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It represents female leadership and feminism.
A.U.C. Anno urbis conditae - "In the year of the founding of the city"
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The Romans used this date as the starting point for calculating an era.
Quiz on all words in sections II - III/IV Poetry
on III/IV Poetry and Prose Expressions
