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LATIN NOTESETYMOLOGY
QUID PRO QUO
Something for something
An even exchange; You scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours
QUORUM
Of whom
Minimum number of people required in order to conduct official business
RARA AVIS
Rare bird
One of a kind
REQUIESCAT IN PACE (R.I.P.)
May s/he rest in peace
Check out some old timey tombstones
SANCTUM SANCTORUM
Holy of Holies
Place of inviolable privacy; where no one should interrupt you
SEMPER FIDELIS
Always faithful
Motto of US Marine Corps (often abbreviated as “semper fi”)
SEMPER PARATUS
Always prepared/ready
Motto of US Coast Guard
SI QUAERIS PENINSULAM AMOENAM CIRCUMSPICE
If you seek a pleasant peninsula, look about you
Motto of the State of Michigan
SIC
Thus
I found it thus; used when using a direct quote from text to denote misspellings i.e. Her note said “I left because their (sic) was no one home.”
SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS
Thus even to tyrants
John Wilkes Boothe’s alleged words when killing Lincoln; motto of the State of Virginia
SIC TRANSIT GLORIA MUNDI
Thus/so passes the glory of the world
Everything passes/is transitory; used during the coronation of the Pope
SINE QUA NON
Without which not
An absolute necessity; indispensable
SUB ROSA
Under the rose
What’s said in a meeting is confidential; roses suspended above Roman tables to remind guests to keep silent; “what’s said under the rose, stays under the rose”
SUI GENERIS
Of its own kind
Unique; in a class of its own
SUMMUM BONUM
Highest good
The supreme good from which all others are derived
TABULA RASA
Clean slate
Starting over from scratch; newborns are tabula rasa
TEMPUS FUGIT
Time flies
‘nuff said
TERRA FIRMA
Solid earth
To be on solid ground
TERRA INCOGNITA
Unknown land
Often written on maps before it was “discovered”
VENI, VIDI, VICI
I came, I saw, I conquered
Julius Caesar quote after crossing the Rubicon in 49 bc in defiance of Roman law, resulting in civil war
VERSO
Left
Left (side of a page)
RECTO
Right
Right (side of a page)
VICE VERSA
With the order changed
Conversely; reversed
VALE (SALVE)
Farewell (Hail)
Roman greeting
NOVUS ORDO SECLORUM
New order of the ages
Motto on the reverse of the Great Seal of the US; also on dollar bill
VOX POPULI
Voice of the people
Popular opinion