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Latin is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Considered a dead language, Latin was originally spoken in Latium, the lower Tiber area around Rome, Italy. Through the expansion of the Roman Republic it became the dominant language in the Italian Peninsula and subsequently throughout the Roman Empire. Even after the fall of Western Rome, Latin remained the common language of international communication, science, scholarship and academia in Europe until well into the early 19th century, when regional vernaculars supplanted it in common academic and political usage—including its own descendants, the Romance languages. For most of the time it was used, it would be considered a dead language in the modern linguistic definition; that is, it lacked native speakers, despite being used extensively and actively. |
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E pluribus unum
Sine qua non
Quid pro quo
a priori and a posteriori
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- Post hoc ergo propter hoc
- ad hoc
- ad hominem
- alter ego
- ante
- bona fide
- casus belli
- caveat emptor
- contra
- culpa
- de jure
- dictum
- ergo
- et al
- et cetera
- ex tempore
- extant
- fiat
- in absentia
- in re
- In situ
- In toto
- infra
- innuendo
- intra
- ipso facto
- jus naturale
- jus primae noctis
- lacuna
- lex
- lingua franca
- locus
- mea culpa
- mens rea
- modus operandi
- per capita
- per se
- persona non grata
- prima facie
- pro bono
- pro tem
- qua
- quasi
- status quo
- subpoena
- supra
- veto
- vice versa
- Excelsior
- Ad astra per aspera
- Salus populi suprema lex esto
- Labor omnia vincit
- Sic semper tyrannis
- semper fi
- Esse quam videri
- Deus ex machina
- In medias res
- Delirium tremens
- rigor mortis
- credo
- habeus corpus
- lux
- vox
- requiem
- Sanctus
- Agnus Dei
- Pie Jesu
- Prima scriptura
- Sola scriptura
- Veritas vos liberabit - The truth will set you free
- consortium
- corpus
- consul
- pax
- imperator
- praetor
- tabula rasa
- vox populi
- res publica
- virtus
- Nec pluribus impar - almost untranslatable - alone against all
- regal, rex
- Bellum omnium contra omnes
- Amicus Plato, sed magis amica veritas
- Cogito ergo sum
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