Latin Expressions Amsco
Terms
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- ars artis gratia
- for art's sake
- ars longa, vita brevis
- art is long, life short
- bona fide
- in good faith; genuine
- carpe diem
- sieze the day
- caveat emptor
- let the buyer beware (for he buys at his own risk)
- corpus delicti
- the body of the crime
- cum grano salis
- with a grain of salt
- de facto
- in fact; actual
- de gustibus non est disputandum
- there is no accounting for tastes; everyone to his own taste
- de iure
- by right; legally
- de mortuis nil nisi bonum
- of the dead say nothing but good
- divide et impera
- divide and rule (Roman policy of conquest best exemplified by Caesar)
- Dum spiro, spero
- While I breathe, I hope (motto of South Carolina)
- E pluribus unum
-
Out of many, one
(motto found on the Great Seal of the United States) - errare humanum est
- to err is human