Latin words and phrases

Cancer is a group of diseases involving uncontrolled cell growth typically resulting in tumors with the potential to invade or spread to other parts of the body. These malignant tumors contrast with benign tumors, which do not spread. Over 100 types of cancers affect humans.

thumb|300x300px|Vacuum pump and bell jar for vacuum experiments, used in science education during the early 20th century, on display in the Schulhistorische Sammlung ('School Historical Museum'), [[Bremerhaven, Germany]]

thumb|A census taker visits a family of indigenous Dutch Travellers living in a caravan in the [[Netherlands in 1925.]] A census (from Latin censere, 'to assess') is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording, and calculating information about the members of a given population, which are then usually displayed through statistics. This term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common censuses include censuses of agriculture, traditional culture, business, supplies, and traffic censuses. The United Nations (UN) defines the essential features

practices that exist without recognition in law or other formal norms

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Latin expression, roughly meaning 'by law', often opposed to 'de facto', meaning 'in fact' or 'in practice'

school or university that a person has attended

thumb|US President Ronald Reagan signing a veto of a bill A veto is a legal power to unilaterally stop an official action. In the most typical case, a president or monarch vetoes a bill to stop it from becoming law. In many countries, veto powers are established in the country's constitution. Veto powers are also found at other levels of government, such as in state, provincial or local government, and in international bodies.

year-numbering system

Annexation, in international law, is the forcible acquisition and assertion of legal title over one state's territory by another state, usually following military occupation of the territory. In current international law, it is generally held to be an illegal act. It is distinct from the concepts of conquest, which describes the gaining of physical control, and cession, in which territory is given or sold through treaty.

Latin term meaning the existing state of affairs

fallacious argumentative strategy that avoids genuine discussion of the topic by instead attacking the character, motive etc. of the person(s) associated with the argument

foreign person whose entering or remaining in a particular country is prohibited by that country's government

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thumb|upright=1.5|Tomb of King Alyattes at [[Bin Tepe in Lydia, modern Turkey, built c. 560 BC. It is one of the largest tumuli ever built, with a diameter of 360 meters and a height of 61 meters.]] thumb|The Royal Mounds of [[Gamla Uppsala in Sweden from the 5th and 6th centuries. Originally, the site had 2,000 to 3,000 tumuli, but due to quarrying and agriculture only 250 remain.]] thumb|La Cambe German war cemetery thumb|One of the Hallstatt culture–era tumuli in the Sulm valley necropolis thumb|Kasta Tomb|Kasta tumulus [[Amphipolis]]

The cecum ( caecum, ; plural ceca or caeca, ) is a pouch within the peritoneum that is considered to be the beginning of the large intestine. It is typically located on the right side of the body (the same side of the body as the appendix, to which it is joined). The term stems from the Latin caecus, meaning "blind".

summary of career

strategy in politics and sociology for stabilizing anti-democratic, illegitimate rule over people

Latin term used for hypothetical continent since ancient times

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Solar deity of the later Roman Empire

commercium song

ancient Roman punishment by removing a person's name, depictions, and reference to them from official records, up to rewritings of histories

thumb | 440x248px | right | Example of "sic" being used after a word in a quotation or passage, to indicate that the quoted matter has been transcribed or translated exactly as found in the original. Example is from a United States Supreme Court case, Briggs v. Connecticut, .

Latin phrase; alternate self

Latin phrase meaning "I came, I saw, I conquered" popularly attributed to Julius Ceasar

method of birth-control

Latin phrase signifying a solution meant to address one specific problem or task

Latin phrase meaning “the state existing before the war”

Floruit ( ; usually abbreviated fl. or occasionally flor.; from Latin for 'flourished') denotes a date or period during which a person was known to have been alive or active. In English, the unabbreviated word may also be used as a noun indicating the time when someone flourished.

thumb|300px|An example of a caesura in modern western music notation

Dux (; : duces) is Latin for "leader" (from the noun dux, ducis, "leader, general") and later for duke and its variant forms (doge, duce, etc.). During the Roman Republic and for the first centuries of the Roman Empire, dux could refer to anyone who commanded troops, both Roman generals and foreign leaders, but was not a formal military rank.

Latin phrase that translates literally to "on site"; used to describe the location of something in its customary or unaltered place or position

various calendar eras that purport to count the number of years since the beginning of creation

The ' (; , though sometimes referred to as "knights" in English) constituted the second of the property/social-based classes of ancient Rome, ranking below the senatorial class. A member of the equestrian order was known as an ' ().

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Latin phrase; "by heads"/"for each head"

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Latin adage translated as, "If you want peace, prepare for war"

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thumb|A list of citations, the majority Ibid citations Ibid. or ib. is an abbreviation for the Latin word ibīdem, meaning , commonly used in an endnote, footnote, bibliography citation, or scholarly reference to refer to the source cited in the preceding note or list item. This is similar to idem, literally meaning , abbreviated id., which is commonly used in legal citation.

The calends or kalends () is the first day of every month in the Roman calendar. The English word "calendar" is derived from this word.

ancient trade route linking Egypt with Syria, Anatolia and Mesopotamia

Latin phrase, usually translated as "a healthy mind in a healthy body"

fallacy regarding hypocrisy

Latin motto of the Society of Jesus

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Latin phrase meaning "something for something"

discussion that has continued to the point of nausea

Latin phrase meaning "voice of the people"

periodical literature

motif of a vagina with teeth, esp. in folk tales and myths

Roman policy about owning the Mediterranean Sea

Exclamation by Cicero, most famously in first Catilinarian oration

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official gazette of the Holy See

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