Latin words and phrases

thumb|right|300px|The word as it appears in the first surviving edition of Shakespeare's ''Love's Labour's Lost'' (third line)

The abbreviation viz. (or viz without a full stop) is short for the Latin , which itself is a contraction of the Latin phrase videre licet, meaning "it is permitted to see". It is used as a synonym for "namely", "that is to say", "to wit", "which is", or "as follows". It is typically used to introduce examples or further details to illustrate a point: for example, "all types of data viz. text, audio, video, pictures, graphics, can be transmitted through networking".

noble title of a king

clause in the Peace of Augsburg which exempted knights and some cities under the jurisdiction of an ecclesiastical prince from the principle of Cuius regio, eius religio if they had been Lutheran for some time

Latin phrase meaning "to the stars"

phrase attributed to Cato the Elder

amphorae inscriptions

medieval Latin phrase

idem is a Latin term meaning "the same". It is commonly abbreviated as id., which is particularly used in legal citations to denote the previously cited source (compare ibid.). It is also used in academic citations to replace the name of a repeated author.

thumb|220x220px|The Citrus reshni|cleopatra mandarin is classified as Citrus reshni Hort. ex Tanaka. Hort., in the taxonomy of plants, is an abbreviation used to indicate a name that saw significant use in the horticultural literature (often of the 19th century and earlier), but was never properly published. This system was developed by Tyozaburo Tanaka to deal with the problem of citrus taxonomy.

thumb|right|160px|alt=two longhandled spoons, the "handle" is a tapering metal spike|Two silver cochlearia from the Hoxne Hoard A cochlearium (plural cochlearia) was a small Roman spoon with a long tapering handle.

attacking an opponent's inherent identity rather than their arguments

The Hermeneumata (; also known as the Hermeneumata Pseudodositheana or Hermeneumata pseudo-Dositheana) are anonymous instructional manuals written in the third century CE to teach the Greek language to Latin-speaking people in the Roman Empire, and to teach Latin to Greek-speakers. The word Hermeneumata means "translations" or "interpretations".

calendar used in the Venetian republic until 1757

Deus (, ) is the Latin word for "god" or "deity" . Latin deus and dīvus ('divine') are in turn descended from Proto-Indo-European *deiwos, "celestial" or "shining", from the same root as *Dyēus, the reconstructed chief god of the Proto-Indo-European pantheon.

latin idiom

Latin name for the entirety of the humanistic education program since the Renaissance

Milites were the trained regular footsoldiers of ancient Rome, and later a term used to describe "soldiers" in Medieval Europe.

a trilingual inscription made during the reign of the Sasanian king Shapur I

thumb|Possible appearance of a Tripalium

' (or ') is the Latin term for "trousers", and in this context is today used to refer to a style of trousers made from wool. According to the Romans, this style of clothing originated from the Gauls.

papal bull concerning Catholic canon law

The term Extravagantes (from the Latin extra, outside; vagari, to wander) is applied to the canon law of the Roman Catholic Church, to designate some papal decretals not contained in certain canonical collections which possess a special authority. More precisely, they are not found in Gratian's Decretum or the three official collections of the Corpus Juris Canonici (the Decretals of Gregory IX, the Sixth Book of the Decretals, and the Clementines).

latin phrase

concept which refers to the transmission of knowledge from one place to another, one period to another, or/and from one intellectual context to another

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thumb|A venereum in the House of Sallust Venereum (after goddess Venus) was an element of ancient Roman private apartments found particularly in Pompeii. It was originally interpreted as a specialized apartment or room dedicated to sexual activities. One venereum was found in the House of Julia Felix and another one in the House of Sallust, both in Pompeii. In the latter house, the venereum was a garden with several separate rooms.

Latin expression meaning "without a name"

The verutum, plural veruta (), was a short javelin used in the Roman army. This javelin was used by the velites for skirmishing purposes, unlike the heavier pilum, which was used by the hastati and principes for weakening the enemy before advancing into close combat. The shafts were about long, substantially shorter than the pilum, and the point measured about long. The verutum had either an iron shank like the pilum or a tapering metal head. It was sometimes thrown with the aid of a throwing strap, or amentum.

ancient Roman virtue

Latin phrase from the Albigensian Crusade

Sapiens, a Latin word meaning "one who knows", may refer to:

board chalked or painted white, on which decrees, edicts and other public notices were inscribed in black in ancient Rome

thumb|250px|right|Remnants of "Centenarium" at Suq al-Awty

Α strator () was a position in the Roman and Byzantine militaries roughly equivalent to a groom. The word is derived from Latin sternere ("to strew", i.e. hay, straw).

thumb|right|The Augustus of Prima Porta is an example of an adlocutio pose.

Latin phrase illustrating syntactic ambiguity

Latin motto meaning from sunrise to sunset.

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medical aphorism

Directorium is a Latin term meaning "guide". In the later Middle Ages, it was specifically applied to liturgical guides used for praying the Divine Office and the Holy Mass.

The Latin word lacus means "opening, hole, pool, lake," and was also the word for a distribution point in the public water supply of ancient Rome. It can refer to:

"Title" plaque, usually referring to those written in Classical Latin

latin phrase meaning "A pig from the herd of Epicurus"

Latin for "Ready for either alternative" or "Prepared for both"

Media trope about a talking vagina

latin phrase

inscription indicating a transcriber was unable to parse a presumed foreign-language text

latin phrase

concept of the religion of Thelema

literary society

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fundamentals taught in schools

Custos is the Latin word for guard.

thumb|Attributed to Cristofano dell'Altissimo or [[Leonardo da Vinci - Portrait of a man, signed Pinxit Mea]]

Coenaculum, the term applied to the eating-room of a Roman house in which the supper (coena) or latest meal was taken. It was sometimes placed in an upper storey and reached by an external staircase.