| latin phrase | english translation |
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| Fabas indulcet fames |
Hunger sweetens the beans, or hunger makes everything taste good! |
| Faber est suae quisque fortunae |
Every man is the artisan of his own fortune. (Appius Claudius Caecus) |
| Faber quisque fortunae suae |
Each man (is) the maker of his own fortune |
| Fabricati diem |
Make my day |
| Fac me cocleario vomere! |
Gag me with a spoon! |
| Fac ut nemo me vocet |
Hold my calls |
| Fac ut vivas |
Get a life |
| Facile princeps |
Acknowledged leader |
| Facilis descensvs averno |
The descent to Avernus (Hell) it's easy to fall, hard to rise |
| Facilius est multa facere quam diu |
It is easier to do many things than to do one for a long time. (Quintilianus) |
| Facilius per partes in cognitionem totius adducimur |
We are more easily led part by part to an understanding of the whole. (Seneca) |
| Facito aliquid operis, ut te semper diabolus inveniat occupatum |
Always do something, so that the devil always finds you occupied. (St. Jerome) |
| Facta, non verba |
Deeds, not words. (Actions speak louder than words) |
| Factum est |
It is done |
| Fallaces sunt rerum species |
The appearances of things are deceptive. (Seneca) |
| Falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus |
False in one thing, false in all |
| Fama crescit eundo |
The rumour grows as it goes. (Vergil) |
| Fama nihil est celerius |
Nothing is swifter than rumor |
| Fama semper vivat |
May his/her fame last forever |
| Fama volat |
The rumour has wings. (Vergil) |
| Fames est optimus coquus |
Hunger is the best cook |
| Farrago fatigans! |
Thuffering thuccotash! |
| Fas est et ab hoste doceri |
It's proper to learn even from an enemy. (Ovid) |
| Favete linguis |
To keep a (religious) silence. (Horace) |
| Fax mentis incedium gloriae |
The passion of glory is the torch of the mind |
| Fecit (fec.) |
Made by |
| Feles mala! cur cista non uteris? stramentum novum in ea posui |
Bad kitty! Why don't you use the cat box? I put new litter in it |
| Feles mala! |
Bad kitty! |
| Felis qvi nihil debet |
Happy [is] he who owes nothing |
| Felix culpa |
Happy fault |
| Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas |
Happy is he who has been able to learn the causes of things. (Vergil) |
| Felo de se |
Suicide |
| Fere libenter homines id quod volunt credunt |
Men readily believe what they want to believe. (Caesar) |
| Festina lente |
Make haste slowly |
| Fiat justitia (et ruat caelum) |
Let justice be done. (though the heavens fall) |
| Fiat lux |
Let there be light |
| Fiat volvntas tua |
Let Thy will [be done] (Biblical) |
| Fiat |
Let it be done |
| Fide, non armis |
By faith, not arms |
| Fidei defensor |
Defender of the faith |
| Fides punica |
Treachery. (Livy) |
| Fides quaerens intellectum |
Faith seeking understanding |
| Fidus Achates |
Faithful Achates (friend) |
| Filioque |
And from the son |
| Filius nullius |
A bastard |
| Finem respice |
Look to the end [before setting forth] |
| Finis coronat opus |
The ending crowns the work. (Ovid) |
| Finis |
The end |
| Flagrante delicto |
Literally while the crime is blazing. Caught red-handed, in the very act of a crime |
| Flamma fumo est proxima |
Flame follows smoke. (there is no smoke without fire) (Plautus) |
| Floreat regina regina |
May it flourish. (motto of the City of Regina, Saskatchewan Canada) |
| Floruit |
Flourished |
| Fluctuat nec mergitur |
It is tossed by the waves but it does not sink |
| Fons et origo |
The source and origin |
| Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit |
Perhaps someday we will look back upon these things with joy |
| Forsan miseros meliora sequentur |
For those in misery perhaps better things will follow. (Virgil) |
| Fortes et liber |
Strong and free. (Alberta) |
| Fortes fortuna adiuvat |
Fortune favors the brave. (Terence) |
| Fortes fortuna iuvat |
Fortune favours the brave |
| Fortiter fideliter forsan feliciter |
Bravely, faithfully, perhaps successfully |
| Fortiter in re, suaviter in modo |
Resolutely in action, gently in manner. (To do unhesitatingly what must be done but accomplishing it as inoffensively as possible) |
| Fortitudine vincimus |
By endurance we conquer |
| Fortius quo fidelius |
Strength through loyalty |
| Fortuna amicos parat, inopia amicos probat |
The fortune is preparing friends, the abundance is testing them |
| Fortuna vitrea est; tum cum splendet frangitur |
Fortune is glass; just when it gleams brightest it shatters |
| Fortuna caeca est |
Fortune is blind. (Cicero) |
| Fortunatus sum! Pila mea de gramine horrido modo in pratum lene recta volvit! |
Isn't that lucky! My ball just rolled out of the rough and onto the fairway! |
| Frangar non flectar |
I am broken, I am not deflected |
| Frater, ave atque vale |
Brother, hello and good-bye. (Catullus) |
| Fronti nulla fides |
No reliance can be placed on appearance. (don't judge a book by its cover) |
| Frustra laborant quotquot se calculationibus fatigant pro inventione quadraturae circuli |
Futile is the labor of those who fatigue themselves with calculations to square the circle. (Michael Stifel, 1544) |
| Fugit hora |
The hour flies |
| Fugit inreparabile tempus |
Irretrievable time flies. (Virgil) |
| Functus officio |
Having discharged his duty and thus ceased to have any authority over a matter |
| Furnulum pani nolo |
I don't want a toaster |