| latin phrase | english translation |
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| Radicitus, comes! |
Really rad, dude! |
| Radix lecti |
Couch potato |
| Radix omnium malorum est cupiditas |
The love of money is the root of all evil. Avarice is the problem, money itself is not evil |
| Raptus regaliter |
Royally screwed |
| Rara avis |
A rare bird, i.e. An extraodinary or unusual thing. (Juvenal) |
| Ratio decidendi |
The reason for the decision |
| Ratio et consilium propriae ducis artes |
Reason and deliberation are the proper skills of a general |
| Ratio legis est anima legis |
The reason of the law is the soul of the law |
| Re vera, cara mea, mea nil refert |
Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn |
| Re vera, potas bene |
Say, you sure are drinking a lot |
| Re |
Concerning |
| Recedite, plebes! Gero rem imperialem! |
Stand aside plebians! I am on imperial business! |
| Recto |
On the right |
| Redde Caesari quae sunt Caesaris |
Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's |
| Redivivus |
Come back to life |
| Redolet lvcernam |
[it] smells of the lampcritical remark that one worked too hard on something |
| Reductio ad absurdum |
Reduction to the absurd. (proving the truth of a proposition by proving the falsity of all its alternatives) |
| Referendum |
Something to be referred |
| Regina |
Queen |
| Regnat non regitur qui nihil nisi quod vult facit |
He is a king and not a subject who does only what he wishes. (Syrus) |
| Regnat populus |
Let the People rule |
| Relata refero |
I tell what I have been told. (Herodotos) |
| Religious loci |
The (religious) spirit of the place |
| Rem tene, verba sequentur |
Keep to the subject and the words will follow. (Cato Senior) |
| Repetitio est mater memoriae/ studiorum/ |
Repetition is the mother of memory/studies |
| Requiescat in pace (RIP) |
May he/she rest in peace |
| Rerum concordia discors |
The concord of things through discord. (Horace) |
| Res firma mitescere nescit |
A firm resolve does not know how to weaken |
| Res gestae |
Things done |
| Res in cardine est |
The matter is on a door hinge things are balanced on a knife's edge |
| Res inter alios |
A matter between others it's not our busines |
| Res ipsa loquitur |
The thing speaks for itself |
| Res judicata |
Thing already judged upon |
| Res melius evinissent cum coca |
Things go better with Coke |
| Res publica |
The public thing |
| Res severa est verum gaudium |
True joy is a serious thing. (Seneca) |
| Res tantum valet quantum vendi potest |
A thing is worth only what someone else will pay for it |
| Respice finem |
Look to the end |
| Respice post te, mortalem te esse memento |
Look around you, remember that you are mortal. (Tertullianus) |
| Respice, adspice, prospice |
Examine the past, examine the present, examine the future (look to the past, the present, the future) |
| Respondeat superior |
Let the superior answer (a supervisor must take responsibility for the quality of a subordinate's work) |
| Resurgam |
I shall rise again |
| Revelare pecunia! |
Show me the money! |
| Revera linguam latinam vix cognovi |
I don't really know all that much Latin |
| Rex non potest peccare |
The king cannot sin |
| Rex regnant sed non gubernat |
The king reigns but does not govern |
| Rex |
King |
| Rident stolidi verba latina |
Fools laugh at the Latin language. (Ovid) |
| Ridentem dicere verum quid vetat? |
What forbids a laughing man from telling the truth? (Horace) |
| Rigor mortis |
The rigidity of death |
| Risu inepto res ineptior nulla est |
There is nothing more foolish than a foolish laugh. (Catullus) |
| Risus abundat in ore stultorum |
Abundant laughs in the mouth of the foolishtoo much hilarity means foolishness |
| Roma locuta est. Causa finita est |
Rome has spoken. The cause is finished |
| Romani ite domum |
Romans go home! |
| Romani quidem artem amatoriam invenerunt |
You know, the Romans invented the art of love |
| Rosa rubicundior, lilio candidior, omnibus formosior, semper in te glorior |
Redder than the rose, whiter than the lilies, fairer than everything, I will always glory in thee |
| Rumores volant. / Rumor volat |
Rumors fly. / Rumor flies |