| latin phrase | english translation |
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| Vacca foeda |
Stupid cow |
| Vacca, vacca, vacca |
Cow, cow, cow |
| Vade in pace |
Go in peace. (Roman way of saying goodbye) |
| Vade mecum |
Come with me. A constant companion |
| Vae victis! |
Woe to the conquered! (vanquished) (Livy) |
| Vagans |
Cruising |
| Vah! Denuone Latine loquebar? Me ineptum. Interdum modo elabitur |
Oh! Was I speaking Latin again? Silly me. Sometimes it just sort of slips out |
| Vale, lacerte! |
See you later, alligator! |
| Vale |
Farewell |
| Valui ad satanam in computatrum meum invocandum |
I succeeded in summoning satan into my computer |
| Vanitas vanitatvm, omnis vanitas |
Vanity of vanities, all is vanity |
| Varia lecto (v.l.) |
Variant reading |
| Variatio delectat |
There's nothing like change! (Cicero) |
| Variorum |
Of various people |
| Velle est posse |
To be willing is to be able |
| Veni vidi duci |
I came, I saw, I calculated |
| Veni, vidi, vici |
I came, I saw, I conquered. (Julius Caesar) |
| Veni, Vidi, Visa |
I Came, I Saw, I Shopped |
| Veni, Vidi, volo in domum redire |
I came, I saw, I want to go home |
| Venienti occurrite morbo |
Meet the misfortune as it comes. (Persius) |
| Venire facias |
You must make come |
| Ventis secundis, tene cursum |
Go with the flow |
| Ventis secundis, tene/tenete cursum |
The winds being favorable, hold the course |
| Verba de futuro |
Words about the future |
| Verba movent, exempla trahunt |
Words move people, examples draw/compel them. Deeds, not words, give the example |
| Verba volant, (littera) scripta manet |
Words fly away, the written (letter) remains |
| Verbatim et litteratim |
Word for word and letter for letter |
| Verbatim |
Exactly as said |
| Verbum sapienti satis est (verb. sap.) |
A word to the wise is sufficient. Enough said |
| Veritas Lux Mea |
The truth enlightens me / The truth is my light |
| Veritas numquam perit |
Truth never perishes. (Seneca) |
| Veritas odit moras |
Truth hates delay. (Seneca) |
| Veritas vincit |
Truth conquers |
| Veritas vos liberabit |
The truth will set you free |
| Verso |
Reverse |
| Versus |
Against |
| Verum et factum convertuntur |
The true and the made are interchangeable. One can know with certainty only what he have created himself |
| Verveces tui similes pro ientaculo mihi appositi sunt |
I have jerks like you for breakfast |
| Vesanum poetam qui sapiunt fugiunt |
Anyone with a brain flees a versifying poet |
| Vescere bracis meis |
Eat my shorts |
| Vestigia terrent |
The footprints frighten me. (Horace) |
| Vestis virum reddit |
The clothes make the man. (Quintilianus) |
| Veto |
I forbid |
| Vi et armis |
By force and arms |
| Via Crucis |
The Way of the Cross |
| Via Dolorosa |
The Way of Sorrow |
| Via Lactea |
The Milky Way |
| Via media |
A middle way or course |
| Via |
By way of |
| Vice versa |
In reverse order |
| Vice |
In place of |
| Victis honor |
Honour to the vanquished |
| Victoria Imperatrix Regina (VIR) |
Victoria, Empress and Queen |
| Victoria Regina (VR) |
Queen Victoria |
| Victoria Regina et Imperatrix (VRI) |
Victoria, Queen and Empress |
| Victoria, non praeda |
Victory, not loot |
| Victurus te saluto |
He who is about to win salutes you |
| Vide et credere |
See and believe |
| Vide ut supra |
See the above |
| Vide |
See |
| Videlicet (viz.) |
That is to say; To wit; Namely |
| Video meliora proboque deteriora sequor |
I see the better way and approve it, but I follow the worse way |
| Videre est credere |
Seeing is believing |
| Videtis quantum scelus contra rem publicam vobis nuntiatum sit? |
How great an evil do you see that may have been announced by you against the Republic? (Cicero) |
| Vidistine nuper imagines moventes bonas? |
Seen any good movies lately? |
| Vigilando, agendo, bene consulendo, prospera omnia cedunt |
By watching, by doing, by counsulting well, these things yield all things prosperous. (Sallust) |
| Vincere est totum |
To win is everything |
| Vincit omnia amor |
Love conquers all |
| Vincit omnia veritas |
Truth conquers all |
| Vincit qui se vincit |
He conquers who conquers himself |
| Vinculum unitatis |
The bond of unity |
| Vinum bellum iucunumque est, sed animo corporeque caret |
It's a nice little wine, but it lacks character and depth |
| Vinum et musica laetificant cor |
Wine and music gladden the heart |
| Vir bonus, dicendi peritus |
A good man, skilled in speaking. (definition of an orator) (Cato the Elder) |
| Vir prudens non contra ventum mingit |
A wise man does not urinate against the wind |
| Vir sapit qui pauca loquitor |
It is a wise man who speaks little |
| Vir sapit qui pauca loquitur |
That man is wise who talks little (know when to hold your tongue) |
| Vires acquirit eundo |
It gains strength by going / as it goes. (Virgil) |
| Virginibus puerisque |
For maidens and youths |
| Virgo intacta |
Intact virgin |
| Viri sunt viri |
Men are slime |
| Virtus in medio stat |
Virtue stands in the middle |
| Virtute et armis |
By courage and by arms |
| Virtvs probata florescit |
Manly excellence in trial flourished |
| Virtvtis fortvna comes |
Good luck is the companion of courage |
| Virum mihi, Camena, insece versutum |
Tell me, O Muse, of the skillful man. (Livius Andronicus) |
| Virus |
Poison or slime |
| Vis comica |
Sense of humour |
| Vis consili expers mole ruit sua |
Brute force bereft of wisdom falls to ruin by its own weight. (Discretion is the better part of valor) (Horace) |
| Vis inertiae |
The power of inertiawhy things never change |
| Vis maior |
Higher force |
| Vis medicatrix naturae |
The healing power of nature |
| Visa |
Things seen |
| Visne saltare? Viam Latam Fungosam scio |
Do you want to dance? I know the Funky Broadway |
| Visne saltare? |
Do you want to dance? |
| Vita brevis, ars lunga |
Life is short, art is long |
| Vita contin git. Vive com eo |
Life happens. Live with it |
| Vita luna! |
Crazy life! |
| Vita mutatur, non tollitur |
Life is changed, not taken away |
| Vita non est vivere sed valere vita est |
Life is more than merely staying alive |
| Vita sine libris mors est |
Life without books is death |
| Vitam impendere vero |
To risk one's life for the truth |
| Vitam regit fortuna, non sapientia |
Fortune, not wisdom, rules lives. (Cicero) |
| Vitanda est improba siren desidia |
One must avoid that wicked temptress, Laziness. (Horace) |
| Vitiis nemo sine nascitur |
No-one is born without faults. (Horace) |
| Viva voce |
With living voice |
| Vivat regina |
Long live the queen |
| Vivat rex |
Long live the king |
| Vivat, crescat, floreat! |
May he/she/it live, grow, and flourish! |
| Vive hodie |
Live today (not tomorrow) |
| Vive vt vivas |
Live that you may live |
| Vivere commune est, sed non commune mereri |
Everybody lives; not everybody deserves to |
| Vivere disce, cogita mori |
Learn to live; Remember death. (sundial inscription) |
| Vivos voco, mortuos plango |
I call the living, I mourn the dead. (church bell inscription) |
| Vix ulla tam iniqua pax, quin bello vel aequissimo sit potior |
Scarcely is there any peace so unjust that it is better than even the fairest war. (Erasmus) |
| Vixere fortes ante agamemnona |
Brave men lived before Agamemnon. (heroism exists even if it's not recorded) |
| Vixit |
He/she has lived |
| Vltima ratio regvm |
The final argument of kings. (motto of Louis XIV on his cannon) |
| Vltra vires |
Beyond [one's] authority outside the jurisdiction |
| Volens et potens |
Willing and able |
| Volente Deo |
God willing |
| Volenti non fit iniuria |
A person who consents does not suffer injustice |
| Volo anaticulam cumminosam meam! |
I want my rubber ducky! |
| Volo, non valeo |
I am willing but unable |
| Volvptates commendat rarior vsvs |
Infrequent use commends pleasure. (moderation in all things) |
| Vos vestros servate, meos mihi linquite mores |
You cling to your own ways and leave mine to me. (Petrarch) |
| Vox clamantis in deserto |
Voice crying in the desert. (voice in the wilderness unheeded warning, an opinion not in the mainstream |
| Vox populi, vox Dei |
The voice of the people is the voice of God. (Public opinion is obligatory) |
| Vox populi |
The voice of the people |
| Vrbi et orbi |
To the city and to the world. (preface of Papal documents) |
| Vulnerant omnes, ultima necat |
Every (hour) wounds, the last kills. (sundial inscription) |
| Vulpem pilum mutat, non mores |
A fox may change its hair, not its tricks. (People change behaviour but not their aims) |
| Vultus est index animi |
The face is the index of the soul/mind |