Chapter DI: SALTO (It.), at a leap

DISJECTA MEMBRA (L.), the scattered members.

DISTINGUÉ, fem. DISTINGUÉE (Fr.), distinguished: striking.

DISTRAIT, fem. DISTRAITE (Fr.), absent-minded.

DIT (Fr.), called.

DIVERTISSEMENT (Fr.), amusement: sport.

DIVIDE ET IMPERA (L.), divide [your opponents], and so rule them.

DIVISIM (L.), separately.

DOCENDO DISCITUR (L.), one learns in teaching.

DOLCE FAR NIENTE (It.), sweet doing-nothing: pleasant idleness.

DOLI CAPAX (L.), capable of committing a wrong--opp. of _doli incapax_.

DOMINE, DIRIGE NOS! (L.), Lord, direct us!--the motto of London.

DOMINUS ILLUMINATIO MEA (L.), the Lord is my enlightening.

DOMUS ET PLACENS UXOR (L.), a home and a pleasing wife.

DONNA È MOBILE (It.), woman is changeable.

DONNERWETTER! (Ger.), thunderstorms! [as an ejaculation].

DORER LA PILULE (Fr.), to gild the pill.

DORMITAT HOMERUS (L.), Homer nods.

DOS MOI POU ST[=O] KAI T[=E]N G[=E]N KIN[=E]S[=O] (Gr.), give me where to stand, and I will move the earth [attributed to Archimedes].

DOUBLE ENTENTE (Fr.), double meaning, equivocal sense.

DO UT DES (L.), I give that you may give.

DRAMATIS PERSONÆ (L.), characters of a drama.

DROIT AU TRAVAIL (Fr.), right to labour.

DROIT DES GENS (Fr.), international law.

DRÔLE (Fr.), a rogue, a knave.

DULCE EST DESIPERE IN LOCO (L.), it is pleasant to play the fool on occasion.

DULCE ET DECORUM EST PRO PATRIÂ MORI (L.), it is sweet and glorious to die for one's country.

DULCE, 'DOMUM!' (L.), sweet strain, 'Homeward!' from a Winchester school song sung before holidays.

DUM SPIRO, SPERO (L.), while I breathe, I hope.

DUM VIVIMUS, VIVAMUS (L.), while we live, let us live.

D'UN SEUL JET (Fr.), at one effort.

DURANTE BENE PLACITO (Late L.), during good pleasure.

DURANTE VITA (Late L.), during life.

DUX FEMINA FACTI (L.), a woman was leader of the deed.

EAU BÉNITE (Fr.), holy water.

EAU SUCRÉE (Fr.), sugared water.

ÉBAUCHE (Fr.), a sketch, drawing in outline.

ÉBOULEMENT (Fr.), a landslip.

ECCE! (L.), behold!

ECCE SIGNUM! (L.), behold the sign or the proof!

ECCO! (It.), here is! there! look there!

ÉCLAIRCISSEMENT (Fr.), an explanation.

ÉCOLE (Fr.), school;--ÉCOLE DE DROIT, law school;--ÉCOLE DE MÉDECINE, school of medicine;--ÉCOLE MILITAIRE, military school;--ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE, polytechnic school.

E CONTRA (Late L.), contrariwise, conversely.

E CONTRARIO (Late L.), on the contrary.

E CONVERSO (Late L.), conversely, by logical conversion.

ÉCRASÉ (Fr.), crushed;--ÉCRASER, to crush;--ÉCRASEZ L'INFÂME! crush the abominable [superstition] out of existence! [motto of Voltaire--against the Roman Catholic Church of his time].

ÉCREVISSE (Fr.), crayfish.

ÉCRIN (Fr.), casket, jewel-case.

ÉCRU (Fr.), unbleached, raw.

EDAX RERUM (L.), devourer of [all] things.

EDITION DE LUXE (Fr.), a splendid and expensive edition of a book.

EDITIO PRINCEPS (L.), original edition [especially of a work till then only known in MS.].

ÉGALITÉ (Fr.), equality.

ÉGAREMENT (Fr.), confusion, bewilderment.

EGERIA, the nymph who instructed the ancient Roman king Numa Pompilius, hence any woman who gives a man his inspiration.

EGESTA (Late L.), excrements, fæces.

EGO ET REX MEUS (L.), I and my king [Cardinal Wolsey].

EHEU FUGACES ... LABUNTUR ANNI! (L.), alas! the fleeting years slip away.

EILE MIT WEILE (Ger.), speed with heed, make haste leisurely. Cf. _festina lente_.

EIN MAL, KEIN MAL (Ger.), just once counts nothing.

EISEN UND BLUT (Ger.), iron and blood--a famous phrase of Bismarck's.

EJUSDEM GENERIS (L.), of the same kind.

EK PARERGOU (Gr.), as a by-work.

ÉLAN (Fr.), dash, eagerness to advance.

ÉLÉGANT, fem. ÉLÉGANTE (Fr.), a person of fashion.

ÉLÈVE (Fr.), pupil.

ÉLITE (Fr.), choice, pick.

EMBARRAS DE (DU) CHOIX (Fr.), embarrassment in choice, a perplexing number of objects from which to choose.

EMBARRAS DE(S) RICHESSES (Fr.), a perplexing amount of wealth or abundance of any kind.

ÉMEUTE (Fr.), a riot;--ÉMEUTIER, a rioter.

ÉMIGRÉ, fem. ÉMIGRÉE (Fr.), an emigrant, esp. one of those royalists who fled from France during the great Revolution.

EMIR-EL-HAJJ (Ar.), chief of the great caravan of pilgrims to Mecca.

EMPRESSÉ, fem. EMPRESSÉE (Fr.), eager to show goodwill or civility;--EMPRESSEMENT, warmth of manner, cordiality.

EN AMI (Fr.), as a friend.

EN ARRIÈRE (Fr.), behind, in the rear.

EN ATTENDANT (Fr.), in the meantime, while waiting for.

EN AVANT! (Fr.), forward!

EN BADINANT (Fr.), roguishly, with badinage.

EN BARBETTE (Fr.), on a breastwork or platform for ordnance which is fired over a parapet and not through embrasures--also of a ship's guns fired over the bulwarks and not through ports.

EN BEAU (Fr.), as fair or handsome, in flattering style.

EN CABALLO (Sp.), on horseback.

EN CAVALIER (Fr.), in a cavalier manner.

EN CHEMISE [DE NUIT] (Fr.), in night-dress.

ENCOMIENDA (Sp.), a commandery;--ENCOMENDERO, its commander.

EN CROUPE (Fr.), on the crupper, on a pillion.

EN CUERPO (Sp.), in close-fitting dress; sometimes erroneously for 'stark naked,' the Spanish for which is _en cueros_.

EN DÉSHABILLÉ (Fr.), in undress, in careless costume.

EN EFFET (Fr.), in effect.

EN ÉVIDENCE (Fr.), conspicuously, conspicuous, before the public view.

EN FAMILLE (Fr.), amongst the family, as at a family gathering, at home.

ENFANS PERDUS, ENFANTS PERDUS (Fr.), lit. 'lost children:' forlorn hope.

ENFANT DE LA MAISON (Fr.), child of the house, quite at home.

ENFANT GÂTÉ, fem. GÂTÉE (Fr.), spoilt child.

ENFANT TERRIBLE (Fr.), lit. 'terrible child,' a precocious child whose indiscreet prattle puts his elders to the blush.

ENFANT TROUVÉ (Fr.), foundling.

EN FÊTE (Fr.), in festivity, keeping holiday.

EN GARÇON (Fr.), like a bachelor, in bachelor's style.

EN GRANDE TENUE (Fr.), in full dress.

EN L'AIR (Fr.), in the air, being discussed or expected.

ENLEVÉ (Fr.), carried away, kidnapped.

EN MASSE (Fr.), in a body, universally.

EN MILITAIRE (Fr.), as a military man.

EN PASSANT (Fr.), in passing: by the way.

EN PLEIN JOUR (Fr.), in broad day.

EN PRINCE (Fr.), in princely style.

EN PURE PERTE (Fr.), to mere loss, to no purpose.

EN QUEUE (Fr.), like a tail, in a string or line.

ENRAGÉ, fem. ENRAGEÉ (Fr.), desperate: a lunatic.

EN RAPPORT (Fr.), in direct relation: in sympathy with.

EN RÈGLE (Fr.), in due order: according to rules.

EN RETRAITE (Fr.), in retirement, on half-pay.

EN REVANCHE (Fr.), in revenge.

EN ROUTE (Fr.), on the road: let us go! march!

EN SPECTACLE (Fr.), as a spectacle.

ENS PER ACCIDENS (Late L.), that which exists only as an accident of _ens per se_--i.e. a substance.

ENS RATIONIS (Late L.), an entity of reason--opposed to ENS REALE.

EN SUITE (Fr.), in succession [the sense 'to match' is _not_ French].

ENTAMÉ, fem. ENTAMÉE (Fr.), broached, entered upon.

ENTENTE (Fr.), understanding;--ENTENTE CORDIALE, cordial understanding between nations.

ENTÊTÉ, fem. ENTÊTÉE (Fr.), infatuated.

EN TOUT (Fr.), in all: wholly.

EN TOUT CAS (Fr.), in any case or emergency.

ENTRAIN (Fr.), heartiness;--ENTRAÎNEMENT (Fr.), enthusiasm.

EN TRAIN (Fr.), in progress.

ENTRECHAT (Fr.), caper.

ENTRECÔTE (Fr.), meat between the ribs, a kind of steak.

ENTRE NOUS (Fr.), between ourselves.

ENTREPRENEUR (Fr.), contractor: builder.

ENTREZ (Fr.), come in.

EN VILLE (Fr.), in town, 'not at home.'

EO NOMINE (L.), by that name, on that claim.

EPEA PTEROENTA (Gr.), winged words.

ÉPERDU, fem. ÉPERDUE (Fr.), distracted;--ÉPERDUMENT AMOUREUX, desperately in love.

EPHPHATHA (Aramaic), be thou opened.

ÉPICIER (Fr.), a grocer.

E PLURIBUS UNUM (Late L.), one out of many--motto of the United States.

ÉPOUSE (Fr.), wife, bride.

E PUR SI MUOVE! (It.), but it does move, though! [attributed to Galileo, after recanting his doctrine that the earth goes round the sun].

ÉPRIS, fem. ÉPRISE (Fr.), captivated, smitten.

ÉPUISÉ, fem. ÉPUISÉE (Fr.), worn out.

ÉQUESTRIENNE (an English-coined word in imitation French), a horsewoman, a female circus-rider.

ERD GEIST (Ger.), earth-spirit.

E RE NATÂ (Late L.), from the circumstance arisen, according to the exigencies of the case.

ERGO BIBAMUS! (L.), therefore let us drink!

ERGON (Gr.), work, business.

ERIN(N)YS, pl. ERIN(N)YES (Gr.), the Furies.

EROS (Gr.), the Greek god of sensual passion, miscalled love.

ERRARE EST HUMANUM (L.), to err is human.

ESCALIER (Fr.), staircase;--ESCALIER DÉROBÉ, private staircase.

ESCAMOTAGE (Fr.), juggling.

ESCHSCHOLTZIA (Latinised from name of German botanist Eschscholtz), a Californian poppy with showy yellow flowers.

ESCRIBANO (Sp.), a notary.

ESCROC (Fr.), a swindler.

ESPADA (Sp.), a sword: a matador.

ESPRIT FOLLET (Fr.), a mischievous goblin.

ESSE QUAM VIDERI (L.), to be, rather than to seem.

ESTANCIA (Sp.), a mansion: in Spanish America, a large grazing farm or landed estate;--ESTANCIERO, the owner or overseer of such.

EST MODUS IN REBUS (L.), there is a proper mean in [all] things.

ESTO PERPETUA! (L.), may she be lasting!

EST QUÆDAM FLERE VOLUPTAS (L.), there is in weeping a certain pleasure.

ESTRO (It.), enthusiasm, height of poetic inspiration.

ÉTAGE (Fr.), floor, story [BEL ÉTAGE, best story, first floor, is _not_ a French usage].

ÉTAGÈRE (Fr.), an ornamental stand of shelves for flowers, articles of virtu, &c.

ÉTANG (Fr.), pond.

ÉTAPE (Fr.), a storehouse: a halting-place: a day's march: rations: forage.

ÉTAT (Fr.), state, rank;--ÉTAT-MAJOR, the staff of an army, regiment, &c.

ÉTATS GÉNÉRAUX (Fr.), the States-General.

ET EGO IN ARCADIA (L.), I, too, was in Arcadia: I know as much about it as anybody.

ET HOC GENUS OMNE, ET ID GENUS OMNE (L.), and everything of this, or of that, sort.

ETHOS (Gr.), permanent character: in literature and art, the chief characteristics of a work as affecting the intellectual and moral faculties, as opposed to pathos, which appeals to the emotions.

ÉTOILE (Fr.), star.

ÉTOURDERIE (Fr.), heedlessness, stupid blundering.

ÉTOURDI, fem. ÉTOURDIE (Fr.), giddy, foolish, light-headed.

ÉTRANGER, fem. ÉTRANGÈRE (Fr.), strange: a foreigner.

ÉTRENNES (Fr.), New Year's gift or gifts.

ET SEQUENTES (L.), and those that follow.

ET SEQUENTIA (L.), and what follows.

ET SIC DE CETERIS (Late L.), and so about the rest.

ET SIC DE SIMILIBUS (L.), and so of the like.

ET TU, BRUTE! (L.), you too, Brutus! [Cæsar's exclamation when he saw his much-loved Brutus amongst his murderers.]

EUGE! (L.--Gr.), well done!

EUREKA [HEUREKA]! (Gr.), I have found it!

EURIPUS (L.--Gr.), a strait, channel.

EVENTUS STULTORUM MAGISTER (L.), the result is the schoolmaster of fools.

EX ABUNDANTI (L.), superfluously;--ex abundanti cautela, from excessive caution.

EX ABUSU NON ARGUITUR AD USUM (L.), from the abuse no argument is drawn against the use.

EX ACCIDENTI (Late L.), accidentally, as opposed to _essentially_.

EX ÆQUO (Late L.), equally, equitably.

EXAMEN (L.), examination.

EX ANIMO (L.), from the mind, earnestly.

EX AUCTORITATE MIHI COMMISSÂ (L.), by the authority entrusted to me.

EX CATHEDRÂ (Late L.), from the chair of office, esp. the pope's throne in the Consistory, or a professor's chair, hence authoritatively, judicially.

EXCELSIOR (L.), higher: [erroneously] upwards!

EXCEPTIO CONFIRMAT [PROBAT] REGULAM (L.), the exception proves the rule.

EXCEPTIS EXCIPIENDIS (Late L.), excepting what is to be excepted, with proper exceptions.

EXCERPTA (L., pl. of _excerptum_), extracts, selections.

EX CONCESSIS, EX CONCESSO (Late L.), from what has been conceded.

EX CONSEQUENTI (Late L.), by way of consequence.

EX CONVERSO. See _e converso_.

EXCREMENTA (L., pl. of _excrementum_), refuse matter.

EX CURIÂ (L.), out of court.

EX DEBITO JUSTITIÆ (Late L.), from what is due to justice.

EX DELICTO (Late L.), owing to a crime.

EX DONO (Late L.), by gift, as a present from.

EXEAT (L.), let him go out--formal leave, as for a student to be out of college for more than one night.

EXEGI MONUMENTUM ÆRE PERENNIUS (L.), I have reared a monument more lasting than brass.

EXEMPLA SUNT ODIOSA (L.), examples are hateful.

EXEMPLI GRATIÂ (L.), by way of example, for instance--often abbreviated e.g.

EXEUNT OMNES (L.), all go out, or retire.

EX HYPOTHESI (Late L.), from the hypothesis.

EX IMPROVISO (Late L.), in an unforeseen manner, suddenly.

EXITUS ACTA PROBAT (L.), the issue or event proves the acts.

EX LIBRIS (Late L.), from the books--followed by the owner's name in the genitive--written in the volumes or on the bookplates of a library.

EX MERO MOTU (L.), from his own impulse.

EX NATURÂ REI (Late L.), from the nature of the case;--EX NATURÂ RERUM, from the nature of things.

EX NIHILO [NILO] NIHIL [NIL] FIT (L.), out of nothing nothing comes.

EX OFFICIO (L.), by virtue of his office.

EX OPERE OPERATO (Late L.), by virtue of a work done. See _Opus_ in Dict.

EX PARTE (L.), on one side, as a partisan.

EX PEDE HERCULEM (L.), [we recognise] Hercules from his foot.

EXPERIENTIA DOCET STULTOS (L.), experience teaches fools.

EXPERIMENTUM CRUCIS (L.), the experiment of the cross, a crucial test.

EXPERTO CREDE (L.), trust one who has tried, or had experience.

EXPERTUS METUIT (L.), having had experience, he fears.

EX POST FACTO (L.), retrospective.

EXPRESSIS VERBIS (L.), in express terms.

EX PROFESSO (L.), avowedly.

EX PROPRIIS (L.), from one's own resources.

EX PROPRIO MOTU (Late L.), of his own accord.

EX QUOCUNQUE CAPITE (L.), from whatever source.

EX RE NATÂ (Late L.), according to a circumstance that has arisen.

EX TACITO (L.), silently.

EXTINCTUS AMABITUR IDEM (L.), the same man [maligned living], when dead, will be loved.

EXTRAIT (Fr.), an extract.

EXTRA JUDICIUM (Late L.), out of court, extra-judicially.

EXTRA MODUM (L.), beyond measure, extravagant.

EXTRA MUROS (L.), beyond the walls.

EX UNGUE LEONEM (L.), [judge] the lion from his claws.

EX UNO DISCE OMNES (L.), from one example learn what they all are.

EX UTRAQUE PARTE (L.), on either side.

EX VOTO (L.), according to one's prayer, by reason of a vow: votive: a votive offering.

FABER EST QUISQUE FORTUNÆ SUÆ (L.), every man is the fashioner of his own fortune.

FABLE CONVENUE (Fr.), fable agreed upon--Voltaire's name for history.

FACILE EST INVENTIS ADDERE (L.), it is easy to add to things invented already.

FACILE PRINCEPS (L.), obviously pre-eminent: an easy first.

FACILIS DESCENSUS AVERNO (or AVERNI) (L.), descent to Avernus (hell) is easy: the road to evil is easy.

FACINUS MAJORIS ABOLLÆ (L.), the crime of a larger cloak, i.e. of a deep philosopher.

FACIT INDIGNATIO VERSUM (L.), indignation inspires verse.

FAÇON DE PARLER (Fr.), way of speaking, a mere form of words.

FACTA NON VERBA (L.), deeds, not words.

FACTUM EST (L.), it is done.

FADAISE (Fr.), silliness, nonsense.

FADE (Fr.), insipid, colourless;--FADEUR, dullness.

FÆX POPULI (L.), dregs of the people.

FAIRE BONNE MINE (Fr.), to put a good face upon the matter.

FAIRE DE LA PROSE SANS LE SAVOIR (Fr.), to produce prose without knowing it--which Molière's M. Jourdain was surprised to find he had been doing all his days in conversation.

FAIRE L'HOMME D'IMPORTANCE (Fr.), to assume the air of importance.

FAIRE MON DEVOIR (Fr.), to do my duty.

FAIRE SANS DIRE (Fr.), to act without talking.

FAIT ACCOMPLI (Fr.), a thing already done.

FALSI CRIMEN (Late L.), the crime of falsity, fraudulent concealment, forgery.

FALSUS IN UNO, FALSUS IN OMNIBUS (L.), false in one point, false in all.

FAMA CLAMOSA (L.), a current scandal.

FAMA NIHIL EST CELERIUS (L.), nothing is swifter than rumour.

FAMA SEMPER VIVAT! (L.), may his [or her] fame live for ever!

FAMILLE DE ROBE (Fr.), a legal family.

FANTOCCINI (It.), puppets made to move by strings or wires, a puppet-show.

FAR NIENTE (It.), doing nothing.

FARCEUR (Fr.), a wag, a joker.

FAROUCHE (Fr.), sullen, savage.

FARRAGO LIBELLI (L.), a medley of miscellaneous topics for a little book [of satire].

FAS EST ET AB HOSTE DOCERI (L.), it is right to be taught even by an enemy.

FATA OBSTANT (L.), the Fates oppose it.

FATA VIAM INVENIENT (L.), the Fates will find out a way.

FAUTE DE MIEUX (Fr.), for want of better.

FAUX PAS (Fr.), a false step: a mistake.

FAVETE LINGUIS (L.), favour me with your tongues--keep a discreet silence.

FAX MENTIS INCENDIUM GLORIÆ (L.), the passion for glory is a torch to the mind.

FECIT (L.), [T. D.] made or executed [this].

FECUNDI CALICES, QUEM NON FECERE DISERTUM? (L.), full cups, whom have they not made eloquent?

FÉE (Fr.), a fairy;--FÉERIE, fairyland.

FELICITAS MULTOS HABET AMICOS (L.), prosperity has many friends.

FELICITER (L.), happily: successfully.

FELO DE SE (L.), a suicide, lit. 'felon of himself.'

FEMME (Fr.), woman, wife;--FEMME COUVERTE (old law French), a married woman, as under her husband's protection;--FEMME GALANTE, a gay woman;--FEMME INCOMPRISE, a woman misunderstood or unappreciated;--FEMME SAVANTE, a learned woman, a blue-stocking;--FEMME SOLE (law French), a single woman, a woman legally independent.

FEMME DE CHAMBRE (Fr.), a lady's maid.

FENDRE UN CHEVEU EN QUATRE (Fr.), to split a hair in quarters, to make over-subtle distinctions.

FERMIER GÉNÉRAL (Fr.), farmer-general, one who farmed certain taxes under the old French monarchy.

FESTINA LENTE (L.), hasten gently.

FÊTE CHAMPÊTRE (Fr.), a rural festival, garden party.

FÊTE-DIEU (Fr.), Corpus Christi.

FEU (pl. FEUX) D'ARTIFICE (Fr.), fireworks.

FEU DE JOIE (Fr.), a bonfire: in English (_not_ in French), a firing of guns in token of joy.

FEUILLETONISTE (Fr.), one who writes for feuilletons. See _Feuilleton_ in Dict.

FIAT EXPERIMENTUM IN CORPORE VILI (L.), let experiment be made on a worthless body.

FIAT JUSTITIA, RUAT COELUM (L.), let justice be done, though the heavens should fall.

FIAT LUX (L.), let there be light.

FICHU (Fr.), a triangular kerchief or wrap worn on a woman's neck and shoulders.

FIDE ET AMORE (L.), by faith and love.

FIDE ET FIDUCIÂ (L.), by faith and confidence.

FIDE ET FORTITUDINE (L.), by faith and fortitude.

FIDEI DEFENSOR (L.), defender of the faith.

FIDE NON ARMIS (L.), by faith, not by arms.

FIDE, SED CUI VIDE (L.), trust, but in whom take care.

FIDES ET JUSTITIA (L.), fidelity and justice.

FIDES PUNICA (L.), Punic faith: treachery.

FI DONC! (Fr.), for shame!

FIDUS ACHATES (L.), faithful Achates: a true friend.

FIDUS ET AUDAX (L.), faithful and bold.

FIERI FACIAS (Late L.), cause to be done--the name of a writ commanding the sheriff to distrain the defendant's goods.

FIERTÉ (Fr.), haughtiness, high spirit.

FIGURANT, fem. FIGURANTE (Fr.), a supernumerary on the stage;--FIGURANTE, pl. FIGURANTI (It.), a ballet-dancer.

FILIUS NULLIUS (L.), son of nobody, a bastard.

FILIUS POPULI (L.), son of the people.

FILIUS TERRÆ (L.), son of the soil, one of mean birth.

FILLE DE CHAMBRE (Fr.), chambermaid.

FILLE DE JOIE (Fr.), a prostitute.

FILLE D'HONNEUR (Fr.), maid of honour.

FILS (Fr.), son.

FIN DE SIÈCLE (Fr.), end of the [19th] century: decadent.

FINIS CORONAT OPUS (L.), the end crowns the work.

FINIS POLONIÆ! (L.), the end of Poland! the Scotch Chancellor Seafield's 'end o' an auld sang' in 1707.

FIN MOT (Fr.), main point.

FISOLEN (Ger.), beans.

FLACON (Fr.), a smelling-bottle.

FLAGRANTE BELLO (L.), while war is raging.

FLAGRANTE DELICTO (L.), in the very act.

FLAIR (Fr.), scent, keen sense of smell.

FLECTERE SI NEQUEO SUPEROS, ACHERONTA MOVEBO (L.), if I can't move the gods, I'll stir up hell.

FLECTI, NON FRANGI (L.), to be bent, not to be broken.

FLEURON (Fr.), a piece of decorative flower-work.

FLOCCULUS, pl. FLOCCULI (Late L.), a small flock or tuft of wool or the like.

FLOREAT (L.), let it flourish.

FLORILEGIUM, pl. FLORILEGIA (Late L.), a collection of flowers--i.e. of choice passages, an anthology.

FLOSCULI SENTENTIARUM (L.), flowerets of wisdom.

FOENUM HABET IN CORNU (L.), he has hay on his horn [the sign of a dangerous bull].

FOIBLESSE (Old French; modern, _faiblesse_), a failing.

FOIE GRAS (Fr.), fat liver [of goose] made into _pâté de foie gras_ (or _foies gras_).

FOLÂTRE (Fr.), sportive, frolicsome, fond of romping.

FOMES, pl. FOMITES (L.), touchwood, a substance which retains contagion.

FOND (Fr.), ground, basis, fund;--FONDS, ground, fund, stock, capital.

FONDA (Sp.), a tavern.

FONS ET ORIGO (L.), the source and origin.

FONS LACRIMARUM (L.), fount or source of tears.

FORCE MAJEURE (Fr.), superior power.

FORENSIS STREPITUS (L.), the clamour of the forum.

FORMALITER (Late L.), formally, in respect of the formal element.

FORSAN ET HÆC OLIM MEMINISSE JUVABIT (L.), perchance hereafter it will be delightful to remember even these things.

FORS CLAVIGERA--the title assumed by Ruskin for his series of periodical letters to British working-men. _Fors_=fortune; _Claviger_, the club-bearer, an epithet of Hercules.

FORTI ET FIDELI NIHIL DIFFICILE (L.), to the brave and faithful nothing is difficult.

FORTIS CADERE, CEDERE NON POTEST (L.), the brave man may fall, he cannot yield.

FORTITER ET RECTE (L.), bravely and uprightly.

FORTITER, FIDELITER, FELICITER (L.), firmly, faithfully, felicitously.

FORTITER IN RE, SUAVITER IN MODO (L.), forcibly in deed, gently in manner.

FORTUNA FAVET FATUIS (L.), fortune favours fools.

FORTUNA FAVET FORTIBUS (L.), fortune aids the bold.

FORTUNA FORTES ADJUVAT (L.), fortune aids the brave.

FORUM CONSCIENTIÆ (L.), the court of conscience.

FOURGON (Fr.), a wagon, cart.

FRA (It.), brother, friar.

FRAÎCHEUR (Fr.), freshness, coolness.

FRAIS (Fr.), _n.pl._ expenses, charges.

FRANCISÉ, fem. FRANCISÉE (Fr.), Frenchified.

FRANCO (It.), post-free, franked.

FRANGAS, NON FLECTES (L.), you may break, you shall not bend.

FRANKFURTER (Ger.) a small smoked sausage.

FRAPPÉ, fem. FRAPPÉE (Fr.), iced, artificially cooled.

FRATE, pl. FRATI (It.), a friar, a mendicant Franciscan.

FRAU (Ger.), dame, married woman, wife.

FRÄULEIN (Ger.), miss, unmarried woman, German governess.

FRAUS EST CELARE FRAUDEM (L.), it is a fraud to conceal a fraud.

FRAUS PIA (L.), a pious fraud.

FREDAINE (Fr.), escapade, prank.

FRIAND, fem. FRIANDE (Fr.), dainty, delicate: an epicure.

FRIGIDARIUM (L.), the cold swimming-tank of a bath-house.

FRIJOL, pl. FRIJOLES (Sp.), French beans.

FRIPONNERIE (Fr.), knavery, roguishness.

FRISETTE (Fr.), a frizette, fringe of frizzled hair worn above or on the forehead.

FRITURE (Fr.), frying: fried food: fry.

FRONDEUR (Fr.), an adherent of the Fronde: any malcontent. See _Fronde_ in Dict.

FRONT À FRONT (Fr.), front to front, face to face.

FRONTIGNAC, a sweet wine produced near Frontignan, in Hérault, France [in modern French, _Frontignan_.]

FRONTI NULLA FIDES (L.), no reliance on the face, no trusting appearances.

FROU-FROU (Fr.), the delicate rustling of women's drapery.

FROW(E), FRO(E), Anglicised from Dut. _vruow_, a married woman, wife: a slovenly woman.

FRUGES CONSUMERE NATI (L.), born to consume the fruits of the soil.

FUGIT HORA (L.), the hour flies.

FUIMUS TROES (L.), we were once Trojans.

FUIT ILIUM (L.), Troy has been--i.e. is no more.

FULMEN BRUTUM (L.), a harmless thunderbolt.

FUMADO (Sp.), smoked fish.

FUNCTUS OFFICIO (L.), having fulfilled an office, out of office.

FUNDAMENTUM RELATIONIS (Late L.), ground of relation.

FUNÈBRE (Fr.), mournful.

FUREUR (Fr.), extravagant admiration.

FUROR ARMA MINISTRAT (L.), rage supplies arms.

FUROR LOQUENDI (L.), a rage for speaking.

FUROR POETICUS (L.), poetic frenzy.

FUROR SCRIBENDI (L.), a rage for writing.

GAGE D'AMOUR (Fr.), pledge of love, love-token.

GAIETÉ DE COEUR (Fr.), gaiety of heart.

GAILLARD, fem. GAILLARDE (Fr.), lively, frolicsome.

GALANT, fem. GALANTE (Fr.), given to illicit intrigue: one of the parties in an amour;--GALANT HOMME, a man of honour.

GALAPAGO (Sp.), a tortoise.

GALIMAFRÉE (Fr.), hotch-potch, hash.--Anglicised as _Gallimaufry_ (q.v. in Dict.).

GARDE À CHEVAL (Fr.), mounted guard.

GARDE CHAMPÊTRE (Fr.), rural guard, field-keeper.

GARDE-CHASSE (Fr.), gamekeeper.

GARDE DU CORPS (Fr.), a bodyguard.

GARDE-FEU (Fr.), fender.

GARDE-FOU (Fr.), a parapet.

GARDE MOBILE (Fr.), a guard liable to general service.

GARDE NATIONALE (Fr.), national guard.

GARDE ROYALE (Fr.), royal guard.

GARDEZ (Fr.), take care, be on your guard.

GARDEZ BIEN (Fr.), take good care.

GARDES LA FOI (Fr.), keep the faith.

GAUDEAMUS IGITUR (L.), let us therefore rejoice.

GAUDET TENTAMINE VIRTUS (L.), virtue rejoices in trial.

GAUDIUM CERTAMINIS (L.), the delight of battle.

GEFLÜGELTE WORTE (Ger.), winged words.

GEFRORNES (Ger.), ices.

GENDARMES (Fr.), _n.pl._ armed police.

GENIUS LOCI (L.), the genius of the place.

GENS D'AFFAIRES (Fr.), business men; GENS D'ARMES, men-at-arms (cf. GENDARMES); GENS DE BIEN, honest folk; GENS DE CONDITION, people of rank; GENS D'ÉGLISE, churchmen; GENS DE LANGUES, linguists; GENS DE LETTRES, men of letters; GENS DE LOI, lawyers; GENS DE MÊME FARINE, birds of a feather; GENS DE MER, seamen; GENS D'ÉPÉE, GENS DE GUERRE, military men; GENS DE PEU, people of humble condition; GENS DE ROBE, lawyers; GENS DU MONDE, people of fashion.

GENS TOGATA (L.), the toga-wearing nation--i.e. the Romans.

GENTILHOMME (Fr.), a nobleman: a gentleman.

GENUS IRRITABILE VATUM (L.), the irritable tribe of poets.

GERMANICÈ (L.), in German.

GESPRITZT (Ger.), mixed in equal quantity with soda water--of wine.

GIBIER DE POTENCE (Fr.), game for the gibbet, gallows-bird, jail-bird.

GIOVINE SANTO, DIAVOLO VECCHIO (It.), young saint, old devil.

GIPPESVICUM (L.), Ipswich.

GITANO, fem. GITANA (Sp.), gipsy.

GLI ASSENTI HANNO TORTO (It.), the absent are in the wrong.

GLORIA IN EXCELSIS (L.), glory to God in the highest.

GLORIA PATRI (L.), glory be to the Father.

GLORIA VIRTUTIS UMBRA (L.), glory [is] the shadow of virtue.

GLÜCKLICHE REISE! (Ger.), prosperous journey to you!

GN[=O]THI SEAUTON (Gr.), know thyself.

GOUTTE À GOUTTE (Fr.), drop by drop.

GOUVERNANTE (Fr.), a governess.

GRÂCE À DIEU (Fr.), thanks to God.

GRADU DIVERSO, VIÂ UNÂ (L.), with different step on the one way.

GRADUS AD PARNASSUM (L.), a step to Parnassus, aid in the composition of Latin or Greek verse.

GRANDE CHÈRE ET BEAU FEU (Fr.), ample cheer and a fine fire.

GRANDE FORTUNE, GRANDE SERVITUDE (Fr.), great wealth, great slavery.

GRANDE PARURE or TOILETTE (Fr.), full dress.

GRANDE PASSION (Fr.), a serious love-affair.

GRAND MERCI (Fr.), many thanks.

GRATIANOPOLIS (L.), Grenoble.

GRATIA PLACENDI (L.), the delight of pleasing.

GRATIS DICTUM (L.), mere assertion.

GRAVIORA MANENT (L.), more grievous things remain.

GRAVIORA QUÆDAM SUNT REMEDIA PERICULIS (L.), some remedies are more grievous than the perils.

GRAVIS IRA REGUM EST SEMPER (L.), the anger of kings is always serious.

GREGATIM (L,), in flocks.

GREX VENALIUM (L.), the herd of hirelings.

GROSSE SEELEN DULDEN STILL (Ger.), great souls suffer in silence.

GROSSE TÊTE ET PEU DE SENS (Fr.), big head and little wit.

GROSSIÈRETÉ (Fr.), grossness, vulgarity in conversation.

GUERRA AL CUCHILLO (Sp.), war to the knife.

GUERRE À MORT (Fr.), war to the death.

GUERRE À OUTRANCE (Fr.), war to the uttermost, to the bitter end.

GULYÁS (Hung.), meat stewed with paprika or red pepper.

GUTTA CAVAT LAPIDEM (L.), the drop wears away the stone.

HAC LEGE (L.), with this law, under this condition.

HAFNIA (L.), Copenhagen.

HALA (L.), Halle.

HANC VENIAM PETIMUSQUE DAMUSQUE VICISSIM (L.), we ask and grant this liberty turn about.

HANNIBAL AD PORTAS! (L.), Hannibal at the gates!

HAPAX LEGOMENON (Gr.), a word or phrase that occurs once only; a solitary instance.

HAUD LONGIS INTERVALLIS (L.), at no long intervals.

HAUT ET BON (Fr.), great and good.

HEIMWEH (Ger.), home-sickness.

HELLUO LIBRORUM (L.), a devourer of books.

HEU PIETAS! HEU PRISCA FIDES! (L.), alas for piety! alas for the ancient faith!

HEUREUSEMENT (Fr.), happily, fortunately.

HIATUS VALDE DEFIENDUS (L.), a gap deeply to be deplored.

HIC ET UBIQUE (L.), here and everywhere.

HIC FINIS FANDI (L.), here [was] an end of the speaking.

HIC JACET (L.), here lies.

HIC LABOR, HOC OPUS EST (L.), this is the labour, this the toil.

HIC SEPULTUS (L.), here buried.

HINC ILLÆ LACRIMÆ (L.), hence [proceed] these tears.

HINC LUCEM ET POCULA SACRA (L.), from this source [we draw] light and draughts of sacred learning.

HOC AGE (L.), this do.

HOC ANNO (L.), in this year.

HOC ERAT IN VOTIS (L.), this was the very thing I prayed for.

HOC GENUS OMNE (L.), and all that sort [of people].

HOCH (Ger.), _lebe hoch!_ your health! [in drinking].

HOC LOCO (L.), in this place.

HOC SAXUM POSUIT (L.), this stone [T. D.] placed.

HOC TEMPORE (L.), at this time.

HOC VOLO, SIC JUBEO, SIT PRO RATIONE VOLUNTAS (L.), this I will, thus I command, be my will sufficient reason.

HODIE MIHI, CRAS TIBI (L.), to-day is mine, to-morrow thine.

HOFRATH (Ger.), an Aulic councillor: a complimentary title.

HOI POLLOI (Gr.), the many; the rabble: the vulgar.

HOLMIA (L.), Stockholm.

HOMINIBUS PLENUM, AMICIS VACUUM (L.), full of men, empty of friends.

HOMINIS EST ERRARE (L.), it belongs to man to err.

HOMME D'AFFAIRES (Fr.), business man: agent: steward; HOMME DE BIEN, man of worth, good man; HOMME DE COUR, courtier; HOMME DE FORTUNE, fortunate man: rich man; HOMME DE LETTRES, man of letters; HOMME DE PAILLE, man of straw; HOMME D'ÉPÉE, military man; HOMME DE ROBE, a lawyer; HOMME D'ESPRIT, a man of wit; HOMME D'ÉTAT, a statesman; HOMME DU MONDE, man of fashion.

HOMO ALIENI JURIS (L.), one under control of another.

HOMO ANTIQUÂ VIRTUTE AC FIDE (L.), a man of the antique virtue and loyalty.

HOMO HOMINI LUPUS (L.), man is a wolf to man.

HOMO MULTARUM LITTERARUM (L.), a man of many literary accomplishments.

HOMO NULLIUS COLORIS (L.), a man of no colour, one who does not commit himself.

HOMO SUI JURIS (L.), one who is his own master.

HOMO SUM: HUMANI NIHIL A ME ALIENUM PUTO (L.), I am a man; I count nothing human indifferent to me. [Said by a Paul Pry in Terence, _Heaut._ I. i. 25.]

HOMO TRIUM LITTERARUM (L.), man of three letters--i.e. _fur_ = thief.

HOMO UNIUS LIBRI (L.), a man of one book.

HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE (O. Fr.), the shame be his who thinks ill of it--the motto of the Order of the Garter.

HONNEUR ET PATRIE (Fr.), honour and native land.

HONORES MUTANT MORES (L.), honours change [men's] manners.

HONORIS CAUSÂ [GRATIÂ] (Late L.), for the sake of honour, as honorary.

HONOR VIRTUTIS PRÆMIUM (L.), honour is the reward of virtue.

HONOS ALIT ARTES (L.), honour nourishes the arts.

HONOS HABET ONUS (L.), honour has its burden.

HORÆ CANONICÆ (L.), the canonical hours.

HORÆ SUBSECIVÆ (Late L.), leisure hours.

HORA FUGIT (L.), the hour flies.

HORAS NON NUMERO NISI SERENAS (L.), I number none but shining hours.

HORRESCO REFERENS (L.), I shudder in relating.

HORRIBILE DICTU (L.), horrible to relate.

HORS DE COMBAT (Fr.), unfit to fight, disabled.

HORS CONCOURS (Fr.), outside competition.

HORS LA LOI (Fr.), in outlawry, outlawed.

HORS DE PROPOS (Fr.), aside from the purpose.

HORS DE SAISON (Fr.), out of season.

HORTUS SICCUS (L.), a collection of dried plants.

HOSTIS HONORI INVIDIA (L.), an enemy's hatred is an honour.

HOSTIS HUMANI GENERIS (L.), enemy of the human race.

HÔTEL DES INVALIDES (Fr.), Hospital for Invalids--the name of a hospital for disabled soldiers in Paris, founded in 1670.

HÔTEL-DIEU (Fr.), the House of God, a hospital.

HÔTEL GARNI (Fr.), a furnished town house.

HUISSIER (Fr.), doorkeeper, usher: bailiff.

HUMANUM EST ERRARE (L.), to err is human.

HURTAR PARA DAR POR DIOS (Sp.), to steal in order to give to God.

IBIDEM (L.), in the same place, thing, or case.

ICH DIEN (Ger.), I serve.

ICI (Fr.), here--i.e. here is a W.C.

ICI ON PARLE FRANÇAIS (Fr.), here French is spoken.

IDÉE FIXE (Fr.), a fixed idea, a monomania.

IDEM (L.), the same.

IDEM SONANS (L.), sounding the same.

IDEM VELLE ATQUE IDEM NOLLE (L.), to like and to dislike the same things.

ID EST (L.), that is, often I.E.

ID GENUS OMNE (L.), all that class or kind.

IESUS HOMINIM SALVATOR (L.), Jesus Saviour of men.

IGNORATIO ELENCHI (L.), ignoring the point in question, the fallacy of arguing to the wrong point.

IGNORATIO LEGIS NEMINEM EXCUSAT (L.), ignorance of the law excuses nobody.

IGNOTI NULLA CUPIDO (L.), for a thing unknown there is no desire.

IGNOTUM PER IGNOTIUS (L.), the unknown by the still more unknown.

IGRAN DOLORI SONO MUTI (It.), great griefs are mute.

IL A INVENTÉ L'HISTOIRE (Fr.), he has invented history.

IL A LE DIABLE AU CORPS (Fr.), the devil is in him.

IL A LES DÉFAUTS DE SES QUALITÉS (Fr.), he has the defects which go with the good qualities he has.

IL DOLCI FAR NIENTI (It.), the sweet state of do-nothing.

IL FAUT DE L'ARGENT (Fr.), money is necessary.

IL FAUT LAVER SON LINGE SALE EN FAMILLE (Fr.), one should wash one's foul linen within the family, in private, at home.

ILIAS MALORUM (L.), an Iliad of woes.

ILLE CRUCEM SCELERIS PRETIUM TULIT, HIC DIADEMA (L.), that man got a cross, this man a crown, as the price of his crime.

ILLE TERRARUM MIHI PRÆTER OMNES ANGULUS RIDET (L.), that corner of the earth to me smiles sweetest of all.

ILLUSTRISSIMO (It.), most illustrious.

IL MEGLIO È L'INIMICO DEL BENE (It.), the better is the enemy of the well.

IL N'Y A PAS À DIRE (Fr.), there is nothing to be said.

IL N'Y A PAS QUE LE PREMIER PAS QUI COÛTE (Fr.), it is only the first step that is difficult.

IL PENSEROSO (It.), the pensive man.

ILS N'ONT RIEN APPRIS NI RIEN OUBLIÉ (Fr.), they have learned nothing and forgotten nothing [said of the French _Emigrés_, often of the Bourbons].

IMPAR CONGRESSUS ACHILLI (L.), unequally matched against Achilles.

IMPASSE (Fr.), a cul-de-sac, an insoluble difficulty.

IMPAYABLE (Fr.), invaluable.

IMPEDIMENTA (L.), luggage in travelling: the baggage of an army.

IMPERIUM ET LIBERTAS (L.), empire and liberty.

IMPERIUM IN IMPERIO (L.), a government within another.

IN ABSTRACTO (Late L.), in the abstract.

IN ARTICULO MORTIS (L.), at the point of death.

IN BANCO REGIS (Late L.), in the King's Bench.

IN BIANCO (It.), in blank, in white.

IN CAMERÂ (Late L.), in a [judge's private] room.

IN CAPITE (Late L.), in chief, by direct grant from the Crown.

INCIDIS IN SCYLLAM CUPIENS VITARE CHARYBDIM (L.), you fall into Scylla trying to avoid Charybdis.

IN COMMENDAM (Late L.). See under _Commend_ in Dict.

IN CONTUMACIAM (Late L.), as an act of contumacy.

IN DELICIIS (L.), as favourites.

IN DEPOSITO (Late L.), for a pledge.

INDEX EXPURGATORIUS (L.), a list of prohibited books.

IN DOMINO (Late L.), in the Lord.

IN EQUILIBRIS (Late L.), in equilibrium.

IN ESSE (Late L.), in being, in fact.

IN EXCELSIS (Late L.), in the highest, at the highest point.

IN EXTENSO (Late L.), at full length.

IN EXTREMIS (Late L.), at the point of death.

INFIMA SPECIES (Late L.), the lowest species included in a genus or class.

IN FLAGRANTI DELICTO (L.), in the very act of committing the crime.

IN FORMÂ PAUPERIS (L.), as a poor man.

IN FORO CONSCIENTIÆ (L.), in the court of conscience: judged by one's own conscience.

INFRA DIGNITATEM (L.), below one's dignity.

INGÉNU, INGÉNUE (Fr.), a young man or woman of exceptional simplicity.

IN GREMIO (Late L), in the bosom.

IN HOC SIGNO VINCES (L.), in this sign thou wilt conquer--i.e. in the Cross [the motto of Constantine the Great].

IN LIMINE (L.), on the threshold.

IN LOCO PARENTIS (L.), in the place of a parent.

IN MAGNIS ET VOLUISSE SAT EST (L.), in great things even to have wished to try is enough.

IN MALEM PARTEM (L.), in an unfavourable manner.

IN MEDIAS RES (L.), into the midst of things.

IN MEMORIAM (L.), to the memory of: in memory.

IN NUBIBUS (L.), in the clouds.

IN PACE (L.), in peace.

IN PARTIBUS INFIDELIUM (L.), in unbelieving countries--where there are no strictly territorial Catholic dioceses.

IN PETTO (It.), within the breast: in reserve.

IN POSSE (Late L.), in potential existence: in possibility.

IN PROPRIÂ PERSONÂ (Late L.), in person.

IN PURIS NATURALIBUS (Late L.), quite naked.

IN RE (L.), in the matter of.

IN RERUM NATURÂ (L.), in nature.

IN SECULA SECULORUM (L.), for ever and ever.

IN SITU (L.), in its original situation.

INSTAR OMNIUM (L.), worth all the rest.

IN STATU PUPILLARI (Late L.), in a state of wardship.

IN STATU QUO (Late L.), in the former state.

INSULA or INSULÆ (L.), Lille.

INTEGER VITÆ SCELERISQUE PURUS (L.), blameless in life and clear of crime.

INTER ALIA (L.), among other things;--inter alios, among other persons.

INTER ARMA SILENT LEGES (L.), amid wars laws are silent.

INTÉRIEUR (Fr.), interior, home, inside.

INTER NOS (L.), between ourselves.

INTER POCULA (L.), over one's cups.

IN TERROREM (L.), as a warning.

INTER SE (L.), amongst themselves.

IN TOTO (L.), in the whole: entirely.

INTRA MUROS (L.), within the walls.

IN TRANSITU (L.), on the passage.

IN USUM DELPHINI (L.), for the use of the Dauphin: toned down to suit the young person.

IN UTRUMQUE PARATUS (L.), prepared for either alternative.

INVENIT (L.), [T.D.] devised [this].

IN VINO VERITAS (L.), in wine the truth [comes out].

INVITÂ MINERVÂ (L.), against the will of Minerva, against the grain.

IPSE DIXIT (L.), he himself said it: his mere word.

IPSISSIMA VERBA (L.), the very words.

IPSO FACTO (L.), in the fact itself: virtually.

IRA FUROR BREVIS EST (L.), rage is a brief madness.

ISPALIS (L.), Seville.

ITALIA IRREDENTA (It.), unredeemed Italy--the parts of Italy not yet freed from foreign domination--South Tyrol, Dalmatia, Trieste, &c.

ITALICÈ (L.), in Italian.

ITERUM (L.), again.

IVRESSE (Fr.), drunkenness.

JACTA EST ALEA (L.), the die is cast.

JAM PROXIMUS ARDET UCALEGON (L.), already [the house of] our next-door neighbour, Ucalegon, is in flames.

JE N'EN VOIS PAS LA NÉCESSITÉ! (Fr.), I don't see the necessity for that! [said in reply to a man who pleaded, 'But one must live somehow'].

JE NE SAIS QUOI (Fr.), I know not what.

JET D'EAU (Fr.), a jet of water.

JEU DE MOTS (Fr.), a play on words: a pun.

JEU D'ESPRIT (Fr.), a witticism.

JEUNESSE DORÉE (Fr.), gilded youth, luxurious young fops.

JOCI CAUSÂ (L.), for the sake of the joke.

JUDEX DAMNATUR CUM NOCENS ABSOLVITUR (L.), the judge is condemned when the guilty man is acquitted.

JUNGFERNBRATEN (Ger.), roast-pork with juniper-berries.

JUPITER PLUVIUS (L.), rain-bringing Jupiter: rainy weather.

JURE DIVINO (L.), by divine law.

JURE HUMANO (L.), by human law.

JURIS UTRIUSQUE DOCTOR (L.), doctor both of canon and of civil law.

JUS GLADII (L.), the right of the sword.

JUSTE MILIEU (Fr.), the just mean, the happy medium.

JUSTUM ET TENACEM PROPOSITI VIRUM (L.), a man upright and tenacious of purpose.

J'Y SUIS, J'Y RESTE! (Fr.), here I am, and here I stay! [said by Macmahon at the Malakoff].

KAISERFLEISCH (Ger.), smoked sucking-pig.

KAISERSCHMARN (Ger.), a pudding consisting of flour and eggs fried in lard.

KNÖDEL (Ger.), a ball of dough made of bread, eggs, flour, milk, and lard.

KREN (Ger.), horse-radish.

KT[=E]MA ES AEI (Gr.), a possession [to be kept] for ever.

KULTURKAMPF (Ger.), the war of culture [said by Virchow in 1873 of the conflict between Bismarck and the Catholic Church].

LABORARE EST ORARE (L.), work is prayer.

LABORE ET HONORE (L.), by labour and honour.

LABOR IMPROBUS (L.), persistent, dogged labour.

LABOR IPSE VOLUPTAS (L.), labour itself is pleasure.

LABUNTUR ET IMPUTANTUR (L.), they [i.e. the moments] slip away and are laid to our account [on sundials].

LÆSA MAJESTAS (L.), LÈSE MAJESTÉ (Fr.), injured majesty, treason.

LA GRANDE NATION (Fr.), the great nation--i.e. France.

L'ALLEGRO (It.), the merry, cheerful, man.

LANGAGE DES HALLES (Fr.), language of the market-places, billingsgate.

L'APPÉTIT VIENT EN MANGEANT (Fr.), appetite comes as you eat: the more you get, the more you would have.

LA PROPRIÉTÉ C'EST LE VOL (Fr.), property is theft [from Proudhon].

LAPSUS CALAMI (L.), a slip of the pen.

LAPSUS LINGUÆ (L.), a slip of the tongue.

LAPSUS MEMORIÆ (L.), a slip of the memory.

LARES ET PENATES (L.), household gods.

LA REYNE LE VEULT (Norm Fr.), the Queen will it, the form expressing the Queen's assent to a bill.

LASCIATE OGNI SPERANZA, VOI CH' ENTRATE (It.), abandon hope, all ye who enter here [in Dante, the inscription over the gate of hell].

LAUDATOR TEMPORIS ACTI (L.), one who praises past times.

LAUS DEO (L.), praise to God.

L'AVENIR (Fr.), the future.

LE BEAU MONDE (Fr.), the fashionable world.

LECTOR BENEVOLE (L.), kind reader.

LE GÉNIE C'EST LA PATIENCE (Fr.), genius is patience.

LE GRAND MONARQUE (Fr.), the great king--i.e. Louis XIV.

LEITMOTIF (Ger.), a representation theme used to indicate a certain person, attribute, or idea, in an opera, oratorio, &c.

LE JEU NE VAUT PAS LA CHANDELLE (Fr.), the game is not worth the candle.

L'EMPIRE C'EST LA PAIX (Fr.), the empire means peace [said by Louis Napoleon in 1852].

LEODICUM (L.), Liège.

LE PAS (Fr.), precedence in place or rank.

LE STYLE EST L'HOMME MÊME (Fr.), the style is the man himself [from Buffon].

L'ÉTAT, C'EST MOI! (Fr.), the state? I am the state! [said by Louis XIV.].

LETTRE DE CACHET (Fr.), a sealed letter: a royal warrant for arrest and imprisonment.

LETTRE DE CHANGE (Fr.), a bill of exchange.

LETTRE DE CRÉANCE (Fr.), letter of credit.

LETTRE DE MARQUE (Fr.), a letter of marque or of reprisal.

LEVER LE RIDEAU (Fr.), to raise the curtain.

LEX NON SCRIPTA (L.), unwritten law--i.e. the common law.

LEX SCRIPTA (L.), statute law.

LEX TALIONIS (L.), the law of retaliation.

LIBERAVI ANIMUM MEUM (L.), I have cleared my mind.

LIBRAIRE (Fr.), a bookseller.

LICENTIA VATUM (L.), poetical license.

LIMÆ LABOR (L.), the labour of the file, of polishing.

LIMBO PATRUM; LIMBUS INFANTUM (Late L.). See _Limbo_ in Dict.

LINGUA FRANCA (It.), the corrupt Italian once current in the Levant: the mixed language spoken by Europeans in the East.

LIT DE JUSTICE (Fr.), bed of justice. See _Bed_ in Dict.

LITTERA SCRIPTA MANET (L.), what is written down is permanent.

LOCUM TENENS (L.), one occupying the place: a deputy or substitute.

LOCUS CLASSICUS (L.), the classical passage, the stock quotation.

LOCUS PÆNITENTIÆ (L.), room for penitence: time for repentance.

LOCUS STANDI (L.), a place for standing: a right to interfere.

LUCRI CAUSÂ (L.), for the sake of gain.

LUCUS A NON LUCENDO (L.), the grove [_lucus_] [is so named] from its _not_ shining--of a contradictory or incredible explanation.

LUDERE CUM SACRIS (L.), to trifle with sacred things.

LUGDUNUM (L.), Lyons.--LUGDUNUM BATAVORUM, Leyden.

LUPUS IN FABULÂ (L.), the wolf in the fable.

LUSUS NATURÆ (L.), a sport or freak of nature.

LUTETIA (L.), Paris.

MA CHÈRE (Fr.), my dear (fem.).

MA FOI (Fr.), upon my faith.

MAGNA EST VERITAS ET PRÆVALEBIT (L.), truth is great and will prevail [better, ET PREVALET, and prevails].

MAGNI NOMINIS UMBRA (L.), the mere shadow of a mighty name.

MAGNUM BONUM (L.), a great good.

MAGNUM OPUS (L.), a great work.

MAISON DO VILLE (Fr.), a town-house.

MAÎTRE D'HÔTEL (Fr.), a house-steward, a hotel-keeper.

MALADIE DU PAYS (Fr.), home-sickness.

MALÂ FIDE (L.), with bad faith: treacherously.

MAL À PROPOS (Fr.), ill-timed.

MAL DE MER (Fr.), sea-sickness.

MALENTENDU (Fr.), a misunderstanding.

MALGRÉ NOUS (Fr.), in spite of us.

MANDAMUS (L.), we command: a writ or command issued by a higher court to a lower.

MARIAGE DE CONVENANCE (Fr.), marriage from interest rather than love.

MASSILIA (L.), Marseilles.

MATERFAMILIAS (L.), the mother of a family.

MATERIA MEDICA (L.), medicines collectively: all substances used as remedies: the science of their properties and use.

MATÉRIEL (Fr.), materials, esp. the baggage and munitions of an army.

MATINÉE (Fr.), a morning recital or performance.

MATRE PULCHRÂ FILIA PULCHRIOR (L.), a daughter fairer than her fair mother.

MAUVAISE HONTE (Fr.), false modesty, bashfulness.

MAUVAIS SUJET (Fr.), a bad subject: a worthless fellow;--MAUVAIS TON (Fr.), bad style, bad form.

MAXIMA DEBETUR PUERO REVERENTIA (L.), the greatest reverence is due to the boy--i.e. to the innocence of his age.

MEÂ CULPÂ (Late L.), by my own fault.

MEA VIRTUTE ME INVOLVO (L.), I wrap myself in my virtue [as in a cloak].

MEDEN AGAN! (Gr.), [let there be] nothing in excess!

MEDIOLANUM (L.), Milan.

MEDIO TUTISSIMUS IBIS (L.), thou wilt go safest in the middle.

MEGA BIBLION, MEGA KAKON (Gr.), big book, great evil.

ME JUDICE (L.), I being judge, in my opinion.

MÉLANGE (Fr.), a mixture: coffee with milk.

MÊLÉE (Fr.), a confused scuffle: a hot debate.

MEMENTO MORI (L.), remember that you must die.

MEMORABILIA (L.), things to be remembered.

MENS SANA IN CORPORE SANO (L.), a sound mind in a sound body.

MENS SIBI CONSCIA RECTI (L.), a mind conscious of rectitude.

MEO PERICULO (L.), at my own risk.

MERUM SAL (L.), pure salt, genuine Attic wit.

MÉSALLIANCE (Fr.), marriage with one of lower station.

MESQUIN, fem. MESQUINE (Fr.), mean;--MESQUINERIE, meanness.

MESSIEURS (Fr.), sirs, gentlemen.

MEUM ET TUUM (L.), mine and thine.

MIRABILE DICTU (L.), wonderful to tell.

MIRABILE VISU (L.), wonderful to see.

MIRABILIA (L.), wonders.

MISE EN SCÈNE (Fr.), the get-up for the stage.

MODUS (L.), manner, mode.

MODUS OPERANDI (L.), plan of working: mode of operation;--MODUS VIVENDI, a way or mode of living: an arrangement or compromise by means of which persons or parties differing greatly are enabled to get on together for a time.

MOGUNTIACUM (L.), Mainz.

MON AMI (Fr.), my friend.

MON CHER (Fr.), my dear.

MONSIEUR (Fr.), sir, Mr.

MONT-DE-PIÉTÉ (Fr.), a pawnbroking shop established by public authority.--It. _monte di pietà_.

MORCEAU (Fr.), a morsel: fragment: piece of music.

MORE HIBERNICO (L.), after the Irish fashion.

MORE MAJORUM (L.), after the manner of our ancestors.

MORE SUO (L.), in his own way.

MOTIVÉ (Fr.), supported by a statement of reasons.

MOTU PROPRIO (L.), of his own accord.

MUET COMME UN POISSON (Fr.), mute as a fish.

MULTUM IN PARVO (L.), much in little.

MULTUM NON MULTA (L.), much, not many things.

MUTATIS MUTANDIS (L.), with necessary changes.

MUTATO NOMINE (L.), the name being changed.

MUTUUS CONSENSUS (L.), mutual consent.

NAISSANCE (Fr.), birth.

NATALE SOLUM (L.), natal soil.

NATURAM EXPELLAS FURCÂ, TAMEN USQUE RECURRET (L.), though you drive out nature with a pitchfork [i.e. with violence], yet will she always return.

NEAPOLIS (L.), Naples.

NEC CUPIAS, NEC METUAS (L.), neither desire nor fear.

NE CEDE MALIS (L.), yield not to misfortune.

NÉCESSAIRE (Fr.), a dressing-case, work-box.

NECESSITAS NON HABET LEGEM (L.), necessity has, or knows, no law.

NEC SCIRE FAS EST OMNIA (L.), it is not permitted to know all things.

NÉE (Fr.), born So-and-so: her maiden name being So-and-so, as Madame de Staël, née Necker.

NE EXEAT (L.), let him not depart.

NEMINE CONTRADICENTE (L.; often NEM. CON.), without opposition: no one speaking in opposition.

NEMINE DISSENTIENTE (L.), no one dissenting.

NEMO ME IMPUNE LACESSIT (L.), no one hurts me with impunity--the motto of Scotland.

NEMO REPENTE FIT TURPISSIMUS (L.), no one becomes utterly bad all at once.

NE PLUS ULTRA (L.), nothing further: the uttermost point or extreme perfection of anything.

NE QUID NIMIS (L.), [let there be] nothing in excess.

NESCIS, MI FILI, QUANTILLA PRUDENTIA MUNDUS REGATUR (L.), you know not, my son, with what a small stock of wisdom the world is governed.

NE SUTOR ULTRA CREPIDAM (L.), let not the cobbler go beyond his last.

NICHT WAHR? (Ger.), is it not true? isn't that so?

NIHIL AD REM (L.), nothing to the point.

NIHIL TETIGIT QUOD NON ORNAVIT, OR NULLUM QUOD TETIGIT NON ORNAVIT (L.), he touched nothing without adorning it.

NIL ADMIRARI (L.), to wonder at nothing, to admire nothing, to be superior and self-complacent.

NIL DESPERANDUM (L.), never despair.

N'IMPORTE (Fr.), it matters not.

NISI DOMINUS FRUSTRA (L.), unless the Lord [build the house, they labour] in vain [that build it]--the motto of Edinburgh.

NISI PRIUS (L.), unless previously--a name [from the first words of the writ] given to the jury sittings in civil cases.

NITOR IN ADVERSUM (L.), I strive against adverse circumstances.

NOBLESSE OBLIGE (Fr.), rank imposes obligations.

NOLENS VOLENS (L.), whether he will or not.

NOLI ME TANGERE (L.), don't touch me.

NOLLE PROSEQUI (L.), to be unwilling to prosecute.

NOLO EPISCOPARI (L.), I do not wish to be a bishop.

NOM DE GUERRE (Fr.), an assumed name: travelling title: pseudonym [NOM DE PLUME is _not_ French].

NON COMPOS MENTIS (L.), not of sound mind.

NON EST INVENTUS (L.), he has not been found, he has disappeared.

NON MI RICORDO (It.), I don't remember.

NON MULTA, SED MULTUM (L.), not many things, but much.

NON OLET PECUNIA (L.), money does not stink--you can't tell how the money has been acquired.

NON OMNIA POSSUMUS OMNES (L.), we cannot all do everything.

NON OMNIS MORIAR (L.), I shall not wholly die.

NON TALI AUXILIO (L.), not with such aid [should it be done].

NOSCE TEIPSUM (L.), know thyself.

NOTRE-DAME (Fr.), Our Lady.

NOUS AVONS CHANGÉ TOUT CELA (Fr.), we have changed all that--from Molière.

NOUS VERRONS (Fr.), we shall see.

NOUVEAUX RICHES (Fr.), persons who have but lately acquired wealth, upstarts.

NULLA DIES SINE LINEÂ (L.), no day without a line, without writing a little.

NULLA NUOVA, BUONA NUOVA (It.), no news is good news.

NULLI SECUNDUS (L.), second to none.

NULLIUS ADDICTUS JURARE IN VERBA MAGISTRI (L.), bound to swear to the words of no master, to follow no one blindly or slavishly.

NUNC EST BIBENDUM (L.), now it is time to drink.

OBERS (Ger.), cream.

OBIIT (L.), he, or she, died.

OBITER (L.), by the way, cursorily;--OBITER DICTUM, pl. OBITER DICTA, something said by the way, a cursory remark.

OBSCURUM PER OBSCURIUS (L.), [explaining] the obscure by means of the more obscure.

OBSERVANDA (L.), things to be observed.

OBSTA PRINCIPIIS (L.), resist the first beginnings.

OCTROI (Fr.), duties paid at the gate of a city.

ODERINT DUM METUANT (L.), let them hate so long as they fear.

ODI PROFANUM VULGUS (L.), I loathe the profane rabble.

ODIUM THEOLOGICUM (L.), the hatred of theologians--of theological controversy.

OEIL DE BOEUF (Fr.), a bull's eye.

OENIPONS (L.), Innsbruck.

OEUVRES (Fr.), works.

OLIM MEMINISSE JUVABIT (L.), it will sometime be a pleasure to remember [these trials].

OLISIPO, ULYSSIPO, ULYSSIPOLIS (L.), Lisbon.

OMNE IGNOTUM PRO MAGNIFICO (L.), everything unknown [is taken to be] magnificent.

OMNE TULIT PUNCTUM QUI MISCUIT UTILE DULCI (L.), he scored every point who combined the useful with the sweet.

OMNIA MUTANTUR, ET NOS MUTAMUR IN ILLIS (L.), all things change, and we change with them.

OMNIA VINCIT AMOR, NOS ET CEDAMUS AMORI (L.), love overcomes all things, and even we succumb to love.

ON DIT (Fr.), they say, hence a flying rumour.

ORA ET LABORA (L.), pray and labour.

ORA PRO NOBIS (L.), pray for us.

ORE ROTUNDO (L.), with round, full voice.

O SANCTA SIMPLICITAS! (L.), O sacred simplicity!

O! SI SIC OMNIA (L.), O would that all [had been done or said] thus!

O TEMPORA! O MORES! (L.), O the times! O the manners!--i.e. what sad times! what dreadful doings!

OTIA DANT VITIA (L.), idleness begets vice.

OTIUM CUM DIGNITATE (L.), dignified leisure.

OUVERT, fem. OUVERTE (Fr.), open.

OUVRAGE (Fr.), a work.

OUVRIERS (Fr.), operatives, workpeople.

OXONIA (L.), Oxford.

PACE (L.), by leave of;--PACE TUÂ, by your leave.

PACTUM ILLICITUM (L.), an illegal compact.

PADRONE (It.), ruler: protector: master.

PALLIDA MORS (L.), pale death.

PALMAM QUI MERUIT FERAT (L.), let him who has won the palm wear it.

PANEM ET CIRCENSES! (L.), [give us] bread and circus-games! [the cry of the Roman populace]: beer and skittles.

PÁPRIKA (Hung.), pepper.

PARCERE SUBJECTIS ET DEBELLARE SUPERBOS (L.), to spare the vanquished and put down the proud.

PARERGON (Gr.), something done by-the-bye.

PAR EXCELLENCE (Fr.), by way of eminence.

PAR EXEMPLE (Fr.), for example.

PARI PASSU (L.), with equal pace: together.

PAR NOBILE FRATRUM (L.), a noble pair of brothers.

PARTICEPS CRIMINIS (L.), an accomplice.

PARTURIUNT MONTES, NASCETUR RIDICULUS MUS (L.), the mountains are in travail, an absurd mouse will be the outcome.

PARVIS COMPONERE MAGNA (L.), to compare great things with small.

PATER PATRIÆ (L.), the father of his country.

PATH[=E]MATA MATH[=E]MATA (Gr.), sufferings [are] lessons.

PENSION (Fr.), board paid, a boarding-house.

PER ASPERA AD ASTRA (L.), to the stars by rough roads. through bolts and bars.

PEREUNT ET IMPUTANTUR (L.), [the moments, hours] pass away and are reckoned to our account.

PER FAS ET NEFAS (L.), through right and wrong.

PERSONNEL (Fr.), the persons employed in any service as distinguished from the _matériel_.

PER TOT DISCRIMINA RERUM (L.), through so many crises of fortune.

PETROPOLIS (L.), St Petersburg.

PIA DESIDERIA (L.), pious regrets.

PIA FRAUS (L.), pious fraud.

PIÈCE DE RÉSISTANCE (Fr.), the substantial course at dinner, the joint.

PIED-À-TERRE (Fr.), temporary lodging.

PINXIT (L.), [T. D.] painted [this].

PIS ALLER (Fr.), the last or worst shift, a make-shift.

PLENO JURE (L.), with full authority.

POETA NASCITUR, NON FIT (L.), the poet is born, not made.

POINT D'APPUI (Fr.), point of support: prop.

POPULUS VULT DECIPI (L.), the people wish to be fooled.

POSCIMUR (L.), we are called on [to sing, &c.].

POSSE COMITATUS (L.), the power of the county [called by the sheriff to quell a riot].

POSTE RESTANTE (Fr.), a department in a post-office, in which letters so addressed are kept to be called for.

POST HOC, ERGO PROPTER HOC (L.), after this, therefore because of this [a fallacious reasoning].

POST MORTEM (L.), after death.

POST OBITUM (L.), after death.

POUR FAIRE RIRE (Fr.), to raise a laugh.

POUR PASSER LE TEMPS (Fr.), to pass away the time.

POUR PRENDRE CONGÉ, or P.P.C. (Fr.), to take leave.

PRESCRIPTUM (L.), a thing prescribed.

PREUX CHEVALIER (Fr.), a brave knight.

PRIMÂ FACIE (L.), on the first view.

PRIMO (L.), in the first place.

PRO ARIS ET FOCIS (L.), for altars and firesides: for faith and home.

PROFANUM VULGUS (L.), the profane rabble.

PROH PUDOR! (L.), oh, for shame!

PROJET DE LOI (Fr.), a legislative bill.

PRO MEMORIÂ (L.), for a memorial.

PRO PATRIÂ (L.), for our country.

PRO RE NATÂ (L.), for a special emergency, according to the circumstances.

PRO TANTO (L.), for so much.

PRO TEMPORE (L.), for the time being.

PROXIME ACCESSIT (L.), he came next [to the prizeman].

PUBLICÈ (L.), publicly.

PULVIS ET UMBRA SUMUS (L.), we are dust and a shadow.

PUNICA FIDES (L.), Punic or Carthaginian faith--i.e. treachery.

QUÆRE (L.), inquire.

QUÆRITUR (L.), the question is asked.

QUALIS AB INCEPTO (L.), as from the beginning.

QUAMDIU SE BENE GESSERIT (L.), during good behaviour.

QUANTUM MUTATUS AB ILLO! (L.), how much changed from what he was!

QUE DIABLE ALLAIT-IL FAIRE DANS CETTE GALÈRE? (Fr.), what the devil was he doing in that galley? [from Molière's _Les Fourberies de Scapin_].

QUEM DEUS PERDERE VULT, PRIUS DEMENTAT (L.), whom a god wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.

QUE SAIS-JE? (Fr.), how do I know? and what not.

QUE VOULEZ-VOUS? (Fr.), what would you have?

QUICQUID DELIRANT REGES PLECTUNTUR ACHIVI (L.), whatever madness possesses the chiefs, it is [the common soldiers or people of] the Achæans who suffer.

QUID DESIDERIO SIT PUDOR AUT MODUS? (L.), why should there be shame or stint in regret for the loss of one so dear?

QUID RIDES? (L.), why do you laugh?

QUIETA NON MOVERE (L.), things that are at rest not to move--to let sleeping dogs lie.

QUIS CUSTODIET IPSOS CUSTODES? (L.), who will watch the watchers?

QUI S'EXCUSE S'ACCUSE (Fr.), he who excuses himself accuses himself.

QUIS SEPARABIT? (L.), who shall separate [us]?

QUI TACET CONSENTIT (L.), who keeps silence consents.

QUI VA LÀ? (Fr.), who goes there?

QUOD AVERTAT DEUS! (L.), which may God avert!

QUOD BONUM, FELIX, FAUSTUMQUE SIT (L.), may this be right, happy, and of good omen.

QUOD ERAT DEMONSTRANDUM (L.), or Q.E.D., which was to be proved or demonstrated.

QUOD ERAT FACIENDUM (L.), or Q.E.F., which was to be done.

QUOD HOC SIBI VULT? (L.), what does this mean?

QUOD VIDE (L.), which see.

QUO JURE? (L.), by what right?

QUORUM PARS MAGNA FUI (L.), in which I bore a great share.

QUOT HOMINES, TOT SENTENTIÆ (L.), as many men, so many minds (Terence's _Phormio_).

QUOUSQUE TANDEM, O CATILINA? (L.), to what length, then, O Catiline, [are you resolved to go]? [from Cicero's oration against Catiline].

RABAT (in mod. Fr. _rabais_), reduction of price.

RAGIONE (It.), a commercial company, a firm.

RARA AVIS (L.), a rare bird, a prodigy.

RARI NANTES IN GURGITE VASTO (L.), here and there [some] swimming in a vast whirlpool.

REALSCHULEN (Ger.), secondary schools in Germany, giving a general practical training.

RÉCHAUFFÉ (Fr.), warmed over, as food; hence stale, insipid.

REÇU (Fr.), received: receipt.

RECULER POUR MIEUX SAUTER (Fr.), to draw back to take a better leap.

REDOLET LUCERNÂ (L.), it smells of the lamp.

RE GALANTUOMO (It.), the gallant king [said of Victor Emmanuel].

REGIOMONTIUM (L.), Königsberg.

REICHSTAG (Ger.), the Imperial Diet of Germany.

RELÂCHE (Fr.), intermission: no performance: relaxation.

RELIGIO LOCI (L.), the religious spirit of the place.

REM ACU TETIGISTI (L.), you have touched the thing with a needle: you have hit it exactly.

RENOMMÉE (Fr.), renown.

RENTES (Fr.), funds bearing interest: stocks.

RÉPONSE, S'IL VOUS PLAÎT, or R.S.V.P. (Fr.), reply, if you please, an answer will oblige.

REQUIESCAT IN PACE! or R.I.P. (L.), may he [or she] rest in peace!

RES ANGUSTA DOMI (L.), narrow circumstances at home, poverty.

RES GESTÆ (L.), exploits.

RESPICE FINEM (L.), look to the end.

RÉSUMÉ (Fr.), an abstract or summary.

RESURGAM (L.), I shall rise again.

REVENONS À NOS MOUTONS (Fr.), let us return to our sheep: let us return to our subject.

RÉVERBÈRE (Fr.), a reflector, street-lamp.

RÊVEUR, fem. RÊVEUSE (Fr.), a day-dreamer.

RIFACIMENTO (It.), restatement, recast.

RISUM TENEATIS, AMICI? (L.), could you keep from laughing, friends?

ROMA LOCUTA, CAUSA FINITA (L.), Rome has spoken, the cause is ended.

ROTOMAGUS (L.), Rouen.

RUAT COELUM (L.), let the heavens fall.

RUDIS INDIGESTAQUE MOLES (L.), a rude and shapeless mass.

RUIT MOLE SUÂ (L.), it falls by its own weight.

RUSE CONTRE RUSE (Fr.), cunning against cunning, diamond cut diamond.

RUSE DE GUERRE (Fr.), a stratagem of war.

RUS IN URBE (L.), the country in town.

SALLE (Fr.), a hall.

SALVO JURE (L.), the right being safe.

SANCTA SIMPLICITAS (L.), holy simplicity, child-like innocence.

SANS CÉRÉMONIE (Fr.), without ceremony.

SANS PEUR ET SANS REPROCHE (Fr.), without fear and without reproach.

SANS PHRASE (Fr.), without phrases [of courtesy], without formalities, without any more talk.

SANS SOUCI (Fr.), without care.

SAPERE AUDE (L.), dare to be wise.

SARTOR RESARTUS (L.), the tailor done over.

SARUM (L.), Salisbury.

SATIS VERBORUM (L.), enough of words.

SAT SAPIENTI (L.), enough for the wise: a nod to the wise.

SAUVE QUI PEUT (Fr.), save himself who can--devil take the hindmost.

SCHNITZEL (Ger.), a cutlet [of veal].

SCULPSIT (L.), [T. D.] sculptured [this].

SECUNDUM ORDINEM (L.), in order.

SELON LES RÈGLES (Fr.), according to the rules.

SEMPER IDEM (L.), always the same.

SEMPER PARATUS (L.), always ready.

SE NON È VERO, È BEN TROVATO (It.), if it is not true, it is cleverly invented.

SERVUS SERVORUM DEI (L.), a servant of the servants of God [a title adopted by the popes].

SIC ITUR AD ASTRA (L.), such is the way to the stars, to fame.

SIC TRANSIT GLORIA MUNDI (L.), so passes away earthly glory.

SIC VOLO, SIC JUBEO (L.), thus I will, thus I command.

SIC VOS NON VOBIS (L.), thus you [toil] not for yourselves.

SILENT LEGES. See _inter arma_.

SIMILIA SIMILIBUS CURANTUR (L.), like things are cured by like--a hair of the dog that bit one.

SI MONUMENTUM REQUIRIS, CIRCUMSPICE (L.), if you seek [his] monument, look round you [inscription for the architect Christopher Wren's tomb in St Paul's].

SINE IRÂ ET STUDIO (L.), without ill-will and without favour.

SISTE, VIATOR! (L.), stop, traveller!

SI VIS PACEM, PARA BELLUM (L.), if you wish peace, be ready for war.

SOLVENTUR RISU TABULÆ (L.), the bills will be dismissed with laughter--you will be laughed out of court.

SOLVITUR AMBULANDO (L.), [the problem] is solved by walking--by practical experiment.

S'ORIENTER (Fr.), to take one's bearings.

SPERO MELIORA (L.), I hope for better things.

SPLENDIDE MENDAX (L.), splendidly false [for a good purpose]--lying in state.

SPONTE SUÂ (L.), of one's own accord.

SPRETÆ INJURIA FORMÆ (L.), the insult of beauty slighted.

STANS PEDE IN UNO (L.), standing on one foot.

STAT PRO RATIONE VOLUNTAS (L.), my will stands in place of reason.

STATUS QUO (L.), the state in which.

STET FORTUNA DOMUS! (L.), may the fortune of the house long last!

STURM UND DRANG (Ger.), storm and stress.

SUAVITER IN MODO, FORTITER IN RE (L.), gentle in manner, resolute in deed.

SUB JUDICE (L.), under consideration.

SUB POENÂ (L.), under a penalty.

SUB ROSÂ (L.), under the rose: privately.

SUB SPECIE (L.), under the appearance of.

SUB VOCE (L.), under that head.

SUCCÈS D'ESTIME (Fr.), a success of esteem or approval [if not profit].

SUGGESTIO FALSI (L.), suggestion of something false.

SUI GENERIS (L.), of its own kind, peculiar.

SUMMUM BONUM (L.), the chief good.

SUNT LACRIMÆ RERUM (L.), there are tears for things [unhappy].

SURSUM CORDA (L.), lift up your hearts [to God].

SURTOUT, PAS DE ZÈLE! (Fr.), above all, no zeal!

SUTOR NE SUPRA CREPIDAM JUDICARET (L.), let not the cobbler venture above his last.

SUUM CUIQUE (L.), to each his own--let each have his own.

TABULA RASA (L.), a smooth or blank tablet.

TÆDIUM VITÆ (L.), weariness of life.

TACENT, SATIS LAUDANT (L.), their silence is praise enough.

TANTÆ MOLIS ERAT ROMANAM CONDERE GENTEM (L.), a task of such difficulty was it to found the Roman race.

TANTÆNE ANIMIS COELESTIBUS IRÆ? (L.), are there such violent passions in celestial minds?

TANT MIEUX (Fr.), so much the better.

TANTO UBERIOR (L.), so much the richer.

TANT PIS (Fr.), so much the worse.

TARVISIUM (L.), Treviso.

TEMPORA MUTANTUR, NOS ET MUTAMUR IN ILLIS (L.), the times are changed, and we with them.

TEMPOS EDAX RERUM (L.), time consumer of things.

TEMPUS FUGIT (L.), time flies.

TERRA INCOGNITA (L.), an unknown country.

TERTIUM QUID (L.), a third something.

THALATTA, THALATTA! (Gr.), the sea, the sea! [the exulting cry of Xenophon's soldiers on catching sight of the sea].

TIMEO DANAOS ET DONA FERENTES (L.), I fear the Greeks, even when bringing gifts.

TIRAGE À PART (Fr.), an off-print, or article reprinted separately from the magazine, &c., in which it first appeared--the German _Abdruck_.

TOGA VIRILIS (L.), the garb of manhood.

TO KALON (Gr.), the beautiful: the chief good.

TORNACUM (L.), Tournay.

TOTIDEM VERBIS (L.), in just so many words.

TOTIES QUOTIES (L.), as often as.

TOTO COELO (L.), by the whole heavens: diametrically opposite.

TOTUS, TERES, ATQUE ROTUNDUS (L.), complete, smooth, and round.

TOUJOURS PERDRIX (Fr.), partridge every day--there may be too much even of a good thing.

TOUR DE FORCE (Fr.), a feat of strength or skill.

TOUT AU CONTRAIRE (Fr.), quite the contrary.

TOUT À FAIT (Fr.), entirely.

TOUT À VOUS (Fr.), wholly yours.

TOUT ENSEMBLE (Fr.), the whole taken together: the broad or general effect.

TOUT EST PERDU HORS L'HONNEUR (Fr.), all is lost but honour [said by Francis I. at Pavia].

TOUT LE MONDE (Fr.), all the world, everybody.

TRADUTTORE TRADITORE (It.), a translator is a traitor or betrayer:--pl. TRADUTTORI TRADITORI.

TRAJECTUM or ULTRAJECTUM (L.), Utrecht.

TRECÆ or CIVITAS TRICASSINA (L.), Troyes.

TRIA JUNCTA IN UNO (L.), three in one.

TRIDENTUM (L.), Trent.

TU QUOQUE, BRUTE! (L.), and thou too, Brutus!

UBI BENE, IBI PATRIA (L.), where it goes well with me, there is my fatherland.

UBIQUE (L.), everywhere.

ULTIMA RATIO REGUM (L.), the last argument of kings [war].

ULTIMA THULE (L.), the utmost boundary or limit.

ULTIMUS ROMANORUM (L.), the last of the Romans.

ULTRA VIRES (L.), beyond one's powers.

UND SO WEITER (Ger.), or U.S.W., and so forth.

USQUE AD NAUSEAM (L.), to disgust.

USUS LOQUENDI (L.), current usage of speech.

UTILE DULCI (L.), the useful with the agreeable.

UT INFRA (L.), as below.

UT SUPRA (L.), as above.

VADE IN PACE (L.), go in peace.

VADE MECUM (L.), go with me: a constant companion.

VÆ VICTIS! (L.), woe to the conquered.

VALE (L.), farewell.

VALET DE CHAMBRE (Fr.), an attendant: a footman.

VARIÆ LECTIONES (L.), various readings.

VARIORUM NOTÆ (L.), the notes of various authors.

VARIUM ET MUTABILE SEMPER FEMINA (L.), woman is ever fickle and changeable.

VAURIEN (Fr.), a worthless fellow, a rogue.

VEDI NAPOLI, E POI MUORI (L.), see Naples, and die.

VENI, VIDI, VICI (L.), I came, I saw, I conquered.

VERA INCESSU PATUIT DEA (L.), the true goddess stood revealed by her gait.

VERBATIM ET LITTERATIM (L.), word for word and letter for letter.

VERBUM SAPIENTI SAT EST (L.), a word is enough for a wise man--often abbrev. _verb. sap._ and _verb. sat._

VERITAS ODIUM PARIT (L.), truth begets hatred.

VERSUS OR V. (L.), against: toward.

VESTIGIA (L.), tracks: vestiges.

VESTIGIA NULLA RETRORSUM (L.), no footprints backwards [at the lion's den]: no going back.

VEXATA QUÆSTIO (L.), a disputed question.

VIÂ (L.), by way of.

VIA MEDIA (L.), a middle course.

VIA TRITA, VIA TUTA (L.), the beaten path is the safe path.

VICE (L.), in the place of.

VICE VERSÂ (L.), the terms being exchanged.

VIDELICET (L.), to wit, namely; usually shortened into VIZ.

VIDEO MELIORA PROBOQUE, DETERIORA SEQUOR (L.), I see the better course and approve it, I follow the worse.