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Handy Latin Phrases

  • 21-06-2006 1:54pm
    #1
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,154 ✭✭✭


    :)

    Vescere bracis meis.
    Eat my shorts.

    Sic faciunt omnes.
    Everyone is doing it.

    Fac ut vivas.
    Get a life.

    Non calor sed umor est qui nobis incommodat.
    It's not the heat, it's the humidity.

    Di! Ecce hora! Uxor mea me necabit!
    God, look at the time! My wife will kill me!

    Estne volumen in toga, an solum tibi libet me videre?
    Is that a scroll in your toga, or are you just happy to see me?

    Lex clavatoris designati rescindenda est.
    The designated hitter rule has got to go.

    Sentio aliquos togatos contra me conspirare.
    I think some people in togas are plotting against me.

    Caesar si viveret, ad remum dareris.
    If Caesar were alive, you'd be chained to an oar.

    Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari?
    How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

    (At a barbeque)
    Animadvertistine, ubicumque stes, fumum recta in faciem ferri?
    Ever noticed how wherever you stand, the smoke goes right into your face?

    Sona si Latine loqueris.
    Honk if you speak Latin.

    Si Hoc Legere Scis Nimium Eruditionis Habes
    If you can read this you're over-educated

    Sentio aliquos togatos contra me conspirare.
    I think some people in togas are plotting against me.

    Vidi Vici Veni
    I saw, I conquered, I came

    Vacca foeda
    Stupid cow

    Mihi ignosce. Cum homine de cane debeo congredi.
    Excuse me. I've got to see a man about a dog.

    Raptus regaliter
    Royally screwed

    Si hoc signum legere potes, operis boni in rebus Latinus alacribus et fructuosis potiri potes!
    If you can read this sign, you can get a good job in the fast-paced, high-paying world of Latin!

    Gramen artificiosum odi.
    I hate Astroturf.

    Nihil curo de ista tua stulta superstitione.
    I'm not interested in your dopey religious cult.

    Noli me vocare, ego te vocabo.
    Don't call me, I'll call you.

    Nullo metro compositum est.
    It doesn't rhyme.

    Non curo. Si metrum non habet, non est poema.
    I don't care. If it doesn't rhyme, it isn't a poem.

    Fac ut gaudeam.
    Make my day.

    Braccae illae virides cum subucula rosea et tunica Caledonia-quam elenganter concinnatur!
    Those green pants go so well with that pink shirt and the plaid jacket!

    Visne saltare? Viam Latam Fungosam scio.
    Do you want to dance? I know the Funky Broadway.

    Re vera, potas bene.
    Say, you sure are drinking a lot.

    Utinam barbari spatium proprium tuum invadant!
    May barbarians invade your personal space!

    Utinam coniurati te in foro interficiant!
    May conspirators assassinate you in the mall!

    Utinam logica falsa tuam philosophiam totam suffodiant!
    May faulty logic undermine your entire philosophy!

    Radix lecti
    Couch potato

    Quo signo nata es?
    What's your sign?

    O! Plus! Perge! Aio! Hui! Hem!
    Oh! More! Go on! Yes! Ooh! Ummm!

    Mellita, domi adsum.
    Honey, I'm home.

    Tam exanimis quam tunica nehru fio.
    I am as dead as the nehru jacket.

    Ventis secundis, tene cursum.
    Go with the flow.

    Totum dependeat.
    Let it all hang out.

    Te precor dulcissime supplex!
    Pretty please with a cherry on top!

    Magister Mundi sum!
    I am the Master of the Universe!

    Fac me cocleario vomere!
    Gag me with a spoon!

    Te audire no possum. Musa sapientum fixa est in aure.
    I can't hear you. I have a banana in my ear.

    Estne volumen in toga, an solum tibi libet me videre?
    Is that a scroll in your toga, or are you just happy to see me?

    Prehende uxorem meam, sis!
    Take my wife, please!

    Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari?
    How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

    Nihil est--in vita priore ego imperator Romanus fui.
    That's nothing--in a previous life I was a Roman Emperor.

    Recedite, plebes! Gero rem imperialem!
    Stand aside plebians! I am on imperial business.

    Vescere bracis meis.
    Eat my shorts.

    Sic faciunt omnes.
    Everyone is doing it.

    Fac ut vivas.
    Get a life.

    Anulos qui animum ostendunt omnes gestemus!
    Let's all wear mood rings!

    Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam.
    I have a catapult. Give me all the money, or I will fling an enormous rock at your head.


Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,698 ✭✭✭✭BlitzKrieg


    ahh latin studied it for 3 years hated it so very very very much...


    still though looking up five tall straight palm trees always made me laugh.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 599 ✭✭✭New_Departure06


    Caveat emptor.

    (Buyer Beware) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caveat_emptor


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 345 ✭✭eiretamicha


    Estne volumen in toga, an solum tibi libet me videre?
    Is that a scroll in your toga, or are you just happy to see me?

    That made me just about piss myself! LOL!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,373 ✭✭✭Executive Steve


    "et forsan haec olim meminisse iubabit"

    =

    maybe one day all of this will seem funny [virgil, aeneid book 4]

    "sed quod dicet mulier auram aurasque inscripsi erat"

    =

    "but what a woman says ought to be written on the wind and the waters" [meaning don't trust them] [catullus - in fairness he'd just had a really really harsh breakup....]


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,110 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    BlitzKrieg wrote:
    ahh latin studied it for 3 years hated it so very very very much...
    Lucky...I must get around to learning it at some point.


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