Does anybody know what "Novus Ordo Seclorum" means?
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Yes, it's something like "New World Order".\n\nCORRECTION: "A New Order of the Ages" is what it means.\n\nSo, basically the same thing.
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Something like "manliness is the door to respect."\nThe Latin "virtus" is in classical Latin not the same as "virtue", it means "male" virtues, like courage and strength. It is connected to "vir"=man, and "honor" had also a slight shift in meaning since it's been taken over into English.
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NOVOS ORDO SECLORUM' = New nonreligious Order\n\n'ANNUIT COEPTIS' = it literally means someone or something "has approved our beginnings". \n\n"From many, one" or "Out of many, one" (e=out of, from; 'E PLURIBUS UNUM' = pluribus=many; unum=one).
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It's latin.\n\nIt's about the metal vessel of ancient design with the legend ITI SAPIS POTANDA TINONE on it. \n\nThere aren't many hits if googled, but some of them come up with the alternative ITI SAPIS POTANDA BIGONE, which a) doesn't look Latin enough, b) seems more of a giveaway in any case.
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Hi there, \n\nDV means 'Deo Volente' which is a latin phrase meaning 'God will'\n\nrule wid style n luv@vinny
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Who will separate?  The Latin version of Romans 8:35 reads: "Quis ergo nos separabit a caritate Christi? tribulatio? an angustia? an fames? an nuditas? an periculum? an persecutio? an gladius?"  These words are the motto of the Order of St Patrick and Of the Ulster Defence Association. The words also appear on the state seal of South Carolina and on the cap badge of the 1st Battalion of the Royal Ulster Rifles. The meaning attributed to it in those contexts is "united we stand, divided we fall."  They seem to have diverged somewhat from the words of St Paul's epistle to the Romans.
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Actually it is the Regularis Concordia, and it was a set of monastic rules and canon set down in 972 and used throughout England after that time. It is commonly associated with the story of St Dunstan who, it is said, took part in the conference that created it.
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"Divided, We defy death" but Urban is 100% right. Nous Defions is french. The true latin would be "Nos contemnus mortum discriminatus"
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The first person is quite correct about the translation. Moreover, the person who designed the seal says that the phrase "signifies the beginning of the new American era." It is derived from a phrase in Virgil's Eclogues where he is talking about the new order of peace created by Augustus.
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anno domini. it means "in the year of our Lord." and is used for the years AFTER Jesus Christ died.
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The motto\n\nCanada's motto "A Mari usque ad Mare" (From sea to sea) is based on biblical scripture: "He shall have dominion from sea to sea and from the river unto the ends of the earth (Psalm 72:8)". The first official use of this motto came in 1906 when it was engraved on the head of the mace of the Legislative Assembly of the new Province of Saskatchewan. The wording of the motto came to the attention of Sir Joseph Pope, then Under Secretary of State, who was impressed with its meaning. He later proposed it as motto for the new design of the coat of arms, which was approved by Order in Council on April 21, 1921 and by Royal Proclamation on November 21, 1921.\n\nThe motto of Canada, official since 1921, was suggested as early as 1866 by Sir Samuel Tilley, New Brunswick politico, and a father of Confederation. He drew it from the Old Testament, Psalm 72. In St. Jerome’s Latin version of Holy Writ, called the Vulgate, the passage reads “et dominabitur a mari usque ad mare.” The King James translation is “and he shall have dominion also from sea to sea.”\n\nAs nitpickers, we may note Elizabethan scholars mistranslation of the Latin adverb usque as ‘also.’ It is a particle placed before the preposition ad to give a kind of poetic emphasis to the meaning of the preposition. This results in the more appropriate rendering into English of ‘from sea yea onto sea’ or ‘from one sea all the way through to another sea.’ Not better English but a better sense of the Latin. \n\nBased on the same Biblical passage, Tilley said the new country should be not the kingdom of Canada, but rather the Dominion of Canada. And so it became in the text of the British North America Act.
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The phrase is actually: "Ejus in obitu nostro prasentia muniamur." and means:\n"May we be strengthened in his presence at the hour of our death"\n\nThis is a medal of St Benedict, more information at the site below.\nHTH\nPaul.
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I looked for the statement by Cardinal Castrillon but couldn't find it. So I can't state an opinion.\n\nPlease add a link next time. \n\nThank you.
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It's Latin.  I believe it means "salient point" which, in more simple terms would be "key argument".
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It's Latin for "Who is like God?" or "Who is like unto God?" Here's another Latin phrase for you: "Deus lo volt." That means "God wills it." That's what the knights shouted before the Crusades. Just thought it would be interesting.
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Omne rarum carum means "all that is rare is wanted".\nOmne or Omni = all, everything\nRarum = unusual, strange, rare\nCarum = dear, beloved, wanted\nCan be used as:  unusual things are atractive to people
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Main Entry: ole·an·der\nFunction: noun\nPronunciation: 'O-le-"an-d&r, "O-le-'\nEtymology: Medieval Latin, alter. of arodandrum, lorandrum, perhaps alteration of Latin rhododendron -- more at RHODODENDRON \n: a poisonous evergreen shrub (Nerium oleander) of the dogbane family with fragrant white to red flowers\n\nPronunciation Key\n\nMore Information:  Audio