Can you pick the meanings for these popular Latin phrases?

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You DO Know Latin Quiz

by Flick

Created Jun 25, 2012 in Language
Featured Oct 5, 2012
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	ostroffj:	Oct 5th, 2012 at 19:09 GMT		28 points
	Aw, no "lorem ipsum dolor sit amet"? Stop discriminating against nonsense.

	zalkon2004:	Oct 5th, 2012 at 19:16 GMT		7 points
	One of the best teachers I ever had was my 7th grade Latin teacher. Used to tell lots of Roman/Greek mythology tales and really knew his stuff.

	ronnymexico:	Oct 5th, 2012 at 19:20 GMT		2 points
	Doc Holliday, Colonel Slade, Leslie Chow and Professor John Keating all give this one five globes.

	moviegoer74:	Oct 5th, 2012 at 19:28 GMT		7 points
	Sic transit gloria.

	Cheeselord:	Oct 5th, 2012 at 19:35 GMT		4 points
	Great idea for quiz this one. I'm surprised per capita is at the bottom though. Or maybe that's just my slightly weird mind.

	tk925:	Oct 5th, 2012 at 19:37 GMT		7 points
	This is a great quiz. Well done.

	BiloxiSean:	Oct 5th, 2012 at 19:43 GMT		12 points
	@moviegoer74 - I didn't know Gloria was sick.

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	Bobman1:	Oct 5th, 2012 at 19:57 GMT		10 points
	Excellent quiz. But the super high success rate, coupled with the fact that someone who never studied a bit of Latin (me) finished with 4:30 left leads me to think there's maybe too much time. You could try knocking off a minute every couple weeks to see if the scores normalize a bit--that's a pretty top-heavy graph. But a lot of fun in that thar quiz. Part II could include such common phrases as ad hoc, ad libidum, post hoc ergo propter hoc, verbum satis sapientibus (spelling may be off on that one). Man, one of my HS English teachers really did use a lot of Latin....

	ldrago:	Oct 5th, 2012 at 20:06 GMT		27 points
	And here I thought taking Latin in high school was a waste of time. Nonsense - it helped me become equally as smart as 42% of the population, most of whom did not take Latin in high school.

	climber_v12:	Oct 5th, 2012 at 20:18 GMT		1 point
	Could also include "Per Mare Per Terram", or other Latin mottos of military regiments (that one is the Royal Marines). But excellent quiz all the same.

	peterlekarev:	Oct 5th, 2012 at 20:47 GMT		6 points
	I thank Ezio for guessing 'RIP'. And yes, I am a nerd.

	Mimbleton:	Oct 5th, 2012 at 21:17 GMT		8 points
	"Illegitamus non carborundum" = Don't let the bastards grind you down.

	chikka2:	Oct 5th, 2012 at 21:18 GMT		6 points
	Loved this quiz. A summer job in a land titles office taught me "and the others" was "et alii". Is this not a more literal expression than "et cetera" meaning "and the rest"?

	ezois:	Oct 5th, 2012 at 21:29 GMT		-2 points
	I never took Latin. I knew them anyway. Romance languages have many of the same roots.

	rockgolf:	Oct 5th, 2012 at 21:29 GMT		15 points
	@MaxMallanite: That's a bad trick, since A.D. refers to the year of Jesus' birth, not his death. Semper ubi sub ubi.

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	MaxMallanite:	Oct 5th, 2012 at 21:51 GMT		3 points
	Haha, double fail then!

	DerekH:	Oct 5th, 2012 at 22:05 GMT		6 points
	Surprised that CV is so low. Does this mean that a third (currently) of sporclers have never applied for a job? ;-)

	terrapin19:	Oct 5th, 2012 at 23:52 GMT		5 points
	Makes me want to go out and watch Dead Poet's Society

	ChileNoseJam:	Oct 6th, 2012 at 00:59 GMT		5 points
	Caecilius est in horto. Caecilius in horto sedet.

	appchris:	Oct 6th, 2012 at 02:33 GMT		6 points
	"And others" is "et alia" (or alii, or aliae). "Et cetera" is "and the rest". A subtle but real distinction.